by admin | Jul 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
TW, CW: Suicide, abuse, narcissism, cults This is part 2 of my story of living and leaving a single family cult. In this episode, I dive into my preteen and teenage years where I experienced crippling depression and anxiety, the growing realization that my experience...
by admin | Jul 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
How do you know you’re in a cult when you’ve been born into it? This episode is the first in a series where I break down my experience of growing up in a family cult led by my malignant narcissistic mother. In a society where mothers are both exalted and...
by admin | Jun 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
Cults are an extremely popular topic at the moment. There’s a million and one documentaries on them and every day there’s more information about another cult coming to light. While it may seem that cults are some faraway thing that could never happen to...
by admin | Jun 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
In this episode, I share my thoughts on the Duggar family documentary “Shiny Happy People”, available on Amazon Prime. I connect the themes in the documentary to those seen in families with narcissistic parents. CW: narcissism, abuse, cults, high control...
by admin | Jun 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
Sibling relationships are one of the first casualities of a narcissistic parent. If you are the scapegoat child, it’s almost impossible to have a healthy sibling relationship. In this emotional episode, I share my experience with my siblings while having the...
by admin | May 31, 2023 | Uncategorized
Now that we’ve learned what our primary stress response is and how we shift out of them, we’re in a space where we can learn how to regulate our nervous systems, pretty much on demand. The key point in this episode is that it’s not about what you...
by admin | May 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
In the second episode of the Know Your Body series, we’re talking about how to shift our primary stress response. The tricky part is just as we can exist in 2 opposing stress responses simultaneously, the shifting out of them may require 2 opposing tools. ...
by admin | May 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
As you move through your healing, you’ll learn that at some point, in some situations, your stress responses are not easily defined into the 4 we know of. Depending on your context (person, situation, your body-mind state), your stress responses can become mixed...
by admin | May 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Mother’s Day when you have a narcissisitic mother is a weird holiday. The mixed emotions, the performative love and abuse behind closed doors is a cognitive dissonance that’s hard to understand as a child. In this episode, i’m sharing my journey...
by admin | May 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
Another unsaid experience in narcissistic abuse recovery is the repeated loss of idealization. Having to reconcile, over and over again, the disappointment of someone or something not being what it appeared to be. In this episode, I’m sharing my experience of...
