Broken Childhood

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How To Increase Self Esteem.

Self-esteem isn’t self-confidence. Self-confidence is believing in our competence and our ability to do something, whereas self-esteem is

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How Can I Help My Partner With Depression?

Alexandra Massey

7 min read

How Can I Help My Partner With Depression?

Standing on the side lines when our partner is battling depression can seem like a helpless, even hopeless, experience. We can feel...

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How To Create Amazing Family Communication

Alexandra Massey

6 min read

How To Create Amazing Family Communication

Is your idea of family communication a note left on the refrigerator or a nod whilst passing in the hallway? Great communication is the...

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One Of The Most Important Conversations We Will Ever Have With Ourselves

Alexandra Massey

6 min read

One Of The Most Important Conversations We Will Ever Have With Ourselves

Whether or not you’ve noticed, you, like me and every other human being, move through each day leading on a constant inner conversation....

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Alexandra Massey

7 min read

My Depression And My Recovery

After college I moved to London and shared a house with friends. There were endless nights of drug parties: LSD, speed, coke and hash. It wa

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Ending The Internal War With Our Inner Selves

Alexandra Massey

5 min read

Ending The Internal War With Our Inner Selves

You know the saying: "You are your own worst enemy." The internal war is a form of self-sabotage that unfortunately so many of us are...

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Alexandra Massey

6 min read

How To Free Yourself From Self-Sabotage

How do we get in our own way of achieving what matters to us the most? Many of us are familiar with the pattern of taking one step...

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What Are The Most Common Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms?

Alexandra Massey

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What Are The Most Common Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms?

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is generally diagnosed after we experiences symptoms for at least one month following a traumatic...

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Alexandra Massey

6 min read

Feeling Suicidal? Read this...

In our most depressed state of being we can experience thoughts of suicide. We may feel ravaged by the world and think that the only way...

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6 Tips To Survive A Dysfunctional Family Christmas

Alexandra Massey

8 min read

6 Tips To Survive A Dysfunctional Family Christmas

Looking forward to a Happy Christmas? Not if you’ve come from a dysfunctional family. Ever caught a re-run of Arrested Development? The...

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What Are The Dysfunctional Family Archetypal Rules And Roles?

Alexandra Massey

12 min read

What Are The Dysfunctional Family Archetypal Rules And Roles?

There are 3 rules and 5 roles that make up the results of an archetypal dysfunctional family. These rules and roles are the key drivers...

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Alexandra Massey

7 min read

What Are Social Anxiety Symptoms?

We all know the feeling of being uncomfortable, shy or nervous in a social situation. Consequently, we may have clammed up when meeting...

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How To Change Dysfunctional Family Relationships For Good

Alexandra Massey

7 min read

How To Change Dysfunctional Family Relationships For Good

Do you remember the last family upset you had? Maybe you were the centre of it. Then again you may have been a bystander but still...

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Suffering From Depression Unmotivated And Uninspired?

Alexandra Massey

8 min read

Suffering From Depression Unmotivated And Uninspired?

Depression is very misunderstood, especially by those who’ve never suffered. It’s so much more than simply being sad and unmotivated. The...

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How To Handle Dysfunctional Family Members

Alexandra Massey

7 min read

How To Handle Dysfunctional Family Members

Many of us have family members whose values and/or behavior are questionable. They maybe heavy drinkers, religious fanatics, sexual...

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How Can A Dysfunctional Family Affect A Child?

Alexandra Massey

7 min read

How Can A Dysfunctional Family Affect A Child?

What Is a Dysfunctional Family? As children of dysfunctional families we thought our life was terrible and that we’d had the worst...

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How Can I Help My Depressed Child? Here's 10 Tips

Alexandra Massey

4 min read

How Can I Help My Depressed Child? Here's 10 Tips

Having a child who's depressed can be heartbreaking. Here's 10 tips to help get them, and you, through the toughest times. 1. Take a look...

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The Dysfunctional Family And Mental Illness

Alexandra Massey

7 min read

The Dysfunctional Family And Mental Illness

Growing up in a household with parents who have some form of ‘mental illness’ produces children with lower self‐esteem, teens with...

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Alexandra Massey

9 min read

Narcissism What Are The Signs?

When you think of a narcissist, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was all about celebrity reflected vanity and grandiosity. In our selfie...

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If You Were Raised In A Dysfunctional Family How To Overcome The Unspoken Rules

Alexandra Massey

7 min read

If You Were Raised In A Dysfunctional Family How To Overcome The Unspoken Rules

What Is A Dysfunctional Family? There’s no government benchmark on what constitutes a dysfunctional family. However, if you identify with...

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