It has become common to hear about physical abuse, or emotional abuse, but we rarely hear about the lesser-known, spiritual abuse.
Read More“If you don’t heal from what hurt you, you will bleed on people who didn’t cut you.”
-Author Unknown
Read MoreAlthough people may casually call someone who is self-centered a “narcissist”, narcissism is actually a diagnosable personality disorder.
Read MoreWhen we use the word “abuse” or “abuser”, we conjure up images of monster-like people, but all of us are, at times, tempted to get our way through emotional manipulation. I use the word tempted, because it is actually very tempting and easy to use emotionally abusive tactics to achieve our own agenda.
Read MoreAccording to the CDC, approximately 1 in 4 women and 1 in 10 men report experiencing some form of “intimate partner violence” each year (Smith et al., 2018). In the wake of the global Covid19 Pandemic, domestic violence police reports have increased in correlation with the isolation required for quarantines (Boserup, McKenney, & Elkbuli, 2020).
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