Growing up with Narcissistic Parents

Awaken Your Wise Woman

Are highly sensitive people more their environment? In this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, host Elizabeth Cush talks with Phoenix Gould about the profound impact of narcissistic parents on highly sensitive children and adults.

“The narcissist demands that we pay attention to them. Our way of survival is to be highly attuned to their needs.” — Phoenix Gould

If you’re a highly sensitive person (HSP), did you ever wonder how your childhood affected you and your sensitivities? Why does it seem so much easier to tune into others’ needs rather than your own? Why do emotions feel so overwhelming—if you can feel them at all? How did your parent’s struggles affect you? And, most important, how can you heal those hurts, increase self-awareness and build a loving and trusting relationship with yourself? In this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast, host Elizabeth Cush, LCPC, a licensed professional therapist, founder of Progression Counseling in Annapolis, Md., and a mid-life women’s life coach, welcomes Phoenix Gould, a coach and highly sensitive woman who combines bodywork and radical self-love to help clients experience the unconditional love that they did not receive as children. They talk about growing up as highly sensitive children, they share their healing journeys, and they offer hope and inspiration that you, too, can feel your emotions without overwhelm and experience the core of who you truly are.

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