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		By: Melanie Tonia Evans		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melanie Tonia Evans]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2018 05:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/how-we-become-better-parents-as-we-heal/#comment-1094292&quot;&gt;Changing&lt;/a&gt;.

Awww Changing,

This is soo good!

Well done on wonderful progress!

Mel 🙏💕❤️]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/how-we-become-better-parents-as-we-heal/#comment-1094292">Changing</a>.</p>
<p>Awww Changing,</p>
<p>This is soo good!</p>
<p>Well done on wonderful progress!</p>
<p>Mel 🙏💕❤️</p>
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		By: Changing		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Changing]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2018 13:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thanks a million Mel, I&#039;ll do that with Module 1.

I&#039;ve got way more answers from inside since I started doing your Modules. Thank you. 

Since writing this last night, I did a Goal shift &quot;Breakthrough for my breakthrough&quot; and I&#039;m seeing clearer already this morning: 
I&#039;ve relied on his promises - domino effect -&#062; waiting for him, relying on him when I couldn&#039;t; 
It annoys that he doesn&#039;t speak up and assumes BUT I&#039;ve done the same, so I&#039;m grateful for him showing me what I need to work on myself. 

Thanks to this article and Modules, I really see that I need to &quot;tidy up my side of the street&quot; first and kids will benefit from that.
We&#039;ve had a fun morning with lots of games and laughter today, I even took time for myself. 
Great.

I&#039;ve done today what I wanted to do,
instead of relying on others,
instead of waiting to see if I&#039;ll get to do what I want, 
instead of leaving my needs &quot;for later&quot;.
Result: we&#039;ve all benefitted :-). 

Thank you. 
Changing 
😍 ♥ 
Xxx]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks a million Mel, I&#8217;ll do that with Module 1.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve got way more answers from inside since I started doing your Modules. Thank you. </p>
<p>Since writing this last night, I did a Goal shift &#8220;Breakthrough for my breakthrough&#8221; and I&#8217;m seeing clearer already this morning:<br />
I&#8217;ve relied on his promises &#8211; domino effect -&gt; waiting for him, relying on him when I couldn&#8217;t;<br />
It annoys that he doesn&#8217;t speak up and assumes BUT I&#8217;ve done the same, so I&#8217;m grateful for him showing me what I need to work on myself. </p>
<p>Thanks to this article and Modules, I really see that I need to &#8220;tidy up my side of the street&#8221; first and kids will benefit from that.<br />
We&#8217;ve had a fun morning with lots of games and laughter today, I even took time for myself.<br />
Great.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve done today what I wanted to do,<br />
instead of relying on others,<br />
instead of waiting to see if I&#8217;ll get to do what I want,<br />
instead of leaving my needs &#8220;for later&#8221;.<br />
Result: we&#8217;ve all benefitted :-). </p>
<p>Thank you.<br />
Changing<br />
😍 ♥<br />
Xxx</p>
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		By: Melanie Tonia Evans		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melanie Tonia Evans]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2018 00:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/how-we-become-better-parents-as-we-heal/#comment-1094266&quot;&gt;Changing&lt;/a&gt;.

Hi Changing,

That is a great question and not one that I have written specifically on , other than absolutely a narcissist will use the children to try to bait you to get narcissistic supply.

Really the most powerful shift and ‘the knowing what to do’ will come for you by addressing this specific trauma in your body that you feel reaching him doing this and shifting it out (Module 1 can be used to do this) ... so that when it happens, where the angst was will be replaced my calm knowing and wisdom.

Ultimately separation from him and your children being parented separately is going to be much healthier for them, even though ... of course ... we can understand how we have been conditioned not to believe that.

I hope that this can help you.

Mel 🙏💕❤️]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/how-we-become-better-parents-as-we-heal/#comment-1094266">Changing</a>.</p>
<p>Hi Changing,</p>
<p>That is a great question and not one that I have written specifically on , other than absolutely a narcissist will use the children to try to bait you to get narcissistic supply.</p>
<p>Really the most powerful shift and ‘the knowing what to do’ will come for you by addressing this specific trauma in your body that you feel reaching him doing this and shifting it out (Module 1 can be used to do this) &#8230; so that when it happens, where the angst was will be replaced my calm knowing and wisdom.</p>
<p>Ultimately separation from him and your children being parented separately is going to be much healthier for them, even though &#8230; of course &#8230; we can understand how we have been conditioned not to believe that.</p>
<p>I hope that this can help you.</p>
<p>Mel 🙏💕❤️</p>
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		By: Changing		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Changing]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2018 21:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thank you Mel, great article. 
Great to see an example of healthy way and not healthy way. 
I&#039;m glad to see I do many things positively for my kids. 

