by vivian | Sep 13, 2017 | Blog, Relationships
Loving a narcissist is like Stockholm Syndrome Leaving an abusive relationship is never easy. On average, it takes a person around 7 times to leave an abusive partner. Abusive relationships are complex and traumatic. The cycle of abuse is pervasive and difficult...
by vivian | Sep 6, 2017 | Blog, Relationships, Self Love
Do you love someone who keeps hurting you? Do you keep going back to someone who abuses you, emotionally and/or physically? Unless you look hard at why you were addicted to an emotionally unavailable person in the first place, you risk going back to them. Or...
by vivian | Aug 30, 2017 | Blog, Relationships, Self Love
To understand how I came to find myself in a violent relationship, I had to go back to the root cause of my lack of self-esteem, where it was seeded in my childhood. To understand how I’d come to be this way. It wasn’t easy or obvious to me. I wasn’t from a violent...
by vivian | Aug 23, 2017 | Blog, Relationships, Self Love
When you’ve grown up to think you’re not good enough confrontation is terrifying for you. Especially, if you were a people pleaser like me and morph into whatever shape you feel will get you the most approval. It’s no wonder when a narcissist or abusive person crossed...
by vivian | Jul 26, 2017 | Blog, Relationships, Self Love, Viv's Mantras
Oprah Winfrey is right! There are no mistakes in life. When I was at rock bottom, living in fear in a destructive relationship. Knowing my ex was capable of killing me, as he had almost done so already. I was immersed in chaos and drama. ...
by vivian | Jul 12, 2017 | Relationships, Self Love
Being strong: I thought I was. But I was wrong! A few of my friends and I were once having a sneaky cigarette in the school toilets in High School. This was a strict, elite girls school. There were rules about everything: what we wore, how we...
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