Tony discusses 5 survival strategies to help you find solid ground when trying to communicate with a narcissist, or someone expressing narcissistic traits or tendencies.

Also, have you been told that you won't let things go, that you like to fight, or that you're not as easy to get along with as you used to be by the narcissist in your life? If so, you may be doing better than you think! Please submit your questions as well as your gaslighting examples through the contact form at http://tonyoverbay.com

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[00:00:00] Hey, everybody, welcome to the first episode of Waking Up the Narcissism. I'm your host, Tony, over me. And if you have seen the new Ryan Reynolds movie free guy and this is not a movie review podcast, I promise. But there toward the end, there's this character named Dude, he's this big giant character that was not completed. He hasn't been finished. He hasn't been programed by his computer programmers completely. And so at one point, he just says catchphrase. And that's the place where they have forgotten or they haven't had time to put the catchphrase in yet. And I feel like right now I need to just say intro music because there's very talented individual who is creating some intro music for me right now. So imagine, if you will, episode one waking up to narcissism and there's some very good theme music or intro music coming on right now. So that will that will be here eventually. But for now, I'm just happy to be with you. I've been waiting to record this podcast for so long. I've literally been meaning to do this for over a year now. And if you have followed me on my main podcast, The Virtual Couch, there are a lot of episodes where I do talk about narcissism. And as I mentioned in the trailer, if you listen to the trailer for this waking up the Narcissism podcast, then you may have heard that those any episode that I have anything to do or say with narcissism, it gets thousands and thousands of more downloads than most.

[00:01:18] So it is really something that I'm passionate about. It's something that I'm currently working on a book and online program, all of those wonderful things. But it's something that I see in my practice every day, literally every day. I have a private group for women who are in relationships with narcissistic men, and I didn't mention that in the trailer. But if you're here right now and you're listening and you are interested in that, just head over to my website, Tony over baidu.com. You can shoot me an email through the contact form there and it goes directly to me and I can give you more information about that. But let's get to the show today. I really am hoping that I can just be one of many resources that you turn to if you're just starting to learn more about narcissism. If you're in the thick of a long relationship with somebody that you believe either has narcissistic tendencies or maybe even full blown narcissistic personality disorder, or have you tried to help a friend or a loved one who might be in the aforementioned relationship? Because you need all the information that you can get, you need all the data that you can get because when you're working with an emotionally abusive person, you need all of the information to be able to get your bearings right to get your feet underneath you.

[00:02:22] So please know that I don't claim to know everything about the narcissist, but I hope they're going to be able to share a lot of information that I see in my practice and that I've seen over the last 15 years,