Narcissistic Abuse Glossary

You already sense that something isn’t right, even if you don’t have the words for it yet.

This trauma-informed glossary is designed to demystify narcissistic abuse and give you clarity to stand on.

This isn’t about obsessing over labels. It’s about trusting your own knowing again. You were never too sensitive. You were paying attention.

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11 sections · 195 terms

You have no burden of proof.

You don’t have to “know” someone is “a narcissist,” or prove what happened to you, to deserve clarity and support. Trust your gut as best you can. These words are just a way to make the confusing feel a little more nameable.

About the Author

Jim McGee

NARM-Informed Trauma Recovery Coach

I came to this work through my own recovery from CPTSD, which I continue to navigate. I have training and years of coaching experience in the NeuroAffective Relational Model. That, plus 5 years facilitating a private support group for 500 survivors of narcissistic abuse, is what I bring to the room.

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What this work is

If this is more than information for you.

You may be highly informed about narcissistic abuse, scapegoating, CPTSD, and relational trauma, and still feel organized around shame, guilt, fear, self-doubt, or the sense that something is wrong with you.

Insight alone does not tell the nervous system it’s safe. Understanding what happened is not the same as no longer living from it.

NARM-informed coaching is a slow, relational, client-led space for the part of recovery that comes after understanding. Old protections can stand down. Shame-based identifications can dissolve. The true self that was always there can come forward again.

See how the coaching works

Private NARM-informed coaching. Not licensed psychotherapy or crisis care.