by Jamie Donmoyer | May 17, 2022 | EMDR, Guest Contributor, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Self Care
Originally posted on Medium.com April 27, 2022* In August of 2021, I began EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy to deal with childhood trauma. With 15 years of talk therapy under my belt, I’d just finished a month of Cognitive Behavioral...
by Paul Michael Marinello | May 10, 2022 | 12 Step Programs, Family Estrangement, Gaslighting, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Parental Alienation
On May 9th of this year, it will have been a full 365 days since I was erased from my daughter’s life. The process of alienating a child from a loving parent often takes years of quietly applied maneuvering, codependence, coercion, and the profound altering of a...
by Dani Caaway | Apr 14, 2022 | CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Last January 2021, I was diagnosed with CPTSD–a month after I experienced my first CPTSD episode caused by my parents a week before Christmas. Since then, my life has never been the same. It did not occur to me that I had been living with the condition for 29...
by Paul Michael Marinello | Feb 18, 2022 | Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Parental Alienation
Since moving to Lake Worth Beach, Florida nearly two years ago, many of my mornings have been spent at the beach, watching the sunrise. Its vibrant flair and constantly changing canvas made my mornings whole by allowing me to breathe the salty air and watch the sun...
by Shirley Davis | Jan 6, 2022 | Attachment Trauma, Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Many of us have heard of codependency and narcissism. Codependency is when two people are locked in a life where they feed off on another, causing mental anguish. Narcissism is when one of the pair is self-centered, arrogant, and lacks empathy for their partner. In...
by Paul Michael Marinello | Sep 7, 2021 | CPTSD and PTSD, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Parental Alienation
A Taste of One Dad’s Journey to Parental Alienation A Journey of Perseverance A father’s journey is one of perseverance. A journey where each passing day – whether bright and hopeful or dark and pressing – allows for the joys of life, the celebration of...
