Abuse Journal

Category: Healing

Learn to identify emotional and psychological trauma from childhood experiences to renew your mental and emotional health.

  • 5 Ways to Prevent a Toxic Relationship with Drama

    What is a toxic relationship with drama? 

    Toxic relationships develop when one or both people are mentally unhealthy and emotionally unstable. 

    When a relationship starts on shaky ground, the toxicity identified by excessive drama increases unhealthy behavior patterns (passive aggression, manipulation, jealousy, etc.). 

    These harmful behaviors create a toxic situation with emotional highs and heartfelt lows. As the anxiety builds, you feel extreme love and hate and express deep sorrow and forgiveness. 

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  • Why You Need Love and Compassion to Heal

    Have you ever missed the opportunity to give someone the love and compassion to heal? If so, you know the heartbreak that comes after your actions. I wept at the missed opportunity. 

    Why do people miss this chance? 

    I’ve learned that personal experiences impact our actions and reactions toward others. I let emotional afflictions get in the way of expressing the love and compassion needed to heal. But there is hope. 

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  • Hope for a Better Life

    When you live in an abusive situation, hope for a better life becomes diminished by anxiety. And the mental stress confuses and depresses your mind.

    Suffering from abuse, you lose your sense of direction and devalue and stop loving yourself. Plagued by fear, you carry heavy burdens to where strength is non-existent.

    And you face two options: flee the oppression and hope you make it out alive or continue living a depressed and miserable life.

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