As I wind down my discussion of NPD, I wanted to share a few final thoughts…. First off, I have found that part of the recovery process for anyone who has experienced this (and it is a process) necessitates shifting your focus away from all the things the narcissistic parent did to traumatize/damage you and [...]
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Mirror, mirror
Posted in Family, Health, Love, Neuroses, Places I've been, tagged jackwagonry on March 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Love is a battlefield
Posted in Family, Health, Love, Neuroses, Places I've been, tagged jackwagonry on March 21, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday, I devoted many words to Narcissistic Personality Disorder, or NPD. My dad, although never formally diagnosed, shows enough of the symptoms that I think it’s safe to say he’s got it and has had it for most of his adult life. I wrote a lot yesterday about what it was like to grow up [...]
Cracking the mirror
Posted in Family, Health, Love, Neuroses, Places I've been, Travel, tagged jackwagonry on March 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Fathers, be good to your daughters/Daughters will love like you do… -John Mayer One week ago, I returned home from a trip to the town where I grew up, Bellevue, Washington. I had not been out to visit in nearly three years, although my mother and father had made a couple of trips to visit [...]
Mental illness, violence, and falling through the cracks
Posted in Current Affairs, Health, News items, Random thoughts on January 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’m taking a brief hiatus from my little series on marriage (much to my boyfriend’s relief, no doubt ) to weigh in on the recent tragedy in Tucson, AZ. It seems everyone has an opinion about what happened there, and I’m no different. For myself, though, I’d prefer not to venture into the right vs. [...]
Those Scars of Mine
Posted in Blathering, Health, tagged Plinky on October 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s Plinky prompt asks us to write a story about getting a scar, either one of our own or an imagined one. In my case, the truth is stranger than fiction, so below is the absolutely true story of how I got the two wickedest scars on my body. 1995 Cherry Coke So here’s the [...]
A worthy cause
Posted in Health, News items, Pure Genius, Stuff I dig on July 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A friend and former colleague from my days in Pennsylvania (hi Amy!) recently established a new 501(c)(3) non-profit called Love to Langa. The organization’s mission is to provide support for the education and well-being of orphans and children in Cape Town, South Africa, many of whom are affected by the AIDS epidemic in some way. [...]
Goodbye, Anna
Posted in Fashion, Health, Neuroses on February 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
When I was in my mid-teens, Anna Nicole Smith was the face of the Guess? clothing brand. During my teen years, a Guess? denim mini-skirt was a must-have if you were a girl. I can’t remember if I had one or not, though. I probably did. I was a pretty girl when I was a [...]
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