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…

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…

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