I understand no contact is ideal, or not living together.

I&#039;m doing your Quantum Healing course and it&#039;s great, thank you. 

I do wonder if you would have an example for a situation where people still have to share the living space and small kids are used by n spouse to get the other spouse to react, involving kid&#039;s health and safety, making it look like he&#039;s doing something but he might not. Where there&#039;s no proof and I haven&#039;t healed enough yet to turn the energy around but I&#039;m working on it daily. 
How to get through this rough part?

How to take responsibility for my actions, when incident needs involvement,  how to do it so that kids won&#039;t get my toxic reaction?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you Mel, great article.<br />
Great to see an example of healthy way and not healthy way.<br />
I&#8217;m glad to see I do many things positively for my kids. </p>
<p>I understand no contact is ideal, or not living together.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m doing your Quantum Healing course and it&#8217;s great, thank you. </p>
<p>I do wonder if you would have an example for a situation where people still have to share the living space and small kids are used by n spouse to get the other spouse to react, involving kid&#8217;s health and safety, making it look like he&#8217;s doing something but he might not. Where there&#8217;s no proof and I haven&#8217;t healed enough yet to turn the energy around but I&#8217;m working on it daily.<br />
How to get through this rough part?</p>
<p>How to take responsibility for my actions, when incident needs involvement,  how to do it so that kids won&#8217;t get my toxic reaction?</p>
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		By: Linda Djärv		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Linda Djärv]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2017 14:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hi Melanie!

I found this article about a year ago. I can only say that reading this was life changing for me and truly an eye opener. At that time I was really struggling with this and though it was very hard to take in, it made all the difference. Since then everything is so much better, getting the last piece of the puzzle in there. Still working on it every day. Now I am recommending your site, especially this article, to friends and people who need to read this. As a matter of fact I searched for this article today to help a friend (I just talked to her on the phone for two hours about how she needs to let go) when it hit me; I really want to thank you! So from the bottom of my heart (or should I say with my whole heart ;-)) thank you so much Melanie for doing this! You are a true inspiration and you are helping the world to heal with love.

