The Dissociation of Romana & The Coercive Controlling Mother - Narcissist Apocalypse, Domestic Violence

Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse

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4.7 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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In this survivor story, Romana discusses the emotional and physical abuse she endured at the hands of her mother, the dissociation it created, and how everything effected her future abusive relationships. Of the many abusive relationships Romana endured, the most abusive one was with her first ex-husband, who became her lifelong stalker. It's a story of intergenerational trauma, emotional abuse, subjectivity, boundaries, support, attachment trauma, manipulation, coercive control, triangulation, physical abuse, sexual assault, suicide, stalking, and healing. *** CONTENT WARNING - This episode discusses sexual assault, physical abuse, strangulation, and suicide. *** 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.8	On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, we talk with an abuse survivor named Romana, and Romana was raised by a controlling physical abuser.
0:40.7	It's a story of normalizing abuse, dissociation, triangulation, a stalking X, and healing intergenerational trauma.
1:07.4	Music Trauma. Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone.
1:11.9	I am Brandon Chadwick, and with me today, we have Romana.
1:17.1	How are you?
1:18.7	I'm well, thank you.
1:20.7	Well, thank you for being here, Romana.
1:23.9	And if you want to be a guest like Romana is today, please go to our website at Narcissistapocalypse.com.
1:29.7	Top of the page, here's a button that says guest form.
1:31.7	When you click on that button, it takes you to our guest form page.
1:34.7	And there you can read all of our instructions and either send us an email at Narcissistapocalypse at gmail.com or fill out our guest form and press the submit button.
1:42.4	And please do send it in the format that we ask for.
1:45.6	And we can never have enough stories.
1:46.9	So please do send them in.
1:49.4	And a content warning for this episode, as we do discuss sexual assault in this episode,
1:53.6	physical abuse in this episode.
1:55.4	It's a graphic description of physical abuse in this episode,
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