Welcome to the narcissistic abuse and trauma recovery podcast. I'm Caroline Stawson and I'll be sharing with you, awareness, understanding and education about the devastating effects of narcissistic abuse. I've been exactly where you are right now. And this podcast is a beacon of hope

for you to know that you are believed, you are seen, you are heard and you are not alone. And my hope

for listening to the podcast is it will help you move from post-traumatic stress to post-traumatic growth after the trauma of narcissistic

abuse because it is possible. You are enough and you deserve to thrive. Hey my friends. A massive

welcome to the narcissistic abuse and trauma recovery podcast. As always, it's really my

honor to have you here, albeit through these circumstances as always. But I hope every week

as this drops to you, this will always continue to give you that hope, that education and that

inspiration to really help you start to heal and thrive

after the trauma of narcissistic abuse. So in today's episode, I really want to just keep you

up to date with a few things that are happening in my world and what's been happening this week

and how all of that culminates together in some of the things that I want to share with you

in this episode

of this podcast. So this week has literally been like a whirlwind. I have to say, I'm not

going to lie, it really, really has. Because actually on Tuesday, which the day my podcast

normally comes out as well, I was honoured to actually do a podcast interview probably a couple of months ago now

with Glenn and Doyle on We Can Do Hard Things podcast with her sister and Abby.

And the four of us talked all things narcissism.

And honestly, those women, I feel so blessed that they invited me to be on their podcast as the narcissist expert.

Because how I approach narcissism, as I'm sure many of you know, or if not, as a new listener, it's something very unique.

It's something that's quite different, actually, than a lot of people out there. So I don't

talk about the medicalization with narcissistic personality disorder. I believe I talk about it from a

very human-centered approach and also equally with the understanding of the word narcissist so that

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