Tag: recovering from abuse

My Borderline mother: two years later

Posted on April 20, 2021 by MJ

My relationship with my mother is complicated. It feels like a living thing quite separate from me. A complex, dangerous, unpredictable, delicate and yet tenacious living thing that persists. I’ve written a lot about Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and my mother in this space… Continue Reading “My Borderline mother: two years later”

Category: Borderline Personality Disorder, co-dependency, compassion, encouragement, Healing, Mothers, Moving Forward, personal development, trauma, UncategorizedTags: 5 stages of Grief, borderline mothers, Borderline Personality Disorder, Mother Wound, mothers and daughters, recovering from abuse, trauma recovery

Lunch with My Mother

Posted on April 10, 2018 by MJ

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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

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