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		By: Melody Quick		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hi Melanie! This video, and the mantras inxluded in it, make me feel that there is light instead of darkness, and my body relaxes as I absorb these mantras. A calmness and partial knowing come through. Thank you so much for the vital work you are sharing with all of us, to become who we were meant to be. Our true selves. X0X0❤❤]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Melanie! This video, and the mantras inxluded in it, make me feel that there is light instead of darkness, and my body relaxes as I absorb these mantras. A calmness and partial knowing come through. Thank you so much for the vital work you are sharing with all of us, to become who we were meant to be. Our true selves. X0X0❤❤</p>
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		By: Shari		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shari]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2019 18:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mass conspiracies are punitive, civil, federal and amnesty.]]></description>
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		By: Valerie Wedel		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Valerie Wedel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2019 19:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/narcissistic-abuse-is-a-journey-but-it-doesnt-take-as-long-as-you-think/#comment-1201482&quot;&gt;Mich&lt;/a&gt;.

Hi Mitch,

Well this is very deep and so articulate.  I like your perspective.  !

In peace,
Valerie (from the mountainside :)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/narcissistic-abuse-is-a-journey-but-it-doesnt-take-as-long-as-you-think/#comment-1201482">Mich</a>.</p>
<p>Hi Mitch,</p>
<p>Well this is very deep and so articulate.  I like your perspective.  !</p>
<p>In peace,<br />
Valerie (from the mountainside 🙂</p>
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		By: Melanie Tonia Evans		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melanie Tonia Evans]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2019 05:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/narcissistic-abuse-is-a-journey-but-it-doesnt-take-as-long-as-you-think/#comment-1201474&quot;&gt;Leena&lt;/a&gt;.

Hi Leena,

it&#039;s my pleasure and thank you for your beautiful words. 

Please lovely lady come into the NARP Members forum too, where you have your tribe of angels too, to spread their wings around you as well as me www.melanietoniaevans.com/member

So much love to you sweetheart - you&#039;ve got this and we have got you.

Mel 🙏💞💛]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/narcissistic-abuse-is-a-journey-but-it-doesnt-take-as-long-as-you-think/#comment-1201474">Leena</a>.</p>
<p>Hi Leena,</p>
<p>it&#8217;s my pleasure and thank you for your beautiful words. </p>
<p>Please lovely lady come into the NARP Members forum too, where you have your tribe of angels too, to spread their wings around you as well as me <a href="http://www.melanietoniaevans.com/member" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.melanietoniaevans.com/member</a></p>
<p>So much love to you sweetheart &#8211; you&#8217;ve got this and we have got you.</p>
<p>Mel 🙏💞💛</p>
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		By: Melanie Tonia Evans		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melanie Tonia Evans]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2019 04:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/narcissistic-abuse-is-a-journey-but-it-doesnt-take-as-long-as-you-think/#comment-1201471&quot;&gt;Asha&lt;/a&gt;.

Hi Asha,

I so agree, regarding separation, and redefining Oneness without the trauma was EVERYTHING for me too!

This has been a tough journey - but one so blessed with richness, awakening and fullness.

I am sure we wanted it exactly LIKE this!

We&#039;re never going to stop climbing that mountain together Asha and seeing the beautiful landscape we get to enjoy doing it.

So much Ji and love to you too beautiful lady.

Mel 🙏💞💛]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/narcissistic-abuse-is-a-journey-but-it-doesnt-take-as-long-as-you-think/#comment-1201471">Asha</a>.</p>
<p>Hi Asha,</p>
<p>I so agree, regarding separation, and redefining Oneness without the trauma was EVERYTHING for me too!</p>
<p>This has been a tough journey &#8211; but one so blessed with richness, awakening and fullness.</p>
<p>I am sure we wanted it exactly LIKE this!</p>
<p>We&#8217;re never going to stop climbing that mountain together Asha and seeing the beautiful landscape we get to enjoy doing it.</p>
<p>So much Ji and love to you too beautiful lady.</p>
<p>Mel 🙏💞💛</p>
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		By: Mich		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mich]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2019 04:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/narcissistic-abuse-is-a-journey-but-it-doesnt-take-as-long-as-you-think/#comment-1200861&quot;&gt;Kimerlea Ball&lt;/a&gt;.

