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Is your response to their bad behavior emotional abuse?

  • October 15, 2019
  • Control, Crazymaking, Emotional Abuse, Gaslighting, Podcast Episode, Relationships
After months or years of being emotionally abused, you may find yourself doing behavior that resembles the same type of behavior you’re a victim of. If that’s the case,...
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When someone tarnishes your good name and reputation - The Smear Campaign

  • October 9, 2019
  • Control, Crazymaking, Emotional Abuse, Manipulation, Narcissism, Podcast Episode, Relationships
The smear campaign is a card often played by narcissists, sociopaths, and other emotional abusers to make you look like the bad guy. If you’re hurt and miserable, they...
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If you leave me, I'll kill myself - The ultimate abuse of your empathy and compassion

  • September 25, 2019
  • Control, deception, Emotional Abuse, Enabling, Guilt, Manipulation, Podcast Episode, Relationships
Confronting the ultimate manipulation in a relationship, the threat of suicide is a very troubling and often abusive tactic. It’s a scenario that traps an empathetic, caring individual in...
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How judgment in relationships destroys love and connection

  • June 17, 2019
  • Control, Emotional Abuse, Narcissism, Podcast Episode, Relationships
Judgment is the ultimate relationship destroyer. It is the key to creating a rift so wide that the relationship issues might get to the point of unresolvable. Once you...
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Emotionally abusive isolation and how it ensures you lose your friends, family, and support system

  • May 6, 2019
  • Control, Emotional Abuse, Manipulation, Podcast Episode, Relationships
Isolation occurs when someone wants to keep you from your friends, family, and support structures. You will become more dependent on the one who is isolating you, causing you...
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There is nothing you could have done differently, emotional abuse would have happened anyway

  • April 10, 2019
  • Control, Emotional Abuse, Gaslighting, Manipulation, Podcast Episode, Relationships, self-esteem, self-worth
Many emotional abuse victims believe they are at fault for the abuse as if there is something they did to bring it on. The short answer is there is...
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How you enable manipulative and controlling behavior by being your wonderful self

  • March 27, 2019
  • Control, Emotional Abuse, Manipulation, Podcast Episode, Relationships, self-worth
When you are kind, generous and caring, and you get controlling and manipulative behavior in return, you may be the very cause of perpetuating it without even realizing it....
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Yes, there are people that know how to control you and steal your power

  • March 23, 2019
  • Control, Emotional Abuse, Gaslighting, Manipulation, Podcast Episode, Relationships
We are often told that we can choose how to feel and that no one can actually control us. However, in emotional abuse and manipulation, that concept doesn’t seem...
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Are you with a manipulative person?

  • March 13, 2019
  • Control, deception, Emotional Abuse, Gaslighting, lying, Manipulation, Podcast Episode, Relationships
Would you know if you were being manipulated? Do you know what to look for? Manipulative people are experts at toxic language and behavior to make you question reality...
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The texts after the breakup: When breadcrumbing keeps you from reaching closure

  • March 12, 2019
  • breadcrumbing, Control, Dating, deception, Emotional Abuse, influence, Manipulation, Podcast Episode, Relationships
Some people have a strange way of showing they care by sending you small messages out of the blue to get you to think about them. However, as much...
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