For decades, we’ve been taught that therapy is the primary—if not the only—path to healing when life becomes overwhelming. Whether we’re struggling with destructive coping patterns like substance use, compulsive behaviors, or the ripple effects these issues create within a marriage or family, the common message is clear: Go to therapy, and that will fix … Read more
If there is one comment shared with me by the wives I work with more than others, it is that the lies are more difficult to deal with than other pattern of behavior. Lies destroy so much. Lies, like so many other ideas and theories in mental health, we’ve whittled down their meanings with clever … Read more
Abusers Weaponize Everything and Anything Weaponizing is exploitation. It is the manipulation of anything and everything an abuser can use to get to the objective he is after. Since there are so many ways victims may experience a weaponized tactic, let’s talk through a few. Incompetence and Capability Most of us will experience the weaponization … Read more
About Empathy This week’s blog comes to you as a result of a social media post we saw on narcissism. The main point of that post was about empathy. The post started OK, until they got to this point, “…empathy is a capacity you either possess or you don’t…” Those of you who know us … Read more
