There can be many opportunities for you to feel the joy promised by the season...but also to feel that your buttons are pushed beyond your limits. It's in your hands to have a simple plan to manage holidays stress with grace and class. No more … [Read more...]
Emotional Abuse – Overt and Covert
In recognizing forms and signs of abuse, it is necessary to establish that abuse can take many forms, and they are not always as obvious as yelling or beating. Overt abuse is the more obvious form of abuse. The abuser is often aggressive and … [Read more...]
Emotional Pain: how do you handle yours?
We all deal with our personal emotional pain in different ways. Some are healthy, some are not. Good or bad, these ways in which we handle our pain are called “scripts.” They are the sequence of behaviors stored in our brains as "the way to do … [Read more...]
Build relationship skills: assertion
We find too many times in situations where there is friction and a deep sense of frustration of basic emotional needs. In life, we deal with other people sometimes as short in skills as we are to be able to talk and express needs and negotiate … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
