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Diana Lively

@dlively_

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For the girls becoming everything they were told they’d never be
Beauty | Fitness | Life Advice
- ATL, GA ✝️🇭🇹
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4 months ago

Hi guys - for years I’ve struggled on whether or not I should share my story. But after years of feeling convinced I’m taking the leap & being vulnerable

Follow along & join the community ✨

#healingjourney #blackgirlsintherapy #survivalmode #lifeadvice taken in Atlanta, Georgia by @dlively_

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4 months ago

I don’t care why she abused me … 🤷🏾‍♀️

I spent years trying to understand her childhood, her trauma, her pain. Thinking if I could just explain it, it would hurt less.

It didn’t.

Her reasons don’t erase what she did. Understanding her trauma is not the same as excusing mine. You are allowed to stop trying to justify what happened to you.

#narcissisticabuse #narcissisticmother #healingjourney #bigsisteradvice #motherwound by @dlively_

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9 hours ago

I wasn’t the “big sister”. I was the built-in babysitter, the second parent, the one responsible for everyone else’s needs before I even knew what my own needs were.

That’s not a family role. That’s exploitation.

For every eldest daughter who had to grow up way too fast. Your childhood mattered.

🔗 Full series on YouTube. Link in bio.

#eldestdaughter #parentification #narcissisticmother #narcissisticabuse toxicfamily by @dlively_

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9 hours ago

You don’t owe access to someone who hurts you.
Not even your mother

#nocontact #narcissisticmother #survivingmynarcissisticmother #narcissisticabuserecovery #nocontactjourney by @dlively_

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She resented me just for being born ⬇️⬇️

Not for anything I did wrong. Simply for existing.

That resentment shaped everything. Healing from it means grieving a mother you never actually had.

#narcissisticmother #resentfulmother #narcissisticabuse #toxicfamily #blackgirlhealing by @dlively_

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2 days ago

Too sensitive” is what narcissists say when they want to make your emotions the problem instead of their actions. Your feelings were never the issue.

🔗 Full series on YouTube. Link in bio.

#toosensitive #emotionalinvalidation #narcissisticmother #narcissisticabuse #toxicfamily by @dlively_

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2 days ago

My mother does not love me …

That sentence used to destroy me. Now it just is.

Accepting it didn’t break me. It actually freed me. It freed me bc once I stopped waiting for something she was never going to give me, I could finally start giving it to myself.

& accepting it from those who have been wanting to freely give me love the entire time.

narcissisticmother #narcissisticabuse #toxicfamily #blackgirlhealing #bigsisteadvice

@onesize - finishing powder

#forthegirlswho sheismore healinginpublic childhoodtrauma emotionallyabsentmother stopwaiting unbothered narcissisticmotherrecovery by @dlively_

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2 days ago

Healing is not linear ✨

Some days you feel completely free.
Some days something small sends you all the way back to that little girl who just wanted to be loved.

Both days are part of the process. You are not broken. You are not failing. You are healing ❤️

Give yourself grace.

🔗 Full series on YouTube.
Link in bio.

#healingisnotlinear #narcissisticmother #narcissisticabuse #traumarecovery #blackgirlhealing by @dlively_

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3 days ago

She had me cooking, cleaning, and raising her other kids before I was even a teenager.

But the second I had an opinion, a boundary, a feeling she didn’t like? Now magically “You’re acting too grown.”

You cannot hand a child adult responsibilities and then punish her for growing up. That’s not discipline that’s exploitation dressed up as parenting.

🔗 Full story on YouTube. Link in bio.

#parentification #narcissisticmother #eldestdaughter #narcissisticabuse #toxicfamily by @dlively_

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4 days ago

I didn’t ask for permission to heal out loud. I didn’t ask for approval to tell the truth about what happened to me & I was never about to start now.

If my story makes you uncomfortable sit with that. That discomfort is telling you something.

🔗 Full series on YouTube. Link in bio.

#narcissisticmother #speakyourtruth #narcissisticabuse #toxicfamily #blackgirlhealing by @dlively_

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4 days ago

Silly me … I didn’t even think about that 😀

#healingjourney #childhoodtrauma #fostercareawareness #narcissisticmother #socialworkers by @dlively_

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