I know from trial and error that what Melanie says below is right-on, primary and essential.  I&#039;m hoping this sharing might also somehow help you and maybe others to &quot;get past or work thru&quot;, as I continue to.  And, this has taken me a longtime to arrive at in terms of real-time understanding,  so please take it in easy sips.  . . .  For some, not to be swallowed all at once.  . . . If this world is full of constructive and destructive pleasures and pains, and is therefore for learning and growing, what better catalysts than an irritant that looks the same as any member of your species, and pokes directly at your unresolved, unfinished and latent areas needing for you to learn to relate to and deal with them inside your -- to no longer hoard them in unconsciousness and no longer use them as pain currency through lifetimes -- as Melanie points out.   (You might stop here for a reflective spell before you take the next sip . . . ) And what better catalyst than others who deceptively look just like us, and yet are not, in terms of the CONSCIENCE-D INTELLIGENCE that you are.  It is a world-wide, time-old existential phenomena and a challenging con-game set-up that is apparently part of this classroom playground, anywhere at the level that we exist, if you look around.  I hear that &quot;historically&quot;, this has in other times been more a part of social common sense,  before the heavier social confusions set in.  (Another, maybe longer stop here before the next sip . . . ?)  Ask cellular-ly and/or observe, observe, observe, as you heal . . . which is the first order of business, as Melanie absolutely right-on-ly points out.  As she says, learn to heal yourself and learn more about yourself, to which I venture to add, at some point see if you can distinguish the many ways, it turns out, you are quite different from your victimizers (and sometimes it takes a lot of observing) and whether or not you also bear quite different reality potentials, compared to them -- even if one can know what their life trajectory may be in the bigger picture.  Different, that is, than you thought when you thought that they and you were so much the same, when actually they&#039;ve been playing out functions in your life that you may not have quite suspected, innocently selling out, not having yet grasped enough aware self-possession of domain, value, capability, etc.  (Another stop to check yourself before the next sip . . . )  But now, with the help of this confirm-able vantage,  I felt that you can more deliberately USE their behavior on you for your own healing.  USE THE WORLD-WIDE CATALYST!  ( A whole new meaning you can add on to, &quot;the world is my oyster&quot;. )  And, maybe do so more efficiently than before, since it&#039;s around in so many different flavors for you to choose and focus on, depending on what hurts most, so to say, using the humongous gift of  Melanie&#039;s applied guidance.  It helps that they&#039;re so accurate in their set-up and attack on you - all you have to do is develop the contact with yourself that they had in a self-serving, predatory way.  You want to see waht they saw, that you want to heal.  And it also helps that they can eventually be observed to be giving you feedback by their changes in approach to you.  (However, it&#039;s incumbent to say that you &#039;d best not rely on their changing for you, except perhaps in strategy.)  As Melanie says, treasure the opportunity.  I hope this hasn&#039;t been to Star-Wars-y.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/narcissistic-abuse-is-a-journey-but-it-doesnt-take-as-long-as-you-think/#comment-1200861">Kimerlea Ball</a>.</p>
<p>I know from trial and error that what Melanie says below is right-on, primary and essential.  I&#8217;m hoping this sharing might also somehow help you and maybe others to &#8220;get past or work thru&#8221;, as I continue to.  And, this has taken me a longtime to arrive at in terms of real-time understanding,  so please take it in easy sips.  . . .  For some, not to be swallowed all at once.  . . . If this world is full of constructive and destructive pleasures and pains, and is therefore for learning and growing, what better catalysts than an irritant that looks the same as any member of your species, and pokes directly at your unresolved, unfinished and latent areas needing for you to learn to relate to and deal with them inside your &#8212; to no longer hoard them in unconsciousness and no longer use them as pain currency through lifetimes &#8212; as Melanie points out.   (You might stop here for a reflective spell before you take the next sip . . . ) And what better catalyst than others who deceptively look just like us, and yet are not, in terms of the CONSCIENCE-D INTELLIGENCE that you are.  It is a world-wide, time-old existential phenomena and a challenging con-game set-up that is apparently part of this classroom playground, anywhere at the level that we exist, if you look around.  I hear that &#8220;historically&#8221;, this has in other times been more a part of social common sense,  before the heavier social confusions set in.  (Another, maybe longer stop here before the next sip . . . ?)  Ask cellular-ly and/or observe, observe, observe, as you heal . . . which is the first order of business, as Melanie absolutely right-on-ly points out.  As she says, learn to heal yourself and learn more about yourself, to which I venture to add, at some point see if you can distinguish the many ways, it turns out, you are quite different from your victimizers (and sometimes it takes a lot of observing) and whether or not you also bear quite different reality potentials, compared to them &#8212; even if one can know what their life trajectory may be in the bigger picture.  Different, that is, than you thought when you thought that they and you were so much the same, when actually they&#8217;ve been playing out functions in your life that you may not have quite suspected, innocently selling out, not having yet grasped enough aware self-possession of domain, value, capability, etc.  (Another stop to check yourself before the next sip . . . )  But now, with the help of this confirm-able vantage,  I felt that you can more deliberately USE their behavior on you for your own healing.  USE THE WORLD-WIDE CATALYST!  ( A whole new meaning you can add on to, &#8220;the world is my oyster&#8221;. )  And, maybe do so more efficiently than before, since it&#8217;s around in so many different flavors for you to choose and focus on, depending on what hurts most, so to say, using the humongous gift of  Melanie&#8217;s applied guidance.  It helps that they&#8217;re so accurate in their set-up and attack on you &#8211; all you have to do is develop the contact with yourself that they had in a self-serving, predatory way.  You want to see waht they saw, that you want to heal.  And it also helps that they can eventually be observed to be giving you feedback by their changes in approach to you.  (However, it&#8217;s incumbent to say that you &#8216;d best not rely on their changing for you, except perhaps in strategy.)  As Melanie says, treasure the opportunity.  I hope this hasn&#8217;t been to Star-Wars-y.</p>
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		By: Leena		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Leena]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2019 03:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Melanie ,

