Emotional abuse
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Surviving Psychopathic Parenting (Part 32) How their ‘helpfulness’ hid the reality
I have shared before about growing up feeling incredibly alone. In that piece I referred to the fact that the Toxicity of my mother meant that family members were kept at a distance, physical or emotional wedges were dug in… Continue reading
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Dementors are Real
The first time I saw the dementors in JK Rowlings Harry Potter, I knew what that feeling was like. The moment when I’m in a room and the life and energy has been sucked out of it. It often only… Continue reading
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Walking the hard road of loving myself
From nothing, to love Continue reading
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What if my Monster only Abused Me?
Maybe I was going to realise this eventually. For all that I have described the details of the abuse I suffered. What if it was just me. What if it was just me, and my family who suffered and experienced… Continue reading
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The challenge of saying No (today)
I had built it up over the weekend, tried to put it off, thought it, over thought it, woke up thinking about it, not been able to sleep thinking about if its the right decision was about to make. Then… Continue reading
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Surviving Psychopathic Parenting (Part 25) – Deciphering Emotional Abuse by Email
They know that they aren’t liked They know that they need to use other people to get people to do things for them They know that they cant take responsibility They know that when they write to you So, they… Continue reading
James Ballantyne 