Healthy boundaries are a basic building block of healthier relationships. The ability to someone no without guilt is an essential skill if you’d like to begin practicing interpersonal boundaries and build more self-respect. Even if you feel guilty about saying no, you can still say no. Don’t make decisions out fear. Or, as I like […]
Boundaries Protect You from Narcissists and Borderlines, Part 2: The Joy of No!
Over the years, I’ve become a broken record about two things with clients. Self-care and boundaries. Effective boundaries allow the good stuff in and keep the bad stuff out. They separate healthier relationship partners from toxic relationship partners. In Part One of boundary article series, I explain one of the most fundamental boundaries — the […]
Narcissist Dictionary: “You Need Therapy!”
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 […]
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