Shahida Arabi is a summa cum laude graduate of Columbia University graduate school, where she studied the effects of bullying across the life-course trajectory. She is the #1 Amazon bestselling author of three books, including Becoming the Narcissist's Nightmare: How to Devalue and Discard the Narcissist While Supplying Yourself , featured as a #1 Amazon Bestseller in three categories and as a #1 Amazon bestseller in personality disorders for seventeen consecutive months after its release. Her most recent book, POWER: Surviving and Thriving After Narcissistic Abuse , was also featured as a #1 Amazon best seller in Applied Psychology. She is the founder of the popular blog for abuse survivors, Self-Care Haven, which has millions of views from all over the world. Her work has been shared and endorsed by numerous clinicians, mental health advocates, mental health professionals, and bestselling authors.¿Her work has been featured on SALON, Bustle, The Huffington Post, VICE, Inc., The Meadows, and Psych Central. For her undergraduate education, Shahida graduated summa cum laude from NYU where she studied English Literature and Psychology.