Parents
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Feeling grief; for the mothers day cards I could never send
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,… Continue reading
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Surviving Psychopathic Parenting (Part 4) – Asbestos feet; From Eggshells to Empathy.
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… Continue reading
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Surviving Psychopathic Parenting (part 3): Trainspotting (at Clapham Junction)
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… 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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The dawning reality, that your life was a lie
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… 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 