Why Trauma Impacts Clear Thinking: What You Need to Know
Trauma impacts clear thinking in ways nobody sees. From the outside, it looks like someone who can’t make up her mind. But on the inside, she’s running threat assessments all day on a partner who isn’t even in the room. Here’s why abuse and trauma hijack attention and how to start taking it back.
What You Need to Know: Can an Abuser Get His Gun Back After a Restraining Order?
A restraining order does not guarantee that an abuser’s firearms have been removed—or that a gun that’s already confiscated by authorities won’t be returned. Four cases show the gap between the legal order and enforcing the actual process.
7 Important Signs of Coercive Control You Need to Know
It’s hard to spot from the outside, and often invisible to the person living inside it. Here are 7 signs of coercive control to recognize, how it affects victims…and how to get support.
Feeling Mind Fucked in Your Relationship? Here’s Why
You know that feeling after an argument when you can’t even tell what just happened, or what you even said? There’s a word for what that is. And It isn’t a misunderstanding — it’s deliberate. Here’s how to recognize it.
What Is a Psychephile? The Abuser You’ve Never Heard Of.
It might not be love. It might be research. Meet the psychephile — a dangerous type of abuser who studies your mind so they can control it.
The Trap of Gaslighting and Bad Faith Arguments in Relationships
Some people play dirty during an argument. They aren’t arguing to convince you, they’re deliberately looking to confuse and wear you down. There’s a term for it: bad faith arguing and it’s a Trap. Learn the tactics and keep yourself sane.
When Being in Therapy Hasn’t “Fixed” Your Relationship
You’ve kept every appointment. You’ve read the books, worked on your communication, your codependency, your boundaries. And somehow, therapy still isn’t fixing your relationship. Maybe the focus has been on the wrong person in the relationship.
Patterns of Abusive Behavior: The Sequence is the Weapon
Patterns of abuse aren’t just a list of bad behaviors. They’re a sequence — and each behavior gets its power from its position in the order. Why most safety advice misses what’s actually happening.
What Is a Trauma Bond? What You Need to Know
Why would someone love a person who hurts her? It’s important to know that she isn’t weak and it isn’t love. It’s a trauma bond – a manufactured attachment. There’s a lot of misunderstanding about it. Here’s what you need to know.
Dictators Perfected This Mind Control Tactic. Abusers Use It Too
Does your partner constantly criticize you? Are you starting think that maybe they’re right? Here’s what’s really happening: he isn’t just ‘correcting’ you. He’s controlling you. And once you get used to it, he doesn’t need to say a word – because you’ll do it to yourself. This is what mind control looks like and it’s the same in regimes and relationships.