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How to avoid disappointment in love.

Disappointment in love Don’t read this hoping to learn what love is; it is up to you to decide what it means to you. After all, how you define love affects the outcome of what you’ll be getting. The...

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One creative way to cope with anxiety

Mandala Anxiety is not an easy to untangle and resolve emotion because its roots can run deep into your psyche. There are times when you’re feeling anxious and you simply can’t put your finger on the...

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“A Love Letter to My Anger” by Barbara Rogers (Pt 4)

“I am so grateful to you, my dear anger, that you empowered me to walk the path of dignity and being true to myself. Deep inside, I had always longed for it. You do not want to control me or run my...

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Depression After Narcissistic Abuse Sucks!

Who wouldn’t be depressed after narcissistic abuse!? Nature VS Nurture Even a couple of years with a narcissist can destroy you, I’m told. Now imagine decades of criticism, projection, shame, trauma....

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Real Life Narcissism In Action

My Facebook friends are the best! Several months ago, they contributed real-life scenarios they experienced courtesy of people suffering from Narcissistic Personality Disorder. The original article...

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Drowning in Shame

There’s no pain quite like shame. Its sting is unique in the rich variety of human agony. The vitriol of another’s words shred our self-esteem. It’s A Given It’s no surprise that shame is the guiding...

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Katherine Hepburn and Narcissism

Who doesn’t love the movies of Katherine Hepburn? With her energy and upper-crust Bryn Mawr accent, she wraps the audience around her little finger. Then combine her brittle elegance with the relaxed...

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How Narcissism Puts the “Bah Humbug” In Christmas

It happens every single year. The Christmas tree is decked with tears and garlanded in false guilt. Fugetabout the Grinch. This is how narcissists steal Christmas. The Twelve Days of False Guilt...

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A Message of Hope and Happiness for Narcissism Survivors

Today’s article is simply a message of hope and happiness for my fellow narcissism survivors. There is hope. Sooner or later, happiness will find you. I sh*t you not! So often articles on the topic of...

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Narcissists In The Workplace

They know exactly how everything should be done. And woe unto any coworker who doesn’t do everything their way. Welcome to the stressful reality of narcissists in the workplace. Stress In a world where...

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The Narcissist and the Speeding Ticket

Once upon a time…in a land far, far away…there lived a narcissist. Let’s call him Speedy, shall we? Well, one day Speedy got a speeding ticket. I’ll pause here for the horror of this situation to sink...

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5 Regular Things Socially Anxious People Struggle With

Different people have difficulties with different situations. What you don’t even pay attention to can be highly problematic or worrisome to someone else, and vice versa. Here are five social...

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The Clueless But Well Intentioned Narcissistic Parent

“Your parents were so ahead of the times,” my boss gushed. I just looked at her, blankly, puzzled. Ten years later, I finally “git it” because so many parents nowadays are using the same parenting...

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5 Ways You Were Taught Self-Erasure – and Why It’s Wrong

A tragic number of children have been raised to practice self-sacrifice and self-erasure in order to meet the needs of others, mainly their primary caregivers. This is often the main function that the...

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8 Ways Childhood Neglect Affected Your Life

Most people have experienced childhood neglect to one degree or another at some point during their lives. Of those, many don’t even recognize it as neglect or abuse because people tend to idealize...

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Captain Sensible Is Not One Of The Avengers! But Your Inner Wisdom Might Be.

Can you imagine, if Captain Sensible was one of the Avengers? Spiderman would be swinging from lamp-post to lamp-post, with Captain Sensible running along behind yelling “Get down from there, you’ll...

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Stopping the Self-Hate Cycle

Recently I remember sitting in session with a client who was talking about all the ways he had failed his kids as a father. I suggested that he might be in a self-hate cycle and he responded, “I don’t...

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5 Ways Childhood Neglect and Trauma Skews Our Self-Esteem

Self-esteem is one of the core concepts in regard to our self-perception, self-worth, and self-understanding. Self-esteem is something that people refer to all the time, be it a mental health...

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How to Move from Feeling Overwhelmed to Safe

When I was 36 years old, I was diagnosed with a chronic disease. I remember feeling shocked for about a week. Then I started searching for how the diagnosis couldn’t possibly be true and the hoping the...

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The Power of Mel Robbins

Some of you may already know this, but I live in Australia. It’s a long, long way from America. Around 15 hours’ flying time, to be exact, not counting the connecting flights at either end, depending...

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