Category: Abuse
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Healthy People Don’t Intentionally Hurt Others
To Emotional, Mental, and/or Physical Abusers: Your pain towards yourselves is very clear. If you were healthy and happy individuals you wouldn’t feel the need to tear someone else down. This is not just to men or women in romantic relationships. This is to the bosses, co-workers, friends, parents, sons, and/or daughters who are out…
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A Warning to Social Media Users
Dear Social Media Users, I know this seems hard to believe, but many of us have been used as a form of narcissist abuse. Many of us have read articles on what narcissists do and we cringe thinking about the poor women, men, and children who have had to suffer at the hands of a…
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You are NOT Stupid!
To the People who Refer to Themselves as Stupid: We all make mistakes! Mistakes are missteps, detours, and/or stepping stones to growth (as long as we learn from them). They definitely don’t make us stupid. We may try things and fail again and again. You are still not stupid. You may turn to drugs or…
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#PerspectiveChallenge: I’m Stupid, Ugly, and Unlovable
PERSPECTIVE: I’M STUPID, UGLY, AND UNLOVABLE When we label ourselves, we will do, think, and feel things to prove the label true. When we choose words that coming from someone else would be considered bullying or abusive, we are bullying and abusing ourselves. If it’s normal to treat ourselves that way, wouldn’t it feel normal…
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Feel-Good Friday Book Series: Power
FEEL-GOOD FRIDAY BOOKS THAT GAVE ME SEEDS TO THRIVE (Click link for the introduction to the series) Power: Surviving & Thriving After Narcissistic Abuse by Shahida Arabi was one of THE most important books I ever read to complete my healing from narcissistic abuse. For me, it was the final piece of the puzzle that…
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Remembering Trauma
How we use are minds to go through the remembering process of trauma can be a powerful tool to help launch us forward, or a cruel weapon to keep us down. What many don’t understand is the choice is ours. Our perception is our power. We can use it to lift ourselves up or to…
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How Do I Make Them Stop?
If anyone has ever had an addict, abuser, narcissist, or someone with mental illness in your lives, you may have asked, prayed, and cried over this question. If the person above is you, you may have asked, “How can I stop…?” Then, “How do I make them stop?” can be the question that follows trying to make…
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3 Ways to Remove the Clutter that Self-Abuse Creates
3 Ways to Remove the Clutter that Self-Abuse Creates Self-abuse is one of the many ways our self-hate, low self-esteem, lack of worth, and negative self-image manifest themselves. We create clutter both inwardly and outwardly when we don’t become self-aware of how we are treating ourselves. This doesn’t help us lead productive lives. This doesn’t…
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90-Day Series Updates
Dear Readers, I’m excited to inform you that I’ve been through each day of the FREE 90-Day A Better Me Series and the 90-Day A Better Me Letters Series and now BOTH series are fully available on FromALovingPlace.com. I provided links on each day for easy navigation through every piece of the series. Now that…
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90-Day A Better Me Letters Series: Day 45 – Releasing Perspectives that Don’t Serve Me
Letters from A Better Me 90-Day A Better Me Letters Series Part II: A Journey of Perspective What Launches Us Forward: The Stable Foundation Day 45: Releasing Perspectives that Don’t Serve Me Dear Universe, I’m ready to release perspectives that don’t serve me anymore. Many of my perspectives of truth came from a place…
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