Why Are Some People So Damn Sensitive?
Dysregulation: Behaviors that Create Misery for Everyone.
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Coaching | codependence | Communication | Counseling & Resources | Growing, healing, trusting | self advocacy | Self care | Uncategorized
How Pia Mellody and Terry Real Transformed My Life, My Healing, and My Therapy Practice
When I look back over my career and personal healing journey, two names stand out as absolute game changers: the late Pia Mellody and the ever-thriving and prolific Terry Real. They are mental health, relationship, and trauma professionals, and their teachings didn’t just influence how I work with clients — they completely transformed how I see myself, relationships, and what it means to love myself and others in a healthy, adult way.
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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.
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Career issues | Career relationships | childhood trauma | codependence | Counseling & Resources | Growing, healing, trusting | Mental Health | relationships | self advocacy | Self care | Uncategorized
Is the Landmark Forum a Cult or one of the Greatest Personal Growth Seminars on the Planet?
It is with some trepidation that I reveal the third most significant influence in helping me grow and evolve: The Landmark Forum, a three-day intensive seminar dedicated to personal growth that was developed in the 1990s. I hesitate, because it catapulted me to a different level in terms of courage, self-confidence, and finding my purpose, but it has a negative aspect to it as well – high-pressure sales tactics that give it a well-deserved sleazy reputation, and that leads critics to wonder if it is a cult.
It is not a cult, and I highly recommend it for those who are curious, resilient, self-reflective, and ready for bold changes. I tell everyone I talk to about it that you must approach it with the attitude of accepting the gift it offers, while not succumbing to the pressure and sometimes unreasonable requests it makes of participants. I’ll explain more a little later.
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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…
