Episode 140: Narcissistic Trauma Recovery with Caroline Strawson
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This is the last week of domestic violence awareness month, so I wanted to explore the topic of narcissistic trauma and recovery. Caroline Strawson helps us understand the complexities of narcissistic trauma and the healing journey that is necessary for those of us who have suffered from it.
Caroline Strawson is a multi award winning narcissistic trauma informed therapist and coach and best selling author of Divorce Became My Superpower. She has completely transformed her life from being at rock bottom after her divorce to a narcissist; and now works on helping others process the trauma of narcissistic abuse for post traumatic growth.
Show Highlights
- Caroline shares her story of divorce from a narcissist and her transformation. (7:45)
- The narcissist is the abuser. Trauma is what you hold in your body about the narcissist. (15:20)
- You can't change the abuse, but you can change your experience and what you say to yourself about the abuse. That's the key element to healing. (18:29)
- Caroline explains the traffic lights of tolerance analogy and how it ties to our normal nervous system response to trauma or abuse. (20:01)
- The root of codependency and narcissism is trauma. (27:56)
- How to support a friend or loved one as they heal from narcissistic trauma. (38:07)
- The three stages for healing from narcissistic trauma. (42:25)
- Why Caroline says you can't co-parent with a narcissist. Instead, she says choose parallel parenting. (44:41)
Learn More About Caroline:
Caroline Strawson is a multi award winning Trauma Informed therapist and coach, #1 best selling
author and #1 iTunes rated podcast, The Narcissistic Trauma Recovery Podcast. She specialises in helping heal the trauma of narcissistic abuse at a deep nervous system level. She uses a unique integration of therapy and coaching including EMDR, Brainspotting, RTT, Breath work, Internal Family Systems and positive psychology. She was diagnosed with complex PTSD, depression, anxiety and self harm in 2011
and was in over $100,000 debt and had her home repossessed after a narcissistic marriage. She
has now helped thousands of women globally with her Narcissistic Trauma Recovery Programme and her Narcissistic Trauma Unlocking Method™.
She has appeared in national newspapers, magazines, television and BBC Radio to give hope to
others and lift the guilt and shame associated with the trauma of narcissistic abuse.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should you go. |
| 0:17.7 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate |
| 0:22.8 | some of the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. |
| 0:28.5 | I've been to hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side |
| 0:34.2 | of this process with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:47.0 | Hey, everyone, welcome back. |
| 0:50.0 | This is the last week in Domestic Violence Awareness Month. |
| 0:57.4 | And so often I have guests on that I, you know, I know the answers to a lot of my questions |
| 1:04.9 | and I, you know, we're in the same line of work or whatever. |
| 1:09.1 | And but today's guest, man, I learned so much from, uh, from this woman's work and |
| 1:18.2 | from just this, this one conversation. |
| 1:22.1 | Um, Caroline Straussen, man, she is something else. |
| 1:25.6 | She is a multi-award winning narciss narcissistic trauma-informed therapist and coach. |
| 1:31.6 | Best-selling author of Divorce became My Superpower. |
| 1:35.3 | She has completely transformed her life from being at rock bottom after her divorce to a narcissist. |
| 1:41.0 | And now she works on helping others process the trauma of narcissistic abuse |
| 1:45.7 | for post-traumatic growth. I want everyone to listen to this, and I want you to understand |
| 1:54.7 | the complexities, the complexity of narcissistic trauma and the healing journey that is necessary |
| 2:09.0 | for those of us who have suffered from narcissistic trauma. And Caroline is your, |
| 2:17.1 | she is your go-to. I'll tell you what. You know, she's got a narcissistic |
| 2:23.2 | trauma recovery program and her narcissistic trauma unlocking method. And she talks a little bit about |
| 2:28.8 | both of those in this episode. So give it a listen. Learn, learn, learn as I have. And without further ado, |
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