What is “splitting”, and am I guilty of it?

Monique Mason Personality Disorders

Splitting is prevalent among people with personality disorders, such as Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).  It can be simply defined as “all-or-nothing” thinking.  They view the world from two perspectives…”all good” or “all bad”.  Everything is perceived as “black” or “white” with no room for shades of grey. Relationships with those that split are rocky at best, and tend to be …

Is how you define yourself hindering you from reuniting with your children?

Monique Mason Alienation

Rock Thomas is captivating in this video and delivers such a powerful message…“The words that follow ‘I am’ follow you.”  Is how you define yourself hindering you from reuniting with your kids? “Parental alienation” is nothing short of a horrific form of domestic abuse.  It’s often subtle (at least to start), and it weaves its insidious tendrils throughout a family …

Parental Alienation Does NOT Exist!

Monique Mason Alienation

For decades, the experts have debated the existence of “parental alienation”, originally defined by Dr. Richard Gardner as a “mental condition in which a child (usually one whose parents are engaged in a high-conflict divorce) allies himself or herself strongly with one parent and rejects a relationship with the other parent without legitimate justification”. Does this happen? YES! …it is …