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 Dec 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
Thanksgiving Special: Healing from Covert Narcissistic Abuse Through Self-Gratitude
This Thanksgiving episode is unlike any you’ve heard before.Instead of forcing gratitude outward—toward family, toward traditions, toward circumstances that may feel complicated or painful—this episod...
27 Nov 202516min
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
The Inflatable Clown: Living with a Covert Narcissist Who Always Needs Air
Ever feel like you’ve been living in a circus you didn’t sign up for?In this episode, Renee Swanson uses humor to shine a light on the exhausting emotional reality of living with a covert narcissist —...
9 Nov 202521min