Love &#038; Blessings all the way from Sweden/
Linda]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Melanie!</p>
<p>I found this article about a year ago. I can only say that reading this was life changing for me and truly an eye opener. At that time I was really struggling with this and though it was very hard to take in, it made all the difference. Since then everything is so much better, getting the last piece of the puzzle in there. Still working on it every day. Now I am recommending your site, especially this article, to friends and people who need to read this. As a matter of fact I searched for this article today to help a friend (I just talked to her on the phone for two hours about how she needs to let go) when it hit me; I really want to thank you! So from the bottom of my heart (or should I say with my whole heart ;-)) thank you so much Melanie for doing this! You are a true inspiration and you are helping the world to heal with love.</p>
<p>Love &amp; Blessings all the way from Sweden/<br />
Linda</p>
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		By: Sara		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sara]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2016 19:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wow.. I don&#039;t really know what to say.. I&#039;ve been reading all kinds of stuff about narcissists and co-dependency, have for long time attending online groups and forums, searching online, going to therapist for a couple of years mainly because of my latest realtionship (recently ended it after eight years) but also bacause of earlier traumas.. none of it have made so much sence as your posts and videos.. It&#039;s like I get it.. What to do, how to heal, why I&#039;ve been in several destructive relationships (the latest has absolutley done the most damage to myself and my son) and that I&#039;m only a victim if I choose to be one.. I surley have a long way to go before I&#039;m the stable, mature, confident and happy adult and parent that I want to be, but I&#039;m soo greatful for the &quot;tools&quot; I&#039;ve found in your texts and I&#039;m positive that it will help me on my road to recovery. Many thanks and hugs to you Mel/ Sara]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow.. I don&#8217;t really know what to say.. I&#8217;ve been reading all kinds of stuff about narcissists and co-dependency, have for long time attending online groups and forums, searching online, going to therapist for a couple of years mainly because of my latest realtionship (recently ended it after eight years) but also bacause of earlier traumas.. none of it have made so much sence as your posts and videos.. It&#8217;s like I get it.. What to do, how to heal, why I&#8217;ve been in several destructive relationships (the latest has absolutley done the most damage to myself and my son) and that I&#8217;m only a victim if I choose to be one.. I surley have a long way to go before I&#8217;m the stable, mature, confident and happy adult and parent that I want to be, but I&#8217;m soo greatful for the &#8220;tools&#8221; I&#8217;ve found in your texts and I&#8217;m positive that it will help me on my road to recovery. Many thanks and hugs to you Mel/ Sara</p>
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		By: Anna		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2016 12:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am separated from the narcissist and we have 2 children - with me having primary physical custody.  Because I have learned well to not react and give him as little contact as possible, he has begun attacking the kids.  They are ages 11 &#038; 8.  Most of the time I do well.  However, I do get triggered, especially when my children are being hurt.  He mades insanely bad parenting decisions such as making my children go through 3 church services 9-3:30 without being able to eat a meal until around 4.  The kids have told me, we have talked about it and they have told him countless times they are hungry.  He dismisses them, tells them they have to wait or not now, or whatever.  He&#039;s too busy in his own head to care about them.  His selfishness is bordering on abuse.  This is just one example of what&#039;s on my plate right now.  I have told my attorney (we are waiting on judge, final custody/financials haven&#039;t been decided) but haven&#039;t gotten an answer.  Is this something I should email him and say Look, feed the kids a meal or should I approach it legally or do I do no contact and continue to watch this happen?  I have signed up for the webinar.  I may be a bit late because I don&#039;t put my kids to bed till 8:30-9 my time and it starts at 8 but will do my best to try to be there at 8:30.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am separated from the narcissist and we have 2 children &#8211; with me having primary physical custody.  Because I have learned well to not react and give him as little contact as possible, he has begun attacking the kids.  They are ages 11 &amp; 8.  Most of the time I do well.  However, I do get triggered, especially when my children are being hurt.  He mades insanely bad parenting decisions such as making my children go through 3 church services 9-3:30 without being able to eat a meal until around 4.  The kids have told me, we have talked about it and they have told him countless times they are hungry.  He dismisses them, tells them they have to wait or not now, or whatever.  He&#8217;s too busy in his own head to care about them.  His selfishness is bordering on abuse.  This is just one example of what&#8217;s on my plate right now.  I have told my attorney (we are waiting on judge, final custody/financials haven&#8217;t been decided) but haven&#8217;t gotten an answer.  Is this something I should email him and say Look, feed the kids a meal or should I approach it legally or do I do no contact and continue to watch this happen?  I have signed up for the webinar.  I may be a bit late because I don&#8217;t put my kids to bed till 8:30-9 my time and it starts at 8 but will do my best to try to be there at 8:30.</p>
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		By: Melanie Tonia Evans		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melanie Tonia Evans]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2015 05:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/how-we-become-better-parents-as-we-heal/#comment-643739&quot;&gt;Maynel&lt;/a&gt;.

Hi Maynel,

you are so welcome, and I am so pleased this article has helped.

How lovely that your communication with your children has improved so much.

Thank you for your lovely words :)

Mel xo]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/how-we-become-better-parents-as-we-heal/#comment-643739">Maynel</a>.</p>
<p>Hi Maynel,</p>
<p>you are so welcome, and I am so pleased this article has helped.</p>
<p>How lovely that your communication with your children has improved so much.</p>
<p>Thank you for your lovely words 🙂</p>
<p>Mel xo</p>
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		By: Maynel		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maynel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thank you so much for this, it is truly some of the most inspiring thoughts I have read on the subject of narcissism and healing yourself and thereby your children. I am a recovering co-dependent who has begun the long, painful journey of learning to love and care for myself and also acknowledge my own part in the &quot;dance&quot;. As I am gentler with myself, my communication with my adult children has improved in a way I never could have imagined. Such wonderful validation. You are truly a wise woman.
Blessings, Maynel]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you so much for this, it is truly some of the most inspiring thoughts I have read on the subject of narcissism and healing yourself and thereby your children. I am a recovering co-dependent who has begun the long, painful journey of learning to love and care for myself and also acknowledge my own part in the &#8220;dance&#8221;. As I am gentler with myself, my communication with my adult children has improved in a way I never could have imagined. Such wonderful validation. You are truly a wise woman.<br />
Blessings, Maynel</p>
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