The effects of emotional abuse go beyond the end of the abusive relationship.
All of a sudden you are thrown from an environment of familiar chaos to a place where you are left with your own thoughts and no road map.
In the relationship, you felt like you could not trust your own instincts and games were played with your mind. Even though you left the abuser, you are left with the residue of these thoughts around the clock.
The most important building block for your recovery foundation is validation and self-approval.
If you are like me, you are probably looking at these words as somewhat foreign. The only validation you may have received in your relationship came from your abuser in the words--you are not enough, and why can't you just do what I ask. Are those words familiar?
In order to feel that you are worthy of being in recovery and break the cycle of entering into another abusive relationship, learning to sense your own value and approving of yourself become priorities.
How do you learn how to validate yourself?
1.Detach from needing the.....
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