by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | Feb 4, 2025 | Psychology Topics
“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral’s Kiss Childhood trauma casts a long shadow. Even if we can’t remember the specifics of what happened to us,...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | Feb 4, 2025 | Psychology Topics
Parts-Based Therapy and the Inner Critic Have you ever noticed a harsh, critical voice in your head that seems to constantly put you down? A voice that tells you you’re not good enough, smart enough, attractive enough, or worthy enough? If so, you’re not...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | Feb 3, 2025 | Psychology Topics
How Can you Heal Narcissistic Abuse in Therapy? “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.” -Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Narcissistic abuse is a form of emotional and...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | Feb 3, 2025 | Psychology Topics
When everything broken is broken, and everything dead is dead, and the hero has looked into the mirror with complete contempt, and the heroine has studied her face and its defects remorselessly, and the pain they thought might, as a token of their earnestness, release...