How Can I Heal from Narcissistic Abuse?

Trauma & Narcissism Redefined

Caroline Strawson

Narcissisticabuse, Health & Fitness, Narcissist, Self-improvement, Education, Recovery, Mental Health, Trauma

4.8 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode is about empowerment. We will learn that the power to heal from narcissistic abuse is within ourselves. We will analyse and understand why we hand over our strength and energy to the narcissist by seeking external validation, and looking for an answer outside of us.

What You Will Learn In This Episode:

- The three main characteristics that make my approach to narcissistic trauma recovery different

- Why we give our power away by looking for external validation

- What we need to know to understand that the power to heal from narcissistic abuse is within ourselves

Although we might feel that trauma is the narcissist, it is not. Trauma is what we hold in our bodies, and what we say to ourselves about what happened. Getting curious about that will help us understand why we feel a certain way around narcissists, which could be the first step into our trauma recovery journey.

Resources:

- Join my Narcissistic Trauma Recovery Programme™ https://go.carolinestrawson.com/heal-the-trauma-of-narcissistic-abuse

- Join my Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/thriveafternarcissisticabuse

- Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carolinestrawson/

- My website: https://www.carolinestrawson.com/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the narcissistic trauma recovery podcast. I'm Caroline Strawson and I'll be sharing with you
0:09.5	awareness, understanding and education about the devastating effects of narcissistic abuse to help you thrive.
0:16.4	I want you to know that I've been exactly where you are and I believe you.
0:21.3	And this show is all about taking you from trauma to transformation.
0:30.1	So I'm sat here thinking, okay, I want to do an episode about empowerment because I get so many messages from people where
0:42.2	their common theme is, I just feel stuck. For instance, how many times of you actually sat there
0:49.2	and thought, why can't I move forward? I know I certainly did. And I probably did that for a number of years as well.
0:56.0	We're not just talking a couple of weeks when I went through my divorce. I'm talking years.
1:00.6	I really felt stuck. And I was really projecting outwardly that it was other people who needed to
1:08.0	change their behavior, be a certain way, so that I could heal. I wasn't taking any
1:13.6	ownership or responsibility of actually my own healing. Now, this is where you will see the language
1:20.6	that I use when I talk about the narcissist. I'm really, really clear and maybe a little bit
1:26.8	different to maybe how you see other people
1:29.3	speak about the narcissist. First thing, because I'm coming through a trauma-informed lens,
1:33.8	and secondly, because I use a lot of internal family systems in the work that I do,
1:37.9	I'm also coming at it from a place of compassion and curiosity so that everything I'm talking
1:43.5	about, we're not just getting angry and
1:46.0	castigating everybody. I really want to teach you and really want to help support you and empower
1:52.2	you to know that the healing of narcissistic abuse is within you. This is why I talk about trauma a lot as well as abuse. So we know that
2:05.1	narcissistic abuse is an insidious form of abuse. It comes in many formats. And whilst, and you will
2:12.4	know when you've probably seen some of my other episodes, in the DSM, the diagnosis and statistical manual,
2:19.4	which is what mental health professionals use to diagnose narcissistic personality disorder,
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