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Mind Positive Trauma Informed Practitioner, Coach & Educator

Specialising in emotional abuse recovery, somatics and embodiment.

25/10/2026

There’s something utterly terrifying about watching people you’ve loved and trusted turn against you because they’ve accepted someone else’s story without ever asking what really happened.

No questions and no conversation. Just sudden exclusion, rejection and cruelty from people who once made you feel safe.

And I don’t think people fully understand how deeply they can wound another human being while convincing themselves they’ve done absolutely nothing wrong. The betrayal, isolation and silence can leave scars long after they’ve decided the matter is closed.

I think we need to be more careful about automatically attributing people’s appalling behaviour to trauma, and start pay...
24/10/2026

I think we need to be more careful about automatically attributing people’s appalling behaviour to trauma, and start paying far more attention to PERSONALITY.

Temperament matters. Personality matters. Character matters. And I reckon we underestimate just how much.

Some people have deeply ingrained beliefs about themselves and others. They see things in black and white, have a strong sense of entitlement and show very little regard for how their behaviour affects the people around them.

Yet when someone behaves cruelly, we’re often quick to look for childhood wounds or unresolved trauma to explain it.

And sometimes, of course, trauma does play a part.

But what if we’re overlooking something equally important?

What if we paid more attention to how someone thinks, what they believe and how they justify their behaviour?

Because not every cruel person is acting from a place of pain. And not every abusive person is a wounded person waiting to heal.

Sometimes their behaviour tells us something important about their personality, their values and how they see other people.

And I think we need to be careful about assuming that understanding someone’s past will necessarily change how they treat others.

Especially when they see absolutely nothing wrong with what they’re doing.

22/10/2026

Don’t get caught up trying to defend yourself or make them understand. See them clearly for who they are. You’re getting a glimpse into how their minds work. And yes, it’s pretty disgusting…

22/10/2026

Some families will stand back and watch someone lose years of their precious life trying to recover from behaviour they’ve witnessed, minimised and made excuses for.

Then have the fu***ng audacity to question why that person wants nothing more to do with the family.

And isn’t it interesting how the people preaching forgiveness, family loyalty and moving on are often the very same people who stood by and did nothing when someone was being treated appallingly?

Because it’s remarkably easy to excuse someone else’s cruelty when you’re not the one on the receiving end of it.

And I wonder how forgiving, understanding and willing to move on they’d be if they were the ones being treated that way.

“Well, they’ve always been lovely to me.”And what?People are perfectly capable of being kind, generous and lovely to one...
21/10/2026

“Well, they’ve always been lovely to me.”

And what?

People are perfectly capable of being kind, generous and lovely to one person while being abusive to somebody else.

But I think there’s something else going on here.

Some people aren’t particularly interested in hearing anything that challenges what they believe about someone they like.

They want their experience of that person to be the truth about who that person is.

And when someone comes along with a very different experience, rather than listening, they start defending.

Because accepting that someone they think is wonderful could also be cruel, dishonest or abusive means they might have to question their own judgement.

And some people would rather question your experience than question their opinion of somebody else.

Which I think is pretty disgusting, actually.

Because here’s someone telling you they’ve been hurt, possibly badly, by another person.

And instead of showing a bit of compassion, asking if they’re OK or even just bloody listening, you’re busy defending the person they’re telling you about.

Reminding them how lovely that person has always been to you.

As though that somehow cancels out what happened to them.

And here’s what I think is really going on.

Sometimes people don’t defend someone because they know you’re wrong.

They defend them because they don’t want you to be right.

Because they’re not interested in finding out the truth.

They’re interested in protecting what they already believe to be true.

And there’s a bloody big difference…

20/10/2026

Some people will tell you exactly how cruel they can be to someone, and you’ll sit there believing they’d never do it to you.

They’ll casually share someone’s private business, betray their confidence, tell you how they’ve excluded them or turned others against them after a falling out.

And they won’t necessarily feel ashamed of any of it.

Because in their mind, that person deserved it.

That’s where the entitlement shows itself.

They believe that if someone upsets them, disappoints them or doesn’t do what they want, they’re entitled to punish them however they see fit.

And because they’ve always been lovely to you, you might not recognise what they’re actually revealing.

They’re not just confessing what they’ve done to someone else. They’re showing you what they believe they have the right to do to anyone who falls out of favour.

And that includes you…

Have you ever listened to someone tell you how badly they’ve treated another person and found yourself agreeing that the...
19/10/2026

Have you ever listened to someone tell you how badly they’ve treated another person and found yourself agreeing that the person deserved it?

Because I’ve seen this happen more times than I care to remember.

One thing I’ve noticed about manipulative and abusive people is that they often tell you exactly who they are early on.

They don’t always hide what they do.

I’ve known people who would openly tell you about the awful ways they’d treated their family, partners, children, friends or people at work.

And I’m talking about some really cruel behaviour.

But they’d always have a reason for it.

They’d tell you what they’d done, then explain why the other person deserved it.

And do you know what I find really disturbing?

People would actually agree with them.

Someone could admit to threatening, humiliating or deliberately hurting another person, and somehow everyone would end up feeling sorry for THEM.

And if you dared question their behaviour, suddenly you were the problem.

Think about how fu**ed up that is.

Someone is openly telling you how badly they’ve treated another human being, and instead of questioning what they’ve done, you’re agreeing with their excuses.

They’re not even having to hide their behaviour. They’re getting people to defend it.

And I think we need to ask ourselves something.

Would we still be so understanding, so sympathetic and so quick to defend them if we were the ones on the receiving end of their behaviour?

Or is it only acceptable because it’s happening to someone else?

16/10/2026

Since when did putting up with abuse become a sign of strength, while walking away makes you weak?

And why are we still questioning the people who leave rather than the behaviour that made them leave?

We’ve still got a hell of a long way to go…

15/10/2026

One of the hardest things about coming into a dysfunctional family is realising that no matter how much you try to build relationships, be kind or do the right thing, you'll always be treated as the outsider. And the minute you stop putting up with their bu****it, they'll make sure you know it.

13/10/2026

It’s frightening how one person’s bad behaviour can end up controlling an entire family. And even more frightening how many people help them get away with it…

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