Psychologist Parthenia Izzard’s 6 Signs You’re Being Lied About

Psychologist Parthenia Izzard’s 6 Signs You’re Being Lied About

Have you ever had the feeling that something has changed in your relationship with an individual or group? There are six signs that may help you find out if they have changed because you are being lied about.

There is a strong possibility someone has spread lies about you of which you are not aware. Liars seeking to diminish your value to another individual or organization are very adept at casting aspersions and discrediting an individual by spreading lies about that individual. The lies do not have to be terribly involved or extreme, they just have to cast enough “shade” to cause others to value the individual less. When people are jealous or feeling threatened by your presence, they often spread lies that they hope will get you rejected by someone, removed from a group or at the very least, diminish your influence.

1.  A behavioral interaction change may be one of the first things you will notice. When you arrive nobody says hello as they once did. Nobody extends their hand first or moves physically to greet you when you arrive. Assuming you have had no interaction with the individual or group prior to the behavioral interaction change, the only explanation would be that someone has undermined you in some way and to your detriment.

2. You may next notice an increased silence in your presence that was not there before. When people do not talk in your presence there is usually a reason. There may be things they want to discuss, that they do not want you to know about or you may be the subject of what they are talking about, and they do not want you to overhear their conversation.

3. You may also notice less eye contact is being made when you are talking to the individual or group. When people change their behavior because of something someone has told them and not because of something the individual in question has done, they do feel some guilt. They know what they are doing is not based on anything the individual deserves and they feel badly about what they are doing, so it is difficult to look the person in the eye.

4.  They also may no longer seek your opinion when making plans and decisions the way they did before. You will certainly have a sense of being left out.

5. You will notice the individual or group does not seem as warm and friendly as they did. There is no informal touching when talking, greeting, or leaving. You may feel that they are being cold and aloof.

6. Then there just may be that feeling of “je ne se quoi” upon which you cannot put your finger. Something is just off and you know you have done nothing to warrant the changes.

What to do? Reinforce their positive feelings by maintaining your consistent behavior, and remaining above reproach. Don’t change your behavior by getting on the defensive or distrusting them because that may play into the hands of the liar. Do the same things you did before, that encouraged the individual or group to bring you into their environment. Exhibit the same positive, friendly, informative, behavior you did before their feelings seemed to change. Hopefully, you will be able to inquire of the changed individual or a member of the changed group at some point in time, to see what the liar said or to get someone to confide in you what they suspect to be the problem. You should be able to outlast the lies and dispel their concerns sufficiently to raise questions about the individual trying to undermine your presence. The more your behavior is contrary to the lie, the sooner they will realize they are in error and should be concerned more about the liar. There may be a point at which you can jokingly state, “If I didn’t know better, I would think someone was spreading lies about me behind my back.” Someone may come and tell you what happened.

The important thing is to stay a part of the group or maintain your relationship with the changed individual long enough to clear your name and determine who the culprit is and expose them for the liar they are. You can only do that if you maintain a positive and productive demeanor and presence, so that you will be kept around long enough to get to the bottom of the lies, and make the individual pay for what they did. Do not allow your hurt feelings or anger to get the best of you. Never “allow your adrenaline to supersede your clarity.” Keep it together to rectify the situation. Success is the best revenge. The culprit is trying to get rid of you, so if you leave or act out, you will enable them to justify your removal. Do not under any circumstances give them the satisfaction of seeing you out of control. Just hang in there long enough to win!

By Parthenia Izzard, Psychologist, CNHP, ABD, Author, Talk Show Host

December 28, 2016, 

Until He Puts Effort into These 6 Things, DON’T MARRY HIM

Until He Puts Effort into These 6 Things, DON’T MARRY HIM

There are six actions you must require of a man before you consider him for marriage.

1. He must propose. He should be the one to ask for your hand in marriage. Ideally, he will also ask your father’s support. This is helpful because, yes, there are things men can pick up about men that women cannot that may save you a lot of heartache. Any male relative should suffice if your father is not available.

2. He must get you an engagement ring or comparable symbol of his intention to marry you and offer it at the time of his proposal. This lets you know that he is willing to make a financial sacrifice for your happiness that takes some planning and effort.

3. He must introduce you to his family. To his mother, father, sister(s), and brother(s). You want to see how he treats his mother, and other women in his family, and how they and other members of the family relate to him, to see the family dynamic into which you want to marry.

