Search Results for: dealing with a narcissist

Addicted to Researching Narcissism: 5 Signs to Look Out for After a Break Up

While all relationships have their ups and downs, a relationship with a narcissist can be particularly tumultuous. To cope with the extreme emotional trauma of this kind of emotional abuse, your body activates

Read More

Love Bombing is the Gateway Drug to Love Addiction

If you’ve ever been in love with a narcissist, you’re likely aware of how good they are at manipulating your relationship.  No one ever thinks, though, that a romantic relationship with a narcissist

Read More

5 Tips to Master Self-Discipline While Going No Contact

One of the greatest gifts you can give yourself when detaching from a toxic relationship is practicing tips to master self-discipline. Learning how to tell yourself no is an important step to becoming

Read More

6 Shortcuts to Reclaim Your Inner Strength in One Day

If you’ve recently left a toxic relationship, it probably feels like the wind has been knocked out of your sails.  You may still be trying to wrap your mind around what happened and wonder how you’ll

Read More

The Negative Effects of Pathological Empathy and Altruism

Are you too kind? According to Wikipedia, Empathy is defined as the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within the other person’s frame of reference. Pathological

Read More

How Obsessively Researching Signs of Narcissism is Ruining Your Life

Have you found yourself obsessively researching signs of narcissism? Did you recently leave a toxic relationship, only to continue your fact-finding mission like a journalist working for CNN? Have you

Read More

5 Brutal Ways New Abuse Survivors Torture Themselves

Wondering how to truly heal from emotional abuse? Legions of people who’ve endured emotional and narcissistic abuse hold the mistaken belief that choosing to leave a toxic relationship is the hardest

Read More

Cognitive Dissonance Removal Strategies

Abusive relationships often reshape your entire belief system. If you are like most victims of narcissistic abuse, you experienced a distorted sense of reality throughout the majority of the relationship

Read More

The Anatomy of Narcissism

Narcissists are disconnected from life; they have no knowledge, experience, or memory of love or caring. They cannot appreciate beauty. They are not able to replenish themselves; they have no internal

Read More