“I never dreamed I’d find myself sitting in a shrink’s office! I signed off on counselors long ago!” His wife was as surprised as I was to see him walk in the door! If you’ve been following my series on mood swings (that can feel like wrecking balls), she’s the client who gave me permission…
A Caring Invitation To Your Loved One With Mood Swings “I’m sure you’ve heard everything about me, and you already know what a mess I am, and you’re probably going to tell me I need to move on and stop damaging my life with my wrecking ball!” My client that I’ve been writing about (who…
“Although I feel like I’m still healing, somehow it feels like enough of me is no longer shattered like Humpty Dumpty, and that I can actually have some sane, coherent thoughts!” I was moved to hear my client say this. She continued: “I’m a little afraid of losing this again, but I want to at…
“I’m so ashamed to admit this, but I believe I’ve been traumatized. I’d hoped it was just damage from the wrecking ball of my husband, who has swinging moods. But unfortunately, I’ve done the exercises faithfully, and they have really helped! But one more swing of the ball to shatter my heart over the weekend…
“There are days when I believe I’m permanently damaged. To my very core. And then…there’re days that I think that other people have it far worse than me and I should just get over it,” my client said, as we began her journey of healing. “We can all say that there are others far worse…
“I’m just not sure I’ll ever be the same or find that vivacious part of me that once loved life. That once thrived in knowing life that was so-so-so good! That once had great hope, and great faith. That part of me is now buried beneath the wreckage of damage. And trauma. Regrettable moments. I’m…
“I know he’s a good man. I know he is. And I vacillate between wanting to be supportive and help him, to feeling totally crazy, to thinking that the only way I can survive is to do what a counselor once told me: ‘Run, Forrest! RUN’!” My client, in sheer desperation with her husband, whose…
“I am so tired of being the object of the wrecking ball that swings from the end of his wrecking rig. He’s in the cabin in the cool air conditioning, listening to music, while I am out here in the heat and cold being blown aparat against my will. And he is the captain in…
“Our communication went to hell in a handbasket a long time ago. But now somehow hell took a dive and it’s somewhere buried underneath that!” the wife of my new couple began… Her husband jumped in with disgust. “Oh, my God! It’s not that bad! You always have a need to make things worse than…
“I don’t want to sound ungrateful … the BLEEP work you’ve done with us has literally saved our marriage! Everything has turned around! But somehow, I feel left behind,” she said with crocodile tears falling to her sundress. I nodded with tender loving care, and she continued: “It’s like a friend of mine told me.…