Tag Archives: resilience

Can emotional abuse be healed?

When you are a child, all the deal with the grown ups around you revolves on a single question: are they going to help you grow, develop and survive as to be happy as an adult? Or they either don’t care about you, getting you in serious danger of life, or are they going to [...]

Childhood Abuse Leaves Permanent Damage

Emotional scars are invisible scars that follow us for life! A new study by Florida State University researchers has found that people who were verbally abused as children grow up to be self-critical adults prone to depression and anxiety. Of the whole sample population, an staggering 30% reported that they were often verbally abused by [...]

Healthy Love Relationships and Strong Self-Esteem

If you are going to get into a marriage with a passive aggressive person, you’d better have a very strong self-esteem. Which, of course, it is a silly piece of advice, because if you really had a healthy, sound, strong sense of who you are, then you will never put up with a passive aggressive [...]

Learning from Conflicts Creates Resilience!

What is the connection between being able to manage conflict, anger and negative attitudes such as passive aggression and this wholesome character trait named resilience? Very easy: Resilience is what you develop when you learn to confront all those interpersonal obstacles with good solutions. It is very easy to use “fighting fire with fire” reactions…it’s [...]

How to Be Resilient in Scary Times

We are living in confusing times…the news keep bombarding us with information that is worrisome, difficult to act on and in general scary. What can we do to develop what is needed, a sense of resilience? Where is this sense of inner strength coming from? Sometimes our strength comes from having a positive sense of [...]