Trauma Bonding & Addiction To The Narcissist

Trauma & Narcissism Redefined

Caroline Strawson

Narcissisticabuse, Health & Fitness, Narcissist, Self-improvement, Education, Recovery, Mental Health, Trauma

4.8 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Join my FREE Masterclass on "The 4 Stages Of Trauma Bonding With A Narcissist" - Register here and you will be sent a recording if you can't make it LIVE https://go.carolinestrawson.com/nticc-masterclass-organic

I want you to understand why you feel the way you do with a narcissist, and I hope this episode and my FREE Masterclass this Thursday (April 7th, 2022) will help shine a light on your feelings and how to break a trauma bond and cure your addiction to a narcissist.

What you will learn in this episode:

Why we become physiologically addicted to being in a relationship
How to break a trauma bond and end your addiction to a narcissist
The biology behind narcissistic addiction

Becoming addicted to a narcissist and the hormones you get from being in a relationship is not your fault. Your body is designed to react in certain ways to protect you, but you must know how this biology works so that you can end your narcissistic addiction safely.

Resources:

Join my Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/thriveafternarcissisticabuse
Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carolinestrawson/
My website: https://www.carolinestrawson.com/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the narcissistic trauma recovery podcast. I'm Caroline Strawson and I'll be sharing with you
0:09.6	awareness, understanding and education about the devastating effects of narcissistic abuse to help you thrive.
0:16.5	I want you to know that I've been exactly where you are and I believe you.
0:21.4	And this show is all about taking you from trauma to transformation.
0:27.4	Hey, my friends, I hope you are okay.
0:30.2	I'm sat here, you know, in my office at home,
0:34.1	looking out at gorgeous blue skies here in the UK.
0:38.2	Literally no word of a lie, probably half an hour ago, it was grey and snowing.
0:44.9	So those of you who don't know what the good old British weather is like, if you'd have been here,
0:49.1	we've had literally probably four seasons in the space of about three hours as I look out,
0:54.9	but it's nice to see some blue sunshine now. So wherever you are in the world, I'm absolutely thrilled that you're
1:00.3	listening to my podcast. And, you know, a new one comes out every single Tuesday. And I really try
1:06.8	my best to think about those of you in my free group, which is my narcissistic abuse
1:12.9	and trauma recovery for women group on Facebook, those who follow me on Instagram and send me
1:16.8	messages, I really take on board what you send me. So any ideas you ever have, you know,
1:22.1	please send me a message on socials or drop us an email at hello at caroline strawson.com because we really do have a
1:29.7	list going of what you ask for as well. So, you know, we try and do things where it's going to reach
1:36.0	the majority of you and you can really resonate with all of those elements as well. So I want to
1:41.9	talk to you a bit about trauma bonding and addiction today because it's
1:45.8	something I get lots and lots of messages about, about people really, really struggling about
1:50.3	how they can't leave the relationship with the narcissist. And this can actually be whether it be a
1:55.6	parent or indeed a partner. And the reason why I want to do this podcast now is that on Thursday, so in a
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