06/01/2023
June 1st is Narcissistic Abuse Awareness day, and there is no better time to take our focus back to why I started this account years ago : the survivors. It is so incredibly important that we as a community don’t allow awareness that is so desperately needed to be drowned out by the over-use or misuse of the word “narcissist”.
Five years ago I was scouring the internet desperately looking for clarity on the abusive and insanely confusing situation I was in. There was very little answers and almost no one was using the term narcissist or even brushing the surface what I had gone through. From the very few resources I did find, I quickly learned that the mental, emotional, and physical symptoms I was experiencing were, in-fact, a result of narcissistic abuse.
After being failed by a team of mental health professionals and Doctors I found some clarity and what seemed like a path forward through other survivors who had almost identical stories. I initially started this page as a platform for a book I was writing to raise awareness and share the tools that were helping me slowly heal and regain some sense of normalcy living with CPTSD. Thousands of clients later… this work is still more important than ever.
Narcissistic abuse is a slow steady drip of abuse and manipulation that aims to erode your identity, clarity and self worth. It often includes emotional, psychological, physical, or financial abuse. It can occur in romantic relationships, family dynamics, and organizations.
More often than not bystanders can not seem to wrap their minds around how damaging this form of abuse is because the wounds are usually “invisible”. For this reason you will hear this referred to as ‘hidden abuse’.
Because of the nature of this form of abuse, survivor stories and lived experience makes a world of difference in not only understanding the cycle of narcissistic abuse, but more importantly understanding the impact that it has on the mind, body and nervous system and how we can heal.
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