NARCISSIST ABUSE AND RECOVERY – Page 6 – Safe Harbour Therapy and Coaching

Controlling Codependency: Keeping Others In Line

Narcissists always get a bad press and probably rightly so. (At this point, we should note that we should only use the term narcissist when someone has been officially diagnosed with NPD...

Take Your Internal Family To A Safe Place

In my last post, I talked about the value of meeting a "younger self" in visualisation. I said and believe that this is an emotional but worthwhile step in trying to come to terms with childhood trauma...

Meeting Your Younger Self Tells You All You Need To Know

While doing inner child work with clients, I often run them through a guided visualisation where they meet and greet a younger version of themselves...

Soothing Our “Child Part” Will Keep The Narcissist At Bay

I have worked with codependents for many years and have witnessed first-hand the devastation that occurs when a cruel, self-centred individual breezes in and out of their life...

The “Golden Child” Is An Abused Child… Simple

There are many articles around on the internet about all types of narcissism and the dangers of being in a relationship with someone who has these tendencies...

Codependents: Beware The Two-Faced Monster

There is an old native American legend concerning the "Two-Faced Monster". Here it is:...

Codependency: “I Know It Logically But Emotionally, I Don’t Get It”!

Many codependents I work with are stuck in relationships that are abusive, unfulfilling and going nowhere. The sad thing is that they are also going nowhere and stay when they know they should logically leave...

Narcissists Are Abusers But Codependents Choose To Stay (Until They Don’t)

Can you imagine being locked away with another person for a number of years, isolated from the outside world and seemingly helpless to escape?...

Codependency: From Co To Counter

ue to their lack of self-esteem and the inability to self-care, codependents become enmeshed with others easily. They work on the idea that all the while they are like this...

Fear Getting Close To Anyone? You Could Be Counter-dependent

The media and TV often celebrate people who are "strong". Especially in the western world, strength is indicative of the ability to get things done, have a mindset of ambition...