Episode 8 — Carbon Copy
What happens when a child becomes the outline instead of the author?
This episode explores the quiet, consuming shape of enmeshment — when “being close” slips into becoming a carbon copy. From copied tastes and borrowed perfume to triangulation, guilt-curfews, and the soft gaslighting that rewrites a future into something “sensible,” Lori traces how identity gets pressed thin under someone else’s paper… and how it starts to grow back.
This chapter moves between memory, psychology, and a letter to Little Lori — an unsealing of what was borrowed, what was lost, and what is finally reclaimed.
If you grew up being praised for closeness that actually cost you yourself, this one might feel like a flashlight.
CONTENT NOTE:
This episode contains discussion of narcissistic abuse, enmeshment, emotional manipulation, triangulation, financial deceit, and parentification. Listener discretion is advised.
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