How to Understand and Recover from Narcissistic and Toxic Family Dynamics

Meg Haworth, PhD recalls, "I grew up with a narcissistic parent in a toxic family system, and I also had all kinds of abuse growing up and spent a lot of time in my childhood being very sick."

This audio is an excerpt from a longer interview, talking about her adverse childhood experiences that led to her own healing and developing a mind body process that has helped many people gain clarity, health, and recovery.

Register free to view the full interview at The Shift Network (and learn about her related course): How to Heal Yourself From Toxic & Narcissistic Family Dynamics.

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Dr. Haworth notes "Sexual, physical, and emotional violation is debilitating. It can lead to unhealthy choices, poor personal boundaries and self-defeating patterns.

"All these things get stored in your body as memories that create pain and difficulties."

She adds, "I also drowned and had a near-death experience, and I was highly intuitive.

"I was so sensitive and psychic and empathic that I really just took on a lot of the abuse and a lot of the emotions that were coming my way, and really took it on as a part of me.

"And that led to illness. But it took me many many years to unwind this..."

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See video version of interview excerpt: Healing From Toxic and Narcissistic Family Dynamics.

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The left section of the image - family holiday gathering - is from article 5 Ways to Deal with Difficult Family Members During the Holidays and Beyond By Dr. Meg Haworth, The BusinessWoman Today, December 11, 2024.

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