Meg Haworth, PhD recalls, "I grew up with a narcissistic parent in a toxic family system, and I also had all kinds of abuse growing up and spent a lot of time in my childhood being very sick."
This audio is an excerpt from a longer interview, talking about her adverse childhood experiences that led to her own healing and developing a mind body process that has helped many people gain clarity, health, and recovery.
Register free to view the full interview at The Shift Network (and learn about her related course): How to Heal Yourself From Toxic & Narcissistic Family Dynamics.
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Dr. Haworth notes "Sexual, physical, and emotional violation is debilitating. It can lead to unhealthy choices, poor personal boundaries and self-defeating patterns.
"All these things get stored in your body as memories that create pain and difficulties."
She adds, "I also drowned and had a near-death experience, and I was highly intuitive.
"I was so sensitive and psychic and empathic that I really just took on a lot of the abuse and a lot of the emotions that were coming my way, and really took it on as a part of me.
"And that led to illness. But it took me many many years to unwind this..."
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Video version of interview excerpt:
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The left section of the image - family holiday gathering - is from article “5 Ways to Deal with Difficult Family Members During the Holidays and Beyond” By Dr. Meg Haworth, The BusinessWoman Today, December 11, 2024.
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Anna Kendrick has commented about starring in the movie ‘Alice, Darling’ (which she helped get made as an executive producer):
“I was coming out of a personal experience with emotional abuse and psychological abuse.”
Describing her former relationship, Kendrick says,
“I was in a situation where I loved and trusted this person more than I trusted myself.
“So when that person is telling you that you have a distorted sense of reality and that you are impossible and that all the stuff that you think is going on is not going on, your life gets really confusing really quickly…”
See ABC News video with her, plus related material from trauma and relationship experts, in article How attachment styles and trauma impact our lives and relationships.
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