Letters to the Abusive Narcissist | Domestic Violence, Coercive Control, Narcissistic Abuse

Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse

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🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Brandon reads letters and poems from survivors of domestic violence, coercive control, and narcissistic abuse about their experiences. Plus, Brandon analyzes the letters to discuss the big themes of being good enough, survival, and your basic human rights. *** CONTENT WARNING - This episode discusses sexual abuse and physical abuse. *** If you want to be a guest on our survivor story podcast, please click here or send us an email at [email protected] To help out our podcast, please fill out our listener survey, click here. The poets you heard today were Kate Rogers and Patrick Grace - They are published by River Street Writing. About the author Kate Rogers: Kate Rogers' poetry and critical writing have appeared in many literary journals and anthologies both in Canada and abroad, including The Montreal International Poetry Prize Anthology (Véhicule Press), Looking Back at Hong Kong (CUHK Press), subTerrain, ARC, PRISM, and many others. Her most recent poetry collection is Out of Place (Aeolus House/Quattro Books 2017.) She is a co-director of the Art Bar Poetry Reading Series in Toronto. About Patrick Grace: Patrick Grace is an author and teacher who divides his time between Vancouver and Victoria, BC. His poems have been published widely in Canadian literary magazines, including Arc Poetry Magazine, Best Canadian Poetry, Columba, EVENT, The Ex-Puritan, The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, Prairie Fire, and more. His work has been a finalist for literary contests with CV2 and PRISM international, and in 2020, his poem "A Violence" won The Malahat Review's Open Season Award for poetry. He has published two chapbooks: a blurred wind swirls back for you (Turret House Press, 2023), and Dastardly (Anstruther Press, 2021), both of which explore aspects of love, fear, and trauma that represent a personal queer identity. Deviant, his first full-length poetry collection, continues to explore these themes. Follow him on IG: @thepoetpatrick. PODCAST RECOMMENDATIONS: Perfect Prey With Dr. Christine Cocchiola | Click Here The Covert Narcissism Podcast | Click Here Something Was Wrong | Click Here 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.6	On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, we read and break down your letters to the abusers. Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone.
1:01.6	I am Brandon Chadwick, and on this episode, we are bringing back our letters to the
1:09.0	narcissist, letters to the abusers episode, and we're going to
1:13.1	read and break down letters to the abusers. And we're going to have a couple of poems as well by a
1:18.6	couple of poets. And we will be discussing all of these very, very soon. But if you want to be a
1:25.7	guest on our Survivor Story episodes, please do go to our
1:29.0	website at Narcissistapocalypse.com. Top of the page, there's a button that says guest form.
1:34.1	When you click on that button, it takes you to our guest form page. And there you can read all
1:39.0	of our instructions and either send us an email at Narcissist Apocalypse at gmail.com or fill out our guest form and
1:45.8	press the submit button and please do send it in the format that we ask for. And today we're going
1:52.7	to be just reading these letters and we're going to also have a couple of recordings from the
1:56.7	actual poets themselves who have these poems about abuse.
2:01.4	And I'll just break into the first letter right now.
2:07.0	You can believe I'm stupid, lazy, a loser, an asshole, and an idiot.
2:14.5	I know that I'm not.
2:17.2	How you can even use those words with me blows my mind. You say I'm
2:22.3	caretaking, not parenting. But then when I spend time parenting instead of caretaking,
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