1. Allow yourself to be angry!
The first tip I have is to allow yourself a period of time to be angry and grieve the many losses you no doubt have suffered throughout this entire nightmare. Because there likely isn’t going to be any justice for what the narcissist has put you through, and even if there is some form of justice, it likely won’t hold a candle to what they put you through or did to you.
So the first step to overcoming the injustice is to allow yourself to be mad, angry, pissed off, hurt, repulsed, all of those things. Give yourself the freedom to acknowledge and grieve the significance of what you have lived through. I am a firm believer that victims of narcissistic abuse cannot get out of victimhood until they really acknowledge and validate the fact that they are a victim.
Many times, a survivor will be struggling with shame, humiliation, and embarrassment, for what the narcissist has done to them and got away with, and that’s not the survivor’s burden to bear. There’s one person and one person only who is responsible for what has happened, and that person is the narcissist.
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