I am deeply passionate about raising awareness on coercive control and saving those who are currently in it. So, after I concluded my YouTube series deep diving each stage and also the science behind it, I knew I needed at least one survivor’s story. Because nothing brings us a deeper understanding of what it’s like …
7 Years in Coercive Control: Interview with Advocate, Lady Storm Read More »
Have you heard of Pete Walker’s 4F trauma types? They are: Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn. Hence its name, 4F. You may know them as our trauma responses, and they most certainly can be. However, Pete Walker refers to trauma types because for those who were raised by cluster B disorders, we tend to develop …
Where I Am and Where to Grow Using the 4F Trauma Types Read More »
Today I want to drop a little bonus content based on my own lived and learned experience with coercive control. It’s an example of the material we have been covering so far. Stage 1: love bombing and stage 2: intermittent reinforcement with gaslighting and isolation and enmeshment. I am a firm believer that academic understanding …
He was Narcissus Incarnate: How I Survived My Abusive Ex Read More »
The holiday season and other special occasions are for celebrating togetherness with family and loved ones. That’s why survivors of toxic parents and/or partners tend to feel holiday blues instead of holiday joy. There’s no one to celebrate. Some had to go no contact with their parents for very good reasons. Then they were forced …
How to Create Holiday Joy in Your Online Support Group Read More »
This is a companion article to How to Create Holiday Joy in Your Online Support Group. One of the suggestions was creating your own Christmas tree and then challenging your group members to share their own pictures (of anything meaningful to them) as a means of help decorating the tree. If you’re interested in knowing …
Giant Paper Christmas Tree: Easy How-To Guide! Read More »
It’s been a while since I’ve made a wrap-up article on a series. It’s something I love to do after concluding a series of articles. Create a one-stop guide with links to every article in the series, and of course with lots of visual aids too. Exploring the cluster B continuum has been the longest …
The Cluster B Continuum: A Compilation Read More »
We are here today with my bestie Katherine, whose father has passive aggressive personality disorder. She has asked not to be on camera but she doesn’t mind you hearing her voice. Too busy to read the rest of the article? Watch or listen to it. Watch this interview on YouTube (here) or listen to it …
Passive Aggressive Personality Disorder: A Daughter’s Interview Read More »
We are back in part two on antisocial personality disorder. Last week we went through the eight criteria (here) and established the main markers for this disorder. Extreme self-centeredness, lack of empathy, highly impulsive, and they are ruled by chronic feelings of boredom and contempt. For whatever reason they cannot feel happiness or fear on …
ASPD Part 2: The Comorbid Antisocial Read More »
We are back in this ongoing series on the cluster B continuum and today it is antisocial personality disorder’s turn to be in the hot seat. So, first things first. What’s in a name? Well when it comes to antisocial personality disorder, it has the most misleading label of all. Because when we think of …
Antisocial Personality Disorder: The 8 Criteria Read More »
We are back with our third and final installment on borderline personality disorder. Two weeks ago we introduced the 9 criteria for borderline personality disorder (here) and cleared up any and all confusion on what the criteria means by giving examples for each. Then because the rarest personality disorder is the one who only has …
The Comorbid Borderline Part 2: Cluster B + B Read More »
