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The Therapy is Dandy Guidebook to having a Narcissist for a Parent. Chapter 5.
An ongoing survival guide. Chapter 5: Love is a Battlefield I tend to use way too many warfare metaphors in the therapy session, FYI, I admit that right now for clarity’s sake. This is a survival guide, for goodness sake. … Continue reading
The Therapist is Dandy Guidebook to having a Narcissist for a Parent. Chapter 4.
An ongoing survival guide. Chapter 4: Darth Vader is your father (or your mother). Before we get to the always exciting Star Wars analogy, let’s speak of bullies. Narcissists are like bullies in that they covet territory in order to … Continue reading
The Therapy is Dandy Guidebook to having a Narcissist for a Parent. Chapter 3.
An ongoing survival guide. Chapter 3-Pyrrhic Victories. If there is one underlying emotional truth for what an adult child of a narcissistic parent feels in relation to that parent it is this: A shallow surface level, one-sided, difficult relationship exists … Continue reading
The Therapy is Dandy guidebook to having a narcissist for a parent. Chapter 2.
An ongoing survival guide. Chapter 2. Tactics. If you already suspect one of your parents to be a narcissist, you may have tried to talk to them about your concerns. And it probably didn’t go very well. Narcissists are extremely … Continue reading
The Therapy is Dandy guidebook to having a narcissist for a parent.
An ongoing survival guide. Chapter 1. Know your enemy. Taken from the Greek myth of the boy (Narcissus) who fell in love with his own image in a pond and died of starvation rather than get up and go live … Continue reading
You talking to me?
The scene and the reference are obvious to anyone who has been drawing breath for the last 35 years. Given how many times I have seen Taxi Driver, I watch that scene and I consider the dialogue as symptomatic of … Continue reading
So what are these damn emotions for anyway?
It’s a legitimate question: “If all these emotions ever do are cause me to get hurt or angry, then why the hell do we have them anyway?” It is more than just a little telling that our pop culture has … Continue reading
Jealousy: that green eyed insecurity.
This past week was Lupercalia, or Valentine’s Day for those of us who didn’t study Roman history. So it seems obvious to me that we should take a closer look at that troublesome emotional state we all call jealousy. I … Continue reading
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