Tag: recovering from abuse

Lunch with My Mother

Posted on April 10, 2018 by MJ

Well, I did it. I saw my mother and stepfather. I wasn’t nervous at all until about an hour before I had to leave, and then it hit me. I was suddenly scared that she was going to be unkind to me. I was… Continue Reading “Lunch with My Mother”

Category: Borderline Personality Disorder, Healing, Mothers, Moving Forward, relationshipsTags: borderline mother, healing process, hypercritical environments, hypervigilance, reconciliation, recovering from abuse

A Hard Saturday Night

Posted on November 12, 2016 by MJ

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I want to pause the EMDR button and talk for a moment. I have to process something, and I do that most often through writing. This is germane, I think, to this blog’s content in some way. So, I’ll do it here. Plus, it… Continue Reading “A Hard Saturday Night”

Category: RecoveryTags: healing, moving forward, recovering from abuse, relationships

The Red Herring Effect

Posted on October 20, 2016 by MJ

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I was about to hit my stride when I wrote “Your Narrative Brain and Trauma Recovery”, but then Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur came around; I became contemplative and pondered the nature of healing and what keeps us trapped in the same cycles. What… Continue Reading “The Red Herring Effect”

Category: abuse in families, blame, coping strategies, Grief, Healing, Rage, therapy, traumaTags: healing from trauma, recovering from abuse, Recovery, resiliency, the validity of therapy, Truth for healing