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  • Adult Bullying Is Abuse: Why Bullies Do What They Do — and How to Stop Them.
    boundaries | Family issues | Growing, healing, trusting | Mental Health | relationships | self advocacy | Self care | Your Family & Friends

    Adult Bullying Is Abuse: Why Bullies Do What They Do — and How to Stop Them.

    Enforce Consequences — Every Time

    This is the step people avoid — and the one bullies understand.
    Consequences may include disengagement, documentation, formal complaints, legal action, blocking, or ending contact altogether.

    No debates. No over-explaining. No repeated chances.

    Boundaries without consequences are suggestions.

    Bullies stop when the cost of continuing exceeds the reward. Your job is not to change them. Your job is to protect yourself.

    Bullying is abuse. It damages nervous systems, self-esteem, and trust. If you are affected by it, you are not weak. And you are not required to tolerate it.

    Silence protects bullies.
    Boundaries expose them.

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  • How Being Unaware Guarantees Lifelong Suffering.
    Counseling & Resources | emotions | Family issues | Growing, healing, trusting | Relationship management

    How Being Unaware Guarantees Lifelong Suffering.

    Wake up to the Effects of Trauma or Have Terrible Relationships. “We are spiritual beings having a human experience,” Pia Mellody Before…

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  • Divorce Trauma is Certain. You Can Make it Less So.
    Divorce and post-divorce | Family issues | marriage | Marriage & Marriage Crisis | Marriage Management | Relationship management | Uncategorized

    Divorce Trauma is Certain. You Can Make it Less So.

    There will be pain and suffering if you divorce, and it will have a ripple effect on your family, friends, and other areas of your life. Still, there are ways to decrease stress and trauma.

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  • How Not to Screw Up Yourself, Others, and Your Children.
    Family issues

    How Not to Screw Up Yourself, Others, and Your Children.

    How Expectations & Lack of Boundaries Screw up Relationships. “You cannot have expectations of others without their agreement.” — A Marriage and Family…

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  • Don’t Date Your Ex’s New Spouse’s Ex and Other Good Ideas.
    Affairs | Dating, Remarriage, Blended Families | Divorce and post-divorce | Family issues | Marriage & Marriage Crisis | Relationship management | relationships | Self care | Separation

    Don’t Date Your Ex’s New Spouse’s Ex and Other Good Ideas.

    Some things in life are unspoken rules. I don’t know if people tell us not to do these things or if our common sense does. One of the rules is not to date your best friend’s ex unless you have spoken with them about it and gotten their blessing, or any close friend, for that matter. Others are don’t cut in line, don’t stand too close, don’t talk about your bodily functions, don’t talk about your life miseries and ailments on a first date, let people exit before you enter, don’t touch other people’s things, leave things as you found them, and on and on. We do these things because we are 8 billion people on one planet, and we have to all get along. Considering other people’s feelings and sensibilities before acting is a good and excellent thing and the best way for you to get along in this world, too.

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  • How Adult Children Can Set Boundaries With Their Parents
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    How Adult Children Can Set Boundaries With Their Parents

    Adult Children Set The Rules for How They Live. Adult children often ask me to coach them on how to deal with parents…

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  • Gold Star Mother Laments Trump’s Comments About the Fallen.
    Family issues

    Gold Star Mother Laments Trump’s Comments About the Fallen.

    Recently, I was traumatized by former President Donald Trump, and it wasn’t the first time. My son, Marine LCpl Benjamin Whetstone Schmidt, a proud scout sniper, was killed in Afghanistan on October 6, 2011, almost 12 years ago, becoming a war hero and breaking our hearts. Benjamin’s family members are now part of a group no one wants to be in — Gold Star Families. During World War I, families of fallen war heroes began wearing black armbands with a gold star on them, hanging banners and flags with a gold star in their windows and yards, and ever since, family members of fallen heroes have been referred to as a Gold Star Family.

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  • Why is it So Hard to Divorce Your Toxic Biological Family?
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    Why is it So Hard to Divorce Your Toxic Biological Family?

    “Toxic relationships bring out the worst in you.” — Anonymous Families fighting one another happens every day, in every corner of the…

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  • Your family is nuts and you still visit for the holidays?
    Family issues

    Your family is nuts and you still visit for the holidays?

    How to manage obnoxious, unkind, unfair and disrespectful kin. As the season for family get togethers approaches, numerous clients reach out to…

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  • Stepping stress-free through life, and the holidays, with step kids
    Family issues

    Stepping stress-free through life, and the holidays, with step kids

    Impudent step daughter, unreachable video gaming step son, and your spouse’s ex who doesn’t help the situation at all. No one told…

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