Welcome to the narcissistic abuse recovery podcast. I'm Caroline Stawson and I'll be sharing with you

awareness, understanding and education about the devastating effects of narcissistic abuse to help you thrive.

I want you to know that I've been exactly where you are now and I believe you.

And this show is all about taking you from trauma to transformation.

So in this episode, I wanted to talk to you about the physical effects of the trauma of narcissistic abuse, because I think we hear so often

people talking about the psychological impact. And what we don't talk about is illness and disease

that can potentially come from being in that narcissistic relationship. And in this episode,

I want to talk to you about maybe why that might happen

and potentially give you some hope. Now, when we talk about disease and illness, did you know that

at least 80% of disease and illness in our world today? It's caused by stress. Basically,

it's us living in a trauma response continually flooding our body

with cortisol when there's actually no other danger present. Now, if you're involved in a relationship

with a narcissist, whether that be your mother, your father, your partner, whomever that is,

your body starts to remain in a

trauma response, but it doesn't come out of it. Now, we are designed as human beings amazingly. We

really, really are. We're a great piece of machinery, I can tell you. Because ultimately,

if we were involved in a dangerous situation,

so let's say a lion was chasing you, you will absolutely need to go into a fight and flight,

so you'd need to flight and run away, get away quickly. And then if the lion got hold of you,

my goodness, you're going to try and fight you. You can't find you.

And then, of course, we can still go into freeze.

So we can feign death, basically, so that that lion might think, hey, I've already killed my prey now.

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