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Living in Sydney can amplify the effects of narcissistic abuse. Learn why
city life can make emotional trauma harder to spot—and how to find the right therapist for healing.

It takes a long time to build up to admitting there’s a problem – let alone taking it into a room with someone you’ve never met

Emotional abuse can deeply impact how you view yourself and the world around you. In this article, we explore how emotional abuse changes you and discover practical
steps to heal, rebuild your self-worth, and reclaim your life with clarity and confidence.

If you’re navigating midlife dating after divorce or separation, you may wonder: are we damaged by the past or deepened by it? Explore how emotional trauma shapes growth, self-worth, and new beginnings.

Burnout isn’t just about doing too much—it’s often about losing touch with ourselves. For many women, burnout doesn’t come from weakness. It comes from a deeply ingrained pattern of self-abandonment.

If you’re feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, depleted, and burned out, then yes—something needs to shift. And that shift begins with you.

Gaslighting is one of the most insidious forms of emotional abuse because it makes you doubt your own mind. It’s subtle at first, then before you know it, you’re questioning everything—even your own memories.

The narcissist in your life will not change. But you can. And if they remain in your life, then learning how to shift your response to them is one of the most powerful things you can do.

I have always maintained that no one separates or gets a divorce overnight. If this is a path you have trodden, you will know, this was the last resort.

Understanding emotional boundaries, what they are and how to hold them is one of the most prominent and critical themes that regularly presents in my clinic as a psychotherapist. For so many of us they were likely never formed, as we may have been raised in a household or culture where the very opposite idea […]