When Family Hurts - Ways to Cope with Toxic Family Relationships

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Is This Relatable?

Toxic relationships cause you immense stress and it affects your physical, mental, and emotional health. Holidays and special occasions often exacerbate stress.  People who suffer from narcissistic personality disorder seem to enjoy ruining holidays by demanding attention, creating drama, and throwing tantrums if they don’t get their way.  See my previous blog post about their ruin of holidays here.

It's time to explore ways you can protect yourself. Do something for yourself after surviving Thanksgiving and before your next family gathering.  If you’ve come to the conclusion that enough is enough. If you’ve left your family holiday gathering thinking “I can’t do this again.” Then it’s time. It’s time for you to prioritize yourself.  You are the most important project you’ll ever work on. It’s time to invest in yourself the way you’ve invest in everyone else.

Things You Can Do For You

1.    Boundaries

It’s important to set boundaries and limitations. Usually, the best way to protect your boundaries is by going no-contact. This isn’t easy when you are dealing with these people in a specific situation. You will need to proactively set time limits, giving these people specific blocks when you are available. It’s recommended to compromise with your narcissist to mitigate drama, but you absolutely cannot accept any kind of physical or emotional abuse from them. This is non-negotiable.

2.    Don’t take it personally

When you choose to not take anything personally, rather than feel hurt or angry you become more empowered.  You are being proactive rather than a victim of another person’s narcissism. If you make a habit to not take things personally, anger, jealousy, envy and even sadness will disappear as a result.  You’ll gain empathy, compassion, and respect.  These are all great transformational characteristics. This is one of the Four Agreements in the book The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz.

3.    Self-Care

It’s critical for you to practice self-care. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines self-care as “the ability of individuals, families, and communities to promote health, prevent disease, maintain health, and to cope with illness and disability with or without the support of a healthcare provider.”  This means paying attention to you, keeping yourself healthy to the best of your ability.

Do you find yourself anxious about Thanksgiving & other Family Gatherings?

I’ve written many blogs about why narcissists ruin holidays and what you can do about it. These blogs are often read, reread and referenced.

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If you’ve experienced the chaos, the circus, and the conflict, you know how narcissists ruin and wreck every holiday, special occasion, family gathering. You’ve witnesses the narcissistic rage storms. You’ve been punished with the silent treatment. It’s just the worst experience. You’ve even debated about attending the event. 

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