4. He must introduce you to any and all of his offspring and their mother and significant other. Again, you need to have an idea of the kind of people with whom you will have to interact and/or spend time because of the children they share. That interaction lasts for the life of the child. You want your marriage to be as positive as possible, and knowing all of the players, and how they get along is extremely important. You do not want any surprises. There is no way he can really protect you from this or these individuals because he does not control them. You want to have some idea of what to expect so that you can make an intelligent decision as to whether or not you want to be involved.

5. He must tell you whether or not he wants children. If he already has offspring he may not be as anxious to have more. There needs to be a discussion about having them and how many, and any gender preference. You should also discuss childrearing philosophies so that you know what you can expect from each other. You discuss everything you can think of including their education. What are the expectations in this area? Public education versus private. You both need to know what kinds of sports, outdoor, artistic, and adventurous activities are acceptable.

6. You must discuss your sexual, political and religious preferences and beliefs. These are three major and critical items that need to be clearly understood before marriage. Granted these things may change in some way over time but you need to know where they stand now, and what they think will happen if any current preferences or beliefs change, and how that will be dealt with as a family.

There is nothing worse than finding out a few years into a marriage that your husband does not want to treat you to a card, night out or flowers on your anniversary, birthday or to celebrate another milestone, and these are things that are, to you, very important.

You want to take your time and go into your marriage with your eyes open and with as much awareness as possible of the vicissitudes and incongruities that may come your way. Knowing all of the above should enable you to determine whether or not they lie, have an uncontrollable temper, have an addictive personality, have unsavory friends, and are prone to fatal attraction type behavior. You want to know that if things do not work out before or after marriage, you will not have to worry about their ability to handle the rejection to move on with someone else. If you do your homework, and require the right things, you should be better prepared for whatever happens during the marriage and more able to hang in there when challenges arise.

It is also extremely important to see how he interacts with your family members, your children, and your friends. You do not want to be in a situation with someone who tries to keep you from interacting with your family, children, and friends. You will not know anything if he is not exposed to them and you want everyone to get along as well as possible. Peace and harmony is the goal and the ideal situation. Nothing is perfect but you want to start out with things going as smoothly as possible, so that challenges will be easier to overcome together, and with love and concern about what is best for you both.

So, require the above, and be strong, and steadfast, so you can both be as happy as possible, and for as long as possible. The goal is to be happily married forever.

By Parthenia Izzard, Psychologist, CNHP, ABD
November 5, 2016

Parthenia Izzard is a Psychologist, Certified Natural Healthcare Practitioner, Author, and Radio Talk Show Host. Her desire is to provide services and disseminate information related to alternative medicine therapies to facilitate your wellness journey. www.AMTherapies.com

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This article was originally published at YourTango. Reprinted with permission from the author.

People behaving badly!

People behaving badly!

Now, as you may know, the focus of my articles comes out of my interaction with patients in the past and with individuals in the present, or stories I have heard about from others. Some of the things I have seen or experienced or heard in the past couple of months have inspired me to want to talk about people behaving badly.

First, I want to say nothing warrants yelling at somebody, getting in someone’s face, or putting your hands on someone, unless it is a matter of life, death or self-defense. Nothing warrants pointing a stern finger in an adults face. Nothing warrants grabbing, pushing, hitting, shoving another adult. Again, it is never warranted unless it is a matter of life or death or self-defense.

There are certain groups of individuals from whom one may experience bad behaviors. You may experience bad behaviors from someone in the workplace who is very rude, disrespectful, bullying or intimidating and is on your level (not your boss, not your supervisor). The next group could be higher-ups like a boss or supervisor who is rude, disrespectful, bullying or intimidating. Another group might be individuals or groups of people who you do not know well or at all who are rude, disrespectful, bullying or intimidating. And lastly, family, someone to whom you are related like a parent, sibling, cousin, an aunt, uncle, grandparent, niece, nephew, grandchild, spouse or in-law who is rude, disrespectful, bullying, and intimidating.

Degrees of behaving badly range from verbal rudeness to physical assault, including hitting, pushing, grabbing, and punching.

