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Lisa Sitze is an author and advocate whose life's work grew out of a question she spent decades trying to answer: why, no matter how hard she worked on herself, something still felt broken. The answer came when her mother was diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder, and everything Lisa had experienced as a child finally had a name. She is the author of Facing Your Demons: Healing Beyond Narcissistic Family Relationships.

The turning point came when Lisa was in her 20s, curled on the floor with her knees to her chest, rocking back and forth, while her one-and-a-half-year-old daughter stood over her patting her back and saying, "It's okay, Mommy." In that moment, Lisa made a decision. She would not let her daughter raise her. She did not know what needed to change, only that it had to. What followed was thirty years of deep inner work, five children, a remarriage, and eventually the diagnosis that reframed everything. The world had gaslit her alongside her mother for her entire childhood. Now, finally, she had language for what had happened and permission to heal it.

Around the table, Lisa shares what it really means to grow up with a narcissistic parent, the difference between the person and the disorder, and why she wrote a book not to place blame but to give people the science behind why they do what they do. She talks about boundaries, about writing as freedom, about the day she stopped needing permission to exist. And Bridget closes the episode with a quiet celebration that will stop you in your tracks.

This episode is for anyone who has ever thought there must be something wrong with them for not being able to figure out a relationship that was never meant to be figured out. For anyone who has been gaslit so long they stopped trusting their own memory. For anyone still waiting for permission to take up space in their own life.

Pull up a chair and face your demons together.

BIO:

Lisa Sitze is a writer at heart and a storyteller by calling. She's the #1 international bestselling author of Facing Your Demons: Healing Beyond Narcissistic Family Relationships, born from her own journey toward healing. As a story coach alongside Bridget Cook Burch, she helps clients find the words for the stories only they can tell, while at the same time writing her own fantasy series. Her greatest love story is her family: five kids, sixteen years homeschooling, and now granny to eight grandkids. A certified health coach through the Dr. Sears Wellness Institute, Lisa believes honesty and integrity are what build healthy communities.

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