7 Tips for Coparenting With Difficult People
Let’s just face it, coparenting even if the coparents get along great, is hard and filled with compromise, making being a single parent that much more fun. Add in emotion + one person being difficult and coparenting becomes a recipe for disaster. Unfortunately, we have no choice but to continue trying our best on coparenting with difficult people for the benefit of our children. Coparenting with Difficult People Being a very hands on...
What Is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is a mental condition giving one an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep seemingly unsatisfiable need for excessive attention and admiration, troubled relationships throughout life, and a complete lack of empathy for others on the outside. On the inside lies a person protecting themselves with an extremely fragile self-esteem that’s vulnerable to even the slightest of criticisms. This...
6 Reasons To Travel While Healing
Travel is a super powerful way to heal the soul, cleanse the mind and to open your heart up. Experiencing trauma is life changing, nothing will be the same as before. As you go on your healing journey, travel is an impactful way to help you understand, rewrite and reclaim control over your life. First you should read this post on 6 ways travel is healing. It will give you a good understanding of why travel is so healing. Here I want...
What Is Gaslighting?
Gaslighting is a form of manipulation that toxic people use to maintain their control over others. It is a nasty and occasionally covert type of emotional abuse that the toxic person uses to make the target (victim) question their judgments and reality. When used enough, the victim starts to question their own sanity. This form of emotional abuse is a way for toxic people to exert their power over others to manipulate a person into...
6 Tips For Working With Difficult People
We have talked before about understanding and communicating with difficult people; learning to work with them is just the next step. Knowing that 85% of our financial success is due to our personal skills, it is important to keep learning and understanding difficult people – because they are everywhere!!! You can read here more about the science and genetics behind difficult people. In an effort to understand them which will allow us...
The Benefits Of Travel On PTSD and C-PTSD
Science and experience are showing us daily that travel is no longer just for recreation! The evidence suggests that when it comes to recovering from trauma, mental illness or addiction, traveling can have undeniable benefits on PTSD and C-PTSD; on our mental health in whole. Just as different herbal medicines can help relieve and heal our physical pain, travel helps with our mental pain. Travel, stepping outside of your comfort zone,...
How To Help A Loved One With PTSD and C-PTSD
Watching a loved one struggling with PTSD,C-PTSD, and depression is confusing, sometimes scary and all around really hard to do. Given that the effects of trauma are unique to each person, it can be tricky to identify PTSD and C-PTSD; which often times, causes major problems within family life and with friends. And to make it even more difficult, the effects of these can come right after trauma, a few months after trauma to even years...
Female Pioneers In The Mental Health Industry
In celebrating Women’s History Month, there are 5 females that made huge leaps for us that I would love to share with you. When many of us think about the mental health industry, it’s mostly men that come up in our minds. But so many women made equally if not more important contributions to understanding the human mind. And I think Women’s History Month is the perfect time to talk about them! Female Pioneers In The Mental Health...
What Is C-PTSD?
We have talked about depression, trauma, and PTSD; now we are going to discuss Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD). Recently C-PTSD is becoming more recognized in the mental health community. C-PTSD is caused by repeated trauma over months or years rather than one single traumatic event. It can also evolve from untreated/mistreated depression and PTSD. Though C-PTSD and PTSD are very similar, C-PTSD is considerably...
Sharing The Journey With Moving The Human Spirit
As the celebration of Women in History continues with International Women’s Day today, I want to take some time to appreciate and share the journey, the freedoms, the rights that many of us girls take for granted today. It wasn’t too long ago that women could not vote, were not entitled to equal pay, were not even welcomed as part of the integral workforce or schools that shaped this country (or most countries for that matter). We...