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Narcissistic trauma hub
For survivors healing from narcissistic abuse
Narcissistic abuse doesn’t just leave emotional scars—it rewires your nervous system, disrupts your ability to trust, and can even affect your physical health. You may feel trapped in anxiety, panic, self-doubt, or emotional numbness, wondering why moving forward feels so hard. You may blame yourself for what happened.
But healing is possible.​​
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What is narcissistic trauma?
Narcissistic trauma is not just emotional pain—it’s a deep psychological and physiological response to prolonged abuse. When you’re trapped in a relationship with a narcissist, your brain and body go into constant survival mode. You may:
• Feel confused and self-doubting (gaslighting effect).
• Struggle with panic attacks or hypervigilance (trauma response).
• Find it difficult to trust anyone again (attachment wounds).
• Turn to food, alcohol, or self-destructive habits to cope.
But here’s the truth: This is not your fault. Your body and mind are responding exactly as they were programmed to for survival—but now, you have the power to reprogram them for healing.
📖 Discover the Tactics Narcissists Use – Learn why they behave this way and how they trap you.
📖 Are you an Empath? Many empaths suffer with narcissistic trauma. Find out how the impacts your relationships​
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Panic Attacks | Trauma Recovery | Emotional Eating | Anxiety & Depression
Signs of narcissistic abuse
Can narcissistic abuse cause health problems or long standing relationship issues? Yes it can.
Do you recognise any of them in yourself or your relationship?
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Relationship Difficulties
- Trust issues: fear abuse will appear again in future relationships.
- Attachment issues: overly dependent or overly distant
- Boundary setting: Confusion over normal boundaries. Fear of harm.
Commitment issues: may avoid relationships or only have short term or superficial relationships.
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Emotional Issues
- Emotional Numbness: Detach from feelings to cope
- Guilt and Shame: Internalizing blame, unworthiness.
- Fear of Intimacy: Fear of being close and getting hurt
- Mood Swings: Unpredictable moods - lost ability to manage emotions calmly.
- Worthlessness: Internalised abuser's criticism. Self-blame.​
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Behavioural
Changes
- Hypervigilance: Constant alert - Checking if abuser is triggered
- People Pleasing: Suppress own needs to avoid all conflict
- Isolation: Avoid social contact. Shame or fear of judgment.
- Distracted: Lost in own world. Numb out to avoid conflict
- Perfectionism: being ' good' avoids conflict to avoid 'punishment.'​
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Health
Conditions
- Anxiety Disorders
- Complex PTSD
- Depression
- Addictions / compulsions
- Phobias eg Claustrophobia
- Panic Attack Disorder
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
- Urinary Tract Infections​​
- Chronic Pain
For those who want to find out more about the impact of abuse
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📖 Understanding Narcissistic Abuse
📖Recognizing the Different Types of Abusers
📖 The Emotional & Physical Consequences – What chronic health and relationship anxiety disorders does narcissistic abuse cause.
📖 Learn How to Break Free from Narcissistic Programming
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Narcissistic Abuse | Narcissistic Programming |
How to break the abuse cycle
Healing from narcissistic trauma isn’t about just “moving on”—it’s about retraining your mind and body to feel safe, worthy and independent again. This is the path you would tread with me:
Step 1: Break the Cycle of Abuse - why it's so hard to leave & emotionally detach
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Identify your relationship patterns—why you were drawn to this dynamic
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Understand trauma bonding—why it feels so hard to leave
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Step 2: Process & Release Trauma - how CBT, hypnotherapy and somatic work can help
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Use CBT & hypnotherapy to shift self-sabotaging thought patterns
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Practice somatic therapy to release trauma stored in your body.​
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Step 3: Rebuild Your Life & Self-Worth - boundaries, confidence, & reconnecting with yourself.
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Learn to set boundaries without guilt or fear
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Rediscover independence—trust yourself again.
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Rebuild confidence & self-love through healing work.​
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Additional reading for you:
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📖 How to Leave a Narcissist (Safely) – A step-by-step exit strategy to protect yourself from retaliation.
📖 Healing & Recovery – Learn why you are struggling to recover and how to heal. Discover some tools to help.
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Anxiety Hub Links for you:
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Trauma Recovery | Narcissistic Abuse | Narcissistic Programming​​
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Get in touch if you need more professional support to navigate through this:
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How to build healthy relationships
Building a healthy relationship first requires trust in yourself and compassion in yourself. Building healthy relationships takes time. It means working through trauma and rebuilding trust. You will need to understand how to build commitment anchors and what a healthy relationship looks like and how to nurture this. ​​Healing also means putting anxiety behind us and embracing a mindful way of living.
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📖 How Narcissistic Abuse Affects Future Relationships ​
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