Hosted by Heather Gray, LICSW · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 159 episodes
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Welcome to Mother Mayhem, the podcast for daughters of narcissistic and emotionally limited mothers. I’m Heather Gray, licensed therapist and narcissistic abuse recovery expert. If you're healing from the mother wound, emotional neglect, or childhood trauma, you’re in the right place.Start with the first 8 episodes—they lay the foundation for your healing. Learn to understand your experience, set boundaries, and build more honest, grounded relationships. Listener questions are welcome. You’re not alone. Other daughters are here. I am, too.
Heather Gray, LICSW hosts Mother Mayhem: For Daughters of Narcissistic or Emotionally Limited Mothers, a health show with 159 episodes published.
In this episode, we explore the hidden cost of contact, why daughters often doubt their own experiences, and how healing can happen without going no contact. We also discuss self-trust, boundaries, nervous system respons
In this episode, I’m taking a do-over. Over the last few years on Mayhem, I’ve talked so much about trauma, nervous systems, hypervigilance, emotional regulation, and healing after narcissistic abuse and childhood trauma
You know what you want to say. You can feel it in your body. It doesn’t feel good. Something is off. You want something different. And then… you don’t say it. Not because you don’t know how. Not because you haven’t read
Mother’s Day can bring up a lot when you have a complicated, painful, or confusing relationship with your mother. If you’re a daughter of a narcissistic, emotionally immature, or unavailable mother, this time of year can
***Note: This episode has been re-uploaded with the correct audio. This week’s episode is different. For the first time, we hear from a daughter who is still living at home with the mother who is hurting her. She’s 16. S
Food didn’t become comfort by accident. For many daughters, food became the safest way to soothe themselves when feelings were too big, too inconvenient, or too unwelcome for the people around them. Food didn’t roll its
Today, we are building the official Mother Mayhem Heartbreak Survival Kit. You know the drill. Pajamas Tissues. At least one song on repeat. And a movie you’ve seen so many times you can recite it by heart. Because daugh
If you’ve done the healing work… rebuilt your life… and still find yourself bracing for the next thing to fall apart, let’s have a chat today. Many daughters of narcissistic or emotionally limited mothers are no longer a
In narcissistic family systems, loyalty is redefined. It means: don’t disrupt the narrative. So when you speak up, name harm, or refuse to play along, the system reacts. When truth threatens the structure, the truth-tell
Why do relationships feel harder for you than they seem to for everyone else? This week, we talk to a daughter who grew up with early childhood neglect and emotional inconsistency. She feeling chronically lonely, sociall
If the world feels overwhelming right now, you are not overreacting. In this episode, we’re talking about what it’s like to live in a trauma-shaped nervous system while the world itself feels loud, destabilizing, and uns
In this episode of Mother Mayhem, we explore why trauma does not always come with a clear story, how pain can live in the body instead of memory, and why memory gaps are not a sign that nothing happened. Learn how trauma
This week, we explore what happens when the truth finally becomes clear, and how healing must eventually move beyond constant processing in order to make room for life. This episode addresses: Why years of therapy can he
This is your invitation to the Mayhem Daughters Retreat , a small, in-person experience for daughters of narcissistic or emotionally limited mothers who are ready to deepen their healing in shared physical space. This ep
For daughters of narcissistic or emotionally limited mothers, silence often doesn’t feel neutral. It can feel dangerous, like trouble is coming, like you’ve done something wrong. So we fill it. With explanations. With ap
Some daughters grow up believing their story must be exaggerated, misunderstood, or somehow “too much” to be real. Not because it wasn’t devastating. But because there was no safe adult to quietly confirm, This isn’t oka
Have you ever noticed that you feel worse after seeing or talking to your mother? More anxious, irritable, shut down, flooded, or exhausted? If so, this episode is for you. In this episode, I break down why your body and
When healing reaches a point of no return, trauma brain often turns on you. This week, we’re unpacking why daughters of narcissistic or emotionally limited mothers default to self-blame and guilt even when the truth is c
If you were raised by a covert narcissistic mother, your memory was not the problem. The label was. Daughters often reach for the word “covert” because the other word feels too big. Narcissist feels like an accusation. C
This episode is for daughters who feel overwhelmed by New Year’s pressure…the daughters who grew up with narcissistic, emotionally limited, unpredictable, or inconsistent mothers and now find themselves feeling “behind,”
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