From Surviving to Thriving: A Sacred Journey from Child Abuse to Freedom
Healing Borderline Personality Disorder and Trauma Bonding
For someone with BPD and a long history of trauma bonding to narcissists, healing isn’t a straight road.
It isn’t even a gentle one.
It’s a trial by fire, then a navigation through a dark forest on shaky legs alone through the longest night of your life.
Survival isn’t guaranteed — in fact, the odds are stacked against you. The average life expectancy of a borderline, a person raised as the scapegoat child in a narcissistic family, lives until 39 years old.
The road to healing for a borderline begins like a disorientation: a sudden quiet after an atomic-level catastrophe in a life that has always been a loud war zone.
The rock bottom: for borderlines that make it to self awareness and healing, this is usually a near death experience.
Mine was attempted murder at the hands of a sociopath, and several weeks of drugging and sexual assault by this sociopath.