Narcissism Recovery Podcast

Yitz Epstein
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Oct 7, 2019 • 9min

Narcissists as Energy Vampires

Narcissistic abusers victims describe feeling drained and empty. This is because narcissistic abusers are using specific techniques to get their victims to fork over their creative and living energy to supply their false self and ego. Have a listen as I go into the dynamics of how narcissists vampire energy and how to protect yourself rom this happening.
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Oct 4, 2019 • 9min

Female Covert Narcissists - The Dangers of Passive Aggression

Female covert narcissist consist of some of the most dangerous predators on the planet. Because of their ability to hide the abuse behind the societal stigma of poor helpless female, they will be able to hide the ruthless emotional bullying and destroy others in the process. Have a listen as I discuss the dangers of covert passive aggressive females.
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Oct 2, 2019 • 10min

Narcissistic Parenting - Using Child as a Pawn

Narcissists use others as a way of gaining narcissistic supply and their children are no exception to this phenomenon. Narcissistic abusers will often use their children as a way of controlling their partners and bully them into submission. This is done by creating an alliance with the child and brainwashing them to see the other parent as abusive and abusive: a truly horrific experience for both the child and partner of the narcissistic abuser.
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Sep 27, 2019 • 11min

Financial Abuse

With narcissistic abuse there will almost always be an aspect of financial exploitation. Because narcissistic abusers are vying for control, manipulating someone’s finances will lead to a dependence and cripple their victims ability to leave the relationship if desired.
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Sep 26, 2019 • 12min

Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - Spiritual Bypassing

Find out how Childhood Abuse causes a more extreme Post Traumatic Stress Disorder known as (CPTSD) Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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Sep 24, 2019 • 11min

Narcissists and Demons

Please be advised that this podcast is not meant to prove a point and argued. It is only a perspective from the spiritual perspective to explain narcissism and the way demonic possession may play a part in this from of abuse.
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Sep 23, 2019 • 13min

My Story Of Recovery From Narcissistic Abuse

Have a listen as I go into some of the painful experiences and recovery from narcissistic abuse.
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Sep 20, 2019 • 10min

Can the Narcissist Change?

Contrary to what most believe, narcissistically wounded individuals are able to change. It does require rigorous choice to face one’s truths and wounds that are often denied. Have a listen as I discuss the ways a narcissistically injured individual can change.
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Sep 20, 2019 • 10min

Personality Disorders from a Childhood Wounds Perspective

- A wounded child is going to have a difficult time developing an individuated sense of self. - An injury to the core self forces the child to develop a maladaptive personality as a way of protecting from further injury and to protect from total annihilation of the self. - Personality disorders in adulthood started in childhood and are a mansifestion of the injured self - Over the years the coping mechanisms to survive become habitual and form the way the child and now adult sees themelwvs, the world and how they interact with it. - They personality is largely built to protect wound and is not aligned with authentic self. - Borderline personality disorder for example is built around the advancement wound and protecting from getting abandoned. NPD is built around feeing shamed and humiliated to protect from further shame. - Personality should be an expression of self and the mechanism used to communicate with outside world. If not built on truth and health it will lead to breakdowns and inability to communicate love or even get needs met. Leads to extreme frustration, shame, rage, humiliation and feeling like others are evil or everyone is out to get them (paranoia).
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Sep 18, 2019 • 11min

Perfectionism - Defense Mechanism

- Perfectionism is a fallacy in logic. It concludes that if all flaws are removed and perfection attained then the inner chaos and pain will subside. - It serves as a soothing agent for inner perceived flaws and shame. When perfection is gained it never lasts long creating a lifelong persuit. - Stems from childhood where parents lacked attunement and awareness of child’s developmental stages and therefore did not properly set bar for attaining achievement. - With narcissistic parents, they are aware that the child needs unconditional love on a visceral level. By not giving them this love and forcing them to earn it, child strives for unnataible goals and impossible expectations to run from feeling inqduquet and incapable since couldn’t reach goals. This created a “carrot on the stick” effect where the child chases something that is unntaible causing extreme humiliation and shame. - Perfectionism serves to mask this shame and delude the individual into striving tirelessly for perfect body, success, speech, looks etc all to avoid inner shame and reality. - False self is predicated on perfection. Once you are creating a false self you can make it as you wish. No limits to how perfect it is since after all it is a lie. - Narcissistic abusers can not handle the truth so the false self serves to avoid it and enter in to alternate and fantasy like reality. Anything that reveals the truth or hints to it must be discarded and destroyed. - Victims of narcissistic abuse are usually walking on eggshells of this idealized false and perfect self in order to reflect back to their abuser that this false self in valid helping the narcissist stay on the denial state.

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