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Domestic abuse awareness, education, and healing support, with an empathetic Christian twist.
By Jenny duBay · Launched a year ago
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An Abuser's False Self: Hypocrisy and its Consequences
In a previous post I wrote about the early stages of a romantic relationship with someone who’s hiding an abusive personality, and how that experience likely damaged your self-image and tarnished your ability to trust your own intuition. In this post I’d like to address another…
Apr 21
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The Man Who Isn't There: Getting His Voice Out of Your Head
"Go away, go away, don't you come back any more! Go away, go away, and please don't slam the door!"
Apr 5
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The Ominous Role of Contempt in Abusive Relationships
"The derider intends to shame the person he derides." (St. Thomas Aquinas)
May 10
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Beware of the “Soul Mate”: Love-Bombing, Grooming, and Early Abuse Tactics
One of the first casualties suffered by someone with an abusive partner is the silencing of her inner peace as well as her once-reliable and trusted intuition. Perhaps you can relate: without even realizing what was happening, covertly and under the radar, your sense of self…
Mar 18
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Healthy Healing vs. Critical Complaint: Talking Openly about Intimate Partner Violence
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Fear of Abandonment in Abusive Personalities
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Under My Thumb: Coercive Control and the Sensitive Victim
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Unwittingly Describing the Abuse Cycle
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His Ex Was a Monster ... Or So You've Been Told
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An Insidious Agenda: Isolating Targets from Friends and Family
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How Domestic Abusers Put You—and Attempt to Keep You—in a FOG
One of the most destructive side-effects of being forced to endure an abusive relationship is the hazy fog that seems to settle over not only your mind…
Mar 4
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An Insidious Agenda: Isolating Targets from Friends and Family
One of the hallmark traits of an abusive personality is extreme, possessive jealousy, which can take many forms—all with an end goal of isolation…
Feb 24
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The Gateway to Abuse: How Pornography Destroys Relationships
“Using pornography is not OK behavior. It is a perverse and ridiculous intrusion into your relationship. It is an insult, it is disloyal and it is…
Feb 4
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Is it Child Abuse if the Mother is Abused, but Not the Child?
To abuse a child's parent is to abuse the child.
Jan 3
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Do Most Abusers Have NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder)?
Despite the current trend in referring to an abusive personality as "the narcissist," that phrase shouldn't be thrown around carelessly. Here's what it…
Dec 16, 2021
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Grieving Your Relationship after the Trauma of Domestic Abuse
Allow grief to envelope you as you go through the healing process after the damage of domestic abuse, but don’t let it engulf you.
Dec 8, 2021
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Is it Domestic Abuse, or an Anger Management Problem?
"Anger is not the cause of abuse and control; abuse and control are symptoms of a Power Over mindset." (Dr. Chris Huffine)
Nov 30, 2021
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There is No Excuse for Verbal Abuse
The verbal abuser uses words to disparage, undermine, belittle or control others, which disfigures a relationship through one of the cruelest forms of…
Nov 16, 2021
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Healthy Healing vs. Critical Complaint: Talking Openly about Intimate Partner Violence
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Fear of Abandonment in Abusive Personalities
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Under My Thumb: Coercive Control and the Sensitive Victim
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Unwittingly Describing the Abuse Cycle
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His Ex Was a Monster ... Or So You've Been Told
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An Insidious Agenda: Isolating Targets from Friends and Family
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