Flourish_therapy

19/09/2025

Virtual book launch party is TONIGHT for anyone who is interested in joining! 🎉 Details below.

I am thrilled to extend an invitation to anyone interested in Golden Child to join us for the Golden Child Virtual Launch Party! 🤍✨🕊📖

📖 Meet and greet
✨ Book reading
📖 Q+A with Lauren and Lauren's editor Stephanie Eagleson
✨ Book giveaways!

Join us in celebrating Golden Child's launch into this big ol' world! 🌎

Friday, Sept 19th, 8:30 PM (Eastern time- check your time zone!)

No RSVP is required, just DM me for the 🔗 if you think you might come!

🌼Lauren Smallcomb
Flourish_therapy

19/09/2025

The real way to end stigma is not to encourage more and more people to see themselves as mentally ill and broken - but to actually fight the pathologisation of normal and natural human emotions.
The entire field of mental health and psychiatry rely on stigma to exist. Just think on that for a moment. Stigma is defined as a mark of disgrace or significant unwanted difference from some ‘norm’. Mental disorder diagnoses RELY on social stigma to exist - if we just accepted that everyone was unique and different, and that trauma was common, natural and normal - we wouldn’t be framing people as sick, ill, disordered and in need of lifelong medications and treatments for their emotions and thoughts.

19/09/2025

I had the opportunity to talk to MaryB on the Found Family podcast a few weeks ago. We explored the intersection of love and harm in relationships and many other themes related to my story, Golden Child.

Listen to episode "Finding Freedom From Conditional Belonging" on the Found Family podcast!

18/09/2025

“Children are generally sacrificed on the altar of parental ego. Even the golden child is still viewed as an adjunct...an object of admiration at times and a means for the parent to feel better about themselves, but those who don’t tow the parental line will be summarily discarded. Whilst the golden child keeps performing and reflecting glory onto the narcissist, they will maintain their position. But this exhausting balancing act often comes at the cost of their authentic self.”

🌼Lauren Smallcomb
Flourish_therapy

18/09/2025

Radical, thorough, consistent acceptance of reality is where your power lies when it comes to your estrangement with your family.

🌼Lauren Smallcomb

17/09/2025

I pulled this quote from a book review video that Christine Dixon from did on Golden Child this week. It was such a wonderful and interesting review as she explored the themes of the book through a parts work/IFS lens! Check it out on her YouTube channel of the same name!

🌼Lauren Smallcomb

17/09/2025

"There’s always a lot going on under the surface in narcissistic families and most of it isn’t good. Personality disorders cause intense and unacknowledged emotions to circulate and be transferred through projection and identification. Everyone ends up being subsumed into the zeitgeist of parental dysfunction. The family’s prime directive and raison d’être is to meet the needs of the narcissistic parent. Everything and everyone else is expendable."

Narcissism in families overlaps with the dynamics of cults. Escaping both can be a challenge that haunts us for most of our lives, but it is possible to recover.

16/09/2025