Today I am writing this article in the most gorgeous cliff top restaurant in Phuket. The view is spectacular, the breeze is cooling, music is playing and I can hear the sea.

I have just eaten a wonderful exotic Thai seafood and herb salad.

Not so many years ago, being this way in the world felt impossible to me – like I could never, ever feel safe enough, confident enough or powerful enough to visit different countries on my own.

You can follow my trip around South East Asia on my Facebook page.

No matter what the outside world used to see “about me” I never felt confident and safe. I might have appeared to be, but nothing could have been further from the truth.

The reason I want to write this, is I know how many of you feel knocked flat off your feet as a result of being abused, or maybe like me you never felt safe doing certain things in the world, and narcissistic abuse just made all of those insecurities even worse.

During this article, I hope I can inspire you to break free from being trapped into your freedom. Because truly I know that if I could accomplish this, after being as fearful as I was – anyone can – no matter how hard it is, and no matter how shattered you feel right now.

I promise you there are ways to break this down and navigate through stuck emotions and situations.

It is my deepest wish, by sharing my story and what I did to break out of my trapped state, that you will find the way to do so also …

 

Parenting In Relation to Generating Freedom

For those of you who are parents, I really want you to understand how important it is to not always try to protect your kids from stuff.

My parents were always very concerned, and very protective. Anything that would help me, or save me, they were only too willing to do.

My parent’s model was patriarchal. Dad was in control of the important decisions, finances and organisation for the things “in the world.” I truly believed “worldly stuff” was men’s business. My mother was fabulous in the kitchen, with food, family organisation, special events, keeping a clean and tidy house … and anything else was Dad’s domain.

Of course the generation my parents came from was all about men protecting women and taking care of financials and business. My family certainly wasn’t the only family doing it. My parents were generous, helpful and “always there to assist” my issues and hassles. The problem with all of this was, I grew up very immature in regards to knowing I was capable of looking after myself. When it came to expanding out into anything more than day-to-day management, I was literally terrified and lacked confidence.

Like many women, I grew up with the beliefs that I needed a man to provide me with my life – my security, my structure, the decision-making power, and the broad shoulders to take control when anything out of the ordinary cropped up, or when there was new territory to forge.

As an adult, I still felt like a little girl who needed help. To this day, there are still parts of me that feel like that … the difference now is that I evolve these parts continuously. I don’t let them sabotage me anymore. I take them on in order to grow into a confident, resourceful woman in her own right.

Please don’t get me wrong, it’s lovely for a guy to take charge and want to be a “rock” to his partner – but it’s not healthy for any woman when she is dependent on it. And it’s certainly not healthy when she will cling on to a sinking ship because she is so terrified of letting go and coping independently.

Inevitably, I used to look for big strong men who could take care of me. Unfortunately, in later years the pattern got worse and worse, and these men had hubris, massive egos and of course narcissism. What I mistook as confidence and a reliable character was in fact arrogance and an intensely insecure persona.

Previously, to try to retain my security and safety, I handed over my power to these men, tried to appease them and tried to keep them connected to me, because I thought that was the only way I could feel safe in the world.

I thought I needed them by my side, and I literally felt like I would die without them.

Naturally, these men did not grant me safety. Rather, they granted me a super serve of the parts of myself that I wasn’t healing – those insecure, broken parts that were trapped in terror in the world.

Subconsciously I wasn’t looking for a “partner,” I was looking for a “parent.” And when times got tough I wasn’t showing up as a grown, mature woman; instead I was showing up as a powerless, helpless little girl trying to make abusers responsible for my wellbeing.

Second time around with narcissistic abuse, and having landed flat on my behind again, I had to face these trapped parts – otherwise I was never going to be free of them.

I knew I was trapped in fear.

Was I able to care for and create for myself and my life regardless of what specific people were or weren’t doing? No …

Was I able to be my authentic self and glow it in the world? No …

Was I showing up in life without fear of rejection, punishment, abandonment, or the horror of “what could go wrong?” No …

Was I free? No …

I was trapped – horribly trapped.

I had no idea where my life was going, how I was going to continue, or how or where anything would end up.

This was pretty ironic, because for all the security and safety I had been so fixated on trying to secure, now I had none whatsoever.

Of course this “irony” was all about my spiritual and soul development – the development of my True Self – which initially I was too devastated to accept. And I needed to, because the first stage of being able to evolve into personal freedom requires accepting this.

Yet, even when we know enough to know that the call to our own evolution is on the table, it can still feel completely terrifying.

 

Knowing True Freedom Is The Goal Regardless

I think we’ve all asked ourselves the following question on an everyday level, as well as on a huge personal level.

“Am I going to stay lying down, or am I going to get up?”

Sometimes we lie down, and don’t want to get up – and then there are the times when we know the game will be over if we don’t get up.

Like yourself, I’ve had those times.

I’ve spent a lot of my life “getting up.” And to be frank, I’m a little tired of “getting up” as a result of repeat disasters; I’d rather put my self-effort now into forging new frontiers.

