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Parental Estrangement
Life doesn't always go as we plan or hope. Kids don't always feel like they got the parent they wanted, just like parents didn't get the child they would have liked to, yet the parent will love whoever they got, deeply, unconditionally, and eternally. The child has the same human connection seared into their soul, but life happens, shit happens, and despite our best intentions, sometimes kids make the heart-wrenching choice of going "no contact" with a parent, or both. This is how I learned & healed. I hope you find some inspiration in these pages, and I hope that, as we find the courage to talk about it more and more, the unfair, brutally cruel stigma disappears.
Oprah On Parental Estrangement: Is She Capitalizing On The Problem She Created?
I’m an estranged parent and was once a huge Oprah fan. Do I regret letting my kids watch the Oprah show with me? Absolutely!
Yet Oprah has a new, again monetized platform on a trendy subject. Would I trust what she has to say? Absolutely not! Those who eventually know better do better.
Megan Maysie
Nov 29, 202511 min read
Ways To Heal From Estrangement As A Parent
Likely, the skills you learn along the way and the emotional growth will mean that if and when your child reconnects, you are best placed not to mess it up. But it's best not to make that your goal. Look within for you. For you. For your better, happier life.
Megan Maysie
Nov 28, 20258 min read
Why My Children Rejected Me
Losing a child who has passed is devastating, something one can never fully recover from. But when a living child is as unreachable as one no longer in this realm, the grief is the same, except the confusion over how it happened heightens the grief. Added to this is the shamefully undeserved shame society spews at them. Yet still, hope keeps them going, but soon becomes a barrier to being able to grieve and pick up the pieces of their lives.
Adila Branka
Oct 1, 20259 min read
Deconstructing Parental Estrangement: The Helter-Skelter Trend That Deconstructs Lives
The Helter Skelter scenario is an apocalyptic vision reportedly embraced by serial killer and cult leader Charles Manson and members of his "family" that led to several brutal murders and a multitude of ruined lives. It's much the same with Parental Estrangement. Except that with the Parental Estrangement scenario within families, the bodies are not physically dead, but the nothingness that is left within can feel like it, until we find ourselves on a healing path, make sens
Megan Maysie
Sep 15, 202510 min read
Kinkeeper Reapers: The Heartbroken Houses Of Svengali Spouses & Louses
A kinkeeper- the gatekeeper to the family, is a family member, usually, but not always, a woman, who takes on the role of maintaining family connections and fostering a sense of solidarity within the family circle. Authentic kinkeepers play a key role in keeping the family together, acting as the emotional glue that holds things humming along despite family tensions that rise from time to time. It's a vital role in a world where connection with family is weakening, and ment
Megan Maysie
Sep 14, 202510 min read
Emotional Gold Diggers: Lion-hearts Who Dig Anywhere But Within For Emotions
Men, particularly lion-hearted men, tend to disown their emotions, and the emotions of others, or at least assign them significantly less prominence than say putting food on the table- including their quest to earn a good living in their career or business, which, some think will be key to getting to be the one to copulate with the lioness, but also to give their families a better life.
Megan Maysie
Sep 13, 20257 min read
Rebuilding Your Life After Kids Go No Contact: Therapy For Estranged Parents
For if and when your estranged child decides to walk through your door, keep it open. Your grown-up child will find a way to return when they are ready. But no parent will want to turn it into a blame session, even if there is a good reason to. Throwing your pain back at 'the source' is unproductive and will send them running.
Megan Maysie
Sep 11, 20258 min read
Rebuilding Your Life: How To Build A New Life After Trauma Takes The Old One
We all know our value, although it is sometimes hidden under layers of fear and pain. We all have something to give the world, something meaningful: ourselves. And this value may be where we can finally learn why we are deserving of all the blessings and happiness life has to offer.
Megan Maysie
Sep 11, 20257 min read
Demagnetizing Your Emotional Punchbag Allure
Take that "kick me" sign down, demagnetize the undeserved abuse, and go forward into a better, happier life using your magnetic personality- your kindness tempered by tolerance, your caring balanced with care for yourself.
Megan Maysie
Sep 10, 20256 min read
Cutting A Narcissistic Parent Out Your Life
But I didn’t escape that life by cutting her off. I escaped by finding my real identity. It was within me all along, and despite everything, my mother is still an intrinsic part of me, despite having left this realm.
