Wednesday, December 22, 2021

The Psychology Behind the $500,000 Handbag

This is a very interesting article! So happy I'm free from being "traumatic bonding" that's exactly how it was with my family of origin and then reenacted with my ex for a long 10 years! 

"This emotional rollercoaster of reward and punishment is called “traumatic bonding.” In traumatic bonding, the victim bonds to the abuser because of poor treatment, not despite it. This bond enables the abuser to exert control and influence others. Dutton and Painter (1981) indicated that this only occurs in the context of a key environmental factor—an imbalance of power. If a highly narcissistic abuser lacks the upper hand, intermittent reinforcement loses its grip.

Read more in the link below:


Monday, December 20, 2021

Parents Project their Repressed Feelings into Their Own Children

“Our parents project the repressed feelings of their own childhood onto us and without realizing it blames us for the things that once happened to them. Like the psychiatrist Henry in Brigitte’s story (see Chapter 2), parents often react blindly and destructively because they are still caught up in the reality of their childhood without realizing it. To survive cruelties---beatings, humiliations, and neglect---they had to conceal their own feelings from themselves. Now they have become slaves to those emotions they cannot control them because they cannot understand their meaning, and they cannot understand their meaning because, like Adam and Eve in Paradise, they have been told to regard cruelty as love. They have been taught to obey incomprehensible commandments and have been made to remain in a state of blindness all their lives, threatened with brimstone and hellfire should they dare to dissent” Alice Miller, taken from the book “The truth Will Set you Free” page 96

Saturday, December 18, 2021

BARRIERS IN THE MIND

"It is a never-ending source of acute distress for me when I think of the devastating power of denial in producing the barriers in our minds. One of the ways this obstructive power manifests itself is in the persistence of theologians and philosophers in discussing ethical issues without taking any account of the findings produced by brain research and the laws governing infant development. 

These factors are crucial to a clearer understanding of how evil originates and how we actively perpetuate it. For psychoanalysts, it is also high time to rethink the concepts of destructive drives and evil, "perverted" children, which they have inherited from *poisonous pedagogy. But in order to do so they would have to take modern research on infancy seriously. The approach adopted by Daniel Stern and the followers of John Bowlby still appears to gain only peripheral attention in psychoanalytic circles, perhaps because by his theory of initial attachment Bowlby exploded a taboo. By linking the causes of antisocial behavior with the absence of a resilient attachment to the mother, he was flying in the face of Freud's drive theory.

But my conviction is that we have to go a step further than Bowlby went. We are dealing here not just with anti-social behavior and so-called narcissistic disorders but with the inescapable realization that denying and repressing our childhood traumas means reducing our capacity to think and conspiring to erect barriers in our minds. Brain research has succeeded in uncovering the biological foundations of the denial phenomenon. But the consequences, the impact on our mentality, have not yet been adequately contemplated. No one appears to be interested in examining how insensitivity to the suffering of children--a phenomenon found the world over--is bound up with a form of mental paralysis that has its roots in childhood.

As children, we learn to suppress and deny natural feelings and to believe sincerely that the cuffs and blows we receive are for our own good and do us no lasting injury. Our brains, furnished with this false information, then instruct us to raise our own children by the same methods, telling them that it is good for them just as it was good for us.

This way of thinking causes billions of people to believe that children can become good and decent citizens only if we do violence to them. 

They are blind to the fear in their children's eyes and refuse to acknowledge that the only thing we can really instill in children by beating them is the determination to use violence later in life, either against themselves or against others. These destructive beliefs, also held by many intellectuals, are impervious to argument because they are stored in the body at a very early stage. Such people will make blunt assertions that, without their realizing it, stand in the starkest contrast to the pure intellectual knowledge they acquired from books." -- Alice Miller

above excerpt from BARRIERS IN THE MIND
Chapter 7 from The Truth Will Set You Free
by Alice Miller www.nospank.net/miller18.htm

