What Family Cycle Are You Accidentally Carrying Into Your Home? | The Black Sheep Coach

Confidential Intake · File No. 000

The cycle isn't a life sentence.
It's a habit you inherited, and habits can end with you.

If you grew up with a toxic or narcissistic parent, you already know the drill: high achievement, high control, and a nervous system that never fully stood down. You built a different life than the one you came from, but somewhere underneath all that competence, an old cycle is still running your parenting. You can't fix what you haven't named yet.

10 questions ~90 seconds 1 cycle, named

Sound familiar?

This is for parents who grew up with a toxic or narcissistic parent and are done handing it down.

Observation 01

"You built a life your parents never had, and still flinch when your kid raises their voice."

Observation 02

"You swore you'd never repeat it. Then you heard your mother's exact words come out of your own mouth."

Observation 03

"You can run a team, close a deal, hold an entire household together, and still feel thirteen years old during a bedtime meltdown."

Who's behind the file

Becky Nieves, The Black Sheep Coach

Becky Nieves · Cycle Breaker · The Black Sheep Coach

I'm Becky, Cycle Breaker and Black Sheep Coach. My father is a narcissist and my mom was his enabler. At 14, I already knew something was wrong, so I decided right then that I'd go to college and get a degree in psychology. Surprise: that didn't actually solve the problem or help me name what was really going on. It took years of therapy, and getting coached myself, to get here.

Today I'm mom to four amazing kids. I've worked in mental health, in corrections, and served on a school board, and I've sat on three different boards along the way. All impressive on paper, but life isn't perfect, and it was never supposed to be. Curiosity, healing, and learning are lifelong work, not a finish line.

Five known cycles. One is yours.

Every inherited cycle has a name, a cost, and a way out. The file below tells you which one you're carrying, and exactly where to start.

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FILE NO. 000 INTAKE

The Black Sheep Coach · Confidential Intake

What family cycle are you accidentally carrying into your home?

Your childhood explains your cycles. It doesn't get to raise your kids. Answer honestly: this file gets more accurate the less you edit yourself.

10 questions ~90 seconds 1 cycle, named