Mother Mayhem: For Daughters of Narcissistic or Emotionally Limited Mothers

Our first listener Q&A! In this episode of Mother Mayhem, I am helping a listener navigate her way through her mother’s months long silent treatment and smear campaign. Listen in for strategies for managing and responding to these manipulative tactics. Aid your own journey in narcissistic abuse recovery in the company of other women sharing your struggle. Have a question for the show? Send an...

Understanding your triggers and learning how to respond to them is a critical part of narcissistic abuse recovery. It’s a core component of trauma work. Triggers can make you feel crazy and out of control. But you’re not. You are having a reaction that is causing your body to get stuck in fight, flight, or freeze. Learn how to understand your reactions and what to do about them going forward.  Gra...

In this episode of Mother Mayhem: Narcissistic Abuse Recovery for Daughters, we tackle the crucial topic of boundary setting. Join me as I explore various boundary situations faced by daughters of narcissistic mothers and provide practical strategies and scripts to establish healthier boundaries. Get back in the driver’s seat of your life. This discussion will help you navigate personal space, emo...

In today's episode, we’re tackling: people-pleasing, perfectionism, and we're starting the conversation on boundary setting. Learn how being raised by a narcissistic mother leads to perfectionistic and people pleasing tendencies.  I’ll walk you through a conversation of identifying your own needs so you can begin to identify your boundaries. Follow this link for journal prompts you can use...

A childhood marked by maternal narcissistic abuse and emotional abandonment often leads to an adulthood marked by trauma triggers, hypervigilance, and anxiety. Gaining control over your trauma responses and getting yourself out of fight, flight, or freeze is an important piece of narcissistic abuse recovery. I start this conversation with a brief reminder of grounding techniques that we discussed...

In this episode of Mother Mayhem, I explore how being raised by a narcissistic mother can impact your experience in relationships. I discuss how trauma affects your ability to connect with others, your attachment style, the kinds of people you may attract, and the behaviors you may display in relationships. Join me as we dive into the challenges of navigating relationships after narcissistic abuse...

Welcome to Mother Mayhem . I'm Heather Gray, a licensed therapist. In this first episode, I'm starting the conversation with daughters of narcissistic moms. I'm breaking down what narcissism really means and how you likely experienced your mom. We’ll begin to address the impact it has had on your relationship with yourself and with others.   Healing from childhood trauma is possible. W...

Welcome Back to Mother Mayhem: In this episode, I’m guiding you through the first steps toward building a better relationship with yourself.  Whether you struggle with self-doubt, negative self-talk, or a lack of self-care, learning to cultivate a positive relationship is a critical part of your healing. Follow along with the conversation using prepared journal prompts designed to accompany this d...

Childhood emotional abandonment is a painful reality for daughters with narcissistic mothers. But as an adult now, you might not even be aware that it is a considered to be a childhood trauma. You might be having a hard time connecting the struggles you're having today to your mother wounds from childhood. In this episode, I am working to define trauma for you so that you can understand it and...

Welcome to Mother Mayhem. If you’re an adult daughter of a narcissistic mom, you know that your childhood was missing more than a few things. Making sense of yourself, others, and the world around you after a childhood marked by emotional abandonment is really hard, painful, and lonely. Hi. I'm Heather Gray, a licensed therapist with a private practice specializing in helping adult daughters o...