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Mass Trauma: 5 Steps to Protecting Your Mental Health
We are currently suffering a global mass trauma. Even if we don’t come down with COVID 19, we live under the threat of it. Living in fear is one of the primary precursors to PTSD. I did a little research and quickly found that primary and secondary stressors can cause significant challenges to one’s mental health. For many of us, the daily news tally of the dead and the enforced quarantine is a primary stressor. For others, add to this contracting the disease or watching a loved one struggle and perhaps die, is an even greater primary stressor. The secondary stressors are beginning to add up. Children feel the loss…
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Attracting Controlling People? Here’s Why.
I both attract and repel controlling people. My entire life, I have gravitated towards people who wanted to dedicate themselves to controlling my life. I did not understand why until much later. Nowadays, I am pretty cautious around people, especially charmers and smooth talkers. I warm slowly to charismatic leaders, and I now listen to what people say, rather than what I think they mean. Taking people’s words at face value saves me a lot of heartaches. For a long time, I considered myself a magnet for anyone with narcissistic traits, and in reality, I was. Not until I recognized in myself, various issues did I begin to draw healthier…
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Five Traits of the Female Narcissist
My first encounter with a genuinely dangerous female narcissist was in the workplace. She was my boss and making a colossal mistake that involved the students under our care. When I pointed out the error repeatedly, she didn’t even consider for a moment that she might have made a mistake. I became the victim of a smear campaign which eventually culminated in her leaving. Facts are facts, after all, and mine were simply irrefutable. Because my first experience with narcissism was with my ex-husband, I was unprepared for a Jezebel to storm into my life. I think that we assume that most narcissists are male. Research suggests that 75% of…
Healing Through Art & Words
