Healing  ·  6 Modules  ·  19 Lessons  ·  Self-Paced

The Unmaking.

Recovery from narcissistic abuse.

Narcissistic abuse is not dramatic in the way people imagine. It is quiet. Cumulative. Built from small moments of being diminished, dismissed, or rewritten — until the self that was there at the beginning becomes hard to find.

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Insights  ·  About the Work
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The Premise

The Unmaking.

Narcissistic abuse does not feel like abuse from the inside. It feels like confusion. Like being perpetually off-balance. Like a relationship that was occasionally wonderful and increasingly impossible — one where your memory of what happened never quite matched the version you were given.

This course maps the mechanism — not to assign diagnosis but to provide recognition, which is what most survivors need most urgently. It then addresses recovery: the body that survived it, the trust that was dismantled, the self that went underground, and the grief of loving someone who was not what they appeared to be.

You are not too sensitive. You are not too much. You did not imagine it. And you can recover from it.
The Course

6 Modules. 19 Lessons.

01
Module 1
The Mechanism, Not the Person
02
Module 2
The Body That Survived
03
Module 3
Trusting Yourself Again
04
Module 4
Finding the Parts That Went Quiet
05
Module 5
Grieving What Hurt You
06
Module 6
The Return
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The Unmaking.

Recovery from narcissistic abuse.

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Common Questions

Frequently asked

What is narcissistic abuse?

Narcissistic abuse is a pattern of psychological manipulation characterised by intermittent reinforcement (alternating warmth and coldness), gaslighting (causing the other person to doubt their own perception and memory), projection (attributing their own behaviours to the victim), and the systematic erosion of the victim's sense of self. It is rarely dramatic — it is typically quiet, cumulative, and hard to name while it is happening.

What is gaslighting?

Gaslighting is the practice of causing someone to doubt their own perception of reality — their memory of events, their emotional reactions, their assessment of situations. Over time, gaslighting causes the person to lose trust in their own judgement and to rely on the abuser's version of events. Module 3 of this course is specifically on rebuilding self-trust after it has been systematically dismantled.

I'm not sure what happened to me was narcissistic abuse. Is this course still useful?

Yes. The course focuses on the mechanism and the experience — the specific patterns of confusion, self-doubt, and self-loss that this kind of relationship produces — rather than on diagnosis of the other person. If the patterns described in this course resonate with your experience, the course is relevant regardless of what label you apply.

How long does recovery take?

Recovery from narcissistic abuse is non-linear and varies significantly depending on the duration and intensity of the relationship, the support available, and the individual's history. This course does not promise a timeline. It provides a framework for understanding the mechanism and a structured path through the specific stages of recovery.

My Inner Foundation
Olivia Fox

A course by Olivia Fox, founder of My Inner Foundation. She writes about what she has lived, worked through herself, and sat with in others — translating real inner work and years of supporting people through these exact struggles into language that is precise, honest, and genuinely useful.

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