How My Recovery From Emotional Abuse, Helped Me Love and Leave the Love of My Life
How do you manage the incessant desire to protect or save your family members? The need to want to ‘save’ your mother? Your father? Your siblings? And when you’ve given up on your toxic parent … the next boyfriend,…
There was a period of time in my life where I was hell bent on convincing the world that I just DGAF. I was angry, critical, outspoken and completely hated authority. I worked on portraying this confident /…
There are many lessons that come up regularly as I continue to heal. Though one of the main ones and one I want to share with you is; You can’t save anyone. This past week, an old and…
I have a lot to say on this subject. It’s not an easy realization to come to and it’s just as difficult to communicate it to those you care about. In short, friendships matter a lot to me. Without…
What do you do when your brother, sister, grandma, aunt or cousin – are unable to understand your struggle? Are unable to fully see you in your pain and understand the reasons behind your decisions? The reasons why you…
I started off the year in a lot of pain. I actually remember crying to my sister on my living room floor on January 1st. I was carrying so much weight and felt so alone in doing so. It…
Last year, in May 2017 – I went through a really intense break up with a man who I thought was my forever. Towards the end, things were consistently falling apart in his personal life and while I was…
A couple months ago, I surveyed a FB group of over 20,000 about what they battle with the most, now as adult, after experiencing Narcissistic Abuse as a child. While there were hundreds of responses, there’s one in particular…
One of my first memories with my maternal grandma is her helping me memorize words for an upcoming spelling test. We lived in apartment building, my mom, siblings and I upstairs on one floor and my grandma and my…
When I first met M, I could barely see him. I was weeks’ shy of being exposed to numerous red flags I had ignored in a previous dynamic. A dynamic with a male who loved me enough for the…