Are We Born Broken or Parented to Break?

When you are the child of a toxic person, you learn very clearly that you are inherently…

How to Stay Resilient When Bombarded With Negative Emotions

Crazy Is As Crazy Does

Being at the mercy of an abuser creates feelings of desperation, of…

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) — What It Is And Isn’t

The Beach, My Soul, and My Shame

For shame to survive, Brene Brown taught me that it requires silence…

The Internalized Mirage

3 Reasons You “Miss” the Abuser

They Just Don’t Get It

Aubrey explores how misunderstanding No Contact and victim blaming can become…

How I Learned To Be Happy

For the longest time, I thought there was something inherently wrong with me. Something that made me doomed to…

How to Talk to Normal People

Abuse, and the many varied effects it has on you, is incredibly difficult to understand for people who have…

Sick and Tired

I suffered from a variety of illnesses while under the control of my ex-husband and…