Healing from Domestic Abuse – How to Get Rid of Disturbing Thoughts

by Dr. Jeanne King, Ph.D.

“How do you stop thinking about something that is bothering you?” Now even tough this question came from one of our domestic abuse survivor readers, be it known that this is a question for anyone who is a part of the human race.

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Relationship Conflict – Empathy and Healing Abuse in Controlling Relationships

“When I speak my pain and you give me your pain or your excuse to have pained me, I hurt the same…and sometimes more.” Sound familiar?

When domestic violence victims rally up the nerve to voice their inner ache with the person that has violated them, many things can happen. They can be heard or not heard, by the other and by themselves.

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Battered Men – The “Abused Endurer” Stuck in His Emotional Desert

by Dr. Jeanne King, Ph.D.

Battered men possess an amazing amount of strength. The problem is that the only real power they embody is their strength to absorb the violence.

In the cascade of verbal, emotional, psychological and physical abuse, they endure-day by day, week by week, year by year. They stand there and take it, weathering the blows as they fake “you can’t hurt me.”

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