How do you get a narcissist out of your life? I am a female with a female friend who lives about an hour away. I don’t see her often but she calls me on her [...]

Everyone moves forward in their own time, but what really helps isn’t so much time–but what you do with that time. It helps to get crystal clear about the difference between love and a trauma [...]

After an a narcissistic relationship, it’s common for many people to be afraid of being hurt like that again. Not to mention many people are struggling with PTSD or PTSD type symptoms and are feeling [...]

We tend to mirror what we learn, and for many people who grow up in a dysfunctional (or troubled home) they’ve developed some healthy ways of “surviving” (or navigating) that environment–the slang term for this [...]

In this episode I discuss the intersection of compassion and unconditional love and healthy boundaries. Having compassion and love for someone is nice, however, it becomes toxic if doing so if you are putting yourself [...]

In this episode, I cover why it can be so difficult to move on from a narcissitic relationship. If you have a question for the show, please email me at: [email protected] To get support, or [...]

Learning to trust again isn’t easy, but it is possible. The key is really in taking things slow, and responding to red flags when you see them. In this episode, I talk about learning to [...]

In this episode, I talk about the types of people narcissists are attracted to and why. This is an older episode, and I use the term “codependent” to describe the types of people overt narcissists [...]

Lots of people (myself included) have gotten stuck with trying to navigate dating after narcissitic abuse. They may have heard the advice of “date a boring guy (or gal).” But the reality is that the [...]

In this episode, I give a brief history of the origin of the term codependency, and how the term has grown over time.  …Many people (myself included for a long time) really had issues with the [...]