by Elisabeth | Jun 26, 2019 | Defenders, Dissociation, Memory Repression, Recovery
I love the self-help industry. I am not being facetious. I am very serious. When I first started waking up from the mountains of brainwashing I was holding up, it was the self-help books that saved me. I was surrounded by people who were in denial and I need some...
by Elisabeth | Jun 19, 2019 | Defenders, Freedom Fighters, Inner Children, Recovery
Dear Inner Parts, We get to make a choice. I know that sounds crazy, but we do. We get to decide between living for others and living for ourselves. It is our choice if we want to do something. We don’t have to wait for permission. We don’t have to avoid...
by Elisabeth | Jun 12, 2019 | Defenders, Dissociation, Recovery
This past week, I have been inundated with fear. This isn’t the fear from my inner children like you might think. This is a fear coming from my defenders. They are terrified of the repercussions of my latest actions. They believe I am “too big for my britches” (my...
by Elisabeth | Jun 5, 2019 | Defenders, Dissociation, Recovery
I work with some of the most motivated people in the world. I don’t mean that my clients are jumping and bouncing around the world with joy. In many cases, it is just the opposite. They are crawling through the muck of futility to make a small amount of headway...
by Elisabeth | May 29, 2019 | Defenders, Inner Children, Recovery, Relationships
Our search for love is a fallible, desperate and often unproductive venture. We can spend decades looking for some way to end our painful loneliness until we give up and isolate. It is a debilitating swing from one painful way of living to another. And it seems to...