Addiction- a perfectly normal response to unhealed unacknowledged, unsupported long term ongoing trauma.
Looking back, I notice how often I gravitated toward people who couldn’t tolerate my pain but expected the world to organize itself around their pleasure. When they were uncomfortable, everyone…
Love Bombed: My Story of Worship, Betrayal, and No Contact (Part 6 of 32,000,000) The Story He Told Me When we met, I was deeply moved. How he soldiered through…
There are Some Good Things We live in a nice, cute, safe home—one I can afford. My boys are able-bodied, able-minded, and excellent in countless ways. They are creative, strong,…
Imagine a struggling child—or really any person—whose parent communicates, in no uncertain terms: “Nobody can or wants to relate to you or help build a bridge to where you are.”…