We’ve all experienced insensitive talkers who dominate conversations with excessive chatter and poor listening. But if you’re treated to regular aggressive ear-bending disguised as “conversation,” you may be dealing with the soul-crushing verbal bullying of narcissistic monologuing. Not all narcissists…
As the daughter of a narcissistic mother you face countless assaults to your identity, integrity, and individuality. One of the most pernicious forms of assault plays out on the battlefield of your body. Before we peer into the black hole…
Released today, December 3, 2019, from Da Capo Lifelong Books/Hachette Book Group, Julie L. Hall’s The Narcissist in Your Life: Recognizing the Patterns and Learning to Break Free lands with urgency on mental health bookshelves to help survivors of narcissistic abuse and…
First published in Psychology Today 10/14/19 Children of narcissistic parents, particularly children who are routinely devalued or scapegoated, commonly internalize feelings of vulnerability, hopelessness, and imminent threat that create a sense of foreshortened future. Like other long-term trauma sufferers, children from narcissistic families…
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…
Narcissists are driven by underlying feelings of vulnerability and shame that they compensate for with self-aggrandizement. Having missed crucial developmental milestones in early childhood, including a secure sense of identity, resilient self-esteem, and an empathetic connection with others, narcissists in…