*Alice Miller used a term above "poisonous pedagogy," which you may not be familiar with, so I will enclose a link to a section in her book For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence, where she explains in a summary what "poisonous pedagogy" means www.nospank.net/fyog9.htm#summary

from Project NoSpank www.nospank.net/main-x.htm the entire book of For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence by Alice Miller www.nospank.net/fyog.htm
Alice Miller Index www.nospank.net/milindex.htm

Alice Miller Index www.nospank.net/milindex.htm

Monday, December 13, 2021

6 Reasons Why Narcissists Try to Appear Caring and Helpful

 Malignant narcissists only care about their image, money, and protecting their name and could care less about you or any other breathing living being... 

6 Reasons Why Narcissists Try to Appear Caring and Helpful

"...Since narcissists are very interested in social status and influence, they use acts of generosity to appear noble and kind. ...Being a good person, or rather appearing as one publicly, can generate fame and boost a narcissist's public image. 

Some examples of this are narcissists who donate their money, goods, or time. A regular person receiving public acknowledgment for their good acts is secondary but for a narcissist, it's the main goal. Participating in a public photoshoot or making an article or announcement in regard to their generous deed go viral is what they are actually interested in." 

Read more in the link below:

https://psychcentral.com/blog/psychology-self/2020/05/narcissists-generosity#1

Saturday, December 4, 2021

Money Alone Will not Save Anyone

 MC,

I'm not staying with anyone! I’m staying with myself!  I know I only got crumbs and in the late 80s, I sent them enough money that covers all the crumbs they ever gave me.

The important enlightened information that I took back in a tray and I shared with everyone freely, so they too could help themselves and stop playing their part in the family dysfunction, but they chose not to pay attention to me, because to your mother and most people, unless you have a DR in front of your name or a Ph.D. at the end can possibly have anything of value to say and they rather keep paying attention and listen to charlatans with some stupid certificate/diploma that all they care about is getting money from them. 

This enlightened information -- has more value than all the money in this world put together, even if only a few see the value in it.

ML lies just as much if not more, constantly playing the heroine and the victim role, just like MI, and never takes responsibility for her part in the family dysfunction.

E and L all their lives have been chasing and feeding illusions and the truth is they can spend their money on whatever they want and give it to whoever they want and we don't have to like it!

Yes, it's not fair that MI is getting everything and taking my part also of my parents' property, but I don't care anymore, it is what it is, they can have it all and put it down the drain for all I care...

I make enough for myself and I know I will be okay; I'm just staying here in my little corner happy and free, away from everybody and their endless painful reenactments and dramas.

When you said that your mother and E should have not brought MI and me with them, you might be right, but E and L unconsciously needed dependent little children to use as poison containers to project and transfer all their repressed poison to alleviate their own unresolved childhood repression to temporarily and superficially feel better about themselves. 

At the time, as a little child, I didn't understand these psychological mechanisms and how people always need available beings at their disposal to use for projection and transference effects...

If E and L were healthy, capable of authentic feelings, and able to see clearly and brought us with them to the city to genuinely parent us and prepare us for a better future -- when L met your father -- and she decided to marry him --she and your father, not us, should have temporally rented a place and then put the house in Praca Sousa Caldas for sell and after it sold each take their own money and E buy a new house for us, and L buys a new house for her and her husband. Because the stability and the well-being of the children that they had committed themselves to -- should have come first -- and the needs of two selfish adults that just gotten married should have come second.

The way you talked the other day sounded like, you were not born YET, and you had more rights to the house in Praca Sousa Caldas that at the time was bought with E, L, and some of my parents' money, they got from IP to allow him to build his house in their property, 

The truth is when L met your father and you were born, she didn't need us as much, because your father and after were you born, you both became her number one poison containers or scapegoats at her disposal to project and transfer all her repressed poison -- your mother's desire to give birth to you was to satisfy her unconscious need to endless have a being available at her disposal to use as poison container and now you need to liberate yourself from all the poison she and your FATHER, your father had his own dose of unresolved childhood repression or poison, that also was transferred into you when you were a defenseless infant and little girl, and, if I were you I would let your mother be with whoever she wants and if she gives all her money away, it's her problem...

