Creative Mind Audio
For artists and creative people in general. Brief excerpts of interviews with artists, psychologists, and others on emotional health, personality, high sensitivity, giftedness, neurodivergence, and more topics. See my main podcast page on Substack thecreativemind.substack.com/podcast - where you can also see posts and subscribe. By Douglas Eby.
Creative Mind Audio
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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