Prevent Crippling Fears After Narcissist Abuse

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When we have been abused and our world is turned upside down many things can bring on the feeling of fear.
Fear makes us make decisions we might not have made before. Narcissistic abuse victims carry these fears of the unknown.
to overcome these fears there is one simple thing you can do and that is to plan the “what if’s” so
the unknown goes away.
In my support groups many of the survivors are these questions, would you like to learn the secret to understanding how
to overcome fear? This podcast might help.

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Because of fear we often stay too long

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spear a weakness or

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Something that we must like conquer and fight

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This is tracy when if you have been battling [with] fear or you’ve allowed fear to

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Make decisions for you this video might help

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Don’t forget [to] subscribe. I’m going to say it now so I don’t forget later victims of abuse

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often fear the unknown

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the unseen

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[sycuan] is we fear money, and how will I survive I?

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Didn’t save enough

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Maybe I wasn’t smart enough. I didn’t go to college

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Or got out the work career

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Which is of my children’s?

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how I [survive]

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You can also be afraid of the future

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Where you’re going to live how you’re going to survive

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What’s going to happen [to] your children insurance even food?

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uncertainty

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We just don’t know what’s going to [happen] next and that is really scary [I] get it

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It is also

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be uncontrolled

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What I have realized is that I?

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Look at life, and I like to control things

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probably because I couldn’t control things most of my life and

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So the fear of something we can’t control is very real at least for me

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We’re afraid for our children

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We’re afraid that just wasn’t what we wanted for them

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We didn’t want them to be going back and forth between two families

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We didn’t want them to not be with their mom and their dad on Christmas morning

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it’s not how we planned it and

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how they cope

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[but] they go through emotional stuff that I’ll have to help them with

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These are all the things that we [ask] about our kids

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Will they be okay?

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Will they end up screwed up later?

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[get] it

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we very often

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Turn our fear from those sort of external things that we don’t know they’re all unknown, right?

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But we turn it to ourself and we wonder

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If I will be lovable

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Who would love me? What’s wrong with me?

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We take it down and we say

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Who will want to be with me now?

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Maybe [I] haven’t saved for retirement

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Maybe I don’t have a career. Maybe I’ve got three kids at and no way to support them

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Who’s going to want me then will I be prime target for another narcissist?

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Because I’m living out of fear. I’m living that I can’t take care of my family

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Another thing is trust

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We’re really afraid

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Who will be trust?

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Will we ever trust again?

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This betrayal that we are experiencing is

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[not] even fathom today. I was watching a Tedx talk and

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the woman, I’m going to read a little bit from it, but it was on fear and

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She really inspired me to make this video. So I wrote some things down that she said I’m hoping that they’ll help you

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[I’ll] put a link down below to where you can see this ted. Talk her name [is] Karen Thompson Walker and

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She was talking about

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What if we didn’t call these things fear?

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What if we call them stories?

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These are unintended stories that we tell ourselves

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She went on to say [that] fear and stories

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Have the same architecture

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There’s a beginning middle and an end

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There’s characters

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There’s plots

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There’s an evil queen and there’s imagery of what will happen [next]

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to me when I listen to that

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that was like the best description of

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What I keep hearing now, which is the old recordings right I?

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never really heard that expression before and now I’m hearing it all the time and

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These fears are stories

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I’m afraid of this I’m afraid I’m not good enough. I don’t think I can be a provider

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Well, you know what it might be different, but we will be providers for ourselves and our family again

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we’re just like a little brain fucked at the moment because by the very meaning of

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Fear it’s an unpleasant emotion

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caused by the belief that

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someone or something is dangerous and

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It’s likely to cause pain or threat

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and

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fear can cause anxiety [on] behalf of itself

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So if we look at us as victims and the brain Factory that we’ve been experiencing

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That’s a really

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Interesting way to put it that’s from [dictionary] [calm] and the word I called out with belief

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We believe that these things are happening. [they’re] not actually happening right [now]

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We don’t know what they [are] and that’s the uncertainty partridge. That’s a part. We don’t understand yet, but

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But she said it’s when we dismiss our fear is really when we lose control

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because

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by allowing fear to like eat at us like some sort of

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bug eating like a

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gross thing on the ground

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if we let it eat at us, and we don’t conquer it and

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It will control us

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So how do we can take control of our fear?

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how do we take the mystery out of

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It’s really only one way

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We take the fear out of it. Just like we would if our child woke up and there were monsters under the bed

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Instead of invalidating them. Maybe not saying you know that’s all in your head. There’s no such thing as monsters

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What if we turn that around and told a different story?

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The monsters you know are good, and they’re here to protect you

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What if we told that to ourselves?

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about

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fear that comes inside of us

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If we had an actionable plan and we planned

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and how to plan to just

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get out

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I’ll get a job. I’ll do this

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What happens if I lose my house? I’ll find another

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What happens if my children have to deal with an evil stepmother?

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They will deal

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We can’t control that there’s nothing we can do that will control

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That fear so worrying about it isn’t going to help us out

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Karen also said in that ted talk the fears are an amazing gift of the imagination

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they’re like an everyday clairvoyance and a way of glimpsing the

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future

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Wow still having the influence

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To change the way that it plays out

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Breakdown Your Fears

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Just do it

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What am I afraid of and what?

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[will] happen

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If that happened how will you prepare for that?

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Write [that] down

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Just like I said I’m gonna have to move I’m going to do this. I have no savings. [I] have no insurance

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You’ll figure it out. It will get taken care of because that’s the way we are. We do things we care

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We love we’re not going to let it all fall apart. It’s just we’re afraid of it because we don’t know what it is

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It’s unknown and it’s unseen

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so don’t let it be

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You know get into you don’t let fear take you away

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Come back to reality

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by writing down the fear and

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Writing down what will happen if that fear comes -?

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This is tracy, [and] [that’s] all I’ve got have a great night and subscribe. Thanks

 

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