Recent content by JP Bailey

That book has helped me the most transform and practice using my inner critic to be critical of my abusers instead. I've noticed a difference. (I also use a lot of "Parts Integration" work and other NLP techniques to resolve inner conflicts.) But the book made it easier for me to start to rage...

I'm a counselor at a mental health clinic. Exposure Therapy is a huge NO-NO!!!! We NEVER talk about their abuse or try to get them to talk about it. We talk about their recovery and stay in today.. IF they want to talk about it we listen with empathy and validation. The only time I would do...

I have Complex PTSD from child abuse in all its forms and then in my 30's I had worse PTSD from a violent attack. I'm also a counselor and have worked in the field on and off my whole life. At most jobs I hide it and take a lot of time off work. I've never disclosed. I "fake" it and watch...

By the time I was 5 years old I had been through 5 traumatic things. Including sexual abuse from age 5 to 9. From the time I was a kid I had always done risky behaviors, and barely came out of it alive, so to speak. I'm older now but I spent my younger days in the fast lane partying and jumping...

I wanted to reply to this thread because I've been waiting for months for this topic to come up...anywhere and its only now that he's crossed the sexual abuse line that people are starting to see that maybe he really is a toxic narc. Anyway, after decades of healing and healing others, I feel...

Make sure you have a lot of support... their lawyers will bring up anything they can find to make you look bad. It took a toll on me. Also, in my effort to "prove" I was mentally injured, I think that held back my recovery for some time. Then suddenly it was over and I got a check and I really...