Survivors of abuse - whether the abuse be physical, sexual or emotional – often have a very deep and profound sense of badness and harbor associated beliefs relating to unlovability and a lack of self worth. The essential badness stems primarily from an irrational identification with deserving the abuse - internalizing badness that would otherwise be more appropriately bestowed upon the abuser, which – in the case of a parent or caregiver – would have devastating consequences to one’s perception of safety and prospects for survival.

Are you running on empty but telling yourself you have no time to fill up?

THIS is madness. . .and I don’t use the term, “madness,” accidentally or carelessly.

Do you ever get caught up in a cycle of work, work, work, do, do, do and you feel like the pile of work to do -- things to be done -- only gets bigger while you are slipping further and further behind?