July 12, 2011 The Process of Inner Child Healing and a Poem of Hope for Highly Sensitive Survivors
Hello everyone. Whenever I write a new post, I “tune in” to you, my readers, and write from my heart. Sometimes I plan what I am going to write and other times I write something entirely different from what I had planned. At the beginning I used to worry, “how can I top that last post”, [...]
April 19, 2011 Moving On From A Narcissistic Parent-Part 2
Hi everyone. Easter will be here in less than one week and I have been reviewing the state of No Contact with my extended family. It has been 1 year and 4 months since I have had any contact with them and I know I made the right decision. The time away from them has continuously [...]
March 15, 2011 HOPE For Overcoming Childhood Pain and Guilt–For Highly Sensitive Survivors of a Narcissistic Parent
Hi everyone. As we are halfway through March, there is HOPE! There is hope for Spring and warmer temperatures around the corner, hope for the U.S. economy as joblessness decreases, hope for the Japanese people as they recover from the horrific earthquake and tsunami. We put ourselves in their shoes and imagine how we would cope. Messages of love, [...]
Nov. 30, 2010 Narcissistic Parents Are The Cause Of Learned Helplessness in Highly Sensitive People (HSPs)
Hi everyone. Today I want to write about a subject that many of my clients and readers can relate to as Highly Sensitive People with a narcissistic parent. It is something called Learned Helplessness. Learned Helplessness is that feeling of powerlessness that we all feel at times, and for some of us it is more pervasive and [...]
November 17, 2010 Holiday Survival Tips and A Poem To My Narcissistic Mother–An HSPs Recovery From Artistic and Creative Self-doubt
Hi everyone. It’s November!–and there’s a briskness in the air and the awareness of the holidays approaching. For many of us highly sensitive survivors that comes with a bitter-sweet feeling–of light and love from God above (the true reason for the season) mixed with the grief of a lost childhood and sad or painful holiday memories of [...]
October 12, 2010 Journaling for Joy and Finding My True Voice In A Poem
Hello to all of you sensitive souls. I hope you are enjoying this beautiful week of Indian Summer we are having. The news says that most of the U.S. is experiencing gorgeous mild temperatures and colorful changing leaves right now. It is definitely my favorite time of the year and it feels like such a [...]
September 15, 2010 More Helpful Tips–For Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) With A Narcissistic Parent–Part 1
Hi everyone. As highly sensitive people, many of you are struggling with how to cope with your relationship with your narcissistic parent and your unsupportive siblings and extended family. First of all I want to tell you that I understand your pain and how hard it is. There is very little support in our society for [...]
April 12, 2010 You Don’t Need To Forgive Someone Who Is Not Sorry–Foregiveness Is For Your “Self”
Hi everyone. The surge of pollen in the air has me a little under the weather so I apologize for not writing a post sooner. I have been wanting to share my song “Help Me to Forgive” for a while, but I wanted to explain what I mean by forgiveness because it can be such [...]
APRIL 1, 2010 Guilt At Easter Time–and How To Cope If You Are Enforcing Boundaries On Your Narcissistic Parent
Hi everyone. Here comes Easter and some of you may be experiencing some guilt about not getting along with your families of origin (FOO). My family did not have deep traditions at Easter–just Easter baskets that naturally stopped when I got older and not much pressure to call or get together with extended family. But my husband [...]
March 26, 2010 How My Best Counselor Helped Me to Break Through My Illusions and Self-doubt
Hi everyone. Yay it’s Spring! I hope you are enjoying the beauty of nature as it comes to life again. That’s how I’m feeling too–as if I am coming to life–happier than I’ve ever been in my life. And it is a new feeling–I catch myself out of habit being tensed up in my shoulders [...]
Feb. 4, 2010 My Ode to Michael Jackson
Hi everyone. Michael Jackson was definitely a highly sensitive person (HSP) with a narcissistic father and he suffered from much childhood pain because of it. There has been a lot about him on the news again lately. So it seemed timely and appropriate for me to write this post about him. I think it is wonderful that they [...]
Jan.14, 2010 No More Guilt!
Hi everyone. It’s a new year and it feels great because this is the first time in my life that I have ignored a guilt-inducing email and phone call from my mother. And I don’t feel guilty! This is big. I feel a new sense of freedom and aliveness and inner peace. What will happen? [...]
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