Anxiety, Depression and Narcissistic Abuse

<p>Today we’re talking about anxiety and depression, not as mere symptoms that need to be treated, but as parts of us showing up for a certain reason. Let’s ask ourselves - why are we anxious, why are we depressed, why are those parts showing up?</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What You Will Learn In This Episode:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Looking at anxiety and depression as trauma responses within our body</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Deb Dana's ladder analogy in the context of narcissistic relationships</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The role of anxiety as the sympathetic trauma response </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The role of depression in our system state</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How to look at anxiety and depression as parts of ourselves and not identify with them</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The reason why people stay in abusive relationships</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How to understand the intentions of all our parts and welcome them to our system</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Once we see anxiety and depression as parts of us reacting to trauma, we will realise that we are not a depressed or anxious individual, but we have parts that are showing up in order to distract us and soothe us from feeling the pain of our younger, wounded part.   </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Resources:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Join my Facebook group at</span> <a href= "https://www.facebook.com/groups/thriveafternarcissisticabuse"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> https://www.facebook.com/groups/thriveafternarcissisticabuse</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><