For this reason, I am grateful beyond measure for my second narcissistic abuse experience, because I hadn’t quite cracked my first recovery. I acknowledged that I had missed stuff, when I was being honest with myself, after realising I had to get up again.

Again, I had undergone trauma, loss, and been stripped back to a mere shell of myself. Frighteningly, I had had suicidal thoughts again, and now I was again terrified to face the world. Most of all I was terrified again of my shattered emotions, and being triggered or re-traumatised.

Every single part of my fearful self wanted to crawl up into a ball, and take a general anaesthetic for months so that I didn’t have to face myself or life.

Yet, I knew enough about how the system of life, quantum physics and Law of Attraction work to know trying to protect and hunker down was NOT the answer. I knew this would only throw me into depression, make me “dissolve” instead of “evolve,” and would inevitably keep drawing into my life precisely what I was trying to protect myself from.

This was it, this was the time of “stay down or get up” – I knew I had to break FREE, truly FREE, for the first time AUTHENTICALLY in my life.

I knew the only way I was going to break truly free was to develop myself to have the openness, creativity, innocence, love and joy of a child, with the solidness of love, acceptance, integrity and maturity of an adult … finally.

I had to become a powerful light that could dissolve darkness; my own darkness (fear and pain) and the darkness I had been co-generating in the world. I wrote about this in last week’s article Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People.

I also knew enough to know this – “thinking” wasn’t going to create this transformation for me. I had to work directly on my shattered, traumatised subconscious.

During this time in my life, I had started listening to Dr. Joe Dispenza’s audio seminar on “Breaking The Habit Of Being Yourself” and he spoke about a woman he met on a plane, who had adopted an Asian girl from overseas. This little girl was found abandoned and almost dead, taken in by an orphanage, and in the first few years of her life moved to several orphanages. When she had been picked up to be adopted, she was completely traumatised and became violently ill.

Her mother spoke to Joe about how her daughter as an adult was so smart and had many degrees, yet she had tried to commit suicide a few times, despite years of therapy. Joe said to her, “None of that will help her. Only healing her subconscious programs will.” This was because this little girl’s subconscious was stuck in the trauma of “I will be abandoned and die.”

Joe Dispenza’s message seared in my consciousness.

I knew I had to finally find and up-level my subconscious programs which were making me so dependent, so fearful, and feel like I was dying if I had to create my own life. The programs that I had conveniently been able to cover up most of my life with addictions, such as smoking, workaholism and clinging to terrible relationships.

I knew that nothing on the outside was coming to save me. There was no big, strong, magical man coming to grant my security – when I wasn’t being that to myself. I knew a wonderful solid, reliable, authentic guy could come and add more to me one day, and life could co-generate support and abundance with me, but certainly not if I was dependent on these components to be “me” (my own safety).

I knew I had to be in the world with my own solid, happy and secure emotions in order to be free … The security need to be “inwards” before it could be generated “outwards.”

My goal of feeling secure, open hearted and flowing in the world (free) – regardless of how battered, shattered and “dying” I felt – became my only choice if I wanted to truly live.

 

Preparing To Be Free

I knew that once I started doing the shifts and changing my Inner Identity that I would and could generate many co-operative parts from life to help me expand – but not until I had achieved vital shifts first.

This I know with all my heart – we have a choice. We can choose to remain small, fearful, and stuck in negative emotions or we can evolve ourselves.

I chose to believe what Quantum Physics teaches us – that there is a base note, a wave function of wellbeing that connects to the entire Field – that we are a part of, that we can access, if we release the parts of us that have separated us from it.

If we are not connected to this flow of wellbeing we can change ourselves so that we can be. We feel it emotionally when we are not connected to this stream; because the further apart we are from this connection, the more it hurts and the more hopeless and painful life is.

The biggest issue that people face in connecting with this stream is “believing my life will only be better when this or that happens.” That is not how we create life. We create life by creating an Inner Beingness first, and then outer conditions shift to match this.

This can’t be created via the normal human model of looking outwards and mere thinking. It is created via a surrender to a deep spiritual journey of inwardly developing ourselves.

Our connection is not created from “what is;” it is created by “who we are being” despite “what is.”

Because I had decided to again evolve myself (more completely and determinedly this time), and I was totally dedicated, the Law of Attraction was lining up all of the messages to help me. One of these was an interview I listened to quoting Nelson Mandela.

When Nelson Mandela was asked what he did for all those years before he was released, he said, “I prepared every day for what I’d do when I’d be free.”

I was so inspired … and I realised this powerful truth: “If we prepare in every way to achieve our goal, one day we will be living it.”

My goal was to be healthy, authentic, fearless and open-hearted in life. I wanted to be out of the prison of my negative emotions, terrors and painful beliefs.

I wanted to be free.

My preparation towards freedom had to start with inner freedom. It had to be orchestrated through the releasing and healing of the parts of myself that were keeping me constricted, guarded and shut down (in resistance) to the essential well-being of Life.

