Leaving the Dysfunction

What happens when you distance yourself from your dysfunctional or narcissistic family?

You begin to heal. And it’s painful.

You feel as though you had been asleep your whole life, and suddenly you’re awake.

You begin to see things from another perspective. You see things for what they truly are. You notice behavior that you previously ignored in order to survive.

It’s brutal.

You come face to face with a reality that changes everything you thought you knew about yourself and your life.

You face the truth. You realize you have little to no self-esteem, self-confidence or self-worth, and you were groomed to believe these false truths.

My narcissistic family demanded that I be agreeable, compliant, and subservient. I was never taught how to love and accept myself. I was taught to hate myself for being a normal, imperfect human being. When you’re the child of a narcissist, you question every decision you make because you’ve been taught you can’t trust yourself or your instincts.

When you’ve been abused this way for decades, it leaves a painful mark on your life. You’ve always felt lonely and unsupported. You soon realize the person you loved and trusted is actively trying to sabotage your life and your happiness.

After going no contact with a narcissistic family, it soon becomes very clear that you were always alone, you just didn’t know it.