Toxic Family Dynamics: How Toxic Parenting Affects Siblings

Toxic family dynamics impact every family member's mental, emotional, and physical health as well as the relationships between the members themselves. Narcissistic, emotionally immature, and or neglectful parents are known to triangulate siblings. Creating tension between siblings is a way to garner narcissistic supply.

In this episode, Lisa A. Romano the Breakthrough Life Coach and expert in the field of codependency and narcissistic abuse recovery, explores what it means to grow up in a toxic family system and why understanding the dynamics at play helps you rise up and out of the chaos that is a sick family's unconscious paradigm.

Reviews

Great talk I cried and released some pain so relevant to my life. My mother gossiped to my sister about me and after my sister who I was closed didn’t want to see me my mother is very immature Ishe can’t deal with her life . I felt so sad . I lost her it breaks my heart

Thank you 💓🙏

What more can I say?...
I grew up with a narcissist mother. Although my therapist opened my eyes a few years ago already, I stopped being in deni last year only for my 50th anniversary - happy birthday 🙄
Although I cut contact with my parents several years ago, my younger Sister convinced me to return a few years ago to help with my father's health...
And although I knew what was happening, I fell into my mother's emprise again and could not even run away.
The relationship with my older sister will never be cured. But I am more and more close to my younger sister. We had to wait more than 40 years before having a sisters' relationship.
And I feel more secured abroad than in my own country.
Narcissist abuse is one of the worth damages for people health...

Wow thank you so much - this was so enlightening and helpful. I never could have realized that my mom's own abandonment issues could have so much to do with the way she destroyed our family dynamic. That there just wasn't enough love to go around between my sister and I, who has hurt me and emotionally abused me so so badly my whole life. And my narcissistic mom's favoring of me actually.

I'm so sorry to hear what happened to you, absolutely heartbreaking and you never deserved that. The thing I'm most excited about is that maybe there is actually hope of restoring some sort of supportive relationship between my sister and I through talking about what happened with our family dynamic because of my mom, instead of trying to reconcile the differences between the two of us only.

I look forward to listening to all of your tracks. Nothing else has made me feel so understood and hopeful.

Another major a-ha for me is how never having felt safe since childhood must be a key factor in how extremely anxious and fearful I always am as an adult.

Also super helpful is how you said that the emotional healing will not be linear. I'm currently in the grieving stage and can't stop crying, and the lack of forward movement discourages me so much. Realizing the lifetime of emotional abuse leaves me feeling extremely resentful, angry, and hateful 24/7. It's like this dark heavy heartbreaking pit in my soul that I can never get rid of.

I look forward to hearing the rest of your talks and hope that you address the non-linear healing more. Thank you so much, you are absolutely amazing💝❤️💖💕🙏🙏🙏

Wow, I related to everything said here. Thank you.