Healing from Emotional Abuse Mastering Mind Emotion Body Connection in Healing for Emotional Abuse

•Healing Emotional Abuse The Language of Healing and the Mechanics of Purification
What is it about silence that enables healing from emotional trauma? The answer to this question is the essence of healing the trauma of domestic violence. Mind-Body Medicine and Domestic Abuse Recovery We know from the principles of mind-body medicine that there is an undeniable relationship between what's between the ears and what's under the skin. Every thought has a corresponding affective (feeling) component to it. Think about an experience by visualizing the memory of the...

•Healing Emotional Abuse Healing Through the Structure of Silence
When you know the structure of silence, you hold the key to healing emotional abuse from within. Now this may sound simple or it may sound profound, depending on your relationship to being quiet within. Knowing silence and being familiar with navigating its structure is like knowing any other cleansing process. For example, you know how to bath your body. You know lathering up and rinsing off is part of cleansing. The Structure of Silence There is structure to silence as there is routine...

•Healing Emotional Abuse Boundary Issues of Domestic Violence
We hear about domestic abuse survivors' boundary issues as though this is what got them in the abusive relationship. Well, maybe it did. However, it's also true that their progressive dismantling of their personal boundaries is what keeps them safe while living in an abusive relationship. If you are in an abusive relationship, you probably know what I mean. Now it may not necessarily be something that you are conscious of, but I trust you are aware of the fact that if you say no, to...

•Healing from Emotional Abuse and the Physical Injuries of Domestic Violence
Each time I encounter the body's ability to heal itself, I'm in awe. And to witness the role of intention in this is even more mind-boggling. As domestic violence survivors, you know the scars and wounds of battering. Did you know you can have a very active role in healing these injuries? I'm going to insert an earlier writing of mine in which I'm reflecting on a milestone in my own process dating back to 1988, because it says it from that battered place common to domestic abuse survivors....

•Verbal Emotional Abuse How to Get Out of the Line of Fire
Your partner is angry about God only knows what and there you are in the line of fire. He may start with some derogatory comment about the way you manage (or fail to manage) your life. And quickly, he tosses in his resentment toward your family and their character. Then, before you know it, he's bringing in and unloading the whole darn truck. You know you are being ambushed with his verbal emotional abuse. All you want is to pull in and be out of this man's line of fire... How do you...

•Spousal Emotional Abuse How to Break the Cycle of Emotional Psychological Abuse
Emotional psychological abuse from your intimate partner is as clear as the day is long when on the receiving end. But for the bystanders, it's ambiguous. Some people will even tell you that when you are the abused, on some level, you become a bystander. It is as though you take yourself out of the line of fire simply to survive the blows of spousal emotional abuse, and ultimately exist. You hate being hated. Your tire of being told how inadequate you are, how you are...

•Verbal Abuse in Marriage How to Deal with Verbal Sniping in Abusive Relationships
Emotional verbal abuse in marriage is commonplace in couples of all walks of life. Sometimes it's an innocent reflexive gesture that comes out unconsciously. And other times, it's an oral blow intended to smack you across your heart and soul. The question is what do you do in the moment it comes your way? And then, as a result of this, what follows? Swallowing Emotional and Verbal Abuse Spousal abuse survivors become accustomed to swallowing emotional and verbal abuse as though it was part...

•Healing Parental Alienation Abuse Lost Kidnapped Child as Trauma or as Love
Is your lost, kidnapped child your trauma or your love? Your answer to this question is the cornerstone to your healing the trauma of parental alienation abuse. I was stunned into an appreciation of the trauma replacing love as I was watching Private Practice last night. Violet had suffered her unborn child having been ripped from her womb by one of her mentally ill patientsa violation like none other. And then she could not bond with this baby. It was as though her trauma took over the...

•Healing from Domestic Violence The Rapture and Remedy of Writing for Domestic Abuse Survivors
I notice that when people are told to write as a) a way to keep records of the ongoing abuse episodes and domestic altercations, or b) for the healing effect, they recoil. If I didn't know better I'd think they felt as though they were getting an assignment right out of grade school. And since we know the authority issues in their lives make this rather undesirable, it is understandable why one would not want to journal. However... Here is why this is doing oneself a disservice. If you...

•Emotionally Abusive Relationship Intervention 3 Keys to Freeing Yourself from Emotional Abuse
A psychologist in India recently asked me to write about the following - How can a woman, one without access to professional help, take steps towards freeing herself from an emotionally abusive relationship? As I think about this question, I realize that this was the inspiration for my writing in the first place. I wanted to reach battered women who requested, but could not afford, my professional services. In my writings over the last three years, I have focused on the psychology of...