And, I would only focus on liberating myself from all the poison transferred into me in my childhood and live my best life and refuse to get involved in any of my mother's lies and family dramas, because your mother and them will never change, they all deserve each other... I know it's hard to witness all their craziness and so much money burned...

We have to let them go -- if we want to be free ... It took me more than 40 years to totally liberate myself from all the poison they transferred into me when I was a defenseless little girl and let them all go... free at last!!!

Be careful not to surround yourself with only YES people that agree with you all the time and just tell you what you like to hear and never tell you what you need to hear if you like to grow as a person and not become like your mother and at end of the journey with plenty of money but lost in projections and transferences... money alone doesn't save anyone.

Wish you courage and strength

Freedom ain't free! It comes with a lot of losses. Stop fighting and walk away. Take time to mourn and heal. At the end of mourning, you feel so free and good that you never thought was possible.

Please don't make the fatal mistake of believing you can "control and change" a malignant narcissist by loving them more, by not doing what triggers them off.....they don't want to change because they like what they are. They want to destroy you, feed off you, deplete you and exhaust you! Cut your losses and walk away from malignant narcissists that's the only way to free and save yourself.


What's a scandal?! That's when the real state of affairs behind the scenes breaks through and
is exposed for everyone to see.


If you had the good fortune to be introduced to enlightened information you will be tested in life. I'm sad someone close to me failed the test big time. All because of money.😿 If you are free and healthy you can always make more money! Freedom isn't free!
I see people connected all the time by fear, hatred, and by money, but seldom do I see people connected by love.



Sunday, November 14, 2021

Malignant Narcissists Always Looking for Ammunition to Use one Day

 Dear Sylvie,


Thanks for your latest e.mail!

yes, I think we live in times, where the unsolved emotional problems unfold more intensely and become even more obvious than in the last decade.

there is so much disrespect and destruction all over the world, and very much so in the digital world, as well as in any other aspect of our lives... (health, society, etc.)

nevertheless, I still use youtube and found this piece performed by Muriel Anderson. I didn't know her and I have no clear idea, how her music found me. but I like to listen to this "strange" guitar and I learned, that the song "vincent" by mc lean is about vincent van Gogh. (whom of course is on another victim, who unfortunately stayed trapped in his childhood drama...)

Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYQDwAHVTfk

It's Saturday night... do you have to work? I sit here at home and don't want to escape too much from the rotten reality we live in. but maybe you like to listen to this piece :)

Dear Sylvie, we have to be very careful all the time and I find it especially hard to deal with my emotions, not suppressing them and not acting out...

Take good care

hugs

J



Dear J,

Glad to see you are hanging in there! Thank you for sharing the music video. Beautiful! Now, I work weekends and I'm off Tuesdays and Wednesdays but Sundays it's slow at work and I just listened to it! 

We have to be very careful with everyone, family or not family. Now, my niece, that was born on the same day as you, can't handle her emotions and is lashing out at scapegoats and is mad at me because I didn't go along with her in attacking and humiliating her aunt and cousin in front of the family group on Facebook. Now, out of revenge is making all my private messages, where sometimes I talk about my other family members' psychological assessments. 

I know dealing with emotions and consciously feeling them in the context of our childhood is not easy but it's the only way to liberate ourselves and become a conscious responsible adults. 

All these years she has been paying attention to me was not to learn from me on how to deal with our emotions when triggered by present events, heal and grow as a person but to gain ammunition to use one day! And is turning out her level of narcissism or repression to be the most dangerous!

I'm glad her charade is over... and now I'm free from her... I'm at the point in my life I just want to be left alone by everyone, family or not family! 

