I'm no good I taking good advice and I'm self careless so don't tell me twice that

lately I've been so stuck in my head that I forget just about everything my therapist said

maybe I'm self-helpless maybe I'm self-help. helpless. Maybe we're self helpless.

Maybe I'm self helpless.

Maybe I'm self helpless.

Maybe we're all self-helpless.

Hey everyone, welcome to self-helpless.

I'm Delaney Fisher, and today I'm chatting

with psychotherapist Katie McKenna and Helen Villers who specialized in helping people understand

narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder and heal from emotional abuse.

And our focus today is narcissistic family systems and dynamics. So today's

topic was submitted and voted on by our community over at patreon.com

slash self-helpless. Thank you for your submissions and thank you to those who voted both on

Patreon and via email. So we've talked about narcissism and NPD before. A lot of

the episodes in the past have included information about romantic relationships where this is happening,

but you wanted to dig into this from the angle of having a parent with a personality disorder and how that impacts the entire family, which is exactly what Katie and Helen do.

So it's very cool that we are able to book specialists in the exact niche you wanted.

So if you feel like there's been a lot of heavy guilt

tripping and criticism by a parent and perhaps,

you know, your other parent is more passive or enabling these behaviors.

Maybe you feel like no matter what you do it's never been good enough or perhaps one

sibling in the family seems to get blamed for everything while another sibling can do

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