Category: bullying
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Bullying: Disrespect du Jour
The amount of vindictiveness and bullying coming daily from the Trump White House, and too-often from Congress is cringe-worthy. Let’s try for some respect for a change…
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An Onslaught of Disrespect
Sometimes instead of mirroring respectful behaviors we find ourselves copying negative, belittling, abusive behaviors . This appears to be going on as many of us are mirroring disrespectful, ugly words and behaviors that we observe from members of Congress or journalists and commentators or from our President.
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Why I Feel Connected to the Menendez Brothers
ct oI actually have felt a kind of a connection to Lyle and Erik Menendez ever since I was a panelist on the ‘Abuse or Greed’ Maury Povich show decades ago. I was able to discuss how it wasn’t just their anger about the years of sexual abuse by their father, but also the early…
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The Presidential Meeting That Made My Skin Crawl
The bullying that took place in the Oval Office between President Trump Vice President Vance and President Zelenskyy was an embarrassment and not worthy of the respect deserved by the office of the President of the United States.
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Why Do Political Campaigns Guilt-trip Us to Donate?
Have you been feeling blind-sided into donating to certain political campaigns during this election cycle – blamed or shamed or guilt-tripped?
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Election Campaign 2024: Rejections, Accusations and Psychological Projections
Psychological projection is the tendency to unconsciously see certain traits in another person –– traits you cannot acknowledge them in yourself. These might include anger, sadness, fears, insecurities, vulnerabilities, and dependency. It might include your tendency to be stubborn or flirtatious or bad or too loud or pushy or competitive or controlling. have a tendency…
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When Rejection Leads to Self-rejection and Feels Like Shame
The sting of rejection often morphs into self-rejection and shame. One way of dealing is reminding yourself “This is only embarrassment not shame”can make a difference in how we deal with the pain of taking something personally.
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Seeking Respect in a Dissing Kind of World
Respect is the backbone of relationships — personal, workplace, and as we see now, political. Lately I’m noticing that respect has become frayed and tattered and torn and sometimes practically non-existent. Misunderstandings and hurt feelings and anger and resentment seem to be filling the space and there is barely room for connection.
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Wearing Victimhood As a Badge of Honor
Donald Trump is talented at using his own painful feelings of victimhood to bond with the public. When we feel inadequate we might puff ourselves up to bully size. He learned how to be an expert bulliy from being bullied by his father .
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Broadsided by Antisemitism
Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago dinner with White Supremacist antisemites Nick Fuentes and Kanye West brought back a PTSD visceral reaction remembering neighbors spitting at me, calling me a “Dirty Jew.” I was 7 years old. This resurgence of antisemitism is alarming and dangerous. And I’m very scared.