January 2026 - The Thriving ACoN

Adult Children of Narcissists - Boundaries - cPTSD - cPTSD Healing - Emotional Abuse - Gen X - Generational Trauma - Hypervigilance - Intimacy - Narcissistic Abuse Recovery - Recovery - Survivor - Trauma

When Life Is Just… Being Life

January 15, 2026 - By Andrew Pumpelly

I didn’t post last Thursday.I didn’t post Tuesday, either. And for the first time since I started this blog, that absence felt noticeable. Not dramatic.Not catastrophic.Just… different. For months now, I’ve been writing on a steady rhythm — Tuesdays and Thursdays, like clockwork. That consistency mattered to me. It was…

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Adverse Childhood Experiences - cPTSD - Emotional Abuse - Hypervigilance - Narcissistic Parent - Recovery - Survivor - Trauma - Triggers

Preparedness, or Paranoia?

January 6, 2026 - By Andrew Pumpelly

There’s a moment from when I was about fifteen years old that I didn’t talk about for decades. During the chaos surrounding my mother and step-father’s divorce, my mother once threatened to put my sister and me into the car and drive us all off a bridge. That wasn’t the…

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Adult Children of Narcissists - Adverse Childhood Experiences - Boundaries - cPTSD - cPTSD Healing - Gen X - Gratitude - Narcissistic Abuse Recovery - Recovery - Survivor - Trauma

What I’m Carrying Into the New Year (And What I’m Finally Setting Down)

January 1, 2026 - By Andrew Pumpelly

I’m not making resolutions this year. Not because I don’t believe in growth.Not because I’ve “given up.”But because resolutions assume the problem is insufficient effort. And that’s not what this past year taught me. 2025 wasn’t a year of self-improvement.It was a year of self-extraction. From lies.From roles that were…

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