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Co-Parenting with a Narcissist with Wendy Behary



Back on One Broken Mom is a listener favorite, Wendy Behary. Wendy is the founder and director of The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and The Schema Therapy Institutes of NJ-NYC and DC. She is also the author of “Disarming the Narcissist…Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed” (New Harbinger Publications). Now translated in 15 languages. Wendy has a specialty in treating narcissists and the people who live with and deal with them. Based on a listener question, Ameé and Wendy talk about how to co-parent with an abusive, manipulative, or narcissistic parent.


In this episode you will hear:

  • The four steps for handling a narcissistic ex

  • How dysfunction can impact our learned communication

  • Understanding the nature of the narcissistic parent

  • Knowing how to handle when a parent doesn't want to be in the child's life anymore

  • Knowing how to deal with being gaslit by the narcissistic parent through the children

  • What to do when worried that the children will adopt the narcissistic parent's worldview

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