North Point Marriage and Family Therapy

09/12/2025

08/28/2025

It’s time to stop giving people agency over your life. Over who you are and how far you’ll go.

The most powerful response to those who’ve hurt you isn’t revenge or some dramatic showdown. It’s the soft yet steady revolution of becoming happier, kinder, and more fulfilled than they ever thought possible. Not because you need to prove a point, but because you’ve taken your life back.

Real freedom comes when your healing grows out of self-love instead of the need to show someone they were wrong. The moment your choices are fuelled by pain or the urge to get even, you’re still handing them power. Authentic transformation begins when you choose growth for yourself, not as a performance for others.

This isn’t easy. It takes emotional courage. You’re not pretending the hurt never happened or excusing what was done to you. You don’t have to condone, forget, or adopt your perpetrator’s perspective. What you are doing is refusing to let their actions define who you become and how far you go.

The beauty of this path is its honesty. When you live without hidden agendas, you naturally step into the person you were always meant to be, before cruelty tried to shrink you. Your kindness isn’t forced; it flows from the love you’ve returned to inside. Your happiness isn’t shallow. It’s deeply rooted in self-acceptance and growth.

That doesn’t mean supressing anger or denying pain. It means allowing those feelings to move through you without letting them direct the trajectory of your life. You see the harm for what it was, but you refuse to let it cage your future.

The real victory isn’t in making someone regret how they treated you. It’s reaching the place where their opinion, and their attempts to diminish you, no longer matter. When you’re thriving, their power dissolves. You’ve risen beyond their reach, not through spite, but through the radical choice to build joy, love, and meaning in your own life.

It’s time to become unreachable, unbreakable, and undeniably yourself.

08/14/2025

Sometimes growth is staying silent while their story writes itself—knowing it says more about them than it ever will about you.

08/02/2025

What are your thoughts about these?

An interesting look back at Edwardian-era marriage advice. These tips come from Blanche Ebbutt’s “Don’ts for Husbands” and “Don’ts for Wives” which were relationship guidebooks published in England in 1913, offering tips for married life.

07/28/2025

Next time someone’s short, snappy, or distant… pause.

They might not need correction, they might need connection.

07/28/2025

Sometimes the most healing thing you can do is pause… and exhale.

03/29/2025

~abbierosie

03/25/2025

Starts April 24th!