The Undetected Narcissist Podcast
Your host, Angela Myer, takes you on a journey toward shifting your perspective from self-doubt, fear, hate, and anger into wisdom, understanding, compassion, and eventually forgiveness, so you can truly heal. Angela wants to support you in discovering and awakening your authentic self.
The Undetected Narcissist Podcast is here to educate, support your recovery, and encourage your empowered transformation following narcissistic abuse. She will shine the light on various topics from attachment styles, trauma, emotional abuse, PTSD, narcissism, toxic relationships, self-care, and dating advice. Angela has a spiritual approach to healing that bypasses religion because it is a relationship one forms with our Creator, not religion. Therefore, she removes the shame that some faiths can focus on when healing from toxic people.
Angela Myer, author of The Undetected Narcissist, has over 20+ years of experience, is an award-winning CCHT, wellness, and narcissistic recovery coach. Angela works with people globally to understand how a narcissist is not born; we create them. If we want to live in a world of peace and cooperation, we need to change the way we parent, treat each other, and stop being trauma ignorant.
The Undetected Narcissist Podcast
Breaking the Silence: Family Secrets and Shame
What happens when we shine light on the darkest corners of our family histories? The shame that once felt suffocating often dissolves, replaced by unexpected healing and connection.
In this deeply personal episode, I take you on a journey through the family secrets that shaped my life and the liberation that came from bringing them into the light. From hiding my mental health work from my younger brother (only to discover he needed it most), to confronting those who abused me, to the shocking discovery of my late brother's psychiatric records that revealed a genetic link to my son's conditions—each revelation brought both pain and profound freedom.
The yellow container I almost threw away in my brother's apartment held the key to understanding generations of undiagnosed neurodivergence in my family. His diagnosis from the 1980s, hidden by my father out of shame, described symptoms consistent with autism and ADHD—the very conditions my son would later struggle with. Had I known this family secret earlier, it might have changed my son's treatment journey entirely.
Family secrets exist on a spectrum—from the truly devastating to the unexpectedly empowering. My grandmother's "scandalous" portrait from 1949, which embarrassed her children, now hangs proudly in my home as evidence of her strength and strategy in addressing my grandfather's wandering eye. What one generation viewed with shame, another recognizes as courage.
This episode offers more than stories—it provides a framework for examining your own family secrets with compassion and wisdom. Are you ready to grab your flashlight and open those dusty closet doors? The truth waiting inside might be exactly what you need to move forward in wholeness and authenticity.
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