Parent abuse by Alienation
High Conflict Divorce, Holidays and Birthdays, Parent Abuse, This Just In

Surviving Parental Alienation during special events, holidays, and birthdays

Surviving Parental Alienation during special events, holidays, and birthdays with grace, style, and comfort is indeed possible but it takes planning, effort, and a willingness to feel rather than to avoid intense self-reflection and experiencing complex emotion. If you have been placed into the parental discard pile by an alienated adult or mature age child …

Kindness matters
Autism Spectrum, This Just In

The enormous cost of being kind without setting healthy boundaries for Autistics, Empaths, and People Pleasers

The cost of being kind without setting healthy boundaries is grievous for Autistics, Empaths, and People Pleasers. One tends to become fiercely codependent without realizing it, leaving a wide-open opportunity for toxic people and Narcissistic Abuse purveyors to abuse goodwill and to mistreat hospitality. People on the Autism Spectrum are more than seven times as …

Narcissists are seldom ethical
Narcissistic Personality Disorder, This Just In

Narcissists’ morals and ethics are adaptive to their immediate needs

Narcissists’ morals and ethics are adaptive to their immediate needs. Make no mistake about it — it is NOT the same thing, exactly, as simple hypocrisy. It is pervasive gaslighting with the intent to commit profound and comprehensive social fraud. Pretending to have morals in line with the rest of society in public then behaving …

Alcohol, Alcoholics, Holidays, Dry Drunks, Parties
Sobering Thoughts, This Just In

When alcohol ruins your family holiday or special event

When alcohol ruins your special event, it is seldom a happy memory creating circumstance. Actually, people getting drunk and abusing their friends, love interests, and family members at holiday parties is the most reported cause of Holiday PTSD for more than one nation’s worth of family units. People who drink can be a real menace. …

Malignant Somatic Narcissists
Somatic Narcissism, This Just In

Malignant Somatic Nurtured Narcopaths are socially violent personality types

[A poem.] Malignant Somatic Nurtured Narcopaths are socially violent personality types. Malignant Somatic Nurtured Narcopaths are socially violent personality types who love nothing more than drilling holes in the bottom of social lifeboats. Malignant Somatic Nurtured Narcopaths are socially violent personality types who love nothing more than drilling holes in the bottom of social lifeboats …