Cracking The Code Of Narcissistic Family Dynamics: An Insightful Conversation With Angela Ward.
Book by Angela Ward.
Navigating Narcissistic Family Dynamics: Your Path to Healing & Empowerment
Today, Loraine interviews Angela Ward about her experiences with success, failures, and narcissism within family dynamics. Angela shares her journey of building a successful consultancy company in the healthcare sector, overcoming adversity, and the impact of her upbringing on her mindset. She delves into the challenges of being in a narcissistic family and how it affected her relationships and self-esteem. Angela also discusses the importance of self-inquiry, healing, and empowerment in breaking free from toxic dynamics. The episode offers insights into recognizing signs of narcissistic family dynamics, developing resilience, and finding peace through acceptance and forgiveness.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Success can be achieved despite adversity and challenging circumstances.
Family dynamics and upbringing can have a significant impact on one’s mindset and choices.
Narcissistic family dynamics can be damaging and affect self-esteem and boundaries.
Healing and empowerment can be achieved through self-inquiry, awareness, and taking responsibility for one’s own life.
Forgiveness and acceptance are important steps in finding peace and moving forward from past trauma.
BEST MOMENTS
“I’ve had a few quite magnificent successes really… I shock myself sometimes of how much I’ve actually achieved.”
“It chips away at your confidence and it chips away at your self-esteem… It really does mess with your self-esteem. It does destroy people.”
“All you’re doing is you’re giving them the control over you still because you’re allowing that to control your life.”
“There will always be points where you drop and you dip… Things will trigger you and it may still trigger part of the attachment to that.”
“I’m a big advocate of not using professionals… I did all my work myself.”
HOST BIO
Loraine is a blogger, digital creator, and author.
A former Property Management business owner spent a decade in HMO and family rentals before moving to Spain in 2016 with dreams of becoming fully retired and living in Spain with her partner, but that dream shattered in September 2020.
Loraine explains how she has now experienced the three D’s in relationship endings. Divorce, death of a partner and now discard, the abrupt termination of a relationship.
Currently working on rebuilding her life whilst living with three overlapping litigations post-separation including the threat of precarious eviction by a former partner.