Hang in there,

Sylvie

A NARCISSIST IS STUCK IN CHILDHOOD AND WILL NEVER GROW UP. THEY BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE PERFECT, AND IT'S THE WORLD AROUND THEM THAT MUST CATER TO THEM.

Beware of opportunistic people who suddenly appear when you are going through hard times and you're most vulnerable --- disguised as good samaritans --- they eagerly offer advice and assistance. In reality, they are there to pick the meat off your bones.

Malignant narcissists want to control everyone around them so they don't have to face and feel their own painful truths and face the fears of being alone.

I see clearly, Now! They took my words I wrote in private to use as ammunition to attack each other anonymously by breaking into the Facebook pages of two old ladies. What do we call people like that? Oh, I know! We call them Cowards! They hate each other, but here is proof that they are each other's mirrors, and the only difference between them is that one is better off financially and her violence is more overt and the other her violence is more covert or passive-aggressive.

I guess the shoe fits them because both blocked me in anger. It's bitter and sweet at the same time. I'm sad and happy at the same time. When people can't handle looking in the mirror and taking responsibility for their own actions and mistakes. it's better they remove themselves from your life. I always speak my truth and I refuse to walk on eggshells for anyone, family or not family and I don't care how much money you have.

She wants to win at all costs, but always someone will come along down the road that will beat you at your own game. It's just a matter of time. By refusing to play the game you will save your life but for that, you have to face your own painful truths. And this is why people go on playing the games people play until the very end because they are too afraid to face the fears of resolving childhood repression. They rather kill or be killed than face their own painful truths.

Free and genuinely happy people are magnets for narcissists. And I'm a magnet for narcissists and the red flags are always there! But the moment they discover I will not allow them to use me to act the part they want me to play in their twisted dramas, they remove themselves from my life! And I could not be happier!

I'm too happy and free to have my feelings hurt. No matter what anyone does or says...

Could not agree more with the words below!
"What happens to us in life is not the most important thing in the end. Rather, the most important thing is what we do with our lives."
– Dr. Edith Eger - psychologist and Holocaust survivor

All the time she spent with me was not to grow as a person but to use me to get enlightened information to give her an advantage in the games people play.

Narcissists are all the same: Idealize, devalue and discard. When in the idealize phase, they mimic you to T to fool you that they are like you. She mimicked me perfectly.

Anything you get from a narcissist always comes with strings attached.

People work very hard behind the scenes to keep the real state of affairs hidden from public view

What's a scandal?! That's when the real state of affairs behind the scenes breaks through and
is exposed for everyone to see.

I see people connected all the time by fear, hatred, and by money, but seldom do I see people connected by love.

If you had the good fortune to be introduced to enlightened information you will be tested in life. I'm sad someone close to me failed the test big time. All because of money.😿 If you are free and healthy you can always make more money! Freedom isn't free!

Freedom ain't free! It comes with a lot of losses. Stop fighting and walk away. Take time to mourn and heal. At the end of mourning, you feel so free and good that you never thought was possible
Some people thrive on drama and chaos, it's a source of supply for them that helps them feel alive.

Turned out she was a much bigger devil than her cousin ever was

In this world, no one goes Scot free without facing and resolving childhood repression. True freedom can't be bought with money

What are most people looking for? Scapegoats, looking for scapegoats! Most people are unconscious and compulsively looking for scapegoats.

 



Saturday, November 13, 2021

Lost in Projections and Transferences

“The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail.”
― Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

 Me too since I was a young girl I always wondered. "Since adolescence I have wondered why so many people take pleasure in humiliating others. Clearly the fact that some are sensitive to the suffering of others proves that the destructive urge to hurt is not a universal aspect of human nature. So why do some tend to solve their problems by violence while others don't?"

http://www.alice-miller.com/en/the-essential-role-of-an-enlightened-witness-in-society-2/ 

Now everyone that knows Portuguese knows how bad my Portuguese is! 🇵🇹 If I knew a deranged person would be taking screenshots of my private messages and making them public. I would have tried to write better!

