Category: Narcissistic Abuse

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5 Questions You Need to Ask Yourself if You’ve Ever Loved a Toxic Person

Alicia Dean

Recovering from an abusive relationship is no small task. You have to relearn how to like yourself, how to love yourself, and how to trust again.

Your pain is valid. Your suffering and struggles are valid. You are not exaggerating. It’s not “all in your head”. You struggle for a reason. And it is NORMAL to struggle for years after being in an abusive relationship.

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How Understanding Your Eternal Value Allows You to Free Yourself From Abuse

Alicia Dean

There is a cost for every choice. And what you sacrifice or willingly offer up either wounds your soul or else repairs it. Because you are not just flesh and bone and blood pumping through veins. You are spirit. You are soul. You are deeply and irrevocably eternal.

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Listen to me. We are NEVER going back (R-rated)…

Alicia Dean

Let go of the people who say they love you but hold everything against you. Because true love doesn’t keep a record of wrongs.

Let go of the people who tear down your dreams with wild words of incapable fears. Because real love always hopes. Continue reading “Listen to me. We are NEVER going back (R-rated)…”

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The Goal of Abuse is to Destroy You

Alicia Dean

The past 6 months haven’t looked like anything I ever imagined.

6 months ago, one conversation changed everything. It was a series of threats that took my life-long struggle against abuse and pushed me to the edge of a cliff. And I had a choice to make. Keep allowing this person to abuse me, or walk away. I walked away. Continue reading “The Goal of Abuse is to Destroy You”

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When Sorry Isn’t Enough: A Christian’s Response

Alicia Dean

I remembering telling someone once to stop saying sorry to me because they didn’t mean it. And I was tired of hearing it every day.

That simple, childhood realization was the first time I remember distinguishing between an apology and a repentant heart. I didn’t know what to call it. I just knew I was being lied to. Continue reading “When Sorry Isn’t Enough: A Christian’s Response”