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Coercive Control – The frog that slowly boils to death

  It was November 2018.    I woke up on the floor after sleeping in a room in my house that I used as my office, instead of sleeping in my bedroom, where he was sleeping.   I felt scared, afraid to leave the room and confront the situation ahead of me, treading on eggshells as always and feeling like a shell of my former self. 🐚   It wasn’t unusual to be met with passive aggressiveness, being completely ignored…

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The upward spiral

    Most of us have been through a period in our lives where we have been at rock bottom.   At the time, you may have found yourself thinking “how the hell did I get here?”   If you reflect back, there were probably multiple red flags and warning signs that led you on a downhill spiral to rock bottom.   Once you hit rock bottom, the only way is up through a series of changes that help you…

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Are you rushing into your relationship?

    I’ve spent a lot of time reflecting on my past relationships, learning the lessons I was given along the way.   Between the ages of 17 and 38, a good chunk of those years were spent in relationships where I was cheated on many times, manipulated, coercively controlled, financially and emotionally abused, deprived of my liberty at times and slowly but surely turned into a shell of my former self with a very broken heart.   When I…

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