Self awareness
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Surviving Psychopathic Parenting (part 1)
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… Continue reading
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I grew up with a psychopath in the home (and a christian one)
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… Continue reading
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DARVO; the pattern to get smart on
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… Continue reading
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Understanding our emotionally immature upbringing and our internal selves (Part 2)
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… Continue reading
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Gratitude as freedom
Following up from Jennis piece about thankfulness as resistance , Christelle and I watched the above talk by Anthony de Mello on Sunday evening. I picked it, with the subject of freedom, as this resonates so much with us all at… Continue reading
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Nurturing and loving my internalising self (Part 1)
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… Continue reading
James Ballantyne 