Despite my emotional self wanting to do nothing more than crawl under the covers and die, I pushed myself to “prepare.” I worked with Quanta Freedom Healing as my main tool every day, finding and clearing my faulty subconscious programs, and wailing the pain and fear out of my body to start creating space.

This was the most important part of my healing for vital reasons …

When we have stuck negative emotions (fear and pain) in our bodies, it does lots of nasty things. It clogs us up with toxicity. Our minds are thrown into a spin trying to deal with these trapped festering emotions. Additionally, the cells in our bodies are starved of nutrients and oxygen; we are stripped of energy, and we start breaking down emotionally, mentally, spiritually and physically. We become the internal environment to manifest dis-ease on every level.

Conversely, when we release all of that dense toxicity out of our body, we open up space for wellbeing. Oxygen and nutrients can enter our cells. We now have energy and can start making healthy choices to look after ourselves. We become fitter, healthier and we start looking younger.

And because the negative dense emotions just aren’t there anymore, our minds are not stuck in a continual loop of agonising over these emotions. The density is replaced with “space,” which opens up inside us to allow the flowing in of inspiration, progress, solutions, hope, joy and dreams.

Then “space” is opened up for opportunities to start coming towards us from outer life to match our inner organic wellbeing. And we are in enough grace and flow to recognise and accept these gifts.

And this is regardless of how badly things were previously playing out in our life – via events or even other people – they MUST shift to match our healthier inner state. The resources, permutations and possibilities of life are endless. Where there seemed “no way”, a  “way” can and will appear to release the toxic situation.

So my total goal was “Get That Junk OUT!!”

And I slogged it out every single day. I felt the pain in my body, and released it outwards. It was intense, I was determined, and there was no way known I was going to leave that junk inside me anymore.

I had had enough.

And my work on myself, did not stop there …

I was determined to cover all bases, and give myself every chance I could to become well-being; so I went and got blood tests done, and found some experts to help me with levels and supplements to help physically support my emotional transformation.

I made my recovery holistic.

I started walking every day and took up yoga. I wrote gratitude lists and started telling myself, “I love you, I’m proud of you, I’m here for you, Melanie” straight into my eyes every time I went into the bathroom.

Naturally at first I didn’t believe these words, but each time I cleared more and more of the self-hatred, self-sabotage and self-punishment stuff out of my body with Quanta Freedom Healing, the space opened up for it to become organically real.

For well over a year now I can say this straight into my eyes, and my heart fills up every time with love.

What I now know is that profound self-love and self-acceptance is in fact normal; it’s our naturally coded state. It’s just the horrible dense emotions trapped in our bodies, and our disconnection to wellbeing, that creates “who we are being” as abnormal.

 

It’s Not A Quick Fix

Nelson Mandela’s words kept inspiring me. I thought if he could do it, with how trapped he was, my freedom was very doable.

I knew my destiny would be as certain as his – the becoming of Who I Really Am, if I just kept going in order to create myself as a co-operative component with the wellbeing of Life.

Please know, I still keep going every day. It’s not like I reached a destination and said, “Yay, I’ve arrived!” There is no destination – only the ongoing process of freeing ourselves to connect to more and more wellbeing.

I can feel many of you saying, “But HOW! I have this (whatever it is) happening! I AM trapped!” Truly, I want you to hang in there, because I want you to DEEPLY understand this: There are miracles, there is freedom available – but YOU have to be the creator of it inside yourself first.

And THEN no matter how hopeless your situation seems – it must transform to match you – because that is Universal Law.

I will answer specific “trapped situations” when I respond to the messages people have posted on Facebook later in this series, and I know that will help explain it further too.

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Inner transformation initially is tough. It takes guts and commitment. I remember, at first, there were days when I would walk along the beach tears streaming down my face feeling like the walls of trying to live were caving in on me.

There were days when the last thing I wanted to do was feel my emotions and do Quanta Freedom Healing shifts, take vitamins, or get my yoga mat out. There were days when it felt preferable to give up.

But, I knew I had a choice …

Roll over and give in to my crippling self-condemning trapped emotions of “Look at you, Melanie. It’s happened to you again. Now you’re back at square one, you’re approaching 50 years of age – you’re a total loser. You’ll never be loved, you’ll never be safe, your life is over.”

Or…

I could use this experience that my soul had decided I needed in order to evolve – to do exactly that …

evolve …

Truly, I can’t stand feeling emotionally crippled. I know it’s not right, and I know it’s not The Truth. I know many people who are into personal development feel the same – it’s just not acceptable to feel like your soul is dying every day …

Truly it is NOT our lot in life, and it’s NOT normal.

And we don’t need to accept it as such.

But my goodness, if we have been living like this as “normal” and if our fears and unfinished, unhealed wounds have led us there – and we end up being narc abused – we have to do the work to get out of being trapped in order to be free. Some people can do this easily, but for most mere mortals like you and me, we can’t.

We have to put in effort, and make it as important as fighting for our life.

Because truly we are.

This takes time, it takes effort – but what ELSE is there to do if we want a New Life?

 

What Are We Really Evolving?

