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Acknowledgments

I would like to acknowledge and thank my greatest teacher and lesson giver, my daughter Kelsey. As I made mistakes in my own parenting, my love for her kept me looking inward, seeking my own healing to improve my parenting. It is here that I discovered my own narcissism—how I’d been hurt by narcissism and how I had unintentionally hurt my lovely daughter with it as well.

I wish to thank my clients, who elected to trust me and believe that I could help them on their healing journeys. I am grateful for their willingness to walk into their own wounds and emotions, their strength in sharing them with me, and their courage to change.

I want to thank my first editor, Scott Edelstein, who was able to work magic with what I wrote. I appreciate his undying belief in the importance of this book; his confidence that I had something important to share; his continuous challenges to have me think things through and explore key topics more thoroughly; and his help in getting clear about what I was trying to say. He did all this with kindness, gentleness, acceptance, and encouragement. Scott, I am deeply grateful.

My thanks to everyone at Central Recovery Press—especially Valerie Killeen, Eliza Tutellier, and Patrick Hughes—who helped this book become everything I hoped it would be.

And to my family and friends who never left my side as I struggled with my ideas and my weariness of writing; all of you consistently believed that what I was doing mattered. Thank you.