Too many of us are heading into the holidays with dread. We’re about to spend several hours with the very people we’ve spent most of the year avoiding. Like Great Aunt Maggie who can’t resist commenting on your weight or new hair style. Or Uncle Joe who will be sure to bring up one of your embarrassing childhood stories. Maybe you’re facing your partner’s inability to stay away from the punch bowl or revisiting an old fight on the way home.
For those of us who’ve left a narcissistically abusive relationship, we may be facing the holidays alone for the first time since the ex has gotten the kids despite promising never to hurt us quite this way. Or maybe we’re facing the holidays being a single parent with shell-shocked kids who don’t understand why their mother or father isn’t around.
Whatever the circumstances, the holidays are often far from being the peaceful respite we need.
If you’re looking for help, check out this week’s newsletter which is full of useful ideas and practical scenarios, including how-to tips. You can find it on Substack at Breaking Free from Narc Abuse. This week’s edition is completely free.
And as a special measure of help, join the Toxic Free Relationship Club this month for FREE. You will also get $300 off when you sign up for a one year subscription! Pay nothing the first month and then only pay $56.25 for the next 11 months (25% off regular price of $75). If you’ve been wanting the group coaching support, direct access to me, and to feel understood and supported by other survivors, now is the time to join with this special offer.
Choose between the four weekly group coaching meetings when you join the Toxic-Free Relationship Club membership, get immediate access to an extensive video library of past webinars featuring experts like Kristin Milstead and Sandra Brown, and get to enjoy lively monthly book club discussions on the last on narcissistic abuse read.
Don’t wait! This special offer ends when the new year begins.
Kerry McAvoy, PhD
Too many of us are heading into the holidays with dread. We’re about to spend several hours with the very people we’ve spent most of the year avoiding. Like Great Aunt Maggie who can’t resist commenting on your weight or new hair style. Or Uncle Joe who will be sure to bring up one of your embarrassing childhood stories. Maybe you’re facing your partner’s inability to stay away from the punch bowl or revisiting an old fight on the way home.
For those of us who’ve left a narcissistically abusive relationship, we may be facing the holidays alone for the first time since the ex has gotten the kids despite promising never to hurt us quite this way. Or maybe we’re facing the holidays being a single parent with shell-shocked kids who don’t understand why their mother or father isn’t around.
Whatever the circumstances, the holidays are often far from being the peaceful respite we need.
If you’re looking for help, check out this week’s newsletter which is full of useful ideas and practical scenarios, including how-to tips. You can find it on Substack at Breaking Free from Narc Abuse. This week’s edition is completely free.
And as a special measure of help, join the Toxic Free Relationship Club this month for FREE. You will also get $300 off when you sign up for a one year subscription! Pay nothing the first month and then only pay $56.25 for the next 11 months (25% off regular price of $75). If you’ve been wanting the group coaching support, direct access to me, and to feel understood and supported by other survivors, now is the time to join with this special offer.
Choose between the four weekly group coaching meetings when you join the Toxic-Free Relationship Club membership, get immediate access to an extensive video library of past webinars featuring experts like Kristin Milstead and Sandra Brown, and get to enjoy lively monthly book club discussions on the last on narcissistic abuse read.
Don’t wait! This special offer ends when the new year begins.
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