jenniferswaite Some SURVIVAL INSTINCTS news: It was a New York Post best book of the week!Here is a review from The Maine Edge, a Bangor, Maine newspaper. And here are a few more reviews:The Nerd DailyThe Parkersburg News & Sentinel It was also a book club pick for Bookspan’s Literary Guild, Mystery Guild and DoubleDay book … Read more
I have been struggling with so many unknowns recently, feeling so unsettled. I was just reading while my daughter napped, but not really able to focus because of these worries floating around in my head, so I opened my window shade. I saw a girl swinging in the yard next door out my bedroom window. … Read more
When I watched the first episode of Big Little Lies, I hated it. I thought it was silly, irrelevant, tacky. No one actually lives like this, I thought. I don’t care about these women and their fluffy, perfect lives. And then I watched the second episode. I’m not sure why I kept watching after such … Read more
Funny thing. I wrote this whole post and then had a bit of an epiphany and erased it and now I’m starting over. The gist of what I was writing before was the concept of doing battle with the two parts of you that now seemingly exist: the Before you and the After you. The … Read more
I’m writing this as a follow-up to my last post, “Trusting Again.” This might not fall under the heading of “Inspirational” but I think it’s important to write about struggles and reality. When I wrote the last post, I was so proud of myself – I had gotten to a place where I felt like … Read more
“How will you ever be able to trust anyone again?” This is a question I get a lot. Even recently, I was being interviewed and, though I knew the question was coming, it momentarily rendered me speechless. It would be so easy to decide that I simply will never trust again. It would be so … Read more
So many of you have written to me and shared your stories. A closing phrase I read time and time again is, “I can’t believe this is my life.” There is so much wrapped up in this one sentence. There is the fear and anxiety that you are experiencing on a moment-to-moment basis. There is … Read more
(I wrote this article for a fantastic website, X2X Community, that helps people navigate divorce and all that goes along with it.) Going through a divorce can be heartbreaking, frustrating and flat-out devastating. Going through a divorce with a psychopath or narcissist can be all of the above plus a whole other level of hell … Read more
This is a scary post to write. Scary because I am about to share a lot of the “inner work” I had to do (and am still doing every day) after my relationship with my ex-psychopath. I want to preface this by saying that under no circumstances are you to “blame” for getting involved with … Read more