F is someone that spent a lot of time with me but didn't learn anything from me! Because I didn't go along with her and just told her to walk away that is not worth fighting over money – it triggered her repressed hatred -- and is directing it towards me, and right now, is making me her number one scapegoat! Instead of taking responsibility for her emotions and consciously feeling them within the context of her own childhood. She is letting herself be driven by the repressed emotions of the child she once was to hurt others -- she stole E's Facebook page account -- to take revenge -- on me and others for the mistakes of her mother.

This was an opportunity for her to take responsibility for her childhood repression and consciously feel her emotions within the context of her childhood and be free but instead just like her mother is lost in projections and transferences towards scapegoats.

She doesn't understand stealing someone's Facebook account to harass people is a bigger crime than the crime of her aunt that got money from her mother! And she is not different or better than the people she hates so much!

If her mother gives her money away is her mother’s problem, not hers, but I guess she is worried she doesn’t make enough money for herself and wants her mother’s money too!

If she was the target of a mob of sociopaths like I was at my job of nine and half years and lost more than half of her income -- She would be already, in jail, mental hospital, or dead!

In the face of adversity is when people show who they really are! Now, I know who she really is and how dangerous the level of her childhood repression can be.

It’s amazing to me how people reenact their childhood dramas to a T and treat others exactly the same way they were treated as a defenseless little girls and boys. Her mother used to stalk her when she was a little girl and now she is stalking others too! She read my book and she should have learned to understand her emotions and consciously feel them in the context of her own childhood.

E needs help recovering her Facebook account and at this point, she just wants to delete completely her Facebook page, maybe your son C can go visit her and help her delete her Facebook page.

She wants to win at all costs, but always someone will come along down the road that will beat you at your own game. It's just a matter of time. By refusing to play the game you will save your life but for that, you have to face your own painful truths. And this is why people go on playing the games people play until the very end because they are too afraid to face the fears of resolving childhood repression. They rather kill or be killed than face their own painful truths.


“Humiliations, spankings, and beatings, slaps in the face, betrayal, sexual exploitation, derision, neglect, etc. are all forms of mistreatment, because they injure the integrity and dignity of a child, even if their consequences are not visible right away. However, as adults, most abused children will suffer, and let others suffer, from these injuries. This dynamic of violence can deform some victims into hangmen who take revenge even on whole nations and become willing executors to dictators as unutterably appalling as Hitler and other cruel leaders.” Alice Miller

I witness these psychological mechanisms being played everywhere. This is one of the reasons most people stayed silent on the sidelines when I was the target of psychological warfare at my job of nine and a half years, if I didn't understand these psychological mechanisms, and I had taken it personally, would have affected my mental health to the point that I would not be here today... understanding these psychological dynamics can save your life -- you might lose money but it will save your life and you stay free.

Repressed hatred cannot ever be resolved when is directed at scapegoats. Hatred can only be resolved when is understood and consciously felt within the context of our own childhood, otherwise, we will endlessly need scapegoats in our lives to temporarily and superficially alleviate childhood repression. It's amazing to me how smart people with a DR in front of their name or a Ph.D. at the end cannot understand and make this fundamental connection. And remain stuck lost in projections and transferences their entire lives.

