The importance of forming good boundaries in helping us protect ourselves from hurt and abuse
Category: relationships
Personal Authenticity Part 5: genuine relationship
One of the significant benefits of making a commitment to living more authentically, is the opportunity we give ourselves and others we encounter to engage in genuine relationship. Personal authenticity can have a revelatory and revolutionary effect upon our relationships with others, inviting the other to meet us genuinely, and creating conditions that can prompt…
Boundaries Part 1: ways we abuse one another
The importance of forming effective boundaries in helping us protect ourselves against hurt and abuse
Narcissistic Abuse Part 1: the tools of manipulation
Normalisation of Narcissistic Behaviour Predatory narcissists are extremely damaged individuals who have gained a foothold and greater and greater influence in our society by virtue of our celebration of qualities towards which narcissists gravitate: celebrity worship, unquestioned obedience to authority figures, status obsessions, pre-occupation with appearances, the absence of depth of character and personal integrity,…
Mental distress: a sane response to an insane world
R.D. Laing Renowned Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing once said “madness is a sane response to an insane world”. We live in a world that promotes ideas of normality and abnormality and many of us can spend years trying to figure out which category we fall into, adjusting our words, thoughts and behaviours in accordance with…
