It is very sad to see your children being emotionally manipulated by their narcissistic parents. It’s a complex situation and difficult to know how to respond to. How can you help your children when one parent is a narcissist and they are being raised by you and that type of…
My client Greta is involved with a narcissist (I prefer the more clinical term “Asshat”) named Jacob. Since their relationship began two years ago, Greta’s life has been a mess. One feeling that Greta repeatedly has is self-doubt. I asked her to write a…
As a certified trauma-informed somatic coach, Jenna Lea focuses on the trauma of betrayal and recovery from narcissistic abuse. Leah is a practitioner of Brain Discovery, an alternative treatment for processing trauma stored in the subcortical brain, which is responsible…
Would you be able to recognize the signs that you are dating a narcissist, or do you just suspect that something is not “quite right” in your relationship? Regardless of your understanding of narcissism in relationships, if you think you…
Narcissists attract you with their charm and flattery. I needed love. But your partner didn’t give it. Now you are suffering, whether you are inside or outside. And you experience the confusion and hurt of being involved in a narcissistic…
Although only 1 in 200 people in the United States has been officially diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), it causes a lot of turmoil and chaos in the lives of everyone around it. The best way to deal with…
Everyone gets angry sometimes, and that’s just part of the human experience. Hopefully, it’s justified, balanced, based on a real reason, and the person is still in control enough to say, “I’m angry because.” Then, some individuals become angrier than the situation seems to warrant – so angry that others…
Are you wondering what it’s like to date a narcissist or be in a relationship with someone with Narcissistic Personality Disorder? A narcissist is the last person we want to have a relationship with. But, most of the time, we don’t realize that someone…
When people get out of relationships with narcissists, they are sometimes hard on themselves about how they allowed themselves to be involved in the relationships or why they stayed for so long. Additionally, others outside the relationship who have never…
In popular culture, the term “narcissism” is thrown around quite loosely, usually referring to vanity and preoccupation with oneself. This reduces narcissism to a common trait that everyone possesses and downplays the symptoms displayed by people with the actual disorder.…