Thank you so much from my heart. You are my angel, and I seriously mean it !!! I am in my darkest hour right now. The pain and enxiety unbearable. You are my light in this deepest of this dungeon, the highest forces send you to me. You are such a compassionate being, to me you are like Jesus, I am very serious and I am not afraid to say it!!!!! I am about to leave my abuser. The fear is so great, it is paralyzing. I feel like I am on the edge of a cliff, I need to jump, but it is so scary....I am tring to NARP any free second I have. I realized this is my biggest priority, nothing is more emportant then the salvation of my soul!!!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Melanie ,</p>
<p>Thank you so much from my heart. You are my angel, and I seriously mean it !!! I am in my darkest hour right now. The pain and enxiety unbearable. You are my light in this deepest of this dungeon, the highest forces send you to me. You are such a compassionate being, to me you are like Jesus, I am very serious and I am not afraid to say it!!!!! I am about to leave my abuser. The fear is so great, it is paralyzing. I feel like I am on the edge of a cliff, I need to jump, but it is so scary&#8230;.I am tring to NARP any free second I have. I realized this is my biggest priority, nothing is more emportant then the salvation of my soul!!!</p>
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		By: Asha		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Asha]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2019 02:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hi Mel,
Since I&#039;m now peacefully enjoying my life again, regardless of what happens in my day, I see the simplicity of life and how it is always working to support our growth.  I&#039;ve noticed what was two of the biggest challenges during my darkest times after narcissistic abuse. The first was the illusion of separation.  Being an Empath that felt like death because I&#039;ve always experienced oneness and knew that I had lost something special in myself.  But NARP helped me remember the Quantum field that I experience as oneness and I could then take notice of nature again and see the storms and sunny days as being a natural part of life and how cleansing they are instead of feeling victimized by the storms.  I could also see how the narc wanted me to live with him in the raging storms of his soul. I could see his falseness poisoning my mind and release it by doing the modules.  The second thing I began to remember again was all the beautiful and unique ways that life expresses itself even though it is all one.  A tree isn&#039;t trying to be a cat.  A dog isn&#039;t trying to be a bird. The wind isn&#039;t trying to be the ocean.  They are all uniquely what they are supposed to be and so am I.  By doing the modules I could see how the narc truly wanted to destroy my individuality (since they have none of their own) and how I handed it over to him once my connection to Source was damaged.  Being quiet and going into the self is so powerful and embracing the pain with compassion is so important.  

My experience with him was the best spiritual practice of my life and like yourself, I tried everything to heal.  But there is something about having to work for something that is originally given for free at birth that is truly a great opportunity.  I was born with love in my heart, but I had to do healing work in order to truly understand it and just how powerful it is.  I was born with human guardians, but I had to do healing work to learn how to be my own guardian and find my way back to the ultimate guardian which is Source. I was born full of curiosity and acceptance, but I had to do healing work which requires practicing inquiry and self-acceptance. I was born trusting my gut, but I needed to work the modules in order to hear what it was saying again.

