Given that May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and this is a show all about healing, I wanted to talk to you about mental health, how it’s related to narcissistic abuse. And really just share with you that it’s okay to not be ok.
When I became a narcissistic abuse recovery coach I bought into the myth that I had to be perfectly healed and that I had to have 100 percent evidence that my coaching and teaching methods worked even before I posted that I became a credentialed coach on Instagram. One could call what I was suffering from imposter syndrome - feeling like I’m not quite good enough to do something, even though it’s exactly what I set out to do in the first place. But the reality of healing, of mental health, is that it’s a lifelong journey of ups and downs.
Now keep in mind that mental health touches every aspect of our life - our finances, our self-esteem, our relationships, our career, our energy levels, our physical health, so it’s honestly so easy for mental health hiccups to create a ripple effect in our life.
Mental health can also create a chicken and the egg type situation. Were you struggling with your finances because of your depression? Or is your financial instability stressing you out to a point where you’re starting to experience burnout and fatigue? And because of the burnout and fatigue is your debt situation getting worse because you don’t have the mental, emotional or physical energy to work a side hustle after hours or on weekends?
Even though I’ve healed and feel leaps and bounds better than I ever believed I would, especially after deciding to estrange myself, and go no contact from my family of origin, I still have bad days.
I still have those days where I doubt myself and it’s a struggle to find something to eat. I have those days where I’m crying and throwing what can only be described as tantrums because I feel heavy emotions that I honestly don’t know how to formulate into words, let alone sentences, and it’s not only embarrassing, it’s frustrating. It’s frustrating to feel like you have your life figured out one minute, to believe that you have a mom and a dad who love you, that you have siblings who have your back, to only come to find that the people around you were rooting against you the whole time. It’s hard to know your truth and know that you made the right choice for you, but you will still be judged and be called an asshole by those who will never even take the time to know the true story.
But as I tell my clients, practice makes practice.
katie@elevatedaura.com
elevated aura - narcissistic abuse recovery coaching
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