Saylor's Journey from Childhood Trauma to Healing - Domestic Abuse, Narcissist Abuse

Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse

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🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Imagine being a child forced into the role of caretaker for your struggling mother. Our guest for today, Saylor, knows that reality all too well, and she's here to share her journey. From witnessing her mother's emotional abuse at the hands of her father, to grappling with her own feelings about their complex family dynamics, Saylor offers a raw and insightful look into a world many don't understand. In sharing her story, she illuminates the impact of unseen family wounds on the developmental years of children and their future relationships. It's a story of enmeshment, resilience, caretaking, getting your needs met, PTSD, panic disorders, self-awareness, and much more. 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. 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. 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 Sailor, and Sailor grew up witnessing the emotional abuse of her mother.
0:10.2	It's a story of enmeshment, everyone. I am Brandon Chadwick and with me today, we have Sailor. How are you?
0:46.5	Hi, Brandon. Thanks for having me. I'm doing great. I'm just excited to have this time to just chat.
0:56.3	Well, thank you for being here.
0:59.2	And if you want to be a guest like Sailor is today, please go to our website at
1:04.4	Narcissistapocalypse.com.
1:06.5	Top of the page, there's a button that says guest form.
1:08.9	When you click on that button, it takes you to our guest form page. There, you can read all of our instructions and either send us an email
1:15.0	at Narcissistapocalypse.g.com or fill out our guest form and press the submit button, and please
1:21.2	do send it in the format that we ask for. And today, there is no content warning for this episode. And you're going to hear Sailor's
1:31.4	story. And it is one of a child who witnessed abuse and how they handled it, how they
1:38.8	maneuvered through it, the repercussions and all the issues that were created. So a big thank you to Sailor for being
1:47.0	here with us today. And now I'll get out of my way and your way. Sailor, the floor, is now yours.
1:56.5	Okay. So before I ever enter the picture, my parents met each other a few years before 99, which was the year I was born.
2:06.6	My dad is a first generation American to Colombian parents. And my mom is a fully Colombian citizen who had immigrated to America when my parents got married.
2:21.5	My mom had a rough background in terms of her family, and so did my dad.
2:29.2	So it kind of brought this great opportunity for them to get to make a life with each other
2:37.5	and starting from the ground up.
2:40.7	Shortly after they got married, they had me, and then my brother and then my sister.
2:47.4	So I am the oldest of three kids in a Hispanic American household. And my dad was also in the
2:58.6	military. So we had we had that kind of lifestyle that kind of added upon the cultures that
3:07.4	we already had, which was being of a Latino heritage
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