Surviving Narcissism Podcast with Dr. Les Carter. Episode: Healing from Toxic Relationships, Featuring Dr. Stephanie SarkisDr. Les Carter speaks with Dr. Stephanie Sarkis about her book that describes how to recognize toxic relationship patterns so you