There are SO many things narcissists do which are totally out of bounds! They lie and betray us to family and friends, work colleagues and bosses. They try to get us taken down by authorities, potentially destroying our incomes, mental functioning and any future ability to generate our lives. The narcissist’s abuse may have destroyed not just our […]

  I am proud of caring about other people – and I know you are too. But do we, as a result of having been abused, have to toughen up, guard our heart, stop being giving and trusting and shut down to ourselves, life and others in order to be safe? The great news is […]

  Today, I  want to share with you my candid story about what happened when I contacted narcissist number 1 after ONE YEAR of No Contact. At the time, I felt like a year of the white-knuckling agony – the effort and supreme will-power to stay away – had all been for nothing. Which plummeted me into […]

  Setting boundaries can be incredibly confusing and sometimes even terrifying. What if you’re unclear about your personal rights? Or, are susceptible to being talked out of them? How on earth do you get people to respect your boundaries – even if you can identify them and express them? Is it possible to lay boundaries, […]

  It’s a sad truth, that if we’ve been hooked by a narcissist in the past, it’s very likely that we’ll have encounters with more in the future. You may have had the experience of seeing narcissists ‘everywhere’ and feel like a small fish in a sea of sharks every time you step foot out […]

  First off, I want to wish all of our lovely American Thriver Family a wonderful Thanksgiving this week! Because we are heading into the holiday season, I really wanted to do this Thriver TV episode to help you stay safe and maintain your peace this Christmas … And also to explain how you can use […]

  I talk in the Community a lot about how important it is to become a source to ourselves, to stop handing power over to narcissists—false Selves—and to become powerful creators of our lives without dependence on anyone else to provide it for us. And then I realized – I had never done a Thriver […]

  After being narcissistically abused, your self-worth is stripped. And why wouldn’t it be when every insecurity, fear and inadequacy you have felt about yourself, others and life has erupted and blown up in your face? After being narcissistically abused, not only do we doubt that we are lovable, desirable, capable or adequate, we even […]

  One of the hardest things to do in our life is to forgive the unforgivable. How can we achieve it? Why do we even need to achieve it? The reason I’m sharing this video with you, today, is because I too have known the torturous state of not being able to get over the […]