Ever got a call that your ex's pet's ashes are ready? 🐾 It’s awkward, weird, and a classic move for toxic partners who "forget" to update their info just to keep a tether to you. Years later, and you're still on the paperwork? 🚩 These little things aren't just accidents; the

I totally got caught driving a cyber truck! I actually had the opportunity to test drive one and said hell yes! It was definitely interesting, although doubtful that one is in my future. Glad I got to drive it though. Love test driving cars and always jump at the chance to try something out!

It's not easy for people to point out red flags in our relationships. It's also often not easy for us to receive this from them either. These are some of the most important conversations that we all need to have though. It's something that needs to be normalized to have healthy relation

We often spend so much time hating the toxic people in our lives that it doesn't leave much time for us to love ourselves. Learning to focus on and love ourselves is the path towards healing. We can't learn to love ourselves while still holding onto hate. Give yourself grace along the way.

Perhaps all of us have coping mechanisms that we use. Some of them are healthier than others, but they all show up for a reason. ADHD often seems to show up as a result of trying to cope with trauma. It helps distract us from things that are overwhelming and that's ok.

When you have a narcissist in your life, you don’t need a special April Fools' Day. Every day is a guessing game. Will they be kind and loving, or will they blow everything up and blame you for it? It’s exhausting to never know which version of them you’re going to get. You don’t have to partic

Your genuine emotions, vulnerabilities, and desires are exploited by narcissists, becoming weapons they use to further their manipulation and abuse. Find safe places away from them to allow these emotions out. Give them as little emotion as possible and always be kind to you throughout your healing

Narcissists will claim and talk about their kids as their own when they make them look good, or if they're looking for sympathy. They will also turn around and act like they are the other parent's kids when they are not. It's all about controlling their image. They absolutely don't

Narcissists won't ever stop taking. They will drain your energy, your emotions, and your resources until there is nothing left, and then they’ll demand more. It’s a cycle that feels never ending. They view us as supply and when we run out, they'll simply go find it somewhere else. We don&#3

Love is transactional to narcissists, they use it to buy compliance and loyalty. Your affections are spent in their pursuit of control and earned through submission. Real love is never transactional! We don't have to settle for what they give or decide. Choose yourself and your life and release

Healthy boundaries are the best way to keep narcissists out of your life and keep yourself safe. Toxic people will be angry and rage when you hold boundaries and it will probably lead to the end of these relationships. Keep yourself safe when doing this, but also learn how to build and hold good, h

We often beat ourselves up for the way we behaved or reacted. Many times we simply didn't have the capacity or awareness or many other things to be able to react or behave any different than we did. We can't change the past, but we can choose in every moment to be kind to ourselves and forg

Love loses its purity when wielded by a narcissist, becoming a strategic tool for manipulation and control rather than an expression of care. Let's be clear, they don't actually love anyone. It's all just an illusion to trap us. They won't change, but we can move on. Do the work to

Hope everyone has an incredibly wonderful day filled with love, kindness and compassion. Most of all I hope you give these gifts to yourself. You deserve them!

Relationships with narcissists will simply never be OK! Even if we do the work on ourselves so we can be ok, the relationship never will be. This is another reason it's so essential for us to focus on ourselves and our lives. Then we get to decide if we want to stay or leave the relationship. D

Getting to where we allow ourselves to feel the anger is essential. It's very hard to really move forward with our lives while the anger is still suppressed inside us. We get to feel it and then process and release it. This is all part of moving forward in our lives. Suppressing emotions will a

We don't want to accept we are in an abusive relationship, or that someone is unwilling to change themselves or the way they treat us. Accepting this is often the first step in being able to make changes in our lives that help us move forward. We must bring the focus and attention back to ourse

It might seem crazy to compare mystical creatures to narcissists changing, but this is much closer to reality. They simply can't in many ways and they absolutely won't in every other way. It doesn't cause problems in their life. It causes problems for everyone else. Focus on yourself an

Hope is one of the things that keeps us stuck in abusive relationships. We want to believe the best in others and give them chances to change things. What actually matters is the patterns in their behavior. This is who they are and what they do, not what they say. The real hope is in what you do an

Narcissists use exhaustion to keep control of us and the relationship. They don’t want us to think clearly or be rested. They want us continually busy and worn down. The more stable and rested we are, the less control they have. They’ll be upset no matter what, hold your boundaries and get your res