Welcome to the narcissistic abuse recovery podcast. I'm Caroline Stawson and I'll be sharing with you

awareness, understanding and education about the devastating effects of narcissistic abuse to help you thrive.

I want you to know that I've been exactly where you are now and I believe you.

And this show is all about taking you from trauma to transformation.

So how many times have you heard somebody say, hey, my ex is a narcissist,

hey, my mom's a narcissist or my friend is a narcissist.

And you've seen the people around them rolling their eyeballs thinking, oh, somebody else is

calling their ex or whoever a narcissist. You know, narcissist is such an overused term in our

society today. But sadly, because it's so overused,

it really, really denigrates those who are true victims of narcissistic abuse. Because narcissistic

abuse is trauma. I mean, let's make no mistakes here. This isn't just some bad breakup. This isn't

just somebody you know who isn't very nice or they're mean or they're horrible.

This is trauma. This is actual trauma. Now, I want to explain to you to start off with what exactly trauma is.

Because again, I think we all kind of see this word trauma and narcissistic abuse bandied around all of the time.

And I want to help educate you on what exactly is trauma and what exactly is narcissistic abuse.

Because I think when we can start to understand, it means we feel like we don't need to prove it to

anybody else. Because the first thing that I want to say is, if you're listening to this right now, I believe you.

You know, you're watching this and listening to this because you know that there's something not right.

And you want to educate yourself.

You want to try and understand what this minefield is.

So firstly, what exactly is trauma?

Well, trauma doesn't just have to be you've been in a car accident or maybe a soldier who's been out in Afghanistan.

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