I have heard people make excuses for bad behavior. I have heard people make excuses for others for their bad behavior. Some of those excuses have been having a bad day, being tired, being overworked, being in a bad mood, not feeling well, being angry, none of those are legitimate excuses that forgive or excuse bad behaviors. I am sorry if things are not going the way you want. Get over it. You do not have the right to be rude, disrespectful, and intimidating to other people. I am sorry if you are not getting enough sleep but that does not give you the right to be rude, disrespectful and intimidating to other people. Too bad you are being overworked. Get another job, cut back on your hours. It does not give you an excuse. It does not give you license to be rude, disrespectful and intimidating to others. You are in a bad mood. Get over yourself. It does not give you license to be rude, disrespectful and intimidating to others, grow up. Learn how to handle your life and how to handle yourself. In America, people have the right to disagree with you, they have a right to not want to do what you want them to do, and they have a right to want to remove themselves from your presence. They have a right to not want you in their space, especially in their personal space. You, however, do not have the right to be rude, disrespectful, and intimidating to others. Not because you are having a bad day. Not because you are tired. Not because you are overworked. Not because you are in a bad mood. Not because you are angry. Now if the bad behaving individual is dealing with individuals who are somehow jeopardizing their safety, their life, and they need to defend themselves and all of the rudeness, disrespect, and intimidation is self-defense, that is different. But if all of this is coming out and being done to people because of how you are feeling, the mood you are in, I do not even think the loss of someone in your family justifies a person being rude, disrespectful and intimidating to others.

We have to get to a place where we can control ourselves and where we do not take out on others our negative experiences. Other people in the world do not have anything to do with you having a bad day or you being tired or you being overworked or you being in a bad mood or you being angry and they should not have to suffer negative consequences because you are in those particular states.

I know that victims are always told. Do not worry, they will get theirs, karma is real, what goes around comes around. Or they will tell victims, do not worry, there is divine retribution or they are told to turn the other cheek or to be the better person. While they are told to take the high road and be the better person, the person exhibiting the bad behavior, for the moment, goes unscathed to go on and continue the bad behavior and to subject other people to their bad behavior.

I think when you talk to victims, the average victim thinks that karma and divine retribution take a little too long to occur to have an impact on the person exhibiting the bad behavior. That being the case, my suggestion is that you can take the high road, you can turn the other cheek but if you care about other people, someone has to be told about the individual exhibiting the bad behavior. The hope, the expectation is that you may keep someone else from having the experience of that person’s rudeness, disrespect or intimidation. Most agencies have something in place where an anonymous report can be made that will be collected and when they get a certain number of complaints, they investigate. But if no one ever says anything, there is nothing to collect and they will not have enough data. They can talk to the person, saying that they see a pattern of behavior here. Ask them: wouldn’t you like this to be different? Hopefully, the person is the kind of person who does not enjoy having these kinds of experiences with people and who would like to be a better person who will say, “Yes, okay, maybe I need some anger management classes or something.”

Social media is not helpful because it seems that people are so abusive on social media that getting help or getting resolution to a problem is unlikely to happen. I do not suggest people post on the Internet. I have never seen healthy resolution through the use of the internet.

We would like to think that we could talk to the individual ourselves. But if they are so inept at controlling their temper that the incident you experienced happened at all, what is to say, they will be any better at having a calm conversation about the incident and coming to a peaceful resolution. If there is a pattern of bad behavior, that only complicates matters. Discussing possible negative results or consequences of their behaviors sometimes is useless also because they usually get so angry that they do not care about consequences. Then there is the situation that I personally just one time experienced and have heard of happening to other people where after someone exhibits bad behavior not only rude and disrespectful but physical, they then go away, calm down, come back and instead of saying I am so sorry I did thus and such and it will never happen again, they come back saying things like, are you going to accept my apology?… Are you going to at least accept my apology?..., and again, in the person’s face, the victim’s face, demanding an acceptance of an apology, when first of all, there was no apology, just the demanding of an acceptance of a non-apology which makes no sense. And again, they are still exhibiting the same rude, disrespectful, and intimidating behavior but they are putting it on you, that in order for all of this to be resolved, you have to do something. You must accept some kind of ambiguous apology, which really adds salt to the wound. Not only has the person been rudely spoken to, disrespected, and experienced intimidating behavior, and possibly physical grabbing or whatever, not only has the person had that but now everything is being turned around on them, where it is now their responsibility to resolve the issue by accepting this person’s non-apology. They have not said "I am sorry" I did this, whatever it was, and it will never happen again. They have not even given a formal apology but they have the nerve, the audacity, to demand the acceptance of a non-apology. It is very interesting.

