It sounds confusing when you hear these words that have come to describe these manipulative tactics, often used in coercive control dynamics and psychological/emotional abuse dynamics. Unlike the image that popped in my head when I first heard the term, it is not describing individuals who lay down, making guttural noises, while flopping around like sea lions. Nope. Sealioning is classified with often interchanged terms such as “weaponized incompetence”, “weaponized confusion

Self-doubt can show up in many different ways.  ​ Self-doubt may show up as: - difficulty believing in yourself - low self-esteem    -questioning if you are "good enough" - having past peoples' words play over in your mind of statements that you question - feeling like you don’t belong in different spaces - feeling like an outsider among certain groups -feeling as though you have to prove yourself - knowing that you have the necessary credentials or qualifications but not wan

Therapy, The Therapeutic Relationship, and The Good Fit Policy Every therapist is not going to be a “good fit” for every client. What...