Originally Recorded 12/31/21

Tony reads some listener emails and answers questions around narcissism and the correlation with emotional immaturity. He also addresses why more men exhibit narcissistic traits and tendencies and he dips a toe in the water and then dives all the way in with how to communicate with a narcissist using his "4 Pillars of a Connected Conversation."

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[00:00:08] Hey, everybody, welcome to

[00:00:09] Episode 17 of Waking Up to narcissism, I'm your host, Tony Overbay. I'm a licensed marriage and family

[00:00:14] Therapist and host of the Virtual Couch

[00:00:16] Podcast. So if you haven't checked out that podcast, please go, go find it and check that out. A lot of good feedback from last week's bonus episode on Christmas

[00:00:24] Eve, where I shared a virtual couch episode. Whose life are you living or if you want to? Why does everybody else know more about my own life

[00:00:30] Than I do? And if you haven't checked that one out, that was last week on waking

[00:00:34] Up the narcissism. I want to start today. I've got three or four emails that I think will lead into a really good episode that I want to answer some questions, and I wanted to start by just reading a couple of reviews. And I want you to know I've not been someone who reads reviews

[00:00:49] On

[00:00:49] My other podcast, The Virtual Couch. I love reviews. I think I've mentioned earlier in

[00:00:55] The on this Waking Up The Narcissism podcast

[00:00:57] How much I really appreciate the reviews,

[00:01:00] Especially with this topic, because I feel

[00:01:01] Like if you even go start looking at the reviews or the stars, the ratings

[00:01:05] That it's a little bit funny. It's a little bit like narcissistic tendencies or traits where it's definitely

[00:01:10] All or nothing, or black or white kind of thinking. People are saying things like, and I've got some of the reviews pulled up here where right on the nose, great info. I feel heard. I can't recommend this enough. Or then it's the delivery is withering. Can we get to the info faster and those sort of things?

[00:01:25] I thought it would

[00:01:26] Be a fun place to start, so of course I would love reviews and ratings. Wherever you listen to your podcast, that's a little bit of the lifeblood in the podcasting world.

[00:01:33] But I also am not one who is going to put on a contest.

[00:01:36] Go leave me a review

[00:01:37] And then you

[00:01:38] Might win a shirt or something like that because I know there are ways to bolster those reviews or ratings. But here's what I think is

[00:01:44] Really fascinating, especially because of the content that we're talking about. So one of one of the anonymous reviews said Good

[00:01:50] Content,