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Therapy is Dandy Guidebook to have a Narcissist for a Parent. Chapter 10.
An ongoing survival guide. Chapter 10. Suit up. In the last chapter I brought up the idea of psychic armor, or the suit, this week we take the suit in for some alterations. One of psychology’s more interesting and bizarre … Continue reading
Therapy is Dandy Guidebook to having a Narcissist for a Parent. Chapter 9.
An ongoing survival guide. Chapter 9. Lay your burdens down This entry is brought to you by this year’s closing ceremony of the London Olympics in general, and Annie Lennox specifically. So go watch this video. I will wait. If … Continue reading
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
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
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.
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
Going Home. Again.
Given how vocal we Americans tend to be about our freedom and individuality, it is hard not to notice all the fuss about where we originally came from. It is also very hard not to notice the nostalgia attached to … Continue reading
Therapy is Dandy! 