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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.
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 19 min read
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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...
Megan Maysie
Sep 158 min read
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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...
Megan Maysie
Sep 149 min read
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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 136 min read
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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 117 min read
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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 117 min read
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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 106 min read
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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 86 min read
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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 48 min read
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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 26 min read
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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...
Megan Maysie
Sep 17 min read
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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 3016 min read
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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...
Megan Maysie
Aug 289 min read
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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 269 min read
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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...
Megan Maysie
Aug 257 min read
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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. Yet, the yearning to return to that one cell- the singular "me" remains a...
Megan Maysie
Aug 258 min read
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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, 20242 min read
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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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