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Your body remembers what your mind couldn’t name. We explore how narcissistic abuse leaves a somatic footprint—chronic pain without clear injury, IBS and gut distress, bone-deep fatigue, and sleep that turns into a nightly replay of threat—and why these patterns persist even after you leave the relationship, workplace, or community that caused the harm. Drawing from clinical experience, trauma texts, and hard-won personal insight, we break down the science of implicit memory, nervous system dysregulation, and the gut-brain axis to show how hypervigilance becomes a full-body habit.
We get practical about what the body is trying to say through jaw clenching, shoulder bracing, and lower back pain, and how to respond with tools that rebalance the autonomic nervous system. You’ll hear how chronic sympathetic activation fuels cortisol surges, microbiome shifts, and mitochondrial slowdown, and why shame quietly locks these changes in place. We also unpack the addiction loop of love-bombing and withdrawal, the rumination spiral that hijacks sleep, and the identity collapse that happens when you stop living the story a narcissistic system wrote for you and start living your own.
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