How To Navigate The Narcissist's Counter-Parenting: Healing Your Child from Dysregulation With The 4 R's!!

Welcome back to The Path to Peace Therapy Podcast. I’m Stephanie Buckley: an AMFT Solution-Focused Therapist specializing in ADHD, OCD, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder and narcissism. I’m also a mother to a now-thriving 22-year-old neurodivergent son, and I’ve been married for over three decades. I bring both clinical knowledge and lived experience to this conversation because I’ve walked this road.

Each week, I help parents, partners, and professionals navigate the messy, emotional, and beautiful reality of raising kids, managing mental health, and protecting peace inside families that don’t always play fair.

Today’s episode hits close to home for so many people especially those navigating co-parenting with someone who displays narcissistic traits. Maybe that means gaslighting. Maybe it’s manipulation. Perhaps it's the constant undermining, the boundary-pushing, the love-bombing with your child, and the stonewalling with you.

We're diving deep into counter-parenting. We're talking about dysregulation. And we're exploring what this dynamic truly does to a child's nervous system when there’s one safe parent… and one who plays games.

This is a deep episode, but it's also packed with practical tools. And as always, my goal is to help you walk away more grounded, more equipped, and more seen.

Co-parenting with someone who has narcissistic traits isn't just exhausting it's profoundly destabilizing.

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This episode is for educational purposes and to provide support. They’re not a substitute for professional mental health evaluation, diagnosis, or treatment.”

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