Category Archives: Adult Children of Narcissists

The Therapy is Dandy Guidebook to having a Narcissist for a Parent. Chapter 8.

An ongoing survival guide. Chapter 8. Take the Test. There isn’t an adult child of a narcissist who hasn’t asked themselves the question once or twice. Am I also a narcissist? Because despite no longer living in caves or mud … Continue reading

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The Therapy is Dandy Guidebook to having a Narcissist for a Parent. Chapter 7.

An ongoing survival guide. Chapter 7. Stop Making Sense. Welcome back. Since school is about to begin for so many, it felt like a good time to bring back the guidebook. And my other blog topic is quite the downer. … Continue reading

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The Therapy is Dandy Guidebook to having a Narcissist for a Parent. Chapter 6.

An ongoing survival guide. Chapter 6:  Scanning your environment (Narcissism begets Capitalism, or Capitalism begets Narcissism) We are the culture that came up with the slogan “Greed is good.” And then keep on proving this mantra to be true every … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Why therapy? It’s a fair question.

If you are the kind of person who still goes to book stores, you can find aisles full of self help books, celebrities and people-who-think-they-are-celebrities offering all kinds of amazing, life changing strategies in less than 300 pages. You have … Continue reading

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