I was an angry kid because I already knew everything was bullshit, and I knew it didn’t have to be that way. While knowing it wasn’t my fault didn’t stop me from being wounded by it, it also doesn’t diminish my responsibility to heal those wounds myself, and to not pass them along.
Read MoreThere were a lot of things I didn’t tell my parents when I was growing up, and there were a lot of things they never told me in return.
Read MoreAfter an assessing interview, the man politely told me that I was to be taken to hospital (a “good place”, I was assured).
Read MoreAs I help my clients, I realize how far I have come in my own journey.
Read MoreI had learned from a very young age that my father was an angry man.
Read MoreBeing raised by someone with Narcissistic Personality Disorder means you’re questioning your reality at all times, since they take gaslighting to a whole new level. You don’t trust yourself, you don’t trust anybody, but you do trust what your father told you: it is all your fault.
Read MoreMy father was a farmer, and I remember when he let me play along in his field, albeit only during harvest time while my elder brothers helped him with the paddy and haystacks.
Read MoreSometimes the deepest, darkest, scariest moments are the ones that define us the most.
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