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Why Are You A Victim? (or, rather, a volunteer)
by Susan J. Elliott, J.D., M.Ed. Author: Getting Past Your Breakup: How To Turn A Devastating Loss Into The Best Thing That Ever Happened To You (Hachette Book Group 2009)Getting Back Out There: Secrets to Successful Dating and Finding Real Love After the Big Breakup...
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Grief or a Pity Party?
by Susan J. Elliott, J.D., M.Ed. Author: Getting Past Your Breakup: How To Turn A Devastating Loss Into The Best Thing That Ever Happened To You (Hachette Book Group 2009)Getting Back Out There: Secrets to Successful Dating and Finding Real Love After the Big Breakup...
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Antidepressants and You
I wrote this for the Facebook group as someone came into the group and asked people's experiences with antidepressants and one person actually said, "Oh I had a horrible time coming off them." Without MORE, that is a reckless comment. What were you on? For how...
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Great Expectations and Narcissists
by Susan J. Elliott, J.D., M.Ed. Author: Getting Past Your Breakup: How To Turn A Devastating Loss Into The Best Thing That Ever Happened To You (Hachette Book Group 2009)Getting Back Out There: Secrets to Successful Dating and Finding Real Love After the Big Breakup...
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10 Things You Need to Know About Real Love
by Susan J. Elliott, J.D., M.Ed. Copyright Ⓒ All Rights Reserved To find the right person, BE the right person Many people want to be in relationships, without really having a clue what it is all about or what they're all about. Real love is akin to...
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5 Things You Must Do To Change the Quality of Relationships
by Susan J. Elliott, J.D., M.Ed. Author: Getting Past Your Breakup: How To Turn A Devastating Loss Into The Best Thing That Ever Happened To You (Hachette Book Group 2009)Getting Back Out There: Secrets to Successful Dating and Finding Real Love After the Big Breakup...
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Closure Redux
For most of you who have read the book, you know that I talk about closure and "end of the grief process" in different ways. Because they are not the same. To describe the end of the grief process, I use the words "acceptance" or "integration" or "reorganization"...
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Opportunity is Crisis Played Correctly
by Susan J. Elliott, J.D., M.Ed. Author: Getting Past Your Breakup: How To Turn A Devastating Loss Into The Best Thing That Ever Happened To You (Hachette Book Group 2009)Getting Back Out There: Secrets to Successful Dating and Finding Real Love After the Big Breakup...
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8 Traits Almost All Narcissists Have: Or Why Some People Can’t Love
8 Traits That Almost All Narcissists HaveEvery few years there seems to be a diagnosis that everyone is pinning on someone else. The past few years it’s been narcissism. Since the main focus of my practice is, and almost always has been, relationship breakups,...
read moreRespect Me or Get Out: Torch Song Trilogy
A perennial favorite on the blog and requested repost: I saw this movie in the theater when it came out and I was pretty tortured and depressed at the time. I had just ended my marriage and was wrestling with my relationship with my adoptive family. I remember...
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Is It Grief or Obsession? 7 Ways to Deal with Difficult Thoughts After a Breakup
by Susan J. Elliott, J.D., M.Ed. Author: Getting Past Your Breakup: How To Turn A Devastating Loss Into The Best Thing That Ever Happened To You (Hachette Book Group 2009)Getting Back Out There: Secrets to Successful Dating and Finding Real Love After the Big Breakup...
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Grief is A Spiral: Recycle Happens
Backstory to this post: I am republishing this for someone in the Facebook group recycling on the ex's birthday, which - as you read down below - is very normal.I have been researching grief for 25 years. All of my academic theses, including my law thesis, are on...
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