How the Scapegoat Survivor May Confuse Badness With Realness
Do you define the ‘real you’ as someone who has low self-worth, isinsecure, or anxious? Do your own good feelings seem inauthentic or superficial? Does…
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How the Scapegoat Survivor Can Recover Faith in Themselves
This post will share how the scapegoat survivor can recover Faith in themselves. Don’t skip this post if you’re a scapegoat survivor.
When the Scapegoat Has To Deny Their Own Gifts
Being the scapegoat child to a narcissistic parent means feeling very unimportant. You may have even felt like you did not exist to this parent.…
“Yeah but…” How the Scapegoat Survivor Discounts Their Strengths
Do you add caveats to your strengths or accomplishments? Does it seem like you are not as mature, developed or confident as others? Have you…
Evacuating the Seat of Your Self: A Necessary Move for the Scapegoat Survivor
In most families, parents protect and respect their children. This protection and respect does not falter when the child needs something. Nor when the child…
Feeling Uninteresting to Oneself as the Scapegoat
Do you experience your ideas to be less captivating than others’ ideas? When you are alone, can you feel flat or lifeless? Do you find…
The Science Behind Gaining Distance From the Narcissistic Abuser
In every blog, I talk about the 3 Pillars of Recovery from Narcissistic Abuse. Today I want to dig into why the second pillar is…
3 Ways the Narcissistic Parent Blocks the Scapegoat Child’s Growth
As a child, did you feel… …like everything you did was wrong? …like there was an aching hole inside that never seemed to fill up?…
The Scapegoat Child’s Role & Symptoms in Narcissistic Abuse
If you grew up with a narcissistic parent and felt devalued most of the time then you were that parent’s scapegoat. The scapegoat is someone…
Take off the Scapegoat Nametag at the Narcissistic Family’s Conference
I recently thought about the metaphor of a business conference for what happens when a narcissistic family puts a child in the role of scapegoat.…