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The slow disintegration of the deepest part of who you are

  • January 10, 2021
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Boundaries, Emotional Abuse, Relationships, self-esteem, self-worth, Shame
Emotional abuse has an insidious way of disintegrating the very core of who you are. It’s a process that can turn you into a shell of your former self....
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The guilt from believing you could have done more

  • December 30, 2020
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Children, Emotional Abuse, Forgiveness, Guilt, Physical Abuse, Relationships
A mom wrote to me and said that she is blaming herself for not doing the right job parenting her abusive son. Guilt is plaguing her and she wants...
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You have to protect the most important person in your world from hurtful behavior

  • December 10, 2020
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Boundaries, Emotional Abuse, Relationships, self-esteem, self-worth
The very core of who you are is what can get compromised when you are in an emotionally abusive relationship. That’s why many victims of emotional abuse say that...
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If you’ve tried everything to stop the hurtful behavior, what’s next?

  • November 21, 2020
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Arguments, Boundaries, Divorce, Emotional Abuse, Relationships
You’ve tried talking with them, expressing your hurt or unhappiness, but they still don’t seem to want to change their behavior. If you’ve done what you can, what is...
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Sometimes things need to be perfectly lined up to make the big decisions about the relationship

  • November 4, 2020
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Boundaries, Children, Divorce, Emotional Abuse, Forgiveness, Healing, Relationships, Shame
There’s a point of either intoleration or breakdown that you sometimes have to reach in order to finally make a decision that you need to make about a toxic...
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Should you try harder to please the emotionally abusive person?

  • September 30, 2020
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Divorce, Emotional Abuse, Relationships, Shame
One of the constants in emotionally abusive relationships is when the victim tries to please an unpleasable person.  No matter what they do or how hard they try, it’s...
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How the emotional abuser takes your empowerment tools away from you

  • September 10, 2020
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Arguments, Crazymaking, Emotional Abuse, Gaslighting, Manipulation, Relationships, self-esteem, self-worth
What is one of the most effective forms of emotional abuse? When the abusive person takes everything that empowers you away from you. All your tools and resources become...
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Glossing over the first detail in an argument will make it fall apart fast

  • September 4, 2020
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Anger, Arguments, Crazymaking, Emotional Abuse, Gaslighting, influence, Minimizing, Relationships
The first important point in a growing argument might be the most important one that gets glossed over. When that happens, the person trying to express what they’re feeling...
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You deserve to be treated with nothing less than respect and kindness

  • August 28, 2020
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Emotional Abuse, Gaslighting, Healing, Relationships, self-esteem, self-worth
When you’ve been mistreated for so long, you may begin to feel less worthy of love and affection. You might actually start to believe that you deserve bad behavior...
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Should you share content that talks about emotional abuse with emotionally abusive people?

  • August 16, 2020
  • Paul Colaianni
  • Codependency, Control, Emotional Abuse, Manipulation, Relationships
There are times when you want to share what you learn on this show with an abusive person, but is it the right thing to do? This show articulates...
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