The words Alice Miller wrote in the article below are so true:
"...hatred can poison the organism, but only as long as it is unconscious and directed vicariously at substitute figures or scapegoats. When that happens, hatred cannot be resolved. Suppose, for example, that I hate a specific ethnic group but have never allowed myself to realize how my parents treated me when I was a child, how they left me crying for hours in my cot when I was a baby, how they never gave me so much as a loving glance. If that is the case, then I will suffer from a latent form of hatred that can pursue me throughout my whole life and cause all kinds of physical symptoms. But if I know what my parents did to me in their ignorance and have a conscious awareness of my indignation at their behavior, then I have no need to re-direct my hatred at other persons. In the course of time, my hatred for my parents may weaken, or it may resolve itself temporarily, only to flare up again as a result of events in the present or new memories. But I know what this hatred is all about. Thanks to the feelings I have actively experienced, I now know myself well enough, AND I HAVE NO COMPULSION TO KILL OR HARM ANYONE BECAUSE OF MY FEELINGS OF HATRED. We frequently meet people who are grateful to their parents for the beatings they received when they were little, or who assert that they have long since forgotten the sexual molestation they suffered at their hands. They say that in prayer they have forgiven their parents for their “sins.” But at the same time, they feel a compulsion to resort to physical violence in the upbringing of their children and/or to interfere with them sexually. Every pedophile openly displays his “love” of children and has no idea that deep down he is avenging himself for the things done to him as a child. Though he is not consciously aware of this hatred, he is still subject to its dictates.
Such LATENT hatred is indeed dangerous and difficult to resolve because it is not directed at the person who has caused it but at substitute figures. Cemented in different kinds of perversion, it can sustain itself for life and represents a serious threat, not only to the environment of the person harboring it, but also to that person him/herself.CONSCIOUS, REACTIVE hatred is different. Like any other feeling, this can recede and fade away once we have lived it through. If our parents have treated us badly, possibly even sadistically, and we are able to face up to the fact, then of course we will experience feelings of hatred. As I have said, such feelings may weaken or fade away altogether in the course of time, though this never happens from one day to the next. The full extent of the mistreatment inflicted upon a child cannot be dealt with all at once. Coming to terms with it is an extended process in which aspects of the mistreatment are allowed into our consciousness one after the other, thus rekindling the feeling of hatred. But in such cases, hatred is not dangerous. It is a logical consequence of what happened to us, a consequence only fully perceived by the adult, whereas the child was forced to tolerate it in silence for years. Alongside reactive hatred of the parents and latent hatred deflected onto scapegoats, there is also the justified hatred for a person tormenting us in the present, either physically or mentally, a person we are at the mercy of and either cannot free ourselves of, or at least believe that we cannot. As long as we are in such a state of dependency, or think we are, then hatred is the inevitable outcome.

“Inability to face up to the suffering undergone in childhood can be observed both in the form of religious obedience and in cynicism, irony, and other forms of self-alienation frequently masquerading as philosophy or literature. But ultimately the body will rebel. Even if it can be temporarily pacified with the help of drugs, nicotine, or medicine, it usually has the last word, because it is quicker to see through self-deception than the mind, particularly if the mind has been trained to function as an alienated self. We may ignore or deride the messages of the body, but its rebellion demands to be heeded because its language is the authentic expression of our true selves and of the strength of our vitality.” From the book “The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting” by Alice Miller

I know a few mothers that love to play the victim role running back and forward from their family to her family of origin complaining about being their victim. Done this all of her life. And each side always feels sorry for the little woman that now is in her 80s, that never was able to take responsibility for her own actions and life choices. "By playing the victim and making the child responsible for her life and actions, the mother enmeshes the two identities. Assigning the child the role of rescuer—or encouraging him or her to take it on—also enmeshes and obliterates the healthy boundaries that should exist between the parent and child. This can remain a problem long into adulthood."

People with extra money without achieving emotional liberation -- money will be their demise. Rich and poor are different ends of the same stick

To everyone's life comes a day that we have to ask ourselves: what's more important - our freedom and mental health or the money?

The damage that is done to children that were unconsciously assigned the role of the hero is massive...

Children assigned the role of the hero are set up for failure...

"Domineering behavior includes ordering a partner around; monitoring time and activities; restricting resources (finances, telephone); restricting social activities; isolating a partner from their family or friends; interfering with opportunities (job, education, medical care); excessive jealousy and possessiveness; throwing objects; threatening to harm people, pets or property; and forcing or coercing a partner into illegal activity."
- Beverly Engel

I'm on my own! You're on your own! We only have ourselves! The sooner you face this painful truth! The freer you will become!

