You have good reasons for staying, I know. If any of these ten reasons I’m sharing today are the ones you’re telling yourself, I hope you see it differently after you listen. I’m here for you. Could any of these things be true? Your relationship is bad. And, you don’t want to admit it. You…
Being with a Hijackal is a little like being part of that urban legend of cooking frogs: you don’t notice the dysfunction and abuse because the heat is slowly turned up. And, then? You’re cooked! You want to believe that a Hijackal can change. In fact, most people in relationship with these difficult, toxic people…
Gaslighting, Personal Trauma, Learning the Hard Way, and Lemons Out of Lemonade. GUEST: Tracy Malone, All around amazing woman, and founder of NarcissistAbuseSupport.com In today’s episode, I talk about “Gaslighting.” It’s a real thing. When someone else wants to tell you what you think, feel, intend, or have done, and they insist they are right, there’s…
Do you know what the most important ingredient in a great relationship is? You don’t find it. You have to bring it. Do you know what it is? You need to! This episode is so important: a required ingredient for a great relationship! And, it may not be what you think. We all live, work, or…
You could be pushing away the most important people in your life. You want to be seen, know, loved, and valued. Of course, you do. Yet, you may be afraid to really enter into relationships. One way people think protects them from intimacy is to adopt passive-aggressive behaviors. You push people away with passive-aggressive behaviors, right…
Toxic people, difficult people, push you to do what they want you to do. Learn to say no. They will shame you, blame you, and game you into it…or, at least try. And, when you allow the manipulation, you feel one of two things: hopeful that, if you do what they want, they will like…
Communication is a two-way street. Unfortunately, it often seems to have detours and dead ends! So, here’s a little relationship help in the communication department that can really make a difference. As George Bernard Shaw says, “The problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred.” Now, he said a mouthful right there. So many…
Hijackals–difficult, toxic people–catch you unawares. Don’t let them! SAVE YOUR SANITY: HELP FOR HANDLING HIJACKALS® with Rhoberta Shaler, PhD, The Relationship Help Doctor Don’t you just hate it when you feel manipulated? That’s what happens far too often when you have a Hijackal in your life. And, you hope for better, but nothing really seems to change.…
If that’s the case. deep down you may believe some very negative things about yourself. Today. I talk about what happens if you’re raised by a toxic, difficult person. What are some of the things that you might look at within yourself and: the way your life is going the way your relationships are going the…
There is something wrong, something off, in your relationship. You can feel it, and you may not be quite able to put words to it, to describe it to yourself even. Yet, you know it’s not right! Good start! Go with your gut! Hijackals®, those relentlessly difficult, toxic, disturbing–and often dangerous–people, have “tells.” Those are the…
