Nina Batista LCSW

12/20/2025

Not all narcissism looks loud.

Some demand attention.
Some demand reassurance.

Both are driven by shame.
Both lack empathy.
Both will drain you.

Covert narcissism hides behind victimhood.
Grandiose narcissism hides behind superiority.

Different masks.
Same core wound.

If this made something click — trust that.
Your body recognized it before your mind did.

12/20/2025

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10/29/2025

He never hit the kids.
But they still lived in fear.

When a man controls the mother, he controls the entire home.

Coercive control doesn’t leave bruises — it leaves hypervigilant children, stomachaches, anxiety, and kids who learn that love feels like walking on eggshells.

You didn’t imagine it. They felt it too.

🔁 Save this if you’re healing from an environment where safety was conditional.
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10/09/2025

Abusers don’t fight to solve problems — they fight to win.
Every argument becomes a power play designed to confuse, silence, and discredit you.

If you’ve ever walked away from a “conversation” feeling crazy, guilty, or small…
That wasn’t a lack of communication.
That was manipulation.

These are the most common control tactics used to keep you doubting yourself.
Once you can name them, you can stop internalizing them.

10/08/2025

The way your nervous system relaxes around certain people and tenses around others?
That’s your truth detector.

Your body knows who feels safe and who doesn’t—
long before your brain catches up or your heart wants to admit it.

That ease you feel with the right people?
That’s your nervous system saying, “We’re good here. No need to be on guard.”

That tightness in your chest, the shallow breathing, the knot in your stomach?
That’s not “overreacting.”
That’s your body waving a red flag before your mind starts making excuses.

Narcissistic abuse trains you to override those alarms.
To confuse adrenaline with attraction.
To call anxiety “butterflies.”

But healing is learning to trust your body again.
To believe it when it whispers safe and when it screams danger.

💥 Your nervous system doesn’t lie.
💥 Your body has always known the truth—you just need to start listening.

If you’re ready to rebuild that trust and teach your nervous system it’s safe to relax again, my Finding Me, After We program is your roadmap out of survival mode.
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Hard truths.