Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing

It’s Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People with Dr. Ramani Durvasula


Listen Later

Send us a text

Dr. Ramani Durvasula, author of It’s Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People, shares her insights into narcissism, how narcissistic abuse survivors can heal and get support, and how to care for yourself when writing and promoting a book on tough topics. 

Ramani Durvasula, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist in California, the founder and CEO of LUNA Education, Training and Consulting, and professor emerita of psychology at California State University Los Angeles. She is the New York Times bestselling author of It’s Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People. She is also the author of multiple other books including Don’t You Know Who I Am: How to Stay Sane in the Era of Narcissism, Entitlement and Incivility and Should I Stay or Should I Go: Surviving a Relationship with a Narcissist. She has lectured and trained therapists around the world on working with clients experiencing narcissistic abuse and has developed a 36-hour virtual training and certification program to train clinicians on how to use an Antagonism-Informed approach with clients experiencing narcissistic relationships. She hosts a popular YouTube channel with over 1.6 million subscribers, hosted the critically acclaimed podcast Navigating Narcissism, and is a featured expert on the digital media platform MedCircle. For more on Dr. Ramani, please check out the links below!

Resources:

Dr. Ramani’s Healing Program

Healing from Gaslighting Course

Course on Narcissistic Abuse for Therapists

Dr. Ramani Network


Episode Highlights

6:11 How Narcissism Affects You

11:47 Narcissism versus Antagonistic Behavior

16:21 Radical Acceptance and the Problem of Toxic Hope

28:00 The Disengagement Continuum

33:00 Disenfranchised Grief

38:00 Breaking Through Cognitive Dissonance

43:00 Healing and Getting Support

51:46 Dr. Ramani’s Best Writing Advice


Connect with Dr. Ramani

Website

YouTube: @DoctorRamani

Instagram: @DoctorRamani

XL @DoctorRamani

TikTok: @DoctorRamani

Sign up for Revise Your Memoir series: https://bit.ly/4ooLTDi

Connect with your host, Lisa:
Get Your Free Copy of Ditch Your Inner Critic: https://lisacooperellison.com/subscribe/
Website | Instagram | YouTube | Facebook | LinkedIn

Produced by Espresso Podcast Production

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through WritingBy Lisa Cooper Ellison

  • 5
  • 5
  • 5
  • 5
  • 5

5

70 ratings


More shows like Writing Your Resilience: Building Resilience, Embracing Trauma and Healing Through Writing

View all
Tara Brach by Tara Brach

Tara Brach

10,536 Listeners

The Terri Cole Show by Terri Cole

The Terri Cole Show

1,393 Listeners

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge by Tami Simon

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

1,857 Listeners

On Being with Krista Tippett by On Being Studios

On Being with Krista Tippett

10,157 Listeners

For The Wild by For The Wild

For The Wild

1,172 Listeners

10% Happier with Dan Harris by 10% Happier

10% Happier with Dan Harris

12,727 Listeners

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson by Rick Hanson, Ph.D., Forrest Hanson

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

2,503 Listeners

Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel by Esther Perel Global Media

Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel

14,934 Listeners

Oprah's Super Soul by Oprah

Oprah's Super Soul

31,971 Listeners

The Shit No One Tells You About Writing by Bianca Marais, Carly Watters and CeCe Lyra

The Shit No One Tells You About Writing

773 Listeners

We Can Do Hard Things by Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

We Can Do Hard Things

41,556 Listeners

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen by Elise Loehnen

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen

1,085 Listeners

Astrology of the Week Ahead with Chani Nicholas by CHANI

Astrology of the Week Ahead with Chani Nicholas

653 Listeners

Let’s Talk Memoir by Ronit Plank

Let’s Talk Memoir

162 Listeners

The Telepathy Tapes by Ky Dickens

The Telepathy Tapes

8,198 Listeners