Originally Recorded 1/14/22

Tony interviews author, and podcast host Suzanne Falter https://suzannefalter.com/ on her experience navigating a relationship with a narcissistic partner. Suzanne Falter is a successful author, podcast host, speaker, and survivor of a relationship with a narcissistic partner. Suzanne talks about the significant life changes that led to a cross-country move and a new relationship full of love-bombing, gaslighting and manipulation. She shares her experiences on the difficulties of navigating the emotional whiplash that can occur in narcissistic relationships and how to survive a breakup. 

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[00:00:07] Hey, everybody, welcome to waking up the narcissism, this is episode number 19, I'm your host. Tony Overbay, host of the Virtual Couch podcast. I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist, and let's get right into today's episode. Continue to reach out. Contact me. I would love to get your questions, your feedback, your examples. And just over the last week, I had a few more women reach out and want to be in the private Facebook group I have for women who are navigating the difficult narcissistic relationships in their lives. Again, whether it's a spouse, a adult child, a parent, a friend. There are so many different combinations that can really suck the life out of somebody. Take the energy out of them. So the group is continuing to grow. It's pretty fascinating and amazing. And I also received a couple more emails this week from people that said, Hey, I think I am the narcissist. I'm the one who has the narcissistic traits or tendencies. And man, how bold. How empowering is that as a first step to waking up to perhaps your own narcissism? And I've been very open about what a process that can be and that the title of the podcast is truly waking up the narcissism, waking up to my own narcissistic traits and tendencies. And for so many people, it's those narcissistic traits and tendencies in their relationships. So I want to first of all, we're going to get to an interview today, and it is the first interview on waking up the narcissism.

[00:01:21] I have so many more plan, but I was asked to be on a woman named Suzanne Vaulters Show, which is about self care for the extremely busy woman. She is an author. She's written multiple books as America. She has a book called Self-care for the Extremely Busy Woman, and It's a really good book. And her Facebook group, her private Facebook group, has around fifty five thousand people on it. So Suzanne does an amazing job, and her assistant had reached out to me to come on her podcast and talk about how to choose a therapist. And we traded some emails and she found out more about my waking up the Narcissism podcast. And so then she had me also just talk a little bit about narcissism and emotional im...