Empowerment Through Awareness
Narcissistic Abuse Awareness and Recovery Coalition
Join the fight against narcissistic abuse. Together we can educate, advocate, and support survivors on their journey to recovery.
GET INVOLVEDThe evidence is clear
National suicide numbers exceed homicide numbers.
The upstream driver is the same.
No policy framework addresses it. Until now.
Coercive control is not one risk factor among many. It is the shared driver behind suicide, chronic disease, child developmental harm, and institutional failure — presenting to twelve systems that do not speak to each other.
Interactive model
One driver. Twelve systems. Zero coordination.
The NAARC causal model maps how coercive control generates moral injury and chronic stress, flows through institutional misidentification and betrayal, and fans out to every downstream outcome — while fragmented policy responds to each in isolation.
Research
HTM Foundation Paper: Core Framework
Establishes the humiliation vs. shame distinction, the five necessary-and-sufficient criteria, the harm-generative architecture, and the theoretical departure from DSM and trauma-based models.
Read the foundation paper →Research NEW
HTM White Paper 1: The Neurocognitive Profile
Why dysregulation models fail. Examines the neurocognitive architecture underlying high-functioning coercive control — affective vs. cognitive empathy, enhanced executive function, and why this profile produces institutional invisibility while victims are misidentified.
Read White Paper 1 →Policy NEW
White paper: coercive control as a public-health emergency
NAARC's first policy white paper presents a unified model linking PMIEs, moral injury, institutional betrayal, and suicide risk — with a $40–80B estimated annual burden in Canada alone.
Read the white paper →Advocacy
Bill C-223 committee submission
NAARC filed a supplementary submission to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights responding to the Canadian Bar Association with four structural arguments for coercive control recognition.
Read the submission →Resource NEW
Coercive control tactics library
A growing reference library documenting the specific tactics used in coercive control — named, defined, and contextualized. Built from survivor data and grounded in the HTM framework.
Browse the tactics library →Store COMING SOON
NAARC store
Awareness merchandise and community tools supporting the Fourth Monkey campaign. Proceeds fund NAARC's research and advocacy work.
Coming soon →Our Mission
NAARC is a federally registered Canadian nonprofit dedicated to supporting survivors of narcissistic abuse. Since August 2024, we've grown to over 400,000 members worldwide, creating a platform for education, advocacy, and healing grounded in behavioral science rather than advocacy framing.
We believe understanding manipulation tactics is the first step to recovery. Through shared experience, research-backed resources, and community support, we empower survivors to reclaim their lives — and we translate that knowledge into policy.
⚠️ A critical sign of abuse
If you feel constant confusion in your relationship, this is a sign of abuse.
Healthy relationships provide clarity and consistency. Confusion — questioning your reality, your memory, your perceptions — is manufactured by the abuser to maintain control. You are not "too sensitive" or "overthinking it." Your confusion is a symptom of manipulation.
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