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Recovering from Trauma While the World Burns

The Added Challenges of Recovery Amidst an Ongoing Pandemic, a Genocidal War, Dangerous Climate Changes, Home-Grown Terror, and Economic Disaster — 2019 was the tipping point — my husband abandoned our lengthy marriage, and the world began to unravel at an alarming pace. It was June 18th, 2019 when it all began, this descent into hell, and it has continued ever since. Things will never return to “that kind of normal”…

Narcissistic Abuse

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Recovering from Trauma While the World Burns
Recovering from Trauma While the World Burns
Narcissistic Abuse

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Re-write Your Story with a Happy Ending

After the Narcissist Abandons and Deletes All Memory of You, You Can Reimagine a New Life — Tabula Rasa — Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run And there’s still time to change the road you’re on- Stairway to Heaven Some aspects of life are beyond your control, and I am reminded of that once again as a friend recently drew this card…

Love

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Re-write Your Story with a Happy Ending
Re-write Your Story with a Happy Ending
Love

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Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Collaborators

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The Scrambled Brain of the Narcissist

The Structural Integrity of the Brain with NPD is Compromised — The cognitive dissonance in a relationship with an NPD partner is substantial, but perhaps it’s all in their head. Literally. In recent years, we can actually see narcissism in the brain shown in imaging tests like MRIs and CT scans. People who suffer from narcissistic personality disorder have structural abnormalities…

Narcissism

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The Scrambled Brain of the Narcissist
The Scrambled Brain of the Narcissist
Narcissism

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Stuck in the Badlands

The Black Hole After Narcissistic Abuse — “Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep if I should die before I wake I pray the Lord my soul to take.” It’s been almost 2 years since the end of my marriage to a narcissistic psychopath. In the aftermath of his…

Recovery

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Stuck in the Badlands
Stuck in the Badlands
Recovery

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About Me — Prajinta Pesqueda

We are the sum total of our experiences and define ourselves by what we do and who we love. — My identity has been forged by a number of things. Life was not kind to me as a bi-racial female growing up in the Texas Panhandle in the 60’s and ’70s. Not only was the environment inhospitable to say the least, but my family was also plagued with mental illness…

Narcissism

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About Me — Prajinta Pesqueda
About Me — Prajinta Pesqueda
Narcissism

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Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Collaborators

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Why Victims of Abuse Self-Trash with Sex

The dysfunctional responses to childhood abuse manifest in a number of maladaptive ways — The intensely powerful and transcendent experience that sex can be between two people in a long-term committed relationship, one that is meaningful, intimate, and profound, is becoming increasingly difficult to find. Sex has become something else entirely — a way to anesthetize, control, subjugate or act out. It is a…

Narcissism

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Why Victims of Abuse Self-Trash with Sex
Why Victims of Abuse Self-Trash with Sex
Narcissism

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Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Collaborators

·5 days ago

We Are Rivers — Forever Flowing to the Sea

How I Kept Dancin’ When the Music Ended After NPD Abuse — “We are not ponds; we are rivers.” ~ Dr. Sam Vaknin, author of Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Revisited I’ve been a dancer all my life. Decades of ballet class, dance recitals, jazz and lyrical, and even some ballroom. One thing I know for sure, if you ever stop moving your…

Narcissism

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The Only Thing That is Constant is Change
The Only Thing That is Constant is Change
Narcissism

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Wholistique

·May 20

While I Was Sleeping

Time is the Greatest Loss After the Narcissist Departs — But Forgiveness May be the Remedy Recovery from a relationship with a narcissistically disordered partner is a process, a long and complex process. After nearly 4 years, it is still a work in progress for me. …

Narcissism

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While I Was Sleeping
While I Was Sleeping
Narcissism

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Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Collaborators

·May 13

When you’ve lost more than you can bear. . .

And letting go of one. more. thing. is just too much. — I know there are so many people who suffer more than I do, and whose circumstances are far more dire. Loss is part of life. And unfortunately, many of us know it all too well. We have lost so many things in our lives, but the thought of releasing anything…

Narcissism

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When you’ve lost more than you can bear. . .
When you’ve lost more than you can bear. . .
Narcissism

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May 6

How to Know If You Are Still Alive

With reality bending multiverses, automatons, the advent of AI, not to mention the vampires, aliens, zombies, and narcissists — are you sure you even exist? — The narcissist and the psychopath killed themselves a long time ago. They have moved among us ever since, vibrantly co-existing with the living, but tragically vacant and lacking a pulse. They adapt, assimilate, acquire. They enmesh, entrain, engulf. And the technicolor dream-coat they wear is both stunning and seductive. They…

Narcissism

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How to Know If You Are Still Alive
How to Know If You Are Still Alive
Narcissism

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Prajinta Pesqueda

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Educator, aspiring humanist, composer of words. Survivor, warrior, healer, believer. Contact me at Narc2Thrive@gmail.com

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