I have been so grateful to play such a pivotal part in other people’s recovery as well as my own – because I have learnt so much about the depths of our Inner Identity (subconscious) and what is really going on when we feel small, stuck and trapped.

This I know …

The terrified, agonised and victimised parts of us are always young crippled parts that need to develop, and they carry subconscious wounds and false beliefs which are sabotaging our freedom.

We also have not as yet harnessed the power of Law of Attraction to help us. We are snapped off, and “small” fighting to survive in life, instead of being connected to the big Universal flow of wellbeing.

As such, we don’t have access to joy, gratitude, inspiration, miracles and helpful synchronicity. Life can’t “help us” when we are “disconnected.”

We need to understand life “from the inside out” to generate freedom and expansion. We need to become our own best emotional partner, healer and guru to create ourselves as our True Self (at one with life).

We can all do this … we are in fact all coded to do this, if we take on living life from the inside out – because that is the only place our True Power lies.

Many people think this means separating from life even more, because you become “an island,” independent of other people. Sadly, some people think that having focus on self first (not handing power over) is intensely selfish and self-absorbed.

Self-awareness and self-partnering is NOT self-absorption. Self-absorption is in fact a dire lack of self-awareness and self-partnering.

When you create a healthy, radiant, self-loving foundation of self, and are able to live life as creation through your open heart, you will connect, love and give more than you ever have – in authentic ways. You will also attract more genuine love and wellbeing than you previously knew was possible.

And you will finally be free to be You in the world without fear, because you finally feel secure, joyful and powerful.

It can be very helpful to know this essential truth: “Life is always granting you back more of yourself.”

Here are some examples to help you understand this:

If you are self-critical people will criticise you …

If you are scared and contracted, Life will grant you scary situations, people and events that diminish you further …

If you are failing to love yourself unconditionally, life will deliver you messages of non-acceptance and unloving behaviours.

The truth is there is “no outside.” We are all connected to the Quantum Base Note, and we are either in the wellbeing flow, or getting smashed against the rocks.

This we must also deeply know; if we are getting smashed into the rocks, there is something we need to heal and evolve to connect back into the natural flow. And if we resist that necessity then the rocks are just going to beat us up harder.

Because we are not accepting the truth that will set us free.

Resistance to the “lesson” is futile. I know now without a doubt (because I’m committed to the inner work) that life only offers us blessings, no matter how the package is disguised, because “life” is the constant feedback loop showing us where we are with ourselves, and what we need to heal and release in order to be the truly expansive, joyous, free, deserving beings we are naturally coded to be.

Resistance to the message is a human condition. It looks like this – hating our life, and having a ton of regret. Victimisation includes despising our negative emotions, blaming and shaming ourselves and others.

In stark contrast even with our crumbling emotions and life we CAN be “conscious” (aware of the truth). We can accept deeply in the very depths of our soul (which recognises truth) the following …

“This happened for a reason – a glorious reason to help me break free into a much higher aspect of myself than I have ever been before. This happened so that I COULD come home to the stream of wellbeing, which is my birthright, and know myself as my own generator of life directly with life.”

And … “If I accept this, no matter how tormented and torn up I am right now, I can start preparing myself to be the person I truly want to be and live the life I truly want to live.”

I believe what makes us incredible is we do have free will (we are never truly trapped), because we can decide.

But we need to get out of the quick fix mentality that people can do with personal development. Such as “It’s not working for me” after one hour, day or week. Or they put in a half-hearted effort and expect results, and then just default back to emotional bandaids, such as constant victimised venting, drinking, Facebook, pills, never being alone, multiple relationships, sexual liaisons … or whatever it takes to numb out the pain and never deal with it.

Then these people wonder why the painful patterns continue.

I promise you – I was one of these people.

Imagine if Nelson Mandela had given up … Imagine If Mother Theresa had thrown away her vision. Imagine if Helen Keller had never bothered.

These people did not make it through some crazy random synchronistic event. They deeply, deeply hung on to their dream, and who they wanted to be in the world. They did the work on themselves, they put in the effort and they became the change they wanted to live.

They worked hard to release every fear that stood in the way of their freedom.

That is exactly what personal evolution is.

 

Being Trapped Versus Expanding

Life, Creation and the Universe all expand. We are all connected to the quantum energy of this as “life-force.” We are supposed to expand, we are supposed to grow, and when we don’t it hurts profoundly – because it goes against every essence of our being.

I believe that when we aren’t expanding towards our True Selves, and we take another turn – especially when we know it intuitively and our fears cause us to sell our soul out – the self-correction mechanism is severe disappointments, and hard emotional wake-up calls.

Awakening from our trance requires the acceptance: “The life I thought I was living is NOT my truth.”

This means we have to let go of regret, in order to reach for the truth.

I’d like to share with you my personal “security / fear laden vision.” It was this: “I’m going to meet a man, fall in love, have a wonderful house, decorate it divinely, create a gorgeous garden, and have dinner parties with friends.”

Now I look back and realise how this was NOT my true soul path.

The dreams of my soul really are: raising consciousness on the planet in the best way I can, travelling, expanding opportunities and connections, having incredible life experiences, and knowing on my death bed “I really did this. I made a difference. I went all the way!”

