Recovery from a sociopath

Editor's note: Liberty Forrest, author of several self-help books and a certified Law of Attraction Life Coach, explains how Christmas and toxic relationships may increase the pressure others place on us, and the pressure we place on ourselves. Read more about Liberty. By Liberty Forrest This season is supposed to be about wonder and magic, about loving and giving, aspects of our lives that we're meant to be contemplating throughout the year but especially now. But somehow, it can become too easy to be swallowed up in shoulds, oughts and musts. Throughout the year, people expect us to be, do or give this or that, but at Christmas, this is all amplified. The expectations rise, and we feel …

Christmas and Toxic Relationships: Not-So-Great ExpectationsRead More

Editor's note: Lovefraud welcomes a new author, Attorney Caroline Parsons from Queensland, Australia. Today she explains how the violence — physical and emotional — of toxic relationships affects your brain. Learn more about Caroline Parsons on the Lovefraud Announcements page or in her author profile. By Caroline Parsons, Esq. In prehistoric times, when a caveman realised he had been spotted by a sabre-toothed tiger, his primitive brain flooded his body with cortisol so he could fight or escape the beast. “Freezing” (or becoming immobile) is also a response to extreme threat. When a modern brain reacts in a similar way to a traumatic event, it can result in post-traumatic stress. …

Toxic relationships are like being chased by a tigerRead More

Editor's note: Liberty Forrest, author of several self-help books and a certified Law of Attraction Life Coach, reminds you that to begin your recovery from a sociopath, start where you are. Read more about Liberty. By Liberty Forrest It is said that, "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." This is attributed to Lao-Tzu, a brilliant Chinese philosopher who wrote a lot about the Tao. More correctly, the proper translation from Chinese is "The journey of a thousand miles begins beneath one's feet." I love both of these statements. At first glance, they might seem to have almost identical meanings. They are thought to be interchangeable but in fact, each is quite …

Begin Recovery from a Sociopath: A Journey of a Thousand Miles…Read More

Editor's note: Liberty Forrest, author of several self-help books and a certified Law of Attraction Life Coach, encourages you to rebuild life after a toxic relationship by staying positive. Read more about Liberty. By Liberty Forrest I don't read the paper. I don't listen to the news. In fact, I'll go a step further. I won't read the paper and I won't listen to the news. There's so much torment and tragedy, murder and misery, nothing but story after story about man's inhumanity to man, about horrible accidents, Acts of God that cause death and destruction. And especially given that I've spent more than enough time in my own life dealing with the damage and pain caused by life with s …

Rebuild Life After a Toxic Relationship by Staying Positively PositiveRead More

Oh, no! How did I get into this? How did this happen? My life was ticking along just fine - or maybe not all that fine, but it wasn't like this! It's a disaster! Does this sound familiar? I'm sure we've all been there. Especially if we've been involved with a sociopath. Perhaps that's where you are right now. And if you are, the good news is that if you got into a mess, you can get out of it, too. Okay, it's true, there may be some aspects of your situation that you cannot change. If, for example, you're sitting in a car that you just wrapped around an enormous tree a moment ago, you can't rewind about ten seconds and take it all back. After all, life isn't like one big shoelace that you …

If There’s a Way into This Mess, There’s a Way OutRead More

Editor's note: Liberty Forrest, author of several self-help books and a certified Law of Attraction Life Coach, encourages you to magnify the magnificence of your life, even as you recover from a toxic relationship. Read more about Liberty. By Liberty Forrest, PDHom Wow.  Look at that.  Another new day.  Isn't it magnificent? You might ask, "What's so magnificent? I have to do this and that and a bunch of other stuff I don't really want to do. And I'm still dealing with the miseries produced by that toxic relationship!! Can I just go back to bed now, please, and call it a day?" Well, I don't know, that's up to you. But you ask, what's so magnificent? For one thing, you woke up today. Yo …

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Editor's note: Liberty Forrest, author of several self-help books and a certified Law of Attraction Life Coach, explains the basics of recovery and the Law of Attraction. Read more about Liberty. By Liberty Forrest, PDHom Do you ever get lost in daydreams? Do you ever close your eyes and get so swept away by some delicious fantasy or other that it's as though you're really living it? Then something snaps you back to the here and now, and if you're a really good daydreamer, and you were very much "gone," it's quite a shock to land back here in your present circumstances?  Ah, it was truly lovely while it lasted, wasn't it? Especially if you land back in unpleasant memories and the …

Recovery and the Law of Attraction: Daydream Your Way into a New Reality!Read More