Poems by snail viXen (CRK) exploring emotional and psychological abuse within adult relationships due to growing up in the funhouse of covert narcissism. Look out, this collection is a straight shooter about choosing self-love over those with npd and taking back your power for good. If you didn't grow up with this undercover shade in your family, maybe you woke up from a dream to find clown shoes by your bed, wondering how you got to be in the middle of a circus act. As the facade gets harder to keep up, the cracks start to show and suddenly, the ringleader is spotlighted. Well, elephants never forget and neither does karma. These two-faced gossip factories care about one thing: how they are perceived. Anyone who challenges their fake persona will be branded a threat to their fantastical narrative and targeted for life. Boring endless drama. Yawn... Still, personal accountability plays a part in breaking this horrific cycle as we struggle to heal within ourselves the deep-rooted trauma that doesn't go away until we face it. What are we accepting? It's detrimental that we understand how we can change our lives by changing how we feel about ourselves. With a change in perspective of who is actually in control, we can escape the pattern, a.k.a. island. We can then learn to let go of the confusion that was intentionally caused simply because misery loves company. Enough is enough. And we won't give our power over to cowards. Then, self-love becomes the journey of the empath. We learn to set boundaries and eventually see right through their projections of shame, guilt trips, mind games, constant gas-lighting, back-stabbing gossip, hidden competitiveness, mental-health-destroying triangulation and silent treatments. To break free for good, we must understand that peace starts within and works its way out. What we are allowing in our lives are simply projections of what we think we deserve. We are born to escape. But it's a choice. ©Holy&intoxicated Publications, UK 2021 Digital available: Etsy dot com Cover by J.T. Givens.

Publication Year: 2021