High School REACT

 

What we do or say when we are angry has very much to do with how far along we are in the healing process with narcissistic injury. Lashing out others is a way to seek a feeling of empowerment and displace a feeling of unbearableness. The alienation that naturally results from someone lashing out at another perpetuates this pattern. This is a pattern commonly seen in intimate partner violence. On the topic of narcissistic injury, I think a lot about the inconsistency of human nature. However smooth and wonderful and holy we are at times, at other times we may still be capable of malicious things. We have a personal responsibility to smooth out these "lumpy" areas in our nature and cannot simply presume that our nature will be perfected without any action on our part.