Narcissistic Abuse: My Golden Child Sister

I always looked up to her. I always sought her opinion on important matters. I always looked forward to sharing things with her, and having long talks with her about whatever. I always had her best interests at heart. That was until, I realized the truth. When my golden child sister and narcissistic mother discarded […]

CPTSD: Today Was Not A Good Day

I am a mess. I keep trying to look for something that is going to help me to feel “normal” again. I am in a fog. I am 2 steps forward, 2 steps back. I have been emotionally injured. I have an emotional injury. My inner critic is very mean. My inner critic makes me […]

Watch "Mother's Day Open Letter to my Narcissistic Mother" on YouTube

https://youtu.be/7m7790il2GkThis is an open letter to my narcissistic mother for Mother’s Day. I have found all of the Mother’s Day advertising this past week to be really triggering. Writing this and making this video was very cathartic for me. I have been no contact with most of my family of origin for 7 months now. […]

Symptoms of CPTSD

I had a lot of fun making this video. I hope you learn something new and enjoy. 🙂 https://youtu.be/8quQTkcctks Symptoms of CPTSD (click the link for a downloadable word document of the video Transcript) Symptoms of CPTSD: Emotional Flashbacks (typically do not have a visual component): These involve negative feelings such as Anger, Shame, Humiliation, […]

I'm the Daughter of a Narcissistic Mother

I recently started a YouTube channel. I am going to post the video transcripts and a link to the videos on this blog. The following is the first video I uploaded to YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6T8XeRzTfk Video Transcript: Welcome to my Channel: I’m the Daughter of a Narcissistic Mother Hi Everybody, Welcome to my channel. I’m a […]

Narcissism: Don't Poke the Bear

I have been feeling very afraid and very guilty lately. It’s almost like I’m picking up on the vibes of the smear campaign that is most certainly going on against me, and maybe also against my husband. Am I just being paranoid? I hope so, but I am dealing with narcissists, so it is most […]

Narcissism: My suspicions were validated by my scapegoat sister

I finally contacted my sister who was/is the family scapegoat. I was afraid to at first. I held back from doing it for a long time. I was worried about hurting her in some way, and also worried that I would end up getting hurt as well. I sent her a couple of links to webpages […]

Narcissism: My suspicions were validated by my scapegoat sister

I finally contacted my sister who was/is the family scapegoat. I was afraid to at first. I held back from doing it for a long time. I was worried about hurting her in some way, and also worried that I would end up getting hurt as well. I sent her a couple of links to webpages […]

Narcissism: No contact and the Narcissistic Grandmother

I’m not sure what to do. It is one of my children’s birthday today, and I thought my narcissist mother and narcissist golden child sister would be leaving town this morning. My mother texted my husband yesterday and asked if our child could go over to her house for lunch today. He didn’t mention it […]