We are so fortunate to be part of this community and to have had one of the toughest roads to travel on. There is nothing more intimate than having someone in your life who can talk to the light of your soul&#039;s power when you believe you have no power. If someone carried me up a mountain I would never know just how strong my own muscles really are nor would I have developed the skills required to assist others in climbing their own mountains.  Thank you for not carrying me to the top of the mountain, but instead cheering me on so that I could finally get back to doing it for myself and even better than before.  

Love you Mel-Ji.

(&quot;Ji&quot; after your name means &quot;respect&quot; in Indian culture just in case you didn&#039;t know. However, I&#039;m not Indian.)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Mel,<br />
Since I&#8217;m now peacefully enjoying my life again, regardless of what happens in my day, I see the simplicity of life and how it is always working to support our growth.  I&#8217;ve noticed what was two of the biggest challenges during my darkest times after narcissistic abuse. The first was the illusion of separation.  Being an Empath that felt like death because I&#8217;ve always experienced oneness and knew that I had lost something special in myself.  But NARP helped me remember the Quantum field that I experience as oneness and I could then take notice of nature again and see the storms and sunny days as being a natural part of life and how cleansing they are instead of feeling victimized by the storms.  I could also see how the narc wanted me to live with him in the raging storms of his soul. I could see his falseness poisoning my mind and release it by doing the modules.  The second thing I began to remember again was all the beautiful and unique ways that life expresses itself even though it is all one.  A tree isn&#8217;t trying to be a cat.  A dog isn&#8217;t trying to be a bird. The wind isn&#8217;t trying to be the ocean.  They are all uniquely what they are supposed to be and so am I.  By doing the modules I could see how the narc truly wanted to destroy my individuality (since they have none of their own) and how I handed it over to him once my connection to Source was damaged.  Being quiet and going into the self is so powerful and embracing the pain with compassion is so important.  </p>
<p>My experience with him was the best spiritual practice of my life and like yourself, I tried everything to heal.  But there is something about having to work for something that is originally given for free at birth that is truly a great opportunity.  I was born with love in my heart, but I had to do healing work in order to truly understand it and just how powerful it is.  I was born with human guardians, but I had to do healing work to learn how to be my own guardian and find my way back to the ultimate guardian which is Source. I was born full of curiosity and acceptance, but I had to do healing work which requires practicing inquiry and self-acceptance. I was born trusting my gut, but I needed to work the modules in order to hear what it was saying again.</p>
<p>We are so fortunate to be part of this community and to have had one of the toughest roads to travel on. There is nothing more intimate than having someone in your life who can talk to the light of your soul&#8217;s power when you believe you have no power. If someone carried me up a mountain I would never know just how strong my own muscles really are nor would I have developed the skills required to assist others in climbing their own mountains.  Thank you for not carrying me to the top of the mountain, but instead cheering me on so that I could finally get back to doing it for myself and even better than before.  </p>
<p>Love you Mel-Ji.</p>
<p>(&#8220;Ji&#8221; after your name means &#8220;respect&#8221; in Indian culture just in case you didn&#8217;t know. However, I&#8217;m not Indian.)</p>
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		By: Val		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Val]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2019 23:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/narcissistic-abuse-is-a-journey-but-it-doesnt-take-as-long-as-you-think/#comment-1200856&quot;&gt;Penelope&lt;/a&gt;.

Hi Penelope, there is a link right at the bottom of the written transcript ....or just go to Melanie’s page and at the top right corner there is a Login box which takes you to the Forum. If you have any problems logging in go to support@melanietoniaevans.com  and they will help you. The forum is a great source of support , love and blessings to you and your baby 🌺💛]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://blog.melanietoniaevans.com/narcissistic-abuse-is-a-journey-but-it-doesnt-take-as-long-as-you-think/#comment-1200856">Penelope</a>.</p>
<p>Hi Penelope, there is a link right at the bottom of the written transcript &#8230;.or just go to Melanie’s page and at the top right corner there is a Login box which takes you to the Forum. If you have any problems logging in go to <a href="mailto:support@melanietoniaevans.com">support@melanietoniaevans.com</a>  and they will help you. The forum is a great source of support , love and blessings to you and your baby 🌺💛</p>
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