The Cost of Silence: A Memoir of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Narcissistic Trauma

The Uncommon Minds Experience · Jun 20, 2026 · 15m

Patricia Grenelle spent over 40 years as a therapist. A forensic psychologist. She sat across from survivors of abuse. She testified in courtrooms. She helped countless people heal from trauma.

Then she wrote her own story.

Her memoir is called We Were a Nice Normal Family. It is about childhood sexual abuse. About narcissistic trauma. About what happens when the family that looks perfect from the outside is quietly breaking people on the inside.

She is 74 years old. She has nothing left to prove. She wrote the book because she wanted to. Because the story was ready. Because someone out there…