Parenting With A Narcissist and Corona Virus
Trauma & Narcissism Redefined
Caroline Strawson
4.8 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
This week I want to talk about co-parenting with a narcissist in COVID times. We'll talk about what happens when the pandemic is used as an excuse for not giving the kids back, or sending them over. We will also go through the best way to communicate with a narcissist in conflict situations, and what parallel parenting is.
What You Will Learn In This Episode:
- The difficulties of co-parenting with a narcissist
- What it means to parallel parent
- The importance of self-care and why it is NOT selfish
- Why you need to register, document and not get dragged into an argument
- How to set up up a grounding station at home
We need to pay special attention to the pandemic restrictions used as control methods by the narcissist in our lives. If that is the case, our kids' happiness is essential to look at before we decide to act.
Resources:
- Join my Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/thriveafternarcissisticabuse
- Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carolinestrawson/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the narcissistic abuse recovery podcast. I'm Caroline Stawson and I'll be sharing with you |
| 0:09.2 | awareness, understanding and education about the devastating effects of narcissistic abuse to help you thrive. |
| 0:16.8 | I want you to know that I've been exactly where you are now and I believe you. |
| 0:21.4 | And this show is all about taking you from trauma to transformation. |
| 0:30.2 | So in this episode, I really want to talk to you about something that I get lots and lots of messages about, |
| 0:36.5 | particularly in the current climate in the world, |
| 0:38.9 | and that is, how do you parent with a narcissist when we have COVID? And this is such a |
| 0:45.6 | complex subject. And of course, everybody is going to be different in this with different parameters |
| 0:50.5 | of, you know, the current child arrangement orders that you already have in place. |
| 0:55.7 | And so I just want to really break it down to help you with your sanity. |
| 1:00.9 | So it's at least dysregulating and activating for you in all of this. |
| 1:06.1 | Now, we know when you parent with a narcissist, the ideal that society tell us we must do is what we |
| 1:12.9 | call co-parent. |
| 1:14.6 | And this is something that I feel really, really strongly about and something that I really want |
| 1:18.9 | to work on in the coming months and next 18 months in really changing people's attitude |
| 1:25.0 | around this. |
| 1:25.9 | Because when we set up a society of we must co-parent, |
| 1:31.4 | when you know you can't co-parent with a narcissist, not because you don't want to, but you can't |
| 1:36.5 | co-parent with someone who isn't cooperative of doing that, you're already having society saying |
| 1:42.9 | you are then a bad parent and factor in by nature |
| 1:47.5 | of you being in that relationship with a narcissist, you're always coming from a place of lack |
| 1:51.6 | of self-worth to then have other people judge you on the fact that it looks like it's a very |
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