Category: Self Awareness

Cognitive Dissonance as a Result of Narcissistic Abuse I have read over and again about Cognitive Dissonance, yet this is something that I never really ascribed to my own experiences with narcissists. In some ways, my situation has been somewhat unique, which is why it took so long for...

Testing Our Tenacity, a Look at the Temperance Card in the Tarot Deck for Guidance. What does Tenacity as it relates to a tarot consultation really mean? I often say when faced with a new challenge ‘here we grow again’. That is only if my own temper and reactionary...

A week or so back found me floating in the pool on a brightly coloured lilo enjoying the tranquillity of the water and reading my book peacefully – not! One afternoon a week or so back found me floating in the pool on a brightly coloured lilo fidgeting while...

Soul Dialogue is something that I have been thinking a lot about recently. The reason I’ve been thinking so much about this is that I have been dreaming, or more to the point lucid dreaming so much, that in some moments especially on waking I’ve had a hard time...

‘What you think you see in someone else’s eyes, an expression, and emotion, an action or intent, is merely a reflection of your own innermost desires, issues, intentions and actions. Therefore, examine what you are projecting to change or enhance what you are seeing’. I have covered this topic...

Circles, circles, circles.  That old song keeps tripping through my mind… ‘Like a circle in a circle like a wheel within a wheel never ending or beginning on an ever-spinning reel like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind.’ Recently I found myself back in my...

I remember as a teenager, rushing home from school to watch my favourite soap operas, from The Bold and the Beautiful to Days of our Lives. I remember being captivated by the exquisitely woven stories of triangulation and other narcissistic tactics as the scripts played out. Year after year, I was engrossed...