If you’ve ever been with someone who is narcissistic, you know it feels like a mindf*ck of an experience.

Therapist and Narcissism Expert, James Marrugo gives us a look inside the narcissistic mind to help better make sense of everything from love bombing to gaslighting. He shares the vital information that you will want to hear if you think you may be (or have been) in relationship with someone who has narcissistic traits, and tips on how to never fall for someone like that again.

Listen for:

✨ Signs 🚩 to look for in someone who is narcissistic

✨ How and why narcissistic people gaslight and manipulate their partners (and how to know if it is happening to you 🚩)

✨ How to tell if you've been love bombed 🚩

✨ Why narcissists love empaths

✨ Why setting boundaries or trying to be understood by a narcissist feels so hard

✨ How to leave a narcissist - grey-rocking vs. no contact

✨ How to trust your instincts while dating so you don’t fall back into a relationship with a narcissistic person

✨ The various types of narcissism + how they outwardly present differently

✨ Narcissism vs. Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)

✨ If you can truly be in a happy relationship with someone on the narcissism spectrum

You can find more from James at www.morningcoffeecounseling.com and on his podcast, Mental Health Without the Bulls****

RESOURCES FOR YOUR HEALING:

❤️ For more resources on healing from the mindf*ck of confusing relationships so you can securely attach + experience healthy love: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.brewolta.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

🫶🏻 ⁠⁠⁠7 Questions to Ask Yourself if You Are in a Toxic Relationship⁠⁠⁠ - FREE Guide

🫶🏻 ⁠Get the free RELATIONSHIP RESET GUIDE⁠: ⁠⁠https://www.brewolta.com/want-real-love⁠⁠

- Learn how to communicate your feelings without feeling guilty

- Navigate triggering moments without shutting down

- Feel secure on your own so you don’t anxiously attach

- Expand your capacity to hold next-level love while remaining true to you

🌻 ⁠Submit an interest form⁠ to work with me: ⁠⁠https://www.brewolta.com/interest-form⁠⁠

In this podcast, we unpack the challenges faced by empaths and those struggling with codependency who’ve found themselves healing from the heartbreak and confusion of narcissistic relationships. We’ll explore the meaning of gaslighting and love bombing that comes with narcissistic abuse and toxic relationships, dive into attachment styles, and learn to build confidence while setting boundaries, improving self-worth, and learning to effectively communicate in future healthy relationships.

Brandi Babin is a Habit & Productivity Strategist and Author of Reclaim: A Journey To Self Discovery, and a strong ass woman who knows all too well the effects of narcissistic and post-separation abuse. She vulnerably shares her experience within the narcissism cycle, why the love bombing felt too euphoric to leave, how gaslighting felt believable, why she kept going back, and finally how she grieved not only her ex, but released and found peace with the woman she was.

Listen for:

✨ Love bombing vs. falling in love (how to tell the difference)

✨ Signs of being gaslit and why it makes you feel so crazy

✨ Why she went back to him several times when she knew she shouldn't

✨ Why we give narcissists the benefit of the doubt

✨ How we confuse manipulation for vulnerability with a narcissist

✨ How to know when you are ready to leave

✨ Post-separation abuse and how she navigated leaving with children

✨ The nuances in grieving a toxic relationship

✨ How to feel feelings + take action steps to heal (you can too!)

✨ Her #1 way to get to know yourself again

Mentioned Resources:

✨ Brandi's Reclaim Journal/Guide: https://www.thereclaimstrategy.com/

✨ Brandi's Podcast: Shattered to Unbreakable

✨ My Find Yourself Again Self-Led Course: https://brewolta.mykajabi.com/find-yourself-again

RESOURCES FOR YOUR HEALING:

❤️ For more resources on healing from the mindf*ck of confusing relationships so you can securely attach + experience healthy love: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.brewolta.com⁠⁠⁠⁠

🫶🏻 ⁠⁠⁠⁠7 Questions to Ask Yourself if You Are in a Toxic Relationship⁠⁠⁠⁠ - FREE Guide

🫶🏻 ⁠Get the free RELATIONSHIP RESET GUIDE⁠: https://www.brewolta.com/want-real-love

- Learn how to communicate your feelings without feeling guilty

- Navigate triggering moments without shutting down

- Feel secure on your own so you don’t anxiously attach

- Expand your capacity to hold next-level love while remaining true to you

🌻 ⁠Submit an interest form⁠ to work with me: https://www.brewolta.com/interest-form

In this podcast, we unpack the challenges faced by empaths and those struggling with codependency who’ve found themselves healing from the heartbreak and confusion of narcissistic relationships. We’ll explore the meaning of gaslighting and love bombing that comes with narcissistic abuse and toxic relationships, dive into attachment styles, and learn to build confidence while setting boundaries, improving self-worth, and learning to effectively communicate in future healthy relationships.

Stacey Embers is a lightworker who found recovery from drugs, alcohol, sex + love, and codependency addictions, and now experiences living as her most authentic self. Hear how she moved through years of self-abandonment and shame in unhealthy relationships and has now learned how to reconnect to her intuition, build trust back with herself, feel feelings instead of analyzing them, and go inward despite the discomforting process of self-work. Oh, yeah and how being playful keeps her sane.

Listen for:

✨ How to become discerning so you don't self-abandon

✨ Parts work + building trust with your parts

✨ Finding your people and the importance of taking them off pedestals

✨ How she found recovery from drug, alcohol, sex + love, and codependency addictions

✨ What being sober vs. being in recovery means

✨ Meditation + spirituality tips

✨ How to sit in discomfort so you don't slip into victim mentality

Listen to Stacey's podcast here:

⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/3zGdcAgExbDcNDMCe7lvl0?si=e25fc7369c2144f9⁠

RESOURCES FOR YOUR HEALING:

❤️ For more resources on healing from the mindf*ck of confusing relationships so you can securely attach + experience healthy love: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.brewolta.com⁠⁠⁠⁠

🫶🏻 ⁠Get the free RELATIONSHIP RESET GUIDE⁠: https://www.brewolta.com/want-real-love

- Learn how to communicate your feelings without feeling guilty

- Navigate triggering moments without shutting down

- Feel secure on your own so you don’t anxiously attach

- Expand your capacity to hold next-level love while remaining true to you

🌻 ⁠Submit an interest form⁠ to work with me: https://www.brewolta.com/interest-form

In this podcast, we unpack the challenges faced by empaths and those struggling with codependency who’ve found themselves healing from the heartbreak and confusion of narcissistic relationships. We’ll explore the meaning of gaslighting and love bombing that comes with narcissistic abuse and toxic relationships, dive into attachment styles, and learn to build confidence while setting boundaries, improving self-worth, and learning to effectively communicate in future healthy relationships.