Goldie

Goldie has worked with women, men, and teens suffering and recovering from the adverse affects of PD's for the majority of her adult life. Also, herself, a survivor of a dysfunctional family system of origin, which resulted in relationships with PD's.

She grew up in on Cape Cod and currently resides in Massachusetts. She has worked with special needs families as an advocate and group facilitator, prison inmates with substance abuse related incarseration, teenagers at risk in group home settings, the 12 Steps, crisis intervention for women in domestic violence, relationship recovery, grief recovery and trauma healing, codependency, and addiction.

She practices Holistic Health and nutrition, strength training, alternative medicine; as well as traditional therapy and spiritual development. She encourages self empowerment, actualization, and healing your mind, body, and soul.

Her ultimate goal is to become an administrator for a spiritual retreat center which is a working farm, a therapeutic alternative, and a teaching facility. She has a grown son who is an artist and spiritual scholar and she is an advocate of expressive therapy through dance, music, art, and journaling.

She is thrilled to have had the opportunity to heal from unhealthy relationships and work with others on their journey along The Path Forward.

Goldie is a recovery coach who offers intensive comprehensive one on one sessions which help the member in exploring their emotions, sorting out the affects of their relationship with the PD, letting go of the obsessive thinking regarding the OW, self doubt, guilt, and pain associated with letting go of the PD, moving on, and exploring alternative methods which include, NC, self care and approval, and a complete recovery from this devastating experience. Members work at their own pace and she takes them from the initial stages of intense pain and sorrow through the process of healing and recovery.

She has extensive knowledge, compassion, and experience with what a PD is, what they have done to you, and how to begin the process to reclaim your life and begin to feel whole again. She is our lead moderator and will assist you and answer any question or concerns you may have to ease your pain and comfort you along The Path Forward.

For additonal support, to join one of our support groups, or to speak with Goldie directly, http://www.lisaescott.com/blog/goldie

goldierocks@me.com

Journey

Journey is a creative artist who has always had a keen interest in psychology, emotional health and spiritual enlightenment. Throughout her life she has read many books which promote self growth, healing and spirituality and has always strived to live with consciousness, integrity, love, acceptance of others and forgiveness.

Until experiencing the manipulative covert and pathological abuse first hand, she generally believed there was an inherent goodness in all people, unaware of the commonality of personality disorders which disrupts the development of that goodness in such affected individuals.

Her intimate relationship with a narcissist lasted only two years, but devastating consequences continued to negatively impact every part of her life long after the romance ended – physically, creatively, spiritually, emotionally and financially.

While struggling with lingering depression and trying to make sense of the emotional confusion, sadness, self doubt, self blame and loss she had experienced, she came upon Lisa E. Scott’s website and the missing pieces of the puzzle that had long kept her stuck, all began falling into place to finally show her a way out of the fog.

Since that time, Journey has moved forward on the path of recovery by staying close to this forum, learning about PDI and actively sharing her knowledge with other survivors, consciously nurturing the light within and welcoming the return of hope, faith and productive energy back into her life with a renewed sense of confidence and inner peace.

Guided by the collective wisdom of the other members, as well as by her own experience and understanding of the dynamics of emotional and spiritual abuse within PD relationships, she is determined to offer whatever comfort and support she can give now in order to help educate others about personality disorders, specifically NPD, in their own quest to find answers, clarity and healing.

Spinning

Spinning is a published poet and writer who makes her living in print journalism. Prior to making the decision to follow her heart and pursue a career in writing, she worked as a legal secretary and support staff manager for a law firm operating multiple locations in the Midwest.
Spinning’s encounter with a borderline/narc happened later in life, though in hindsight she realizes that he was part of a pattern of gravitating to personality disordered individuals beginning in her mid-20s. Though she allowed the disordered individual and relationship to close the curtain on a long-term, relatively healthy relationship, Spinning now understands that this came into her life as an avenue—albeit a painful and rocky one—to finally resolve deep seated, long held issues with self-esteem, perfectionism and self-worth.

When Spinning joined The Path Forward community, she had spent six years in a very toxic relationship and could barely function through the fog of CD and PTSD and pain and confusion. After working the steps and committing to moving forward, she now regards the brutal D & D disappearing act to be the best thing that has happened to her in recent years. In her early 50s, Spinning finds new doors opening to beautiful adventures the more she lets go of the disordered one and the poison he fed her drip by drip. Since putting into practice the belief that “what you focus on becomes your reality,” and shifting her focus from the chaos and pain of the disordered relationship onto the simple joy of the present moment, great blessings have gravitated into Spinning’s life—including new relationship possibilities—and she is eager to share this concept with others.

An animal lover and longtime vegetarian, Spinning lives in the rural midwest and enjoys nature, reading, physical activity, journaling and wine. She practices yoga, including Kirtan yoga, and is a member of a Buddhist study group — things she returned to after breaking the bondage of the disordered one’s control. Her family’s strong ethnicity is a source of strength and pride, as is The Path Forward community.

Hunter

Hunter lives in the Chicago area. She met Lisa when she was narced for the second time by the same man.

She's not going to take it anymore. She is well read on the subject and has a no nonsense approach to dealing with narcs.

Her understanding of narcissism is due to many years of abuse from her narcissist and his narcissistic mother. The patterns of this dynamic dual became obvious to Hunter once she researched this topic thoroughly.

You may not like what she has to say, but it is always honest. We need to hear the truth. We need to "Wake Up, Get Real and Heal" and Hunter is exceptional at helping us do this.. Until we get honest with ourselves and face our reality, we cannot heal or move on. Hunter's goal is to help victims recover from narcissistic abuse so they can begin to enjoy life and thrive again. It can be done. She did it and wants to help you do the same!

Used

Used grew up surrounded by personality disordered individuals and became ‘used’ to viewing such dysfunction as a normal way of life. From having both a mother and father who were narcissists, to then marrying a PD man at a very young age, her inner light and strength still managed to shine bright enough to raise the true loves of her life – her beautiful children, who have each grown up to be well balanced and successful adults due to her fortitude and wisdom of what really mattered – the unconditional love she has always given them.

After being married for 31 years to a PD husband, she’d had enough of being used to not getting the love and respect she deserved and removed herself from the marriage to venture out into a new life of autonomy and freedom.

Still accustomed to the ways of the PD however, she found herself involved with yet another, a man she trusted to be a friend and who seemed to be a pillar of support and new possibilities, only to discover that was far from the reality he offered.

This was a major turning point and what brought Used to this forum, the realization that she was done with being used to accepting mistreatment from anyone. Since finding this site, her knowledge and awareness of PDs has grown along with the determination to remove all ‘users’ from her life, which she successfully has by adhering to strict NC.

Used has a big and generous heart, her family is her first priority and she’ll do anything to protect and nurture them without hesitation. She offers members dedicated support through her experienced wisdom, sharp wit and insightful instincts.

Used is no longer used... she is full of love and kindness, but don't try to fake it because she will see right through your BS every single time!