Breaking Cycles Without Breaking Yourself

You're Not Crazy: A Podcast for Cycle Breakers with Toxic Parents

Healing isn’t linear—especially when you’re the cycle breaker. In this episode of You’re Not Crazy, I’m pulling back the curtain on what real, sustainable healing looks like when you grew up with emotionally immature, narcissistic, or borderline parents.

I share how becoming a therapist over a decade ago didn’t free me from my dysfunctional patterns—it magnified them. I was the classic parentified child turned overwhelmed helper: running myself into the ground trying to "fix" everything and help everyone.

I talk about how I'm working on breaking toxic cycles right now and all the feelings and thoughts I have around my own healing journey.

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Torie Wiksell is a therapist and coach who specializes in working with the adult children of parents with borderline and narcissistic personality disorders. Torie brings a unique perspective having spent years working with clients with personality disorders and growing up with a mother she suspects had NPD with BPD traits. Torie provides online therapy to clients located in WA, OR, and CA, and online coaching internationally.
Disclaimer: This podcast is not therapy. If you are in mental health crisis, please contact the Crisis Lifeline by dialing 988.
You're Not Crazy is a podcast owned and produced by Torie Wiksell and Confident Boundaries, LLC.

Chapters

1. Breaking Cycles Without Breaking Yourself (00:00:00)

2. Welcome and Health Update (00:00:14)

3. Addressing Podcast Criticism (00:03:12)

4. The Toxic Mental Health Industry (00:08:52)

5. Sustainability vs. Self-Sacrifice (00:16:04)

6. Creating Accessible Support Options (00:22:19)

7. What Healing Really Looks Like (00:29:26)

8. Closing Thoughts and Gratitude (00:37:09)