Elizabeth. You are not alone. In 2017, my immediate family and some of my extended family betrayed me —- by believing a false smear campaign orchestrated by a jealous “friend” of mine and due to that believe forcing me out of a career that I had been building for 10 years. That was in 2017 and I have yet to recover. Since that day I ceased to see a future for myself. I have been directionless. I had a prestigious job and now all I can do is menial work because I don’t have any other skills outside of what I studied for and worked toward for 10 years. (Not that there is anything with so called “menial work” but when you have the ability and more importantly feel called to do what you were doing before your family took it all away from you by threatening to tell the professional regulatory board that I was impaired, it’s devastating to have lost the ability to do all that your brain is capable of doing. I feel like it’s a sin for me to exist because I am unable to live as the best version of myself. None of this was sexual. Just a “friend” who launched a smear campaign that my narcissistic mother believed because my mother has always been jealous of me and has been waiting my entire life to see me fall.

Thank you for sharing Elizabeth. You are so not alone in this. I truly understand the pain of betrayal. Please pop over here to check out some of the resources I have that can help you move forward: https://beyondsurviving.org/resources/