I'm so used to people getting mad at me for speaking my truth that doesn't bother me anymore...

I have been gone for 40 yrs and I'm 8595.506 kilometers away from them and I'm still being blamed for the dramas they create. Nothing has changed!

If you were assigned the role of scapegoat in childhood, they will never stop making you their scapegoat! The only way to protect yourself is to walk away and stay away.

I'm tired and I'm getting old to going along with people's crap and emotional blindness anymore, no matter who they are. I just want people to leave me alone.

Most people can't change because they can't bear to face the painful truths in their lives and feel the pain.

"Pain is the way to the truth. By denying that you were unloved as a child, you spare yourself some pain, but you are not with your own truth. And throughout your whole life, you'll try to earn love. In therapy, avoiding pain causes a blockage. Yet nobody can confront being neglected or hated without feeling guilty. "It is my fault that my mother is cruel," he thinks. "I made my mother furious; what can I do to make her loving?" So he will continue trying to make her love him. The guilt is really protection against the terrible realization that you are fated to have a mother who cannot love. This is much more painful than to think "Oh, she is a good mother, it's only me who's bad." Because then you can try to do something to get love. But it's not true; you cannot earn love. And feeling guilty for what has been done to you only supports your blindness and your neurosis." -- Alice Miller

People become control freaks to avoid of facing their fears of feeling their own painful truths. They fall into the illusion if they get others to behave a certain way then they will not have to face and feel their own painful truths.

She fell into her mother's trap! Her mother knows money is her big trigger and the hook to rein her in to act the part she wants her to act in her twisted drama.

Want to be free don't engage no matter what! And allow yourself the time to feel the pain and mourn the mother you wish you had and deserved but never got

Have compassion for yourself and everyone else. After all, almost everyone has been a victim of their childhood.

Having compassion for ourselves and others doesn't mean we don't take steps to protect ourselves, from now on, from those still dangerously repressed...

In the end, we can only save ourselves and if we manage to do that, it's a lot! We can throw others' life jackets but it's up to them to use them.

My book A Dance to Freedom is a life jacket for anyone that wants to use it. It's my gift to the world

We grew apart and I'm really sorry we departed like this but I have learned, that relationships never end on a good note when malignant narcissists are involved.

It is what it is.
I hope you find your peace

The longer you are in an intimate relationship with a narcissist the harder it gets to leave and the more crazy and dangerous it gets

Now I see how dangerous her level of repression is... and money is her trigger

She and her mother think are superior and better but they will go through exactly the same hell as most people and money will not save them.

This was an opportunity for her to resolve her childhood repression and be free but instead, she chooses to stay in her mother's emotional prison!

It's very sad when people lose opportunities to start their own emotional work-- our most important work in life --and instead, she stays trapped using scapegoats...

I'm so happy I'm not in Portugal!!! I would be her number one scapegoat and she would eat me alive!

F, I know she is using her mother's Facebook page to leak private conversations. She is a coward using the Facebook pages of old people to do her dirty work, she should be using her own Facebook page but she wants to have her hands clean, this means, she is conscious of what she is doing and that is wrong and that makes her pure evil. The devil she sees in her aunt and cousin is also in her too, they are her mirror and she doesn't like her own reflections, that's why she hates them so much! This was an opportunity to really heal or resolve the repressed emotions of the child she once was, triggered by present events, and free herself but instead, she is letting herself be driven by the unresolved repressed hatred and jealousy of the child she once was to satisfy her thirst for revenge, but in the end, the person she hurts the most will be herself, and she is showing that she is no better than the people she accuses of wrongdoing and hates so much! The people she accuses of wrongdoing, do what they do, out of need, and desperation, but she has no need to do what she is doing. Two wrongs don't make it right. She is unhinged with no self-control and now is showing how dangerous her level of narcissism or repression really is. If she wants to help herself I gave her the tools, it's up to her to use them. I'm free and I'm staying free. And she can keep going down the path to self-destruction!
She is no different than the sociopaths at my last job of nine and a half years.
https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2015/02/driven-by-jealousy-to-hurt-others.html

The mind it's an amazing thing, if given the courage, truth, time, and safe space -- it will heal itself -- if pathways have been permanently damaged by trauma -- it will create new pathways -- it might be longer routes, but it will get you to your destination.