This is not to say a wonderful man, home, garden and dinner parties can’t be a part of this – they certainly can – but they are NOT the essence of my True Life – they are only additions.

These things when they were required to “give me myself” were fearfully about security, survival, possessions and ownership. They were “things” that I thought could save me from the agony of my own fears.

You see, I wasn’t free, not in the slightest. I was attached and dependent, and always handing over my power to try to feel protected and cared for.

If these things were my truth, they would have worked out – as they do for many people whose truth is those things.

This you need to accept – if your life has not worked out the way you wanted it to, you have to let it go. You have to be prepared to clean the fear and pain out of yourself so that the truth can appear. Then I promise, you will overjoyed with the truth. You will be totally relieved the old “dream” didn’t work out.

Please know this takes time, the answer is not going to appear overnight.

This is why it is VITAL to realise the greatest goal is always inwardly freeing yourself – because then all else comes.

You have to create the space inside you for “your real life” to come and for you to recognise it; it just doesn’t happen with the junk in the way.

Please understand the answers to “What is my life?” is not the much needed saviour. That would only be the creating of another False Identity … “I need ‘that’ to feel secure.”

The process of evolving yourself is the only true security.

Again – all else comes from doing that.

Naturally after being narcissistically abused, facing the fear and pain to let it go is terrifying. After all, we are in more fear and devastated emotions than we probably have ever been.

But know this … expanding and being free requires opening our heart and flowing in life.

When we try to open our heart the pain is horrendous – however this is exactly the way to release the junk out. It’s like lancing an abscess, when you pop it it really hurts, and then the relief and healing comes. Quanta Freedom Healing (the tool I developed) is exceptional to reach, embrace and release trapped painful emotions. The supplements I use include exercise, yoga, Chi Gong and massage. You can use any tool that gets into your body and releases painful emotion out of it, such as EFT or kinesiology.

Ultimately, if you can learn how to be the director or your own healing shifts – this empowers you profoundly. Talking about the issues without body release does next to nothing – that is the truth. In fact, many times all it will do is regurgitate it and re-traumatise you, without getting a release and shift in consciousness.

We have to, have to, have to LET GO of the pain, fear, regret, shame, blame, resistance, judgement and victimisation – we need to get it OUT of our beings – in order to open our hearts so that we can break free and expand.

Yes, it will hurt like hell at first. But the benefits are this: FINALLY you can be free of the pain. FINALLY you can evolve from the life you were living to one that IS your truth.

I promise you this – in time, you will get to love the pain … not because you are a masochist, but because you know every time you feel the pain in your body and shift it out you have just opened up the space to connect to an even higher aspect of yourself.

My dear friend Ian, who I did an interview with some weeks ago and I had a discussion this morning. This is his mantra: “Thank you God / Universe for bringing me this trigger. I bless, accept and release to evolve and know ever expanding happiness.”

Ian is in his 60’s, and has been spiritually orientated in personal development for just over two years. He is really new to it, yet in this short time his life is unrecognisable to how it had always been – purely because he takes on the “inside out” orientation as a daily lifestyle. Every time he feels negative emotions, he drops into his body, finds it, up-levels it with QFH and expands.

Personally, I don’t know any other way to live life now either, and expansion enthrals me every day in ways that words can’t describe. I live it like I brush my teeth, or get dressed every day.

You have to know – it is so, so, so worth excavating out your pain – no matter how long it takes to get to this part of life.

When you get there, you will wonder how on earth you used to “do life” any other way.

Because finally you know you are free.

I still have triggers, I still have negative emotions, but I no longer avoid it or stew in it, try to analyse my way out of it, or accept is as “normal depression.” Instead I use it as the “message” direct from life and my soul – “Release who you are presently being, and become even more of Who You Really Are.”

 

How We Are Trapped

When we are trapped we are suffering feelings of powerlessness – in our situation, and / or our emotional state.

Our human tendency is to try to fix things outside of us in order to try to feel better.

That is the very definition of handing our power over, because there is no power outside of us, only inside of us.

Generally, we hand power over because we think we are dependent, that Life doesn’t have our back, and we can’t generate a change. We also feel like we will be annihilated if we let go and try to deal with our agonised emotions.

In this model, we have a limited ability to self-soothe or know how to evolve our emotions; we are powerless “children,” and we try to avoid ourselves frenetically by obsessing about things outside of us, and trying to get something or someone else to fix us – instead of becoming the inner change we wish to experience.

I have to concede, I had an advantage realising how life really works, because I had been deeply spiritual / energetic my whole life.

I believed in “life from the inside out,” I just wasn’t living it healthily.

For those of you who have never looked at life on an energetic / spiritual level – this is tougher. It’s hard and counter-intuitive initially to believe in “unseen forces” that don’t have physical proof attached to them.

You just need to take my word for it – or not. More than this, you need to live it to experience it.

This I know through my own life, and working over the last 7 years with thousands of people, that the “outside in” doesn’t work, only the “inside out” does.

