Narcissistic Families and Your Nervous System

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]How does if if a child grows up in a narcissistic environment and there's the hypervigilance, the people-pleasing, I'm a reformed people-pleaser, that chronic self-doubt and shame, how does that impact our nervous system? There's such big pieces that we don't evaluate when it comes to medical problems. How much does the family and family system dynamics play into a heart attack? How much does the family emotional field play into pancreatitis, falling, breaking a limb, recovery? If you see the illness and then zoom out and see the family, you're going, well, it makes all the sense in the world.