Life is pure ecstasy when you are free from childhood repression

When our excruciating repressed emotions are understood and consciously felt in the right context, they start to subside and this is how we free ourselves...

As long as people keep repressing their emotions with the aid of medication and distractions. They don't get resolved and they remain stuck in an emotional prison.

When repressed emotions are triggered by present events are opportunities to resolve your childhood repression and be free. Don't waste your opportunities...

Once your childhood repression is resolved. No one can push your buttons ever again! Because you no longer have buttons to be pushed.

F: No one can awaken in us what does not exist within us (repressed)🙏and this freedom is incredible❤️

Sylvie: F, it's pure ecstasy! It's real freedom that money can't buy. And this is why I was the target at my job of nine and a half years by a mob of sociopaths, malignant narcissists, assholes, or whatever you like to call them. They were jealous of me because they had so much money but I was happier and freer than them. So they wanted to steal my freedom and happiness. But once your mind is truly free cannot ever be captured again! What I have cannot be bought with money and can't be stolen.
"Sylvie's place: Driven by Jealousy to Hurt Others"

Remember your mother installed all of your buttons and knows exactly where to push to get a reaction out of you...

So in order to heal, the person you need to separate the most from is your mother!

"KEY POINTS
The covert narcissist fails to develop emotional empathy, self-awareness, or a stable sense of identity and self-esteem in childhood.
Covert narcissists avoid the spotlight and prefer passive-aggressive means of controlling others due to their fear of being exposed and humiliated.
Tactics of a covert narcissist might include belittling, triangulation, and avoiding direct responsibility."
"52 Ways to Identify a Covert Narcissist | Psychology Today"

The Narcissist
"Has an exaggerated sense of entitlement
Is envious and vengeful
Prefers to remain behind the scenes
Fixates on others’ problems and misfortunes
Like the overt narcissist, the covert narcissist fails to develop emotional empathy, self-awareness, or a stable sense of identity and self-esteem in childhood. Both feel defective and cope with underlying insecurity and shame by repressing those feelings and adopting a grandiose persona, a delusion of superiority and entitlement that they constantly assert at the expense of those around them."
"52 Ways to Identify a Covert Narcissist | Psychology Today Canada"

Now she is using her mother's Facebook page to satisfy her thirst for revenge. Remember the best revenge is living well.

Remember taking revenge will humiliate you more than the people you trying to humiliate. If you don't let go and walk away you will be the one to look bad.

Fake people have an image to maintain
real people just don't give a fxck

Narcissists are all the same: Idealize, devalue and discard. When in the idealize phase, they mimic you to T to fool you that they are like you. She mimicked me perfectly.

But now we know she is not like me! Her obsession with money brought to the surface her true colors.

All the time she spent with me was not to grow as a person but to use me to get enlightened information to give her an advantage in the games people play.

Anything you get from a narcissist always comes with strings attached.

"MANY PROBLEMS APPEAR in a new light when we look to childhood as a source of possible explanations. We are living in an age in which democracies are gaining the upper hand over dictatorships. At the same time, the cult-group phenomenon is an indication that there is a growth in the number of totalitarian systems to which people voluntarily submit themselves. People growing up in a spirit of liberty and tolerance, accepted in childhood for what they are, rather than being throttled and stunted by their upbringing, would hardly place themselves at the mercy of a cult group of their own accord. And if by chance or skillful manipulation, they did fall afoul of such an organization, they certainly would not stay there very long."
-- Alice Miller from the book “Paths of Life: seven scenarios”

I see people connected all the time by fear, hatred, and by money, but seldom do I see people connected by love.