The Danger Comes From Within, NOT from Outside of Us!
Mark E. Smith, MSW is the Founder and Director of Family Tree Life Coaching. He previously worked as a highly respected therapist and author in the Indianapolis area for 32+ years. He now practices as a Life and Relationship Coach. He offers coaching for individuals, couples, families, family businesses, executive leaders, pastors, and therapists. He has world class coaching expertise in Affair Recovery, Relationship Issues, Narcissistic Abuse Syndrome, Sexual Addiction, Abuse, Trauma, Complex PTSD, Anxiety, Mid-Life Issues, Shame and Abandonment Issues. If you need a safe, courageous, cutting, marriage-jolting healer, he is your guy. You can contact Mark Smith at [email protected] and 317-507-8866.
Mark Smith emphasizes the vital priority of personal insight, effective C-PTSD recovery and healing (Inner volcanoes) over being obsessed with the dangers of narcissists and psychopaths (hurricanes and tornadoes).
Stephen White ‘Manner Of Death’, Dr Alan Gregory - protagonist is a therapist, Boulder, CO, Disappointed - no Victorian office with side French doors
“I’m worry more about volcanoes than hurricanes or tornadoes think about it.”
5 Facts About Volcanoes
1. Volcanoes - the ancient smoldering lava of chaos, trauma and destruction flows and sometimes violently erupts from within ourselves
2. Volcanoes can lay dormant for centuries before becoming active - mine erupted at age 55
3. Volcanoes can smolder, flow, spit and erupt for centuries at a time!
4. Volcanoes change the terrain forever...divorce, professional setbacks, financial setbacks, geographic changes
5. Some small volcanoes only erupt once in their lives, while other volcanoes erupt multiple times.
The focus of the NAS community is WAY too focused on factors OUTSIDE of ourselves - hurricanes and the tornadoes
This can become an addictive obsession - studying of Narcissists & Sociopaths
I get why it can become an obsession - ‘Psychopath Free’ cleared up my cognitive dissonance
Frantically worried about hurricane Erma - plywood for windows, jack for motorcycle
Chuck Palm Island “Be anxious for nothing”
1969 tornado in Lubbock, TX
Researching hurricanes or tornadoes (Narcissists & Psychopaths) does have great value - it can save your life
The ONLY way to truly protect yourself as much as possible is to fully understand yourself and then effectively heal yourself as much as you can as soon as you can!
Picking one narcissist after another
Recovery