FSA Newsletter and Updates
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10 Self-Care Tips to Support Family Scapegoat Healing
If you’re in the ‘family scapegoat’ role and in contact with family members who continue to subject you to mental and emotional abuse, manipulation, gaslighting, and narcissistic behaviors, this checklist will aid you in protecting your emotional and mental health.
Recognizing Narcissistic Family Scapegoating Abuse
In the narcissistic family system, the needs of the disordered parent take precedence over the needs of the dependent child, resulting in narcissistic abuse. Family members are not cherished individuals to be loved; they are instead ‘narcissistic supply’ whose only purpose is to serve the infantile, primitive psycho-emotional needs of the narcissistic parent.
Family Scapegoat Signs – Take This 10 Question Quiz (Trauma Informed)
Are you the Family Scapegoat? Take this 10-question quiz to see if you might be in the damaging ‘family scapegoat’ role.
Divorcing a Covert Abuser: When Your Family Sides With Your Ex
Few things are more heart-wrenching to me as a Mental Health practitioner than when I see a client being scapegoated, betrayed, and abandoned by their family-of-origin – and even some friends – when divorcing a spouse that engages in covert abuse…