Shelby Ruth Ellis, Author at Tiny Buddha

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Shelby Ruth Ellis is a playwright, screenwriter, and essayist whose work orbits around emotional alchemy, trauma processing, spirituality, and personal growth. Read more of her work on Substack. Want to connect? Follow Shelby on Twitter and Instagram.

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How I Broke Free from a Narcissistic Family System

By Shelby Ruth Ellis

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”~ Carl Jung

My mom had always been invested in real estate. I remember snacking on open house charcuterie years before we finally purchased a house to flip—the first of four. By the time I was eighteen, we’d moved five times.

I knew our family was falling apart by renovation number three.

I had spent the previous few years experiencing suicidal ideation and was now on a strict cocktail of seven or so psychiatric and neurological medications.