When the Bough Breaks
When the Bough Breaks
Alexis Arralynn
"Don't Tell Anyone..."
17 minutes Posted Dec 29, 2025 at 3:00 am.
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Some families don’t just keep secrets—they assign children the responsibility of protecting them. In this episode of our series Healing for the Holidays, Alexis explores the often-unnamed role of the dark secret keeper in narcissistic households: the child who is expected to know what happened, never speak about it, never grieve it, and carry it quietly into adulthood. Through personal storytelling and trauma-informed insight, this episode examines how coerced silence...