Narcissistic Relationships and Your Sympathetic Nervous System 

October 2025

Month Overview:

This is one of those topics we have talked about just about every month in this program, but that never got the full focus it deserves. This is a month about unpacking what is meant by trauma, and how we respond to it, with a specific focus on what is unique about what happens in our narcissistic relationships. Trauma has happened to human beings since the beginning of history, but we have only been talking about it in a meaningful manner for about the past 50 years.  We have really only recently recognized that the lack of safety that happens in emotionally manipulative, invalidating, and harmful relationships means that our bodies respond in ways that may not make sense to us. This is not meant to be an “everything you ever wanted to know about trauma month” (though you are absolutely welcome to bring your questions to all of our Q & A’s this month) – rather it is about making sense of the many responses our bodies and minds have to unsafe situations as part of the process of healing.