Category: Supporting Our Children

Many of you are incredibly conscious and emotionally intelligent people – that’s why you love interacting in our wonderful Thriver Community! I also know that many of you are aware, in many cases, that our childhoods are what sets us up for narcissistic abuse. This is not even necessarily about having a narcissistic parent – [...]

Many people hold the belief that breaking up a marriage and home will cause their children terrible suffering and loss of security. They believe that they should stay committed to a marriage and make it work no matter what so that their children have that model to base their lives on. I was once one [...]

Co-parenting is one of the most challenging obstacles you’ll have to face when dealing with a narcissist. They simply won’t cooperate because they don’t want to fall in line and they don’t want to do the right thing. They don’t want to be held accountable or follow rules and regulations, and they don’t want to […]

  Many of you might be horrified or even feel traumatised because your children don’t know the truth about the narcissist. You may even feel that your child is unprotected because they don’t know the real truth of what’s going on. But the question is, how do you help your children awaken to their own […]

It is can be disturbing and devastating to watch a loved one struggling with a narcissist.   You may have a child whose partner is a narcissist and you feel isolated and powerless to help them.   Or you may have a parent, sibling or friend who is experiencing narcissistic abuse and you don’t know […]

Narcissists don’t cooperate with joint parenting and co-parenting with one can seem IMPOSSIBLE. They like to disagree with anything you suggest, refuse to turn up or stick to prior arrangements, and mess with your children’s appointments, possessions and heads! Are you feeling POWERLESS to get this person to see sense and act decently for the […]

  Is my adult child a narcissist? is one of the most devastating questions a parent can ask. Some years ago, I went through this terrible trauma myself. In today’s Thriver TV I want to help you realise what is necessary for you to know whether or not your child is narcissistic… …and how to BE […]

  I’m always SUPER PASSIONATE about this topic. The reason being is because I SO want our children to heal, and for our world to shift out of narcissistic abuse patterns. I nearly lost my own son due to my and his trauma from narcissistic abuse, so I deeply know the loss, trauma and suffering […]

  Being a parent is one of the world’s hardest (if not the hardest) jobs. Where is that handbook!? Certainly, many of us have struggled with being parents, and after being narcissistically abused and seeing what this puts our children through, our parenting overwhelm is even more accentuated. How can we heal our children when […]