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Self-Love After Abuse: How to Move On from a Narcissist
Escaping a narcissist’s grip can be one of the most difficult challenges someone could ever go through. It requires a great amount of strength, courage, and self-awareness to set yourself free from the emotional shackles that kept you stuck. It was pure manipulation that had you trauma bonded to your abuser, and mind-control that had you enslaved. The first step of breaking free is to separate yourself as far away as possible. The other step is to acknowledge that you were brain-washed and to see the narcissist as who they are, a powerless emotional vampire. In order to heal it is “very” important to understand that it is no longer about your abuser, it is now all about you.
It is not your fault that you trusted someone with your heart, mind, and emotions who took your attributes for granted.
It not your fault that you trusted someone who took your value, loyalty, and honesty and turned around and devalued you.
It is not your fault that you trusted someone with your soul, love, money, time, and body who took it, enjoyed it, used it, and then they devalued or discarded you.
They are miserable and they wanted you to be miserable too. You can heal, recover, and move on in life. They will continue with their misery, tyranny, and you will one day fully recover. You literally spent weeks, months or years under their mind control dealing with their…