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Big news coming!!

  Hey legends!   I’ve got some really exciting news I’ve been keeping wrapped up for what feels like YEARS now that I really can’t keep to myself any longer or I’ll actually explode!! 🤩 For almost a year now  I’ve been working my big butt off behind the scenes to create something special for you ladies out there, a mahoosive game changer for your life.  Actually, I feel like this has been brewing inside my brain for years and…

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Never let the unacceptable become acceptable

    When I first heard “never let the unacceptable become the acceptable it really triggered a big reflection for me. 🧐  A reflection on how many times in the past I’ve done exactly that – let the unacceptable become the acceptable. 🥹 How in the past I’ve allowed myself to be treated with disrespect due to my own shitty boundaries. 😔 How I’ve allowed others to emotionally abuse me – some for years. 😭 How I gave my energy…

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How to survive leaving unhealthy relationship ☠️

  Most of us in life experience at least one relationship that becomes unhealthy for us.  I’ve had my share of long term relationships that were abusive and codependent where I ended up as a shell of who I was. 😶‍🌫️ Leaving is hard because you’ve lost all confidence in who you are as a person. Abusive people show traits of narcissism and usually have attachment issues from childhood which tend to create a toxic playground and codependency/trauma bonding in…

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Why loving yourself is the key to lasting love

  #reflection I’m so grateful to myself. Grateful I worked so hard at working on building my sense of self worth, self love and self esteem after I let partners who didn’t deserve my love tear it to shreds. 💔  Grateful I kept building my self love when I met Cam because I felt panicky letting his amazing kind of love in. 🫣 I didn’t/couldn’t trust it at first. After a history of challenging relationships where I was let down…

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Would you be proud or worried if your kid followed your relationship path?

  When I coach my clients around relationship issues, I find a really good question to ask is whether they’d be happy if their kid (or sibling or someone else they love) was in a relationship similar to their own. 🧐    It’s a confronting question and one that generates an immediate response.   We can fart-arse around any other question and smooth things over in our minds about our own relationship…. but if you took that same kind of…

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A woman is “only” a woman

  I saw this quote on a very old little box in a very old, very grand lodge I stayed at in Scotland recently. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿   “A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke” is a line that appears in The Betrothed, a poem by Rudyard Kipling.          In the poem, the speaker considers Maggie’s appearance and what she might be like at 50, and compares her to other women.    He…

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