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 …
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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 …
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