Spoken Agreements and Silent Arrangements

Spoken Agreements and Silent Arrangements

More important than a relationship with others, by deluding ourselves by our own blind hopes and/or desires we risk loosing the relationship that we have with our own selves and put our recovery at potential risk.

Who, Me? Angry?!

Who, Me? Angry?!

In how many ways do we express anger and in how many more ways do we deny that we feel anger at all? Anger is binged; it is purged, eroticized, drunken, and driven, smiled away, snorted, smoked, stolen, and gambled

Fabled Truths and Family Lies

Fabled Truths and Family Lies

Labeling a behavior as “crazy” is a particularly destructive form of emotional abuse that makes you question your reality and intuition. It is almost always present in rigid and shame-based family systems...

Emotional Incest

Emotional Incest

The "privilege" or exclusivity in being overtly, sexually abused carries an instinctive sense of danger, fear and shame that is not present with covert sexual abuse or emotional incest.

Full Cradles and Empty Hearts

Full Cradles and Empty Hearts

For the uninitiated Postpartum depression is a mood disorder similar to other forms of depression and/or anxiety. But, depression that occurs post childbirth and endures longer than the “baby blues” and that often accompanies childbirth, is referred to as PPD.