Reclaiming Your Mind

I am a 55 year old woman who once had a panic attack on a family/kiddie monorail ride at adventure world in Perth Australia. My children are now fully grown, one with a baby of their own, and I realised that I have spent my life in fear, not doing the things I want to do, not enjoying life the way it should be enjoyed, not wanting to spend the rest of my life the same I decided to do something about it. Face the fear and the fear falls away, isn’t that what they say?  

My whole conscious journey with Positive Thinking started with a Self-Help Book. I was introduced to it by two relative strangers in a country I had only just relocated to. The fact that these two events happened so closely seems to be more than just a coincidence and more like serendipity, this felt like it was a journey I was meant to take and with each step it became clearer.

One of the major keys to healing form narcissistic abuse is to understand that you cannot change them back into who you thought they were. That version of them, the one you loved, cared for, protected, supported and was always there for never existed. That version of them was created to turn you into the person they could use and abuse. They went to great pains to convince you they were the kind of person you need in your life,

I have spent over 10 years in the ‘I’m a survivor’ mode. Being a survivor is depicted as being so honourable, brave and empowering, that...