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About Coach Adriana
Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Coach
Hey, I’m Adriana.
I help adult children of narcissists and survivors of toxic relationships stop second-guessing themselves, understand what actually happened to them, and rebuild a life that finally feels like their own.I’m a certified trauma-informed life coach based in Toronto, but my clients are everywhere. Coaching with me happens 1:1 or inside my B.U.L.L.E.T.P.R.O.O.F. group coaching program depending on the level of support you want.
But honestly, none of that is why people work with me.
They work with me because I lived it.
Why I do this work
For most of my life I thought something was wrong with me.
Not a little wrong. Fundamentally wrong.
Wrong personality.
Wrong reactions.
Wrong emotions.
Wrong brain.
I felt different from everyone, constantly confused in relationships, and somehow always ended up being the problem… even when I was trying the hardest.
I was raised in a chaotic family dynamic with a narcissistic mother, believed my father was a monster for most of my life due to early brainwashing, became a caretaker as a kid, and spent years being bullied at school.
So by adulthood, my nervous system had one operating system:
over-explain → people-please → walk on eggshells → collapse → repeat
I didn’t know it was trauma.
I thought it was just my personality.
The Google Rabbit Hole
After yet another relationship that went from “you’re amazing” to “you’re nothing” in record time, I finally did what almost every survivor eventually does:
I googled.
That’s when I learned about narcissistic abuse.
And suddenly my entire life made sense.
But understanding it didn’t fix it.
Then my body Forced The Issue
In 2015, after a routine wisdom tooth extraction, I developed chronic pain.
Jaw pain. Migraines. Ulcers. Carpal tunnel. Tendonitis. Arthritis.
Then shingles in my mouth.
Then trigeminal neuralgia (aka the suicide disease).
Four years of escalating symptoms.
By 30, my full-time job was being in pain.
Eventually I discovered the work of Dr. John Sarno and the mind-body connection. I didn’t believe it at first. I was offended by it, actually.
But I was desperate.
Four months later I was completely pain-free.
Not because the pain was imaginary
but because my nervous system had been holding decades of unprocessed emotional survival patterns.
That was the moment everything clicked:
I wasn’t broken.
My reactions made perfect sense for what I lived through.
And the same was true for the people I now work with every day.
What was Missing From Traditional Help
Therapy gave me awareness.
Self-help gave me concepts.
Nothing gave me translation.
No one explained:
• why I kept choosing the same people
• why boundaries felt physically dangerous
• why I over-explained everything
• why I felt guilty for existing
• why I could understand abuse but still tolerate it
I needed someone who had actually walked through it and could connect the dots in real time.
So I became that person.
I’ve been coaching since 2019.
How I Help
My work isn’t about venting about narcissists forever.
It’s about pattern interruption.
We identify the conditioning, retrain your reactions, rebuild self-trust, and change how you participate in relationships so your life actually changes in the real world, not just in insight.
Clients usually come in saying:
“I know they’re toxic… so why do I still feel like I’m the problem?”
They leave knowing exactly why — and no longer acting from it.
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Credentials (For the People Who Care About That)
• BA in Environmental & Health Studies
• Professional Life Coach Certification
• Stress Management Coach Certification
• Mind-Body Fitness Coach Certification
• Certified SafeSpace™ Trauma-Informed Facilitator
Fancy pieces of paper are important, yes.
But lived experience is what makes this work land.
The Short Version
I spent decades confused, four years in severe chronic pain, and most of my life adapting to people who never intended to understand me.
I figured out the pattern, healed it, and now I help others do the same without taking the scenic route I took.