Growing up with Narcissistic Parents
Episode 3 season 5: Phoenix Gould on Healing from Narcissistic Abuse
Are highly sensitive people more their environment? In this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, host Elizabeth Cush talks with Phoenix Gould about the profound impact of narcissistic parents on highly sensitive children and adults.
“The narcissist demands that we pay attention to them. Our way of survival is to be highly attuned to their needs.”
Show Notes:
If you’re a highly sensitive person (HSP), did you ever wonder how your childhood affected you and your sensitivities? Why does it seem so much easier to tune into others’ needs rather than your own? Why do emotions feel so overwhelming—if you can feel them at all? How did your parent’s struggles affect you? And, most important, how can you heal those hurts, increase self-awareness and build a loving and trusting relationship with yourself? In this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast, host Elizabeth Cush, LCPC, a licensed professional therapist, founder of Progression Counseling in Annapolis, Md., and a mid-life women’s life coach, welcomes Phoenix Gould, a coach and highly sensitive woman who combines bodywork and radical self-love to help clients experience the unconditional love that they did not receive as children. They talk about growing up as highly sensitive children, they share their healing journeys, and they offer hope and inspiration that you, too, can feel your emotions without overwhelm and experience the core of who you truly are.
Listen and learn:
How having a parent with strong narcissistic traits, or being in relationship with a narcissist, affects an HSP’s emotional development and identity
The role a shaman played in Phoenix’s healing journey—and the impact it had on her life
About what “radical self-love” is and how is supports healing
How our emotions are like little children who want candy—and a healthy way to respond to them
Where to get a guided meditation to ease overwhelm
The importance of befriending exiled or banished parts through compassion and care
The benefits of parts work, inner child work and shadow work
The upside of being highly sensitive
Where to connect with others who are healing from relationships with narcissists
Learn more:
Phoenix Core Coaching website
Phoenix Gould on Facebook
Women Healing from the Narcissist Facebook group
Men Healing from the Narcissist Facebook group
Phoenix Gould on Instagram
Contact Phoenix on What’s App: +1(780)268-9888
Phoenix Gould on LinkedIn
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