I'm a wife at home. I've been married 20 years. I am step mother to a special needs child who now has a child of her own. I brought six of my own children into the world and educate them at home. I come partially from a narcissistic family and am pretty sure I married into one.
I have no formal training. I come from a family with enormous history of dysfunction of many sorts. I have researched excellent materials from men and women in various fields both secular and sacred.
My studies have been led by The Psychologist (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) as I have sought Him first for wisdom, understanding, discernment & knowledge.
I am not an expert. I have taken the principles I learned from authors & men and women who have many letters after their names, pastors, etc in order to work out in my own life what appears to have been the list of symptoms commonly referred to as NPD.
I have never been diagnosed. My hubby hasn't either. However, with the belief that if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck that it's likely a duck, I read, listened and watched everything I got a nudge to put my hands on (as did he), poured over the info (some of it nauseating and very depressing) and plopped it all at God's feet.
"This is YOUR problem. It's not pretty. Where's the good news????"
And then He began to show me.
"Look here. Now see this bit? Put it over here with that bit."
It was as though He was leading me on an adventure to learn some things which so far I don't hear "out there."
I write and record and think all with the intention of sharing what has worked in my life, in my marriage and with our children.
I have no formal training. I come from a family with enormous history of dysfunction of many sorts. I have researched excellent materials from men and women in various fields both secular and sacred.
My studies have been led by The Psychologist (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) as I have sought Him first for wisdom, understanding, discernment & knowledge.
I am not an expert. I have taken the principles I learned from authors & men and women who have many letters after their names, pastors, etc in order to work out in my own life what appears to have been the list of symptoms commonly referred to as NPD.
I have never been diagnosed. My hubby hasn't either. However, with the belief that if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck that it's likely a duck, I read, listened and watched everything I got a nudge to put my hands on (as did he), poured over the info (some of it nauseating and very depressing) and plopped it all at God's feet.
"This is YOUR problem. It's not pretty. Where's the good news????"
And then He began to show me.
"Look here. Now see this bit? Put it over here with that bit."
It was as though He was leading me on an adventure to learn some things which so far I don't hear "out there."
I write and record and think all with the intention of sharing what has worked in my life, in my marriage and with our children.
