Completing Trauma Response Cycles & Narcissistic Abuse
Trauma & Narcissism Redefined
Caroline Strawson
4.8 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Do you ever feel stuck in your healing journey, despite your sincere efforts to return to the person you were before encountering a narcissist? It's a common situation where we believe we're making progress, only to be overcome by anger and experience sudden outbursts that seem to set us back in our healing process. This cycle, known as the trauma response cycle, can be overcome. In this episode, I'll guide you on completing this cycle, enabling you to move forward in your healing and reach new levels of progress.
What you will learn in this episode:
- Why we get stuck in our healing, even when we want to get better.
- What sudden bursts of anger mean and why they are good for you.
- How to discharge our anger in a healthy way.
Let me introduce you to The Traffic Lights of Tolerance. When we're healing, we often go through the flight, fight, and freeze responses. If we're stuck in freeze, it can be challenging to transition to flight without going through the fight stage first. Think of these stages as the red, yellow, and green lights of a traffic light. Just like you can't go from red to green directly, you have to pass through yellow first. I'll guide you through the traffic lights of tolerance, explaining what to expect at each stage. This way, you can understand why you're experiencing unpleasant emotions and facing uncomfortable situations during your healing journey.
Resources:
- Join my FREE Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/thriveafternarcissisticabuse
- Access my low cost Narcissistic Trauma Recovery Programme https://go.carolinestrawson.com/heal-the-trauma-of-narcissistic-abuse
- Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carolinestrawson/
- Find me on TikTok!: https://www.tiktok.com/@carolinestrawson
- My website: https://www.carolinestrawson.com/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the narcissistic abuse and trauma recovery podcast. I'm Caroline Strawson 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 |
| 0:23.1 | for you to know that you are believed, you are seen, you are heard and you are not alone. And my hope |
| 0:30.9 | 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 |
| 0:40.1 | because it is possible. You are enough and you deserve to thrive. |
| 0:48.0 | Hey my friends, a massive warm welcome to the narcissistic abuse and trauma recovery podcast. |
| 0:54.1 | As always, it's my pleasure to have |
| 0:55.9 | you listening as my podcast drops every single Tuesday in the hope that it will give you some hope, |
| 1:03.2 | inspiration, education and maybe a bit of humor thrown in too. And I've had so many great |
| 1:10.1 | comments about my podcast that came out last week, about teenage |
| 1:14.5 | red flags from so many of you parents out there. And I'm just thrilled that this has given an |
| 1:20.9 | opportunity for you to have some tough and hard conversations sometimes with your children about |
| 1:25.6 | relationships and what is a healthy |
| 1:27.9 | relationship. You know, many people that I work with and we start to talk about what is a healthy |
| 1:32.2 | relationship and many people have never actually had a healthy relationship. That goes back to |
| 1:37.4 | childhood, friendships and romantic relationships too. So if you haven't listened to it, |
| 1:43.2 | do go ahead and listen to it as well. |
| 1:45.9 | The other thing that I'm going to make a request for right now too is if you're not following me |
| 1:51.1 | over on Instagram or TikTok, please, please, please go over and find me. Just Caroline Stawson, |
| 1:57.9 | go and find me. You hit me with a follow and say hello. I love, love, |
| 2:03.1 | love hearing from all of you, all of you listeners and then coming into my world, I know it's |
| 2:09.0 | great just listening to the podcast, but one of the things I really struggled with when I was |
| 2:13.1 | healing from narcissistic abuse when I was going through my divorce was feeling really lonely, |
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