Exploring the scapegoat role within narcissistic family systems and the lasting impact of blame, shame, rejection and family dysfunction on adult life.

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“In a system demanding performative ease, genuine openly communicated difficulty is handled as treason.”

Beneath the Paper Crown and the Carefully Arranged Face

The Binary The archetypes seem to move through life inside a rigid binary: winners and losers, heroes and villains, right and wrong. In their accounting for outcomes, there seems a…

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“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” — Winston Churchill A reflection on appeasement as a survival strategy within coercive, high-control relationships and family systems.

Healing From Narcissistic Family Systems

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I’ve been reflecting on how, in my family—and unironically, in the family of the man I had children with—belonging was not rooted in mutual care, nuance, or individuality. It was…

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