Emotions
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One of the benefits of being a survivor of emotional domestic abuse is that you can see the patterns of behaviour One of the disadvantage of being a survivor of emotional domestic abuse is that you can see the patterns of behaviour, everywhere, and at times, like I was when watching Stranger things recently, I…
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One of the things I have had to come to terms with is that my life as a child was a lie. It took a while and wasn’t the first thing I started to see in the last few years as ive healed and undergone self awareness and therapy. Thats the reality when I see…
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In my last piece I shared a little about how, based on Lindsay Gibsons book, ‘Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents’ , I coped with this by becoming an internaliser as opposed to reacting to it as an externaliser would. In this second part I though I would summarise some of the behaviours that are characteristic…
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Of the 20 or so books I’ve read this year, the one that made the most impression on me from a healing and therapeutic perspective was ‘Adult children of Emotionally immature Parents’ by Lindsay Gibson (2015). (As an added note I’m slowly working my way through her follow up ‘Recovering from Emotionally Immature parents’ (2019))…
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‘Grow a backbone will you Bromley, and stop running away’ These were the words that spoke to me, this time when I watched the quite astounding film PRIDE for the umpteenth time a few weeks ago. Brave. ‘You are being brave’. Never do this words mean so much more when you are growing the proverbial…
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Sorry, for being late Sorry for not being early Sorry for not asking Sorry for asking Sorry for not being good enough for you Sorry that I didnt did everything you expected me to Sorry that Im not smiling today Sorry for being too sensitive, when I dare stand up to you Sorry seemed to…
James Ballantyne 