After the Breaking: An Alone Dance Into the Narcissistic Mother Wound
2 friends. 2 coffees and one table in the living room, having a random chat, not so random. deep in the subjects. One Scorpio, One Libra going in depth and thinking...this should be a podcast episode...even if I, as Lina, already had something prepared for this episode..you listen to the Universe and what has in place for each and one of us...also and especially, when your new friend has the same date of birth as your own mother figure, you heal, in a different way or another...
Some wounds don't arrive with bruises. They arrive with a voice....and a laptop in the inner garden of a hostel, in the center of Munich, Germany.
In this episode, I sit with my friend Giulia — and together we go somewhere tender, somewhere true, somewhere most people are still too afraid to name out loud...somewhere where
We talk about the narcissistic mother wound. Not as a diagnosis. Not as a label to weaponize. But as a lived experience that millions of women carry in silence — in the way they speak to themselves in the mirror, in the way they shrink before they enter a room, in the way they learned to make themselves smaller so someone else could feel bigger.
Giulia shares her story. I share mine. And between us, five sentences that our mothers said — sentences so ordinary, so quietly devastating — that became the inner voice we mistook for our own truth.
"Do you hear what you are saying?" "What's in your head?" "What are you thinking?" "If you go out wearing that, who knows what people will think." "If you come across as needy, men won't fall in love with you."
This is not an episode about blame. This is not an episode about hate.
This is an episode about recognition. About the moment you finally hear the voice for what it is — not yours. About the grief of loving someone who could not love you the way you deserved. And about the strange, aching, liberating act of dancing alone in that grief until you find your own rhythm on the other side.
This is After the Breaking. And this episode — this one — is for every woman who is still dancing in the dark, wondering if the voice in her head is hers.
It isn't.
Trigger warning: this episode touches on narcissistic parenting and emotional abuse. Please take care of yourself as you listen.
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