Why Overgiving Ruins Your Love Life

Why Overgiving Ruins Your Love Life

You’re so caring! They’re an idiot for not wanting you,’ say the friends who want to boost you up when you’re feeling rejected. It’s often said with love, and reassurance that you are worthy and that it’s not your fault that things ended. And it’s true – you are...
Airing Your Dirty Laundry

Airing Your Dirty Laundry

Sharing aloud with someone what you’ve been through is sometimes a scarier thought than just continuing to live in silence with what you’ve been through, and the challenging after effects of that history. I want to share with you the most common reasons I hear from...
I Almost Married My Worst Abuser

I Almost Married My Worst Abuser

I almost married my worst abuser. I was young, I already believed I was damaged goods, and, typical of abusers, he confirmed this was the case, explicitly, over and over again. We were engaged, and I was happy to be chosen at all. Given how I already felt and what he...
When Talking Therapy Isn’t Enough

When Talking Therapy Isn’t Enough

Sure, the first time you share your traumas aloud with another person to witness you, is pretty significant. Some of the shame dies then, as you realise that what’s happened to you doesn’t make you disgusting or unlovable. That person witnessing you, if they’re good,...