Psychological Manipulation: How Your Mind Was Turned Against You The confusion is not a character flaw. Self-doubt that follows you from room to room, rehearsed conversations, the way you second-guess memories you lived through… none of that is evidence that...
Verbal Abuse: When Words Became Weapons Sticks and stones was a lie. We learned that rhyme as children, maybe even chanted it on the playground, trying to convince ourselves that words couldn’t really wound us. But somewhere between that childhood belief and the...
What Is Emotional Abuse and Why It Is Just as Real as Physical Harm Because it leaves no bruise, emotional abuse is often dismissed, by the person experiencing it as much as by those around her. This article affirms what you may have suspected: it is real, it causes...
The God Who Sees What Happens Behind Closed Doors One of the loneliest parts of surviving an abusive relationship is the sense that no one truly knows what happened behind closed doors. But God was there. He saw it all. In fact, not one moment escaped His attention,...
Why It Is So Hard to See Clearly When You Are Inside a Toxic Relationship There is a moment, sometimes it comes in the car, sometimes in the quiet of a morning you have to yourself, sometimes in the middle of a counselor’s office, when a woman looks back at what she...
