Listen to Julie discuss this article in detail in her interview on Narcissist Apocalypse Podcast. Many of us are familiar with the narcissistic personality’s classic traits such as grandiosity, callousness, and trigger-happy rage, but there are other things narcissists do…
The Narcissist Family Files Blog is an award-winning international resource for survivors of narcissistic abuse and trauma, founded by journalist and author of The Narcissist in Your Life Julie L. Hall. Here you will find insight and a vocabulary for…
Life with a narcissist is like being in a fun house without the fun: Narcissistic mirroring and projection meet you at every turn. At first you may feel dazzled, seduced by what the narcissist is showing you about yourself and…
Your entangled relationship with a narcissist is littered with lies, broken promises, shame, guilt, blind alleys, and perhaps even moral and legal obstacles. You’ve thought about leaving so many times, you feel like an emotionally shattered soldier fighting to survive,…
Published on The Huffington Post 3/7/17 Narcissism has become a buzzword these days, but for adult children of narcissists (ACoNs) the reality is painfully serious and the health stakes are high. Parents with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) are pathologically self-focused…
Published in The Huffington Post 02/27/2017 11:49 p.m. ET. Narcissists are practiced at hiding their true face to the world and initially can be quite charming and skilled at honing in on targets for seduction. But careful observation and an understanding of…
“A family is a tyranny ruled by its weakest member.” George Bernard Shaw nailed the truth with this quote, and no better example is the narcissistic family. The Narcissistic Family Playbill The narcissistic family can be understood as a play…
A child of narcissists, Charlotte was seven years old when she became in her words the “death dealer” on her family’s makeshift farm. At her mother’s insistence, the family moved from D.C. to acreage in rural Virginia and embarked on…