Narcissistic Abuse Recovery

Many of us have matured into adults only to find we continue being treated as children by the adults who raised us. There are things triggering us, often through the day. Panic attacks are common to us. We don't know what to do with our huge feelings. We've been taught to shut up, stay small, and do what we were told. We were told we were useless, worthy of misery, deserving of fire. We were enmeshed in parental roles, expected to mind-read our caregivers' emotions and needs, yet our feelings were left, neglected. Some of us were raised into religions, role modeled to do as Jesus did, not as our elders. We were brainwashed what to believe about ourselves and told the only one we could turn to was a narcissist (God), who was worthy of our undivided love and attention and who would damn us to hell for disobedience. We have been shunned, ostracized, kicked out, excommunicated from, and rejected. We feel like aliens, like we have no place to belong. We need a safe place.♡