When you’re navigating a custody battle or any family court situation with a high conflict ex, the challenges can feel overwhelming. Sometimes, the conflict goes beyond disagreements and turns into a form of legal abuse . This happens when your ex uses the legal system not to seek justice but to control, harass, or exhaust you emotionally and financially. If you suspect an ex displaying narcissistic patterns of behaviour is engaging in this kind of manipulation, recognizing t

Let's talk about six specific tips to get used to peace after a long time of living in chaos. Last week was   an example of transitioning out of chaos and into peace, with the story of how winning in family court after seeing patterns of intimidation and what I interpreted as legal abuse for many years, completely rocked my world. This is the Transcript for Episode 15B . Here we get practical, but without too much detail, because episode 16 A and B is where I really go into t

There's a pattern I see in almost every autistic woman who escaped a relationship they describe as abusive, that involved narcissistic patterns. We say we want peace, we beg for it, we pray novenas for it, we talk about it. And when the abuse stops, because we moved away or because we won in family court, we reject that peace. We don't want it, we push it away. It's the strangest thing. It's hard to explain if you don't dive into the inner workings of the addition to chaos.

There is something that sits in the back of the mind for many mothers who co-parent with someone unpredictable or high-conflict: That court date you can't stop thinking about, or the custody review, or the mediation, the evaluation, or the email that might come at any moment. This kind of stress is not theoretical, it's not just anxiety. It's your nervous system responding to something with real weight, and you are not overreacting. Your body is responding to something that r