Create Soul Space: Domestic Abuse Support and Healing
Domestic abuse awareness, education, and healing -- with an empathetic Catholic twist.
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Betrayal Blindness: Forgetting as a Survival TechniqueThe need to trust is a powerful force. Establishing and maintaining a secure sense of safety is an essential component to all aspects of healthy living. Trusting those in your intimate circle helps foster safety, security and well-being in all areas of life.
Integrated with Angela: Opening Up About My Domestic Abuse JourneyFor this post, I’ve decided to do something a bit different. Rather than a written article, I want to share with everyone a recent interview I did with Angela Erickson of the Integrated with Angela podcast. In this interview we chat about all aspects of domestic abuse, including:
Minimizing Abuse is a Roadblock to ForgivenessIn my last article I wrote about betrayal blindness and how, under extreme trauma, a person can actually forget abusive episodes. Rather than an abnormal reaction indicating a person is inherently flawed and perhaps even crazy, betrayal blindness is a psychological defense…
A Tale of Two Boundaries: Finding the Truth in Relationships“It was the best of boundaries, it was the worst of boundaries …” Actually, no. Scratch that. In my Tale of Two Boundaries, both were the best of boundaries, even though they resulted in completely different outcomes. I’ve led a life of people-pleasing. I’ve chronically put…