If it is a situation from which you can remove yourself permanently, do so. If it is an optional situation where you do not have to be there but you are providing a service by being there and it is something that means a lot to you, then you have to give the other individual a wide berth. You are going to have to try to function within the framework of the activity in such a way that you have very little contact, if any, with the individual. If you can find some way to let someone know something, do so. If it is a family member, that is a little more challenging because you may love this particular individual. If it is an individual you do not have to see a lot, limit how often you see them. When you see them, if they start to exhibit the bad behavior, you can leave and go home. You do not have to stay in their presence. This is, of course, if they are at least not trying to inhibit your removal of yourself from the situation. I do know of situations where individuals have wanted to take the high road, more or less, and just remove themselves from the situation and the bad behaving individual had the audacity to grab the individual to prevent them from removing themselves from the situation. So again, hopefully you will always be able to remove yourself. The circumstance may be such that you do not want to cause a scene in a way that detracts from your role within the framework of the activity. So you may not be able to just walk away or snatch your arm away from the bad behaving individual.

Only you can determine the range of responses at your disposal at a given time. Only you can protect you, not bystanders, not law enforcement, not restraining orders, not friends, and not even family. Because in the moment, you are usually there by yourself and you have to have a plan for your own protection. Thank goodness, most of these incidents are not physical. So you have to develop a plan for how you will react or behave within a variety of circumstances. Those of us, who go through life as peaceful, trusting, understanding, compassionate, friendly people, tend to be caught off guard by the bad behavior of others. Bad behaving individuals count on catching people off guard. So if you have a plan in place, even if you have to practice in front of a mirror, you may not be caught off guard to such an extent that you will not have a good response. And like I said earlier, if the circumstance is one where you do not want to stoop to their level, you will have to find a way to deal with it outside of the circumstance in a different way, and at a different time. The main thing is for you not to be afraid, for you not to feel it is your fault, and for you to feel good about yourself, and realize it is their problem and their bad behavior. What inspires their bad behavior is their problem.

By Parthenia Izzard
June 25, 2016


Parthenia Izzard is a Psychologist, Certified Natural Healthcare Practitioner, Author, and Radio Talk Show Host. Her desire is to provide services and disseminate information related to alternative medicine therapies to facilitate your wellness journey. www.AMTherapies.com www.WellnessWholenessandWisdom.com

Hello All,

Wellness, Wholeness & Wisdom Radio is still on BlogTalkRadio, 3 evenings a week [Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday] at 8:00 PM Eastern Time. Most Tuesdays will air live programs, Wednesdays and Thursdays will feature special rebroadcasts from 2006 to present. Some Thursdays will feature Open Forums on current topics in the field.

This week, June 21 - 23, 2016, will feature rebroadcasts of Wellness, Wholeness & Wisdom Radio Host Psychologist Parthenia Izzard, CNHP, and her guest 6/21/2016 Raymond Francis, author of, Never Feel Old Again; 6/22/16 Sidney Poitier, author of, The Measure of A Man; and 6/23/16 LIVE Open Forum, People Behaving Badly.

FYI: you can have remote consultations with me through secured video conferencing. Call 866.472.6094 to request an appointment.

I look forward to your feedback and show topic suggestions.

Be well,
Parthenia Izzard, Psychologist, CNHP 

Wellness, Wholeness & Wisdom now on BlogTalkRadio TWTH 8PM ET

Hello All,

Wellness, Wholeness & Wisdom Radio is now on BlogTalkRadio, 3 evenings a week [Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday] at 8:00 PM Eastern Time. Most Tuesdays will air live programs, Wednesdays and Thursdays will feature special rebroadcasts from 2006 to present. Some Thursdays will feature Open Forums on current topics in the field.

This week will feature rebroadcasts on 8/16/11 of Wellness, Wholeness & Wisdom Radio Host Psychologist Parthenia Izzard, CNHP, and her guest Gregg Braden, author of The Divine Matrix, 8/17/11 Mario Orsatti, spokesperson for Transcendental Meditation, and 8/18/11 Joel Odhner, founder and owner of RawLifeLine programs.

FYI: you can have remote consultations with me through SKYPE. Call 866.472.6094 to request an appointment.

I look forward to your feedback and show topic suggestions.

Be well,
Parthenia Izzard, Psychologist, CNHP

Parthenia Izzard's Next Radio Guest: Steve Sisgold author of, What's Your Body Telling You?

On Wednesday at 7:00 PM Eastern Time I will be talking with Steve Sisgold about his new book, What's Your Body Telling You? Listening to Your Body's Signals To Stop Anxiety, Erase Self-Doubt, and Achieve True Wellness. Steve is a "body-centered" therapist.

This will be a great opportunity for you to ask experts anything about the body/mind connection. You can listen to the program live Wednesday evening a 7PM ET by clicking on this link: http://www.achieveradio.com/parthenia-izzard/

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