Many clients’ abusive exes shout or sneer that they need therapy. This usually occurs during the devaluation and discard stages of the relationship. If you’re in or have been in a relationship with an abusive individual who blame shifts, avoids accountability, projects and gaslights, you’ve probably heard this, too. Narcissistic, borderline and/or diagnostically unidentified abusive […]
Boundaries Repel Narcissists and Borderlines, Part 1: The Golden Rule [Video]
Being able to identify red flags or behavioral warning signs that your new love interest is too good to be true isn’t enough. You’ve got to have healthy boundaries. If you grew up in a dysfunctional family that didn’t instill healthy boundaries, instituting boundaries now will likely be difficult. It is critical to do, however, […]
Boundaries Protect You from Narcissists and Borderlines, Part 1: The Golden Rule
If you’ve been in a relationship (or series of relationships) with emotionally manipulative, self-absorbed, empathy-challenged, immature people, I have to ask, do you have healthy boundaries? Any boundaries? Do you know what a boundary is? Perhaps you have some boundaries, but they were too anemic to deter a determined emotional predator. Thus, your boundaries were […]
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