Archive for November, 2010

Controlling Relationships – Who Controls the Focus of Your Attention?

by Dr. Jeanne King, Ph.D.

As long as you have blood running through your veins, you own the right to make executive decisions about where you place your attention. Did you know that? If you are or have been in an abusive/controlling relationship, you might be saying, “Really?”

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Healing Emotional Abuse The Language of Healing and the Mechanics of Purification in Domestic Abuse Treatment

by Dr. Jeanne King, Ph.D.

What is it about silence that enables healing from emotional trauma? The answer to this question is the essence of healing the trauma of domestic violence.

Mind-Body Medicine and Domestic Abuse Recovery…

We know from the principles of mind-body medicine that there is an undeniable relationship between what’s between the ears and what’s under the skin. Every thought has a corresponding affective (feeling) component to it.

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Expectation Sex and Control in Intimate Relationships: The Blind Elephant Under the Bed

by Dr. Jeanne King, Ph.D.

Often people in controlling relationships think that their interaction is abusive when it is physical and fail to see the other more pervasive, subtle forms of abuse. The dominant person in an abusive relationship (usually the male) says, “I haven’t hit her in three years,” yet she knows she is being abused in bed.

The Elephant Under the Bed…

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