When you do connect to the “inside out” approach, rather than connect with something horrible (the parts of yourself you are trying to avoid), immense relief starts to come instead. This is the by-product of loving ourselves enough to commit to partnering and healing ourselves. This has been witnessed in this community time and time again. In fact the posts from people doing the inner work and those who aren’t are like day and night in difference – the positive results are obvious, consistent and Universal.

When we are trapped, no matter how much you may not (now) agree with this assessment, the truth is: there are parts of ourselves that feel powerless that we can evolve.

The “outside events” are only a manifestation of inner powerlessness.

True power means realising and actualising: When I evolve my powerlessness then everything in my world will reflect back to me my True Power.

Then we are no longer trapped – we start generating change, and we become free.

 

Reponses To People’s Trapped Feelings

I asked people on my Facebook Page to post to me their trapped feelings so that I could respond. Maybe your question has been answered already – and I hope that my response will assist you more specifically.

This article has gone on and on – it’s longer than I expected …

For this reason, next week I will be writing responses to people’s comments. I will repost on Facebook so that you too, if you haven’t already, can comment about “where you feel stuck.”

I will also work with responses that I receive as comments below …

I hope so far this has helped, and I look forward to responding to your questions and comments.

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42 thoughts on “From Being Trapped To Your Personal Freedom – Part 1

  1. Thank you Melanie, this is very insightful. I am a survivor yet still have a long road ahead of healing. I would like to thank you for your beautiful words of healing. Many Blessings. XO Bernadett Celene

  2. Thank you for taking the time to have written this article, maybe its the timing for me this morning, but I feel its your best article, not to say I haven’t appreciated many of the others I’ve read over the past hmm 8 months now since I was recommended your writing.

    Tak Lars

  3. Oh Mel, I’m in tears at the Full on Truth of this article.

    I’m going thru a very trapped feeling, no direction, what am I doing existence, nothing is moving and have been for awhile – lost completely and i really only have myself to blame for it now.

    Indeed and as always perfect timing Beautiful one and Thank you for once again sharing so wonderfully in words what i struggle to bring forth yet know as soon as I read your words “yes that’s exactly it”. 🙂

    Love you lots and thank you for your Loving Kindness
    xx

    1. I too am feeling exactly the same..lost my direction, don’t know where to go..and this article has arrived just at the right time, (as is the norm with Melanie’s articles),to help me move forward with where I am at this given moment.

    2. Hi Maria,

      I am so pleased this article spoke to your soul.

      Please know we are never trapped – only “disconnected”. I just know you will find what it is that needs releasing – and then you will be back in the flow – bigger, better and with more freedom and expansion than ever.

      Mel xo

  4. Melanie, thank you. All your emails & blogs are helping me forge my own path. It is exciting to discover what life actually has in store for me.

  5. Loved this post and subconsciously been trying to arrive into freedom thinking. Been hard road but past few days have been calmer and more clear sighted just hoping to hang onto this realisation. It’s hard work trying to establish love for yourself after narc abuse but clearly the only way forward. It’s like a rebirth. Love and support to everybody finding their path. X

    1. Hi Jackie,

      Love and support to you and everyone too. As I read posts I’m seeing the struggle and the healing that is taking place in much the same way as for me. Its tough, like Melanie says, but we’re all on the right path and there really is hope and strength together. Thank you

    2. Hi Jackie,

      Truly, it is no less than death / rebirth. The letting go of who we were being, to became Who We Really Are.

      It is about personal evolution. We can’t hate, criticise and shame ourselves into that.

      It is a process of deep self-love and self-partnering.

      Mel xo

  6. Thank you Melanie once again for being my inspiration and keeping us all going on the road to recovery..we will all get there with your help and reading all the blogs helps us knowing we are not alone..good luck to us all and to help us to start loving ourselves. THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN

  7. Melanie –
    Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Your words SO resonate with me. After graduating from my second NPD/BPD relationship and years of reading everything I could possibly get my hands on about NPD/BPD, I came across your course and your blog. Like others I’ve invested hundreds of hours trying to find some type of relief from the pain I’ve been in. I finally feel like I’ve found my path to healing through your work. I so look forward to your future posts! You rock!!

    1. Hi Blaise,

      I am so pleased you have dropped the trying to find answers / relief outside of yourself, and deeply come inside to where your power really is.

      You are so welcome from the bottom of my heart also!

      Mel xo

  8. Thank you so much for another much-needed, wonderful article, Melanie. It really hit on a lot of what I needed to hear. I have done your work enough to gain healthy distance from my ex narc, but am left feeling that is not ‘success’ enough, I am not ‘there’ yet. I am free from him, but not yet really living my truth and I have felt a bit lost on how to get there. I clearly need to keep doing the work. It has helped get me closer to where I need to be and I trust that it will continue to help if I put in the work. Thank you so much for providing that resource to the world as well as for your consistent support through your articles!!

    1. Hi Maggie,

      it is so true “the work” is lifestyle.

      We can constantly evolve and grow past our previous subconscious patterns with application and effort.

