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ADULT CHILDREN OF NARCISSISTS

Imposter Syndrome Didn’t Start at Work

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ADULT CHILDREN OF NARCISSISTS

When Bitcoin Dips, I Think About Healing

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ADULT CHILDREN OF NARCISSISTS

You Don’t Miss Them — You Miss Who You Needed Them To Be

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ADULT CHILDREN OF NARCISSISTS

Triangulation: The Narcissist’s Favorite Weapon

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ADULT CHILDREN OF NARCISSISTS

The Perfect Storm: 18 Months Post-Judgment Day

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    Imposter Syndrome Didn’t Start at Work

    March 12, 2026 - By Andrew Pumpelly

    For most of my adult life, I thought imposter syndrome was a professional problem. I assumed it came from changing careers.Learning new systems.Walking into rooms where other people seemed more confident or more certain than I felt. I thought it meant I just needed more experience. More credentials.More success.More proof…

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    When Bitcoin Dips, I Think About Healing

    March 10, 2026 - By Andrew Pumpelly

    Every time Bitcoin pulls back, the same conversation starts again. People panic.People declare it dead.People say, “See? I knew it was a bubble.” And every time, the same thought runs through my head: Healing looks exactly like this. Not the Instagram version of healing. The real version. Because the truth…

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    You Don’t Miss Them — You Miss Who You Needed Them To Be

    March 5, 2026 - By Andrew Pumpelly

    One of the hardest realizations after going No Contact isn’t anger. It isn’t even grief in the traditional sense. It’s confusion. Because sometimes — even after everything — you still feel something that looks suspiciously like missing them. And that can mess with your head. You start wondering: If they…

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    Triangulation: The Narcissist’s Favorite Weapon

    March 3, 2026 - By Andrew Pumpelly

    There’s a moment many Adult Children of Narcissists eventually recognize — sometimes years later — when scattered memories suddenly connect. You realize conflicts didn’t just happen. They were engineered. One of the most common tools narcissistic personalities use is something called triangulation. And once you see it, you can’t unsee…

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    The Perfect Storm: 18 Months Post-Judgment Day

    March 1, 2026 - By Andrew Pumpelly

    I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting lately. Not just on my own story — but on timing. Because looking back, it’s becoming harder to ignore something that feels almost impossible to see while you’re living through it: My life didn’t unravel because of one event. It was a perfect…

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    I’ll Take My Bacon Crispy, Please

    February 26, 2026 - By Andrew Pumpelly

    Today I turn 51. Which means somewhere in my brain, I’m staring at a breakfast plate with bacon arranged into the number 51. If you know, you know. Last year, at 50, I found myself standing in the wreckage of the Mom-pocalypse.This year, at 51, I’m just… eating breakfast calmly.…

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    When the Chaos Finally Makes Sense

    February 24, 2026 - By Andrew Pumpelly

    For most of my life, chaos was just… normal. I didn’t call it trauma.I didn’t call it instability.I didn’t call it survival. I called it life. Broken homes.Sudden moves.Emotional volatility.Unspoken threats.Secrets that didn’t make sense until decades later.Responsibilities placed on me long before I had the nervous system to carry…

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    What Is cPTSD?

    February 19, 2026 - By Andrew Pumpelly

    Understanding Complex Trauma and Its Lasting Impact For years, I thought trauma was something that happened in a single, catastrophic moment. A car accident.A violent assault.A natural disaster. That’s how most of us were taught to understand PTSD. But what happens when the trauma isn’t one moment —when it’s the…

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    Narcissism and Nihilism

    February 17, 2026 - By Andrew Pumpelly

    When Nothing Feels Real After Everything Was Manipulated One of the quieter side effects of narcissistic abuse is something people don’t talk about much: Nihilism. Not the edgy, intellectual kind.Not the “nothing matters, so let’s burn it down” kind. But the hollow, disoriented kind —where meaning itself feels unreliable. After…

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    Fear Is a Business Model (And Trauma Survivors Pay the Price)

    February 12, 2026 - By Andrew Pumpelly

    There was a time I thought my reaction to the news meant something was wrong with me. That I was weak.Avoidant.Uninformed.“Burying my head in the sand.” But after naming my cPTSD — after finally understanding how my nervous system was shaped — I see it clearly now: The problem isn’t…

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