5 Ways to Really Enjoy Your Holiday

11 years ago

Are you surviving the holidays? Are you handling the stress? Are you holding up? Sometimes we talk so much about…

Do You Have a Holiday Escape Plan?

11 years ago

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It’s Time for the Holidays-and Boundaries

11 years ago

I have a friend whose nickname for her former husband is Toxic Tom. He was just one of those people…

Crazy-Making: How to Cope with Gaslighting

11 years ago

If you’ve been a victim of crazy-making, you need a good coping strategy. The problem is, it’s hard to identify gaslighting—the…

Crazy-Making: The Three Stages of Gaslighting

11 years ago

A few weeks back we talked about gaslighting, the term for mental abuse that makes you doubt your own reality.…

The Story of Passive-Aggressive Harvey and Paige

11 years ago

Harvey’s Childhood: Harvey grew up in a family where children were considered a nuisance. Harvey’s mother insisted that children should be…

Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Good Friend?

12 years ago

The Lone Ranger and Tonto. Thelma and Louise. Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. What…

Crazy-Making: Are You a Victim of Gaslighting?

12 years ago

Gaslighting is a colorful name for insidious mental abuse. It is perpetrated on victims with the deliberate attempt to make…

A Little Porn Never Hurt Anything, Right?

12 years ago

Roger was happily committed to a relationship with Fran. Every now and again he’d visit a porn site on the Internet.…

Are You Contemptuous? It’s a Sure Relationship Killer.

12 years ago

The trouble with being contemptuous is that it implies you feel far superior to the worthless dung heap you are…