Beyond Mommy Dearest Podcast
Beyond Mommy Dearest is a podcast for adult daughters navigating the complicated, often painful reality of difficult, emotionally immature, or narcissistic mothers.
Hosted by a trauma-informed leadership coach, this show explores the long-term impact of mother-daughter wounds, boundary setting, grief, identity, and healing beyond blame.
Through honest conversations, education, and lived experience, Beyond Mommy Dearest helps listeners reconnect with themselves, trust their instincts, and move forward with clarity, compassion, and strength.
Beyond Mommy Dearest Podcast
Healing from a Narcissistic Mother While Raising Your Own Children
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Reach out! You don't have to explain how crazy she was. We believe you!!!
🎙 Healing from a Narcissistic Mother While Raising Your Own Children
What does it really look like to break generational trauma while raising children of your own?
In this episode of Beyond Mommy Dearest, I sit down with Isabel Lopez, host of Parenting Without Permission, to talk about healing from a narcissistic mother while actively parenting in real time.
We explore what happens when you grow up in survival mode, become the “invisible child,” and then have to figure out motherhood without a blueprint.
From immigrant family dynamics to being put in anger management instead of being heard, to consciously raising empathetic sons in a culture shaped by machismo, this conversation is raw, honest, and deeply validating.
Breaking the cycle is not easy.
It is intentional.
It is exhausting.
It is brave.
If you are parenting while healing childhood trauma, this episode is for you.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Growing up as the invisible child in emotionally unsafe homes
- Moving from Colombia to the U.S. and navigating immigrant family trauma
- Emotional neglect vs. physical survival
- Being put in anger management instead of being listened to
- Why many survivors of narcissistic parenting don’t remember large parts of childhood
- How trauma affects the nervous system and conflict responses
- Shutting down, freezing, or exploding after being pushed too far
- Breaking machismo and raising emotionally aware sons
- Letting your children fully express themselves
- Reparenting yourself while raising your kids
- Why “breaking the cycle” is much harder than people think
- Finding joy while still healing