      Then life does become breathtaking!

      You are so welcome Maggie!

      Mel xo

  9. I’m amazed at the quality of your blog posts. Even as you have recovered and evolved, all these messages hit home and remind us of what our journey really is about…coming home and accepting ourselves.
    I never thought I would see the day where I said an internal “thank-you” for the abuse, but now I know that is really what woke me up.
    I don’t know what I would have done if I hadn’t found you- I was truly in a desperate and scary place, but now I feel like a renewed person and feel like myself again. It’s wonderful to have my life back after giving so much energy to another. Thank you.

    1. Hi Sarah,

      I am so pleased you have got your life back – which means you have embraced and nourished your soul and “self”.

      My message in every article is essentially the same / identical message – just expressed in a different way.

      The message being – “It’s all about coming home to yourself”.

      Mel xo

  10. Hi, Melanie! I’m new to your website and blog and I admire your courage and honesty! I loved your visit to the Tiger Palace, so touching 🙂
    My issue is this: I’ve started my personal development a few years ago and yet I have severe ’bouts’ of victim consciousness now and then. Specifically at the moment, I feel trapped regarding my livelihood and career. I feel a lot of powerlessness and sort of hopelessness how I’ll survive financially and start the job that inspires me at the same time. The pressure has been building up for the last two years – making ends meet, working on my fears, hoping to get on that inspiring career path, but that hasn’t happened yet, and today – a part of me just flatly refused to wait more and take up any job just for the money. Whenever I get to such difficult situations, I feel victimised, it’s as if I’m not worthy of my dream job.
    I feel I’m missing something perhaps the overall evolutionary view that you provide in the article, but can’t put my finger on, especially now – something to do with personal power… Can you please comment?
    I should add that I come from a very emotionally limited background with narcissistic parents to some extent.

    1. Hi Petya,

      that is lovely you are a part of this amazing community here now. Welcome!

      The victimised feeling you feel about career, the finances and the ability to have abundance / security with doing what you love are all beliefs that you haven’t shifted yet.

      If you can still feel these fears as angst in your body – as emotion – then they are still running.

      The true solution is to find them and up-level them. Are you using energetic tools that reach your subconscious? Talk therapy and re-framing and even awareness of where the patterns come from is often not enough – if they are deep and have strong emotional charge (survival programs) cementing them in place.

      You need something much more direct and powerful to address them. Then they simply won’t be there – and the “battle with yourself” (which is in truth the only battle we really have) just wont be there.

      Then you will open up and flow towards the generation of your desire with access to the incredible components of life.

      The key is working with the right tool.

      Have you worked on your subconscious to cleaning up the abuse programs? That is always the very first necessary platform.

      Mel xo

  11. Trapped feelings! Do I know about that! Having two wonderful little daughters, realizing that their mother can apply a strictly instrumental approach to anything: other people, promises, her own husband, to the extent that she spread life-threatening slander about a lady who tried to mediate in a family conflict. Yes, I spent five years with those trapped feelings, because showing them would have meant all-out family conflict, likely to harm the children for life.

  12. And yes, Melanie, you create great texts, and they tend to arrive at the right moment. My experience, though, is that in my view, the mother of my lovely children tried to literally commit murder through slander. And I still have o face that ex-wife of mine every day, trying to be nice and kind, just in order nott to alienate my children. My real feelings: Oh, don’t ask!

  13. All these years later; I had a bad dream last night that a boogieman came to the house to threaten me. I relived that terror of not feeling safe. Forced myself to awaken to end the nightmare. This made me happy that I was able to do it! To CONTROL a nightmare! To VOLUNTARILY end it!! Maybe what you’re talking about is a kind of emotional awakening. When we “wake up” we leave the fear behind. It becomes something of the past. We should not revisit or look at it. Only look forward and not over our shoulders where the boogieman lives.
    Maybe it’s some reading I’ve done lately that brought that dream to me…maybe it’s all the news coverage here in the US that it’s Domestic Violence month and Anti Bullying month with all the NFL stuff too. It’s all around us right now. And of course..now it’s Halloween season!! 😉 LOTS of boogiemen! Thankfully all fake and not scarey! Ahhhh….I say…give your boogieman some candy and send him on his way!
    Carry on everyone!

    1. Hi Marian,

      Often it is very hard to just ignore the trauma in our bodies, and carry on.

      This is one of the biggest flaws in Law of Attraction work, trying to just “forget” and “focus positively” despite how we really feel and how we have been affected.

      My system of healing is about releasing and getting the trauma out of your body, so that you have the “room” inside, and can so much more easily “align” with the good stuff – without the battle.

      Thank you for your post Marian!

