Toxic and abusive relationships
Learn how to recognize and address toxic and abusive relationships. Our contributors offer guidance on identifying signs of abuse, understanding its impact, and finding ways to safely exit such relationships. Learn about the different forms of abuse, the psychological effects, and available support systems. Find practical advice and support if you are experiencing or recovering from toxic and abusive relationships.
Understanding Your Emotional Boundaries & Reclaiming Your Personal Spaces
Emotional boundaries are like a protective shield for your heart and soul. They define the limits of what you're comfortable with emotionally and help you maintain a sense of self. Unfortunately, trauma...
Why Lust Is the Silent Destroyer of Souls and Generations
From ancient teachings to modern culture, lust corrodes integrity, love, and even lineage. Here’s how it infiltrates our lives and how to reclaim your soul from its grip.
How Do I Stop Attracting the Same People Over and Over Again?
Have you ever found yourself asking why you keep attracting the same type of person, despite your best efforts to change? This article explores the "Mirror Effect" and how our inner beliefs and wounds...
Anxiety in Relationships – Is it Toxic or Just a Signal?
Relationships, especially in the early stages, can evoke a range of emotions, from bliss and excitement to irritation and anxiety. When anxiety enters the room, we might wonder...
Five Red Flags of Limerence Instead of Real Love
Have you ever felt that your way of loving people is a bit too much? Has anyone ever expressed this to you or made you feel judged for it? Have you been ghosted or abandoned by someone you were really...
The Dark Side of Keeping the Peace and Why Your Niceness is Not Neutral
I was raised in a family deeply rooted in dysfunction and abuse. It shaped me quietly and invisibly into someone who believed that keeping the peace was survival. Later in life, I found myself building businesses surrounded...
What If Your Loyalty to Others Led You to Abandon Yourself?
Exploring how codependent patterns can quietly fuel addiction, and what it means to reclaim your sense of self. Addiction is often viewed as a personal battle with substances or behaviors, but it...
The Way You Love Might Be Hurting You, but It Doesn’t Have to Stay That Way
Have you been living with a broken heart? Loving through pain that never really left? Trying to give what you've never fully received? If you're anything like me, you’ve mistaken survival mechanisms for love...
The Invisible Prison of Abusive Relationships and How to Become a Powerful Ally
As a psychotherapist with 16 years of experience, I’ve heard one question about abusive relationships more than any other: “Why don’t they just leave?” This question, while often well-intentioned...
Four Damaging Effects of Toxic Secrecy
Here’s the reality. We all have chapters in our lives that we don’t read aloud. This is because society can be a cruel master toward those experiences. These experiences are a culmination...
Life Is a Puzzle and the Pieces Don’t Always Fit
Life, in all its complexity, resembles a giant, evolving, three-dimensional puzzle. It is made up of millions of diverse experiences, turning points, and relationships.
What If the Way You Love Is Your Toxic Trait?
One of my favourite songs by Whitney Houston is My Love Is Your Love. It speaks of an unconditional, unshakeable love that remains through poverty, war, even death. But what happens when the way we give...
Why Women Become Anxious and Men Become Avoidant Yet Carry the Same Wound
Not long ago, I published a social media post with a simple sentence: “I have body hair. I have a soft belly. I haven’t worn makeup in two years. And I love myself anyway.”
A Trauma-Informed Take on Mel Robbins' Viral Concept of "Let Them" But Not Without Feeling
When I first heard Mel Robbins share her now-famous mantra, 'Let them', I experienced a profound exhale and a flicker of resistance. The idea of letting them walk away, letting them misunderstand...
How Childhood Trauma And Past Experiences Can Shape Your Entire Life?
If you experienced traumatic events as a child, it can influence the choices you make in life and the relationships you get into.