Beautiful Resources!

Beautiful resources...!

6/12/2018

If I hadn't encountered these and all that unfolded, I would never have been able to express my joy and create, felt or paint, share my work or flourish and thrive!

In the process of adding... these are the first ones...

Over the last few years I've read so many books and articles that have helped me immeasurably, in opening up to awareness and understanding of my own experience on the topics of Narcissism and being Highly Sensitive and an Empath. These have in turn led me to mutually supportive communities and individuals who have been inspirational in the most beautiful ways, and also, ultimately and fundamentally, to an experiential understanding 'beyond' the book reading. xx

These resources can lead us to other 'resources'... ones that will become 'pointers' towards an awareness that is far deeper than 'gathering information' or of cognitive awareness/understanding; an awareness that lies beyond any labels we may have for ourselves - labels which may be true on the level of how we function in the world, as individual personalities with particular character traits, such as HSP and Introvert, yet these labels are not the Truth of who we essentially are, beyond our 'form' identity. We can forget this when we are so enmeshed in everyday life, or in situations that may be traumatic, and so at these times, gaining an understanding of how we live and function in the world can be helpful and lead us to others who experience similar, which is a beautiful support, as here we can acknowledge our humanness and individuality, and experience self-compassion and healing ...

... and then we can go beyond these aspects of who we are, on the surface, and the ideas we have of ourselves into the greater truth and recognition... with so many thanks, in my case, to nature, poetry, art, Rumi, Buddhism, Mooji, Eckhart Tolle ...and many experiences from a young age which gave me glimpses of this true awareness of who we really are, of our essential consciousness...

Here's a collection of some resources, partly for my own reference but mainly for any others who come across them and find them of interest and perhaps helpful...

If you come across this page and would like to suggest any other books/resources on these topics that you've found helpful, or would like to make any related comments, please do, in the comments below, or email me :)

These categories do intermingle...

Narcissism and healing

Invaluable recent book by Melanie Tonia Evans on thriving after Narcissistic abuse. A wonderful section on parenting too, and breaking these terrible, destructive generational patterns. Based on her amazing Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Programme (NARP) - this is brilliant!

Also many wonderful 'Thriver TV' episodes and resources on the MTE website including this clear list of common Narcissist behaviours - Narcissistic Personality Disorder identifiers and characteristics.

'The No to Narcissists Programme for Highly Sensitive People'
A wonderful, life-changing course by The Happy Sensitive that encapsulates so much. I write about this course in my other articles and especially here.

Articles on 'Empathy vs Narcissism' here.

'Healing the daughters of Narcissistic mothers' by Karyl McBride

HSP (Highly Sensitive Person)

A mass of wonderful resources on 'The Happy Sensitive' website :)

Empaths

'The Empath's Survival Guide' by Judith Orloff is a wonderful, comprehensive, practical manual which covers self-protection strategies and true recognition and honouring of this beautiful gift, that can feel like such a debilitating challenge at times. x