      Mel xo

  14. TOTALLY BRILLIANT AS USUAL THANK YOU FOR SUCH A WONDERFUL INSPIRATIONAL POST I AM ACTUALLY NOW THANKING MY NARCASSIST RELATIONSHIP FOR COMING TO MY LIFE ITS MADE ME TURN ONTO THE PATH I AM NOW FOLLOWING I AHVE JUST DONE MY REIKI 1 AND 2 WITHOUT HIM I WOULD HAVE NEVER DONE THIS BLESS YOU MEL SORRY IN CAPITALS BUT THE CAPS BUTTON IS STUCK XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

  15. Thank you, Melanie. I have worked through healing after a narcissistic abuse situation and feel free from the desire to reach outside myself for a relationship to feel complete, happy, fulfilled, etc. I truly feel content for the first time in my adult life as a single woman.

    Despite that healing, I still struggle with finances and the fears of not having enough. As a single mom not receiving consistent support and having a job that does not pay a high salary, we struggle to get by. I absolutely love my job and don’t want to leave it, but I don’t want to continue to live in lack. Do you have any suggestions for working through these fears of not having enough? I believe it’s these fears that are holding me back from the abundance that I know exists. This is where I feel stuck. I don’t know how to break through and move forward in this area.

    Thank you so much for your website! Your articles helped me break free from a toxic relationship and they continue to give me such helpful insight in continuing to heal and live fully.

    Amie

    1. Hi Arnie,

      You are so welcome, and I am so pleased my my material has been able to help.

      You are very right, and that is the first step in personal power – acknowledging “there is something within me blocking me on this”.

      Finances is one of the topics I will be discussing in great detail in Part 2, as it is such a common issue that so many of us can have – it’s one of the biggest and most usual fears.

      Is it okay if I do this for you next week?

      Mel xo

  16. Thank for this. Your timing is always magical. I’m slogging through recoverty from a 16 year marriage, most of which was filled with Narc abuse (albeit more insidious than vicious.) I am trapped right now in the dependent child mode, and I keep getting hoovered in because I’m so desperate for human interaction…
    Your words hit home, and described me perfectly right now. I’m living from the outside, and I can feel it. I have no center. The relationship left me with no friends nearby, i work at home, so I have no co-workers. I go days and sometimes weeks without seeing someone I know, or being hugged or smiled at. I am normally a sunny and happy person, and this feeling of being trapped is overwhelming.
    Your post has given me hope, and direction… I was looking in the wrong places for help. Always feeling as though I needed ot be “saved.” It’s rather humbling to read your words and know exactly what I’m all about, as if you know me. Thank you for all you do, you’re an angel.

    1. Hi Trixie,

      I am glad this article was again timely for you.

      This is wonderful that you are realising how separated the “outside in” is, and that its time to come home to yourself.

      You are so welcome Trixie 🙂

      Mel xo

  17. Melanie I agree with what others have said…I think this article is one of your best and I have been reading for a while. It has helped me become more aware of what I need to do in a very concrete practical way. Thank you for all you do! I am in a constant battle and I struggle lately with voluntary solitude. I only want to stay home under the covers because I don’t want to be out in the world. I go to work and do what I need to do for to take care of my kids and pay bills etc. but there is no pleasure in any of it. Something is blocking me from seeing a future for myself (I can see great things for my kids but not for me personally). Everything is a trigger for me and I constantly miss the good things about my Narc Ex husband and the life we had together now that he is living with someone else. I think about how we will never have those times/experiences again and I try to thank God that I had the opportunity to love and to feel and to bring children into the world but then the sadness and the emptiness take over and I just want to check out and forget because it is too painful. Does getting in touch with true self stop the limerence, longing and constant remembering?

    1. Hi TG,

      I promise you absolutely it does – what you are describing is EXACTLY how I and so many people felt after N-abuse.

      Absolutely up-levelling yourself changes all of that – profoundly – it just doesn’t exist anymore, when you have transformed your Inner Being.

      I really want to address your message this week in Part 2!

      Please look out for it …

      Mel xo

  18. Thankyou for this article Melanie, it resonated so strongly with me.
    For many years I have been unable to cry; I knew this was to do with an
    emotional stuckness I had. Reading your article touched me
    deeply and I felt undertood, and more self understanding. I opened to the tears that flowed as an offering of compassion to the hurt part of me and the potential hope that evolution to self love can offer and bring to my growth and life.
    I look forward to your webinar tonight. Bless Poly

  19. Melanie,

    I am always amazed at how synchronistic your articles are for my growth. I like what you said that you have to give up your old life when it is not working. When it is not FREEDOM. Nothing from the outside works to give you that freedom but you yourself. Isn’t wonderful that you realized expanding the world was more you than having a nice house? That made me wonder what perfectly nice pictures I have grown attached to that aren’t really me at all.

    My N partner has shown back up after a year and I discovered another layer of wanting him to rescue me from being alone. Now, though, I have the tools to sit back, look at where my little girl is damaged (not valid on her own without a man) and get to work on letting that false self go. I am finally UNDERSTANDING some of this. Thank you for your amazing work.

  20. After viewing your first 2 videos, I am left wondering if you see any benefit to attending ALANON meetings when the narcissistic person is a recovering addict? I can see how “regurgitating” the info can develop more negative peptides, and am skeptical of these groups. However, I do know a lot of people who gain support and move on, especially when combining these groups with 1:1 therapy. Please advise. Thank you, Winda

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