The Importance Of Developing Self Confidence

Ideally, self confidence is a personality trait that you should develop early and maintain throughout your life. For many of us, though, that just isn’t the case – as either the process of developing self confidence is stymied early on by several factors, or we lose confidence because of certain life events. Nowadays, it [...]

Self Defense Tactics For Women- Top 5 Personal Safety Techniques

Don’t take your personal safety for granted. Take charge with these five easy to learn self defense tactics to help keep you safe.   Every day the news is filled with horror stories involving women as victims of violent crime. We worry about ourselves and female friends and relatives. While no one can guarantee your [...]

Battered Woman Syndrome: What Are The Characteristics?

According to Dr. Lenore E. Walker, a prominent expert on battered women, a woman must experience at least two complete battering cycles before she can be labeled a “battered woman”. The cycle has three phases. First the tension-building phase, followed by the explosion or acute battering incident, then the calm, loving respite- often referred to [...]

Domestic Violence Is Not Just About Physcial Abuse

Over the course of my career, I have helped many clients pursue a sense of personal power and emotional health sufficient enough to be safe, strong, and healthy while working through relationships with aggressive and/or abusive partners.   Generally speaking, these aggressive/abusive partners flourish in relationships in which they are given the power to [...]

Domestic Violence Story Chapter Three

Domestic Violence Story – Chapter 3 5 police cars, 10 policemen. Searched the vicinity, never found him. When they left, he showed up. He looked at me and started screaming, “Who the hell did this to you!?” I only had one eye to look at him with and disgustingly looked at him while all [...]

The Economy and Domestic Violence: What if You Are the One With a Short Fuse?

Across the United States and around the world, the effects of the financial crisis continue to spread – foreclosures are widespread, banks are being taken over, stock markets are erratic, credit is frozen and bankruptcies are increasing. No one can predict with certainty the long-term effects on the economy, but most pundits agree that [...]

Domestic Violence And Rape

When a man loves a woman he expresses it in various ways; the ultimate expression of his feelings of love would be the physical act of love making. When this same physical act of love is turned on its head and used as a weapon to express hate, it speaks for the extreme depths [...]

Domestic Violence- the Psychology of the Abuser

Domestic violence is one of the most serious issues that affects the lives of millions of people in the world. Though women are the most commonly abused group, men are also abused by their partners. But women form the majority of those being abused. What kind of a person abuses his/her partner? Why the [...]

Something I Said/why Men Abuse Women

Hobbes In The House Men Abuse Women Because They Can MN Spokesman-Recorder You can find all kinds of think-tank rationalization as to why men beat women. You can, as well, find study upon as study as to why Black women are killed by Black men at a rate almost three times higher than the [...]

Are You In an Abusive Relationship?

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent” -Eleanor Roosevelt There are many levels of abuse. When people think of abusive relationships they often associate them with some kind of physical abuse. Although physical abuse is one of the worst forms of an abusive relationship, abuse does not have to by physical, [...]

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