Jessica Anne Pressler Blog

07/01/2026

https://www.jessicaannepressler.com/blog/why-do-i-feel-guilty-for-setting-boundaries

By Jessica Anne Pressler LCSW You finally did it. You said no. Maybe you told your mother you wouldn't be coming to Sunday dinner this week. Maybe you ended the friendship that had been quietly hollowing you out for years. Maybe you stood in front of someone who had been minimizing you, dismissing

06/25/2026

https://www.jessicaannepressler.com/blog/the-mother-wound

There is no wound quite like the mother wound — because it lives inside the very place where safety was supposed to begin.

06/03/2026

https://www.jessicaannepressler.com/blog/w422o1jazkt966b3t1ejp16lvtu8fc

Dr. Debra Kessler joins “Your Traitor Within”

06/03/2026

https://www.jessicaannepressler.com/blog/why-do-such-capable-people-find-themselves-stuck-in-a-relationship-with-a-narcissist-understanding-trauma-bonding-the-inner-child-and-the-traitor-within

By Jessica Anne Pressler LCSW You are accomplished. You have built a career, raised children, navigated complexity with competence and grace. And yet — you find yourself in a relationship that makes you feel small, confused, and unable to leave. You feel like a stranger to yourself.   Ho

05/28/2026

05/26/2026

05/26/2026

https://www.jessicaannepressler.com/blog/why-is-the-narcissist-in-my-life-nice-to-me-sometimes

It’s Not Random — It’s a Strategy

05/15/2026

https://www.jessicaannepressler.com/blog/6s7udjw897vafcip9js0b52xwzc9dd

It is not weakness. It is not failure. It was once the wisest thing a child could do.

05/07/2026

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-traitor-within/id1797804404?i=1000766501696

Podcast Episode · Your Traitor Within · May 6 · 51m