Dr. Nadine Macaluso
@therealdrnadine
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🧠 Licensed Therapist & Expert in #traumabonding, #narcissisticabuse, #CPTSD 💍 Ex-Wife to the #WolfofWallStreet ✖️ Helping women leave abusive relationships.
Florida & New York
Joined June 2012
Give yourself some grace to make mistakes during your healing process. 💗
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Self-Awareness, Boundaries, Safety, Emotional Maturity and Clear Communication are HOT! 🔥 Green Flags, they do exist, expect them, you're worth it.
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Coercive control, or pressure from your partner, is a form of emotional abuse and plays a significant role in trauma bonds.
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It's not easy to leave a Trauma Bond relationship, and it may take you a long time, that's okay.
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C-PTSD symptoms may encompass all of the symptoms include an ongoing sense of threat, avoidance behavior and re-experiencing of traumatic memories, thoughts and feelings, a distorted negative self image fueled by shame.
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Questioning yourself can be positive! Ask yourself... "Does this choice support the life I want?" If the answer is no, choose to walk down a different path. The choices you make TODAY, determine your health and happiness TOMORROW. ✨
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Happy Easter! May the celebration of renewed life bring hope and joy to your heart and home! 🌸
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Cognitive Dissonance is a severe trauma symptom that causes you to ping-pong between two perceptions of your lover, yourself, and the relationship. It is one of the reasons you stay BONDED.
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There is nothing stronger than a woman who has rebuilt herself. 🙌 🙌 🙌 Tag the strong woman you know in the comments below!
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Set aside some time, an hour or so, to complete the following exercise. You don’t want to be distracted. Using pen and paper or computer, write twenty-five things you want in life. Time yourself. Now narrow that down by picking ONLY FIVE.
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BOUNDARY TIP 💡 If someone pushes back or dislikes your boundary, simply respond with, "I didn't set this boundary to either offend or please you. I did it to manage the priorities and goals I have set for my life."
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Healing involves developing self-awareness about your values, what you stand for, and what you will not sacrifice – then acting on this awareness.
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Pathological partners are forceful, controlling, and invasive. Setting limits with them about the littlest things is IMPOSSIBLE. Let alone, the big things. PLs hate boundaries because limits get in the way of meeting their selfish needs for comfort, power, and pleasure.
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Understanding how to enforce your personal limits are a necessary life skill for healthy relationships. Healthy boundaries must be flexible enough to that you can still have connection, but firm enough protect your self-respect and allow you to assert your "no" and "yes."
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Self-betrayal causes you to abandon yourself, which causes you to lose your identity, which makes it easier for your partner too control and abuse you. 👉🏼 When you leave a trauma bond, breaking the pattern of self-abandonment is CRITICAL to recovering.
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