The Physical Signs You Didn’t Know Were Trauma Responses, Part 1: How Covert Narcissism Shows Up in Your Body
When you live in the backwards, upside-down world of covert narcissistic abuse, your body often understands the danger long before your mind can name it. The symptoms you thought were “random,” “weird...
7 Des 202521min
How to Talk to Your Adult Children About a Covert Narcissistic Parent Without Badmouthing
Talking to your adult children about a covert narcissistic parent is one of the hardest and most emotionally loaded challenges survivors face. You’re carrying years of truth inside you — experiences t...
4 Des 202527min
Fawning Is Not Codependency: Understanding the Difference When You’ve Lived With a Covert Narcissist
So many survivors walk into healing believing they were “codependent,” when the truth is far more compassionate and far more accurate:What you were doing wasn’t codependency — it was fawning, a trauma...
30 Nov 202521min
How Unsafe People Erase Your Reality And Safe People Restore It
In Part 2 of this story, we pick up right where the alligator encounter left off — not with danger, but with the emotional aftershock that followed. My body was still shaking, adrenaline pumping, brea...
23 Nov 202519min
When Every Conversation Turns into Confusion: The Communication Breakdown of Covert Narcissism
In a healthy relationship, conversations might be difficult at times—but they are possible. You can talk, clarify, repair, and understand each other. But when you’re living with a covert narcissist, c...
20 Nov 202519min
I Kayaked Over an Alligator And Finally Understood My Trauma Response
In this episode, I’m taking you with me on a peaceful Florida river… right up to the moment my kayak bumped over what I thought was a floating log. Except it wasn’t a log. It was a massive mama alliga...
16 Nov 202522min
Not All Covert Narcissists Look the Same
Covert narcissism isn’t one-size-fits-all. Some manipulate through silence, others through guilt or tears. Some quote scripture, some play the victim, and some simply vanish into the quiet coldness th...
13 Nov 202514min
