What Your Teenager Wishes You Knew
Sometimes you look at a person who give you the creeps and you have not one single clue as to why. You think, “What in the world is wrong with me? I must be getting cynical.” My gut instinct is screaming at me. The absolute most important clue to identifying predatory people that was hard […]
DISCOUNTING THE WORD “NO” There has never…ever…been a person in my past who discounted the word no and turned out to be a decent person. Not one. Every single one of them make me squirm with regret. This is the most universally significant one of all: A person’s ignoring or discounting the concept of […]
THE UNSOLICITED PROMISE This one gets my attention every time probably because I have never in my life heard my parents say, “I promise.” Ever. And I don’t say it either. I was taught to follow through with what I say I am going to do without any further need to back it up. I […]
I have to say, Gavin deBecker who wrote The Gift of Fear, the book I am using to help you see the signs of predatory people is super smart and has such an amazing ability to help us see HOW this all works. Welcome back to Part 5 of Identifying Predatory People. In […]
Welcome back to Part 4 of Who’s the Predator? Signs Preceding Violence. In this one, you will find a very common thing you have experienced. This is a series I have done based off of a small part of an awesome book by Gavin deBecker called The Gift of Fear. If there was ever one […]
Again, the signs preceding violence are always there. Most wouldn’t think of this as a sign, but if you read the very first part of Gavin deBecker’s book The Gift of Fear you will quickly realize it does. TOO MANY DETAILS Have you ever met someone who feels the need to give you every […]
“He was so nice,” is often the phrase people use to describe someone who has attacked them. The signs preceding violence are always there. The reasoning we do with ourselves it to our detriment. You will never see a rabbit on the same trail as a mountain lion thinking to itself, “Well, he seems so […]
If you’ve ever been a victim of domestic violence you know the one thing that goes along with it. SHAME. It doesn’t matter if you are a man or a woman, straight or gay, young or old, married or single, child or adult. It knows no boundaries. This is the beginning of a series […]