Elizabeth Carver
Bio
Writer of Paranormal Fiction, Domestic Violence Survivor, Psychology, Mental Health, Self-Empowerment/Recovery, Spirituality, LGBTQ+ Rights, Mother of Teen Boys
Stories (6/0)
Do I exist? Am I Invisible?
An indescribable hole comes into my chest and sense of self whenever my family forgets about me. Just the other day, my mother told me about how my brother, whom I hadn’t seen in two years and loved, was going to fly into California, where my other brother and his family lived, and that they were going to drive down and all get together — and she asked me, not if I wanted to join them, but she asked me if I could water the plants for her while she was gone visiting.
By Elizabeth Carver2 years ago in Psyche
How To communicate with A Narcissist
When communicating with a Narcissist, the number one thing to do is don’t. If you do not have to engage with this individual, walk away, close down the phone, lose their number, and change yours. Leave your ego on the shelf no matter what they say, because getting a rise out of you is just what they’re looking for and it feeds their need for dominance. They like making your life miserable and making you look crazy and hysterical. The more you react, the more it pleases them. Don’t engage, walk away.
By Elizabeth Carver2 years ago in Psyche
Gaslighting By Parents
Gaslighting is hard enough to deal with when it comes from an outside source such as a partner, boss, co-worker, or friend, but when it derives from the source of where and when we develop our sense of self and how we fit into the world, it becomes core-level damaging.
By Elizabeth Carver2 years ago in Psyche
Court Ordered Abuse
The divorce went through, and I was finally free of the abusive man that controlled, physically harmed, threatened, and dehumanized me emotionally for years. The escape in itself wasn’t easy; met with him telling me that I was selfish, a horrible disgusting person and that I was destroying my children by breaking up the family. It involved him physically chasing me down a road, grabbing, and dragging me back while I was screaming, holding the children hostage so that I couldn’t leave, my purse, and all of my belongings.
By Elizabeth Carver2 years ago in Families
Love Thyself — I Promise To Love And Honor Myself
Self-love is something that I’ve always had trouble with. Relationship failures, domestic abuse, both physically and mentally, body image issues, how I speak, what I believe, what kind of job I have, how I parent, and who I even am at the core, have always been grounds for anxiety with me. All my life, I have found myself hiding and burying parts of who I really am and what I’m doing out of fear of what others might think and that harsh digging sensation that my inner sense of self would get whenever people’s judgment came my way.
By Elizabeth Carver2 years ago in Humans
Lord Of Fire
There weren't always dragons in the Valley. The humans took care of that long ago. The carnage of their wrath had spread over the world like a blanket of death; forgotten steel blades, blood and bones; the landscape painted in a tapestry of graves, until there were no more dragons.
By Elizabeth Carver2 years ago in Fiction
