Parents
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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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One way of surviving psychopathic parents was to become immersed in the world of trainspotting. The drugs, alcohol and destruction, and why I resonate with this 1996 film Though I joke somewhat, reacting to emotional abuse can easily easily end in a life that is filled with the destructive elements, that this film was renowned…
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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 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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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))…
James Ballantyne 