Healing From Complex Trauma & Narcissistic Abuse - Narcissist Apocalypse Q&A With Dr. Ingrid Clayton

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🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In this episode, Brandon talks with Dr. Ingrid Clayton about healing from narcissistic abuse and complex trauma. Dr. Clayton shares her personal story as we discuss her memoir, 'Believing Me', a powerful recount of her childhood trauma from a psychologist's perspective and her healing journey. Dr. Clayton also navigates through the heavy waters of trauma responses, reenactments, and how these reactions often lead to relational trauma and self-abandonment. To reach Dr. Ingrid Clayton's website, click here. To reach Dr. Ingrid Clayton's Instagram, click here. To buy Dr. Ingrid Clayton's book 'Believing Me', click here. If you want to be a guest on our survivor story podcast, please click here or send us an email at narcissistapocalypse@gmail.com To help out our podcast, please fill out our listener survey, click here. *** CONTENT WARNING - This episode discusses childhood sexual abuse. *** Thank you to our sponsor BETTERHELP. If you need online counseling from anywhere in the world, please do go to https://www.betterhelp.com/nap Get started today and enjoy 10% off your first month. Thank you to our sponsor FACTOR. To get delicious fresh healthy meals delivered to your door and ready in 2 minutes, go to Factor at https://www.factormeals.com/nap50 and use promo code NAP50 to get 50% off. If you or someone you know are experiencing abuse, you are not alone. DomesticShelters.org offers an extensive library of articles and resources that can help you make sense of what you're experiencing, connect you with local resources and find ways to heal and move forward. Visit www.domesticshelters.org to access this free resource. If you need help moving due to domestic violence, Shelter Movers may be able to help you. They operate by referral. Clients may be referred by any person of authority (social worker, doctor, police, crisis counselor, teacher, etc.) or public agency (shelter, hospital, school, workplace, place of worship, sexual assault centre, etc.). To reach them, click here. Join our new Community Social Network at https://community.narcissistapocalypse.com/ Join our Instagram Channel at https://www.instagram.com/narcissistapocalypse Join our Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpTIgjTqVJa4caNWMIAJllA

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0:00.0	On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, we talk with Dr. Ingrid Clayton about healing from narcissistic abuse and complex trauma.
0:36.4	Music Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse Q&A, everyone. I am Brandon Chadwick, and with me today, we have Dr.
0:37.6	Ingrid Clayton.
0:38.8	Welcome to the show.
0:41.3	Thank you so much, Brandon.
0:42.4	I'm happy to be here.
0:46.0	Well, I am happy that you are here. And before we get started in this episode, just a big content warning for this episode as we do discuss childhood sexual abuse in this episode.
0:59.4	And that is our content warning for this episode. And for those that don't know who you are,
1:07.0	Dr. Ingrid Clayton, you are a writer and clinical psychologist with a private practice in
1:12.1	Los Angeles, California. You have a master's in transpersonal psychology, a PhD in clinical
1:18.1	psychology. You have a holistic approach to psychotherapy incorporating trauma-informed modalities
1:24.2	like somatic experiencing, EMDR, and other experiential ways of working with the nervous
1:30.8	system.
1:32.0	You are also the author of your memoir, Believing Me, Healing from Narcissistic Abuse and Complex
1:37.6	Trauma.
1:38.2	Today we're going to talk a lot about complex trauma.
1:41.5	And in this book, you uncover your childhood know, your childhood trauma from a psychologist's
1:46.8	perspective. And we've had many therapists on our Survivor Story episodes. And I love having
1:54.5	therapists and psychologists on to talk about their experience of abuse and trauma and how they
2:00.5	unpack everything. And for those that don't know
2:04.2	much about your book, you know, or about your life, you never really understood what you were
2:09.5	healing from when you were kind of going through all of this. You grew up in a fog of gaslighting
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