16 Brilliant Life Lessons I Would Never Have Learned without Narcissistic Abuse

Sometimes your greatest challenge was the gift all along

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You’re out of the relationship now, trying to heal, trying to make sense of your life. You have so many questions.

• Why are there narcissists in the world?
• What purpose do they serve?
• Why me?
• What did I do to deserve this?

Those questions so easily flow into judgments.

• It’s so unfair.
• It shouldn’t be this way.
• This isn’t right.

I’ve been right there with you

Said in my head, or out loud, these statements, full of angst, were like thieves in the night. They snuck into my consciousness (or rather, unconsciousness) and hijacked my mind. They stole my energy, my bandwidth, my present moment.

My war with what was created my suffering. It stole my peace.

We are all Souls having a human experience. Our Souls are here to evolve, awaken, and experience life.

I believe that we choose from the ethers, the bardo space, to come in with certain people to have certain experiences and…