• Menu
  • Skip to right header navigation
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Lovefraud | Escape sociopaths – narcissists in relationships

How to recognize and recover from everyday sociopaths - narcissists

  • Search
  • Cart
  • My Account
  • Contact
  • Join
  • Log in
  • Search
  • Cart
  • My Account
  • Contact
  • Join
  • Log in
  • About
  • Talk to Donna
  • Senior Sociopaths
  • Videos
  • Courses
  • Store
  • Blog
  • Forum
  • News
  • Lovefraud Education
  • About
  • Talk to Donna
  • Senior Sociopaths
  • Videos
  • Courses
  • Store
  • Blog
  • Forum
  • News
  • Lovefraud Education

Narcissistic abuse recovery tips pls

You are here: Home / Topics / Narcissistic abuse recovery tips pls

How to recognize and recover from the sociopaths – narcissists in your life › Forums › Lovefraud Community Forum – General › Narcissistic abuse recovery tips pls

  • This topic has 3 replies, 4 voices, and was last updated 3 weeks, 4 days ago by Donna Andersen.
Viewing 3 reply threads
  • Author
    Posts
    • December 29, 2022 at 9:15 pm #69419
      snownfire
      Participant

      I would be curious to hear other people’s experiences of healing from narcissistic abuse and how they overcame the effects of it and went on to attract healthy partners and enter into happy, healthy, freeing relationships. The healing process seems gruelingly long. Day after Christmas was one anniversary since my narcissist, ex-fiancé broke up with me and I found out the day of that he is engaged to another girl. Brings back fresh memories and anger. I feel much, much healthier, happy, and free than I have ever been but still often see the effects narcissistic abuse still has on my life from jumping when someone walks into the room, to tensing whenever talking to a male, to being fearful and defensive. What small steps have helped you to full recovery and healing?

      • This topic was modified 4 weeks, 1 day ago by snownfire.
    • December 30, 2022 at 2:25 pm #69422
      polestar
      Participant

      Hi Snownfire –
      I really understand what you are asking about and your experience. I love my life and have so many interests and joys and loving people in my life – yet, I am sensitive to sociopathic abuse and people of that elk will somehow arrive or arise from the past, and I have to get out my books on the subject, dust them off and do the study, and watch supportive You Tubes and listen to songs that empower me and basically go through the whole healing process all over again. The good news is that it is a process and we do come out the other side to our baseline healthy and happy self again. I am not just saying these things off the cuff because I have gone through extremely difficult and painful situations and relationships so that I can truly claim to be a survivor. But my best advice to you is when these situations arise that bring back the memories and anger and angst, to do the difficult work yet again and thus to pick up oneself yet again. I think the thing that I have come to realize is what is most detrimental is that we somehow resent having to do the work all over again, so what I do is to make a concerted effort to accept doing the healing work again, when I know I would rather be doing something else – like being happy and playing my flute or other enjoyments. On the positive side though, we do get more ah ha moments and understandings and that is very satisfying. Anyway, you did it before and each time you will be even more skilled. One day we will be like black belts ! Many Blessings and Happy New Year to you !

    • December 31, 2022 at 2:40 pm #69424
      sunnygal1
      Participant

      Hi snowfire. Donna has a blog. Yes, there can be love after a sociopath. It is in the blog section. You might check it out.

    • January 2, 2023 at 7:16 pm #69446
      Donna Andersen
      Keymaster

      Snownfire – Welcome to Lovefraud. Sociopaths, including narcissists, specialize in targeting our vulnerabilities, and we all have vulnerabilities. Most people discover that they’re not just recovering from the narcissist; they are also recovering from multiple experiences before the most recent narcissist that made them vulnerable in the first place.

      Most of us, therefore, have multiple layers of emotional wounds that need to be addressed. As we deal with some of them, more may come to our awareness. Also, the recent holidays may have triggered your memories of the discard. It may seem like you’re feeling the same painful emotions, but really what you’re doing is unearthing pain that was buried even deeper. In other words, you’re making more progress.

      We have lots of information here on Lovefraud to help you. Start on the recovery page – it will point you in the right direction. Also, you may find the webinars presented by Mandy Friedman to be helpful. She offers plenty of actionable tips.

      Recovery from the sociopath

      Courses for survivors: Recovery from sociopaths, narcissists, psychopaths

  • Author
    Posts
Viewing 3 reply threads
  • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
Log In

Primary Sidebar

Shortcuts to Lovefraud information

Shortcuts to the Lovefraud information you're looking for:

Explaining everyday sociopaths

Is your partner a sociopath?

How to leave or divorce a sociopath

Recovery from a sociopath

What therapists need to know

Share your story and help change the world

Upcoming webinar

How to report your abuser’s crimes so the police take you seriously

Wednesday, March 15, 2023 • 8 to 9 pm ET

Learn more

Lovefraud Live! Donna Andersen on YouTube Tuesdays 8 pm ET

https://youtu.be/hl5OCwKsShE

Lovefraud Blog Recent Comments

  • emilie18 on Coerced debt: Financial betrayal by the sociopath: “Interesting about coerced debt. What happened to me doesn’t exactly fit “the systematic, ongoing use of violence, intimidation, isolation, and…”
  • Donna Andersen on Who is Bryan Kohberger, accused in Idaho murders?: “Lulabell – Yes, it would be. What’s been reported so far is that his father flew from Pennsylvania to Washington…”
  • Lulabell on Who is Bryan Kohberger, accused in Idaho murders?: “It would be interesting to find out what type of environment he grew up in as well as what his…”

Lovefraud Blog categories

  • Explaining sociopaths
    • Female sociopaths
    • Scientific research
    • Workplace sociopaths
    • Book reviews
  • Seduced by a sociopath
    • Targeted Teens and 20s
  • Sociopaths and family
    • Law and court
  • Recovery from a sociopath
    • For children of sociopaths
    • For parents of sociopaths
  • Letters to Lovefraud and Spath Tales
    • Media sociopaths
  • Lovefraud Continuing Education

Footer

Inside Lovefraud

  • Author profiles
  • Blog categories
  • Post archives by year
  • Media coverage
  • Press releases
  • Visitor agreement

Your Lovefraud

  • Join Lovefraud
  • Subscribe to Lovefraud Newsletter
  • How to comment
  • Guidelines for comments
  • Become a Lovefraud CE Affiliate
  • Lovefraud Affiliate Dashboard
  • Contact Lovefraud
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Copyright © 2023 Lovefraud | Escape sociopaths - narcissists in relationships · All Rights Reserved · Powered by Mai Theme

Cleantalk Pixel