Toxic and abusive relationships
Learn how to recognize and address toxic and abusive relationships. Our contributors offer guidance on identifying signs of abuse, understanding its impact, and finding ways to safely exit such relationships. Learn about the different forms of abuse, the psychological effects, and available support systems. Find practical advice and support if you are experiencing or recovering from toxic and abusive relationships.
What are Karmic Relationships?
Understand what karmic relationships are so you can pull your power back and create freedom in all of your relationships. Karmic relationships force you to look at your shadow. The ultimate purpose is...
Navigating the Holidays With Family After Trauma
The holidays can bring joy, connection, and warmth. They can also stir up old wounds, especially for survivors of abuse, neglect, or painful family dynamics. When you have lived through trauma, the pressure...
How to Set Boundaries in Relationships
Boundaries are essential if you want a healthy relationship. Boundaries help you create freedom in your relationships. Boundaries allow you to be seen and loved for who you actually are...
Distraction Is Slowly Ending More Relationships Than Conflict Ever Will
Relationships rarely fall apart in dramatic moments. Most thin out quietly, pulled apart by small interruptions that redirect attention before either person realizes what’s happening.
Case Study – The Making of the Joker as an Abnormal Psychology Profile
Arthur Fleck’s transformation into the Joker is more than a villain origin story. It is a clinical profile of what happens when trauma, social neglect, and systemic labeling converge. Through psychology...
What’s That Smell in the Fridge? How to Identify an Unhealthy Relationship
Who here loves a great mystery? I sure do. Not necessarily the stench from the fridge, but more like the super sleuth sagas with memorable characters with lots of depth. Layers of history in a story ring...
When Love Feels Heavy – Recognizing and Healing Trauma Bonds and Toxic Relationship Patterns
When people think of bonds, they often imagine connections rooted in love and trust. The kind that feels safe and grounding. Not all bonds are healthy. Some are forged in fire, shaped by pain, and...
Understanding Your Emotional Boundaries & Reclaiming Your Personal Spaces
Emotional boundaries are like a protective shield for your heart and soul. They define the limits of what you're comfortable with emotionally and help you maintain a sense of self. Unfortunately, trauma...
Why Lust Is the Silent Destroyer of Souls and Generations
From ancient teachings to modern culture, lust corrodes integrity, love, and even lineage. Here’s how it infiltrates our lives and how to reclaim your soul from its grip.
How Do I Stop Attracting the Same People Over and Over Again?
Have you ever found yourself asking why you keep attracting the same type of person, despite your best efforts to change? This article explores the "Mirror Effect" and how our inner beliefs and wounds...
Anxiety in Relationships – Is it Toxic or Just a Signal?
Relationships, especially in the early stages, can evoke a range of emotions, from bliss and excitement to irritation and anxiety. When anxiety enters the room, we might wonder...
Five Red Flags of Limerence Instead of Real Love
Have you ever felt that your way of loving people is a bit too much? Has anyone ever expressed this to you or made you feel judged for it? Have you been ghosted or abandoned by someone you were really...
The Dark Side of Keeping the Peace and Why Your Niceness is Not Neutral
I was raised in a family deeply rooted in dysfunction and abuse. It shaped me quietly and invisibly into someone who believed that keeping the peace was survival. Later in life, I found myself building businesses surrounded...
What If Your Loyalty to Others Led You to Abandon Yourself?
Exploring how codependent patterns can quietly fuel addiction, and what it means to reclaim your sense of self. Addiction is often viewed as a personal battle with substances or behaviors, but it...
The Way You Love Might Be Hurting You, but It Doesn’t Have to Stay That Way
Have you been living with a broken heart? Loving through pain that never really left? Trying to give what you've never fully received? If you're anything like me, you’ve mistaken survival mechanisms for love...
