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Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse

From Grooming to Clarity: Reflections on Wednesday’s Story

Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse

Abuse Survivor Network

Relationships, Education, True Crime, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.7792 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In this educational reflection episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Brandon revisits Wednesday’s survivor story and breaks down the patterns of grooming, manipulation, and coercive control that shaped her experience with an abusive college professor. This follow-up explores how early family boundary violations and people-pleasing conditioned Wednesday to take on responsibility for others’ emotions — making fear, obligation, guilt, and shame powerful tools of control.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone.

0:08.0

I am Brandon Chadwick, and today we're going to do a follow-up to Wednesday's episode,

0:14.0

and that is not Wednesday the day, that is Wednesday,

0:16.9

and her survivor story that just came out,

0:19.1

and this is going to be an educational follow-up based upon everything that we heard in that episode.

0:25.0

And I'll be giving you a summary, key themes, an analogy of that episode.

0:30.0

And then we're going to point out the fear, obligation, guilt, and shame that occurred for Wednesday during her story, during her life as a whole,

0:39.5

as well as things we want for Wednesday and things she plans on working on. And before we get to

0:46.8

that, if you want to be a guest like Wednesday was the other day, then go to our website at

0:50.9

Narcissistapocalypse.com. Inside, you'll see that we have a guest form.

0:55.7

Click on that guest form button, fill out the form, or just send us an email at Narcissist

1:00.0

Apocalypse at p.m.m. And also we have a newsletter, and our newsletter has five things inside,

1:07.9

actually. It's six things inside. The five things are kind of five points.

1:12.9

We want to hammer home from this episode that we will not be discussing today and some

1:18.8

resources in there as well. And the sixth thing will be a downloadable workbook from this episode.

1:26.4

So if you want any of that, it's all for free.

1:29.2

Go to our website, sign up to our newsletter, and hope to hear from you today.

1:36.5

So today we're going to be talking about Wednesday's story and Wednesday shared her experience as a survivor of abuse, intergenerational trauma,

1:47.3

and grooming at the hands of her college professor. And from a young age, Wednesday struggled

1:53.0

with family boundary violations, emotional neglect, and people pleasing, which really primed

1:59.6

her for the manipulation that occurred later on in her life.

2:03.9

And we're not going to be victim blaming here.

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