Therapy
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One of the ways of surviving emotionally immature parenting, in fact possibly the only way is to pretend. Because, unless you fit into the role they have for you, you are in trouble. So, even if you don’t want to do something, you have to pretend, you have to lie to yourself. And every time…
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Like wading through treacle. Trying to walk through fog. Every now and again I get one of these. Beyond the healing and surviving. Beyond the self understanding, and in the safety, peace, love of my new life. Maybe I thought i wouldn’t get these. Maybe I had a vision that once undergoing therapy, once with…
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Dad, Do you think theres an all powerful, sovereign, all knowing, overseeing, higher power, dominating force thats controlling all our lives? Said the front of the Fathers day I sent to my Dad when I was about 13. Inside it read; Yeah, its Mum isn’t it? It was the one occasion probably in my life…
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I really have toyed with this one all week, I didn’t want to continue the series on surviving a psychopath parent, because what I needed to do this week was to take stock a bit, and be kind on myself, given that this weekend is Mothers day. And it started to bite in the middle…
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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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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…
James Ballantyne 