Megan Maysie
Sep 8, 20256 min read
The Human Connection: The Alpha And Omega Of The Human Condition
It also makes sense that we are subconsciously driven by the human desire to connect with others- perhaps the human soul's desire is to attempt to return to oneness, to the one single cell with a particular place in the cosmos. So we reach out to other humans to connect with them for a while, before fears and tears drive us apart again, despite having a genetic link to every other human, and every other life form on Earth.
Megan Maysie
Sep 4, 20258 min read
Mother & Adult Children In Parental Isolation: You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave
An adult child might feel that they lose themselves in the relationship, and don't return for fear of being drawn back into painful dynamics with their mother, or, in some cases, feel too guilty to face their mothers and are unable to get out of the corner they painted themselves into. The mother, who may then be dealing with depression and other issues, deals with any reconciliation attempts clumsily and may also be experiencing guilt and sitting in her unpainted corner.
Megan Maysie
Sep 2, 20256 min read
The Unfathomably Inhuman Act Of Dehumanizing A Human Family Member
Once limited to being an essential weapon for narcissists and psychopaths, dehumanization has seeped into many facets of life, as people struggle to survive and strive to thrive. Too many people choo se to dehumanize those around them as a response to conflicting motives, denying full humanity in others, cruelly inflicting suffering . The so-called personal growth through the generations has shifted from the stoic “Greatest Generation’s” selflessness and willingness to sacr
Megan Maysie
Sep 1, 20259 min read
Has Therapy For Parental Estrangement Contributed to its Surge?
Parents, mothers in particular, are left reeling by parental estrangement, not only by the rejection, but by the confusion. How did this happen? Many only get to hear through the grapevine, or through angry confrontations, of some or other terrible misdeed they are accused of, that either never happened, never happened the way it was described, or is based on a series of debilitating circumstances or events in the life of the parent, with many fabricated frills bolstering the
Megan Maysie
Aug 30, 202516 min read
Propaganda Wreaks Havoc In Families: How F**kheads & Flying Monkeys Destroy Their Family To Get Their Own Sweet Way
Propaganda, the spread of vicious lies with the very specific intent of creating a particular narrative in the short term to grab power and resources in the medium to long term, isn't limited to Nazis. While they may have almost perfected the dark, destructive art of propaganda that has been prevalent throughout history, most political parties now spew propaganda as a matter of course. Many governments, particularly authoritarian ones , do so as a matter of course. So do narc
Megan Maysie
Aug 28, 202511 min read
Children’s Rights & Expectations vs The Corresponding Children’s Responsibilities
Every single child deserves to be treated with dignity. It's their absolute human right. But as a human who enjoys rights, some duties limit these rights, although these duties only emerge as they age.
Megan Maysie
Aug 26, 20259 min read
The Life-Changing Value Of Owning Your Core Values
Values, the principles by which we live, come in all forms, but the value of terminal values —that include happiness and inner peace —is at the core of who we are, and can redirect our fate. What Are Values? The word “value” also has many meanings- each equally valuable: Value: The regard that something is held to deserve, or the importance, worth, or usefulness of something. Something of value has merit or worth. Value: The principles or standards of behaviour based on that
Megan Maysie
Aug 25, 20258 min read
Will The Real Me Generation Please Stand Up: How The Greatest Generation Morphed Into Millennials
Over millions of years, humans evolved from a single cell. Then, over a relatively short span of time, the "Greatest Generation," who built lives around a value system, and were renowned for their stoicism, selflessness, and willingness to sacrifice for the greater good (but left out large part of the global population), morphed into the tech-savvy Gen Z, who value diversity and inclusivity, with a strong sense of social justice, yet many "me." build their personal ecosystem
Megan Maysie
Aug 25, 202512 min read
Anticipation and the Optimism of Hope
Utter hopelessness feels like you are in a dark cocoon of nothingness, with no way out. All the best advice in the world seems meaningless a
Megan Maysie
Sep 2, 20249 min read
What Goes Into Gezinta
Gezinta is about healing and finding meaning in your life. To take trauma and turn it into something meaningful and positive.
Megan Maysie
Jul 27, 20245 min read
Self-Awareness Picks You Up When People Break You Down
Yet we often feel empty, and unfulfilled when we look inside ourselves. Struggling to align our actions, thoughts, or emotions with values
Megan Maysie
Jun 26, 20244 min read
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