Intimate Terrorism. Is It Holding You Hostage?
Recognizing the horror of Intimate Terrorism and how it is different from Situational Couple Violence Abuse in any form is bad news: verbal abuse, emotional abuse, physical abuse, financial abuse, spiritual abuse, sexual abuse. All bad! And, you need to know what intimate terrorism is because it has the most dire consequences. HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS EPISODE: Recognizing abuse Recognizing Intimate Terrorism How Intimate Terrorism differs from
Coercive Control: Sneaky, Subtle & Sadistic Patterns of Domination
Understanding what is included in Coercive Control helps you understand if that’s what you’re experiencing. You need to know!!! Have you heard the term, coercive control? You may not have as it’s just slowly coming to awareness. And, it is SO important that it does! HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS EPISODE: What is coercive control? Why it is a
Do Narcissistic Hijackals Hurt You on Purpose?
So often, clients and members ask me if the relentless difficult, toxic people in their lives are that way on purpose. Followed closely by the question: does s/he want to hurt me? Have you wondered if your mean, blaming partner wants to hurt you? Did you have a #Hijackal parent who told you you were
What About Toxic Shame? Powerful Strategies to Help With Addiction in the Family GUEST: Jeff Jones
Recognizing and Healing Toxic Shame with special guest, Addiction and Family Recovery coach, Jeff Jones, brings invaluable insights and strategies to use when there is addiction within the family. Have you ever felt shame? Been shamed? If you haven’t, you’ve been extremely fortunate. Most people have. Shame is when someone does their best to make you feel
What If You Were Affected by Inherited Family Trauma? GUEST: Johanna Lynn
How is Your Past Impacting Your Now? Have you thought it through in specific details? Were you set up for attracting a toxic relationship, one with a Hijackal®? You may have been. Family drama, trauma, and abuse affect your self-concept as well as your self-esteem. Johanna Lynn sheds fascinating light on this today. Special Conversation
5 Co-Parenting Hacks for Raising Healthy, Happy Children with a Difficult Ex
How to keep the best interests and well-being of the children top of mind. Don’t make your children feel like pawns, messengers, or casualties of your divorce! In a perfect world, after divorce, your children would only know that life is more peaceful with two homes, and that they miss the way things used to
5 Telling Things People Say That Show Their Passive-Aggressive Sides
If these are happening too often, you’re dealing with crazy-making passive-aggression. Don’t miss them! When you experience passive-aggressive behavior from someone, it messes with your head. You question yourself. You second-guess yourself. It’s crazy-making. A passive-aggressive behavior pattern in someone leaves you feeling confused, second-guessing yourself, and questioning your sanity. “Did I? Didn’t I? I
Don’t give your Narcissistic In-Laws the Power to Destroy Your Marriage
Do you have relentless difficult, toxic, interfering in-laws? Maybe, they’re #Hijackals. Tracy Malone and I had a deep conversation about their effects on a relationship, and what you can do about it. Thanks, Tracy, for this great interview! Can you relate to these seven horrors of #Hijackal In-Laws? They are: controlling, critical cruel competitive demanding
Six Constantly Flying Red Flags That Should Tip You Off to Hijackals
You’re been in the relationship for a while. Maybe, it’s even your parent! Or, a new partner? Or, you’re waking up to the fact that you simply cannot please your partner because s/he WILL NOT be pleased, no matter what you do! Your partner may be a #Hijackal® Your partner may have narcissistic behaviors and self-centered motives. Your
Believe Behavior! Why Narcissists Exploit & Laugh at Your Vulnerabilities GUEST – Kim Saeed
Do you so want to believe someone loves you, yet it just doesn’t feel like it? In this episode, I’m talking about what to really believe about someone. My guest, Kim Saeed, and I talk about narcissistic behavior, and why they need to put you down, tear you down. Too many people readily believe the
12 Damaging Ways Your Narcissistic Mother Lied to You About Who You Are
Whether your mother had narcissistic, borderline, histrionic, or antisocial tendencies, she will have lied to you to make herself superior. Time to uncover the lies, and be free! You don’t have to wonder where your self-doubts came from if you were raised by a mother who had narcissistic, borderline, histrionic, or antisocial–Hijackal®–tendencies. She made sure
Have You Experienced Abuse Without Acknowledging it? Times UP!
Too many children experience emotional abuse. It seeps into the fabric of their being, and colors all their relationships in adult life. Are you recognizing it? Today’s episode will help. Being abused is a BIG deal! Not recognizing it is also a BIG deal. Often, when it happens when you are young, it becomes buried