Emotions
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Thank you for reading, this is part 4 of my survival story, do check out parts 1-3 in the menu to the right, though each part can be read separately. This one may contain details that could trigger. Growing up with psychopathic emotionally immature parents allowed me to develop asbestos feet, with all the walking…
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‘Working with trauma is as much about remembering how we survived as it is about what is broken’ (Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score, 2014) I broke my grandmothers bedside clock. I didn’t kick it, throw it, sit on it, drop it or smash it with a hammer. At age 4 or 5, over the…
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Not many say this and live to tell the tale, though if you have been following along with my other posts, you will know that not all psychopaths are serial killers, some happen to be church leaders, with this being one of the top 10 professions where a psychopath might be. My psychopath was on…
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Trigger Warning: Emotional Abuse, Spiritual Abuse, CPTSD, Narcissm, Child abuse. This piece contains material that may cause a reaction. Following Tanya Marlows quite brilliant piece on the statements that Christians have used in the wake of the RZMI revelations, in it she identifies a number of phrases that then get banded around, often excusing, minimising…
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I grew up with a psychopath One of my parents is a psychopath. I don’t say this lightly. My mother is a psychopath. There, I said it. I grew up with a psychopath A christian one. Just saying this out loud is pretty phenomenal, or is it? I mean didn’t you all do the facebook…
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One of the main reasons victims of abuse dont get believed is that the actions that perpetrators do is so shocking that no one could believe it actually happened. Ironically the same people who describe such things have to articulate something so awful and shocking, that it would be beyond their own mental capacity to…
James Ballantyne 