The pattern didn’t end with childhood. I married narcissists. Attracted them in every area of life. For years, I thought something was wrong with me. Why did I keep ending up in these situations?
The answer: I was being trained.
Each encounter taught me something. Each manipulation tactic revealed. Each boundary violation catalogued. My light didn’t dim—it got brighter. And I started to see in the dark.
For 25 years, I practiced civil rights law in Texas. High-stakes litigation. Courtrooms filled with manipulation, deception, and power plays. I faced narcissists across the table, on the bench, in opposing counsel.
But this time, I wasn’t the confused kid. I was the attorney who could read the room before anyone else. I saw the tactics. Anticipated the moves. Protected my clients.
The fire kept forging me. And I kept getting stronger.
Eventually, the legal career ended. Not because I failed—but because God had other plans. The career I’d built for 25 years dissolved. My personal life was in chaos. Everything I thought defined me was stripped away.
Rock bottom became sacred ground.
In that darkness, I found something most people spend their whole lives searching for: inner peace. Not the absence of problems, but an unshakeable connection to God that no person, no circumstance, no narcissist could touch.
My light was never dimmed. It got brighter.
Most survivors stop at survival. I didn’t.
I dove into the research. I now blend a lifetime of lived experience with years of deep study in psychology, spirituality, neuroscience, and my own spiritual awakening. I read the leading experts—Dr. Ramani Durvasula, Sam Vaknin, HG Tudor. I studied Stoic philosophy, Jungian psychology, spiritual warfare, attachment theory, neuroscience of trauma.
Not to replace my lived experience with theory. To expand it.
Because when lived experience meets extensive research meets unwavering faith in God, you get something powerful: complete authority.
Somewhere along the way, I realized: I’m not a survivor. I’m a Super Empath.
Not because I’m special—but because the fire forged me. I can see in the dark. I recognize the patterns. I spot the game before it’s played. And I can teach others to do the same.
I also realized something else: I wasn’t stuck in there with those that sought harm upon me or secretly wished to see me fail. They were stuck in there with me.
Every narcissist I encountered taught me something. And now I teach others.