#61: Controlled by My Narcissistic Sister

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🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

My guest this week is Cara, whose narcissistic, controlling sister is quick to point out Cara’s faults. As if this weren't enough, the situation takes place just prior to their father’s death, as they are trying to settle the estate. Join us as Cara finds peace with her overbearing sister. Close your eyes, get still, settle in, and together let's do The Work.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. Oh my goodness welcome to my time together with Kara.
0:08.0	Kara has a sister who is a counselor and narcissistic and blames her and is very quick to point out her
0:17.6	faults and she sees her sister as narcissistic, controlling, mean, and bitchy.
0:26.2	And all this, if that's not enough, all of this is around a father who has just died
0:32.4	and there's a lot around the estate and executor. I think that's all I have to say about that because everything that I could say has already been said so welcome to the
0:46.2	pod welcome to the invitation to sit with Kara and her sister.
0:50.2	Invite you to close your eyes, get still, settle in, open your mind, and let's do the work.
1:00.0	Hello, welcome to at home. Kara. I have a work sheet today and I appreciate you taking the time because I am new and and I've been reading and
1:14.7	studying but I haven't been getting deep into it. I've been doing it today and
1:21.4	yesterday and I'm I'm nervous like about the feelings that are
1:26.8	underlying all this but I know you'll talk me through it so I appreciate it.
1:31.2	I have I have four questions for you and will experience what I call turnarounds.
1:38.0	Which is just another way of getting still and pondering what shows up. So honey, read number one on your
1:46.4	worksheet. I am angry with my sister because she manipulates me. And the situation where she's manipulate you.
1:55.0	Basically, she calls me selfish and tells me I'm selfish,
2:01.0	like all my whole life, she's a narcissist, basically.
2:05.0	And I haven't realized that until recently, but I would only do what she says.
2:11.6	And I'm 49 years old and yeah never too early I mean never too old to do
2:18.6	our patterns I know I was like but the fact that she's manipulate, like that she would use my weaknesses against me to make it seem like I was at fault and the one to blame.
2:33.0	Yeah.
2:34.0	That is unacceptable and she's a counselor.
2:38.0	Yeah.
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