Heal The Hurt They Never Taught You How To Say No.
Jul 29, 2025
Kenny Weiss, a trauma recovery specialist and author, shares his insights on setting boundaries after growing up in a narcissistic environment. He explains how such backgrounds can suppress one's voice and create feelings of guilt around asserting needs. Kenny offers practical steps to rediscover your authentic self, including two simple phrases for saying no without guilt. He emphasizes the importance of knowing your values and navigating relationships while remaining true to oneself. It's all about choosing yourself and the healing that comes with it.
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Path From Trauma To Helping Others
- Kenny Weiss describes a chaotic childhood with young parents, alcoholism, abuse, and parental alienation that pushed him into therapy early.
- Those experiences and one transformative counselor led him to study recovery and eventually help others as a specialist.
Narcissistic Upbringing Distorts Reality
- Growing up with a narcissistic mother is like learning a foreign language where boundaries never existed.
- That childhood creates a skewed sense of reality so functional boundaries feel cold or wrong.
Attachment Often Overrides Authenticity
- Children trade authenticity for attachment because survival requires emotional connection.
- That trade causes loss of internal boundaries and a lifelong pattern of giving themselves away.