This is a post from some years back but its a powerful one with insights I was gaining at the time into the legacy of narcissistic injury in my own life.
When our needs and true self or beingness are not met, mirrored, affirmed and integrated into our conscious awareness (ego) one of the consequences is that we begin to feel confused, empty, disoriented and twisted inside.
When we have had a narcissistic parent who was never valued and nurtured themselves we learn to connect to a false, unreal image of who we really are. We find false ways of being in the world in order to navigate the minefield of living with a parent who does not allow us to have our own needs and requires us to reflect them perfectly. Often this parent projects their rejected or repressed shadow qualities onto us which are despised. This can lead us to be very confused. We begin to feel bad for having real needs and feelings and then question the validity of what is being projected and distorted by our parent.
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