Elisa Donovan

Think about growing up with a narcissistic parent.

You never had a sense of identity.

You were always told who to be.

So if you cut ties from a narcissistic family member, now you're really starting from scratch.

You don't have a pre-existing you.

So it depends on the relationship type.

But I will say this.

It is not all doom and gloom.

It is very hard.

But there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

And once you get that empowerment and once you're able to figure out who you are and who you want to be and what you want to shift and you realize that's totally in your control, then you really start to feel empowered.

And I have never met people stronger in my life than people who have survived narcissistic abuse.

They are.

I mean, that's so interesting because I've been so struck by the people that like Elizabeth smart.

And I interviewed Sarah Edmondson who was in the NXIVM cult and, you know, people that have overcome these things and turned them into something powerful in me.

It is like,

These women, especially those are the ones I've spoken to.

They've all been women, Amanda Knox, you know, which is a different situation, but still gone through something so intensely, uh,

tragic and the power that these people have that is really, it's just a centered, grounded, extraordinary thing like that.

I am just so impressed by, I could not agree more.