23. Where Am I in the Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Journey? Healing Roadmap From Trauma Bond to Freedom as an Autistic Woman - Emotional Detachment as a Tactical Advantage for Family Court, Season 2
From Light in the Battle: Autism, Single Motherhood and Trauma Recovery by Faustina
March 9, 2026 · 26 min · Season 2 · Episode 11
About this episode
This episode provides a roadmap for autistic women healing from narcissistic abuse, helping them understand their position in the recovery journey.
I want to do something a little different in this episode. If you’ve been listening to Season 2 from the beginning, you probably already feel that there’s a progression. We didn’t just randomly move from trauma bonds to EMDR to forgiveness to codependency. There’s a reason the season unfolds the way it does. And if you’re newer here — if you found this podcast somewhere in the middle — you might not realize that Season 2 was intentionally built as a roadmap, for autistic women healing from narcissistic abuse. Because healing after narcissistic abuse, trauma, nervous system dysregulation, and identity loss is not random. It has phases, like pit stops. And depending on when you found this podcast, you might be asking yourself: Where am I in this process? Am I at the trauma bond stage, or past it? Am I behind? Should I start at the beginning? Why does this episode resonate but that one makes me so mad? This episode is here to help you orient yourself, and understand how this season is structured. We started with the trauma bond because you can’t rebuild your life if your nervous system is still organized around the person who hurt you. This is the stage where you might still feel…
People in this episode
Host: Faustina
Topics covered
- narcissistic abuse
- trauma recovery
- autism
- emotional detachment
- family court
- healing roadmap
Keywords
- narcissistic abuse
- trauma bond
- autistic women
- healing
- emotional detachment
- family court
- recovery journey
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