In my last blog I gave an example of a friend of mine who is an inspiration to me in her determination to live out her values of love with her husband who lives out the horrific dysregulation of borderline personality disorder. The cost to her and her children cannot be captured fully! And her […]
In my last blog I gave some ideas as to how to practically go forward on our journeys that include interacting with narcissists. The foundation must be one of our doing out own personal work of healing and growth. From this base, which includes the process of reclaiming our identity and voice, we change the […]
In the last blog I wrote of 4 principles involved in pursuing our healing and growth which I believe are necessary if we are to navigate relationships, including relationships with narcissists. As we pursue healing and growth, what are our goals? 1. Our goal is NOT to get the narcissist to ‘see it’ and change. […]
In my last blog I started bringing into focus more the need for purposefully and practically addressing our own healing and growth so as to go forward wisely, individually as well as a community. As we change, it automatically creates change in the environment in which we find ourselves. This increases our own appropriate empowerment […]
Ongoing Healing, Connecting with Immanuel and Developing Emotional Capacity In the last blog we hopefully grasped more clearly how inept we are at bringing judgement to the narcissist or knowing how to navigate relating with a narcissist. There are too many ‘moving parts’ and puzzle pieces we do not know. And it will not be […]
In the last blog we looked at the tragic reason the narcissist becomes egotistical rather than loving, which clashes with the heart of God, who loves him. God’s heart is tender towards the wounds and diminishing of each individual that incurs damaging blows to their personhood. He does not expect us to live past the […]
We have looked at how the foundation of our lives largely determines the trajectory of our journeys in life. To the degree that we live from a confidence that we are special and loved, we do not feel a need to run after being seen as special We do not need to grasp for love. […]
Henri Nouwen captures well the seed of narcissism in contrast to the seed to living a life of appropriate confidence and love. He writes A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the results of our actions as our only way of […]
In my last blog we began by pulling together a working definition of narcissism along with trying to understand the cause of narcissism and how it relates to developmental trauma. In our first months and years of life we are completely dependent on others in our world to figure out what our needs are and […]
I have spent years processing the recollections of my life growing up in a ‘ toxic Christianized’ environment and the impact on me. Some pretty rough stuff happened. I am a missionary kid, born and raised for the first 14 years of my life in Nigeria. After not bonding well with my parents, I was […]
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