Denial: When it helps, when it hurts Written by Mayo Clinic Staff Narcissistic Abuse Awareness and Guidance with Randi Fine Denial is a coping mechanism that gives you time to adjust to distressing situations — but staying in denial can interfere with treatment or your ability to tackle challenges. If you’re in denial, you’re trying …
Adult Children of Narcissistic Parents Written by Randi Fine Narcissistic Abuse Awareness and Guidance with Randi Fine Children depend on their parents for all their needs and are defenseless when it comes to these narcissistic monsters. There is no way to escape. No one from the outside comes to rescue them because the abuse is …
Optimal Emotional Wellness Why Isn’t Everyone Experiencing It? Written by Randi Fine Narcissistic Abuse Awareness and Guidance with Randi Fine With the vast amount of self-help wisdom available to us, why isn’t everyone experiencing optimal emotional wellness?. Are you frustrated with trying so hard to help yourself but getting nowhere? Are you feeling hopeless and …
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The Knots Prayer Narcissistic Abuse Awareness and Guidance with Randi Fine The Knots Prayer by Iyanla Vanzant Please untie the knots that are in my mind, my heart, and my life. Remove the have nots, the can nots, and the do nots that I have in my mind. Erase the will nots, may nots, might …
Confronting Your Narcissistic Abuser Ten Things You Should Know Written by Randi Fine Narcissistic Abuse Awareness and Guidance with Randi Fine Are you an abuse survivor who cannot let your resentments go without first confronting your narcissistic abuser? If that is something you feel compelled to do, it is important that you wait until you …
Unhealthy Relationship Codependency Recognizing and Healing From Codependency Written by Randi Fine Narcissistic Abuse Awareness and Guidance with Randi Fine Unhealthy relationship codependency is a disorder that develops over time. Dysfunctional childhood patterns that interfere with the person’s ability to form healthy relationships lie dormant for many years; the problem only surfaces once the person begins to experience …
Wounded Inner Child Re-parenting the Hurt Child That Resides Within Written by Randi Fine Narcissistic Abuse Awareness and Guidance with Randi Fine The expression, “wounded inner child,” may sound like a bunch of psycho babble to you. I did not always give credence to inner child psychology, but have come to understand the crucial role …
Letting Go of The Past Article written by Randi Fine Narcissistic Abuse Awareness and Guidance with Randi Fine Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are. ~Bernice Johnson Reagon The process of changing, letting go of the past, may be frightening and difficult even when …
Toxic Emotions Are They Controlling Your Life? Written by Randi Fine Narcissistic Abuse Awareness and Guidance with Randi Fine Many of the feelings that interfere with our lives today, our negative emotional responses, are buried, toxic emotions that have little to do with what is occurring in the present. They stem from painful childhood memories …
Narcissistic Emotional Abuse Recovery Written by Randi Fine Narcissistic Abuse Awareness and Guidance with Randi Fine “Sometimes in life you have to give yourself what you wish you could get from somebody else.” ~Dr. Phil McGraw Narcissistic emotional abuse can be far more damaging than physical abuse. Unlike the cuts, bruises and broken bones of …
