{"id":145,"date":"2025-09-25T19:09:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T19:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/?p=145"},"modified":"2025-09-28T16:36:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T16:36:59","slug":"healing-from-a-narcissistic-parent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"Healing from a narcissistic parent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Inspired by Patrick Teahan&#8217;s video below&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Healing From a Narcissistic Parent\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NXAef9nZNs4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Self worth &#8211; protecting your inner child<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m protecting my inner child from your twisted way of relating to your son &#8211; only by being superior. You don&#8217;t know me, and I&#8217;m protecting my inner child from the doubt that you installed and benefited from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rebuild a sense of self with a truth statement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Write out your narcissistic parent&#8217;s narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Write out your truth statement and dismantle the narcissistic parent&#8217;s narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The give it back game<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m giving back the constant questioning of myself and my value. That&#8217;s yours dad. I&#8217;m giving it back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m giving back the constant anxiety and the fear about showing up for those I care about. That was about you and you get to hold on to that now. I&#8217;m done with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m giving back how I assume that people are not interested in me. My struggle with that is now your legacy as a bad parent, as a father, and no longer my belief, but it is now your burden that your son believed about himself because of you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by Patrick Teahan&#8217;s video below&#8230; Self worth &#8211; protecting your inner child I&#8217;m protecting my inner child from your twisted way of relating to your son &#8211; only by being superior. You don&#8217;t know me, and I&#8217;m protecting my inner child from the doubt that you installed and benefited from. Rebuild a sense of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emotional-survival-skills"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}