I just ran across a 2004 article about Amy Winehouse in the Guardian that had a great little… what should we call these moments when the effects of abuse show their faces? It’s like a bump in… Protesting too much

  Someone over at the FOOBiverse read this and said, “Finally, someone’s acknowledging that Jim might be depressed!” What interests me is that there’s no recognition from Iris (who knows what his doctor is supposed… Tragic Comics

Today’s For Better Or For Worse strip is funny because it’s so far removed from reality. It’s not unusual for small children to draw all over the furniture. And it’s not unusual for abused children… For Worse

So, if that last run-in taught me a lot about the components of emotional abuse, I figured that breaking out old emails from confirmed abusers would be even more helpful! The hard part was choosing… Using the abuser’s tools against them

I recently had a run-in with someone who turned out to be totally emotionally abusive. I had a few warning signs, but I waited to see how they would play out. For example, she would… The Abuser’s Toolbox

[A first draft sample from Facing Abuse] Emotional abuse is often thought of as a lesser kind of abuse. An article about domestic violence from insurance provider Prudential, for example, states that “When a partner… Emotional Abuse

You know what? “Because I Said So” has the perfect name. This fluffy flick about a deeply codependent, boundaryless family recently showed up on a lot of people’s “Worst Movies of 2007” lists. Ebert and… A Terrible Movie, And Not Just Because I Said So

I wish, frankly, that writers had more self-esteem. We are just not people who stalk into the corporate offices and make demands. That famous deal the Guild took, whereby we agreed to let eighty percent… Standing Up For Ourselves

The wonderful thing about the mainstream media is that millions of people open their front doors every week to pick up a colorfully drawn visual guide to abuse and its effects. The less wonderful thing… Why the Comics Aren’t Funny

This book by Karen Kingston seems misnamed. Kingston talks briefly about feng shui, but the bulk of the book is simply about clearing the energy of a given space and filling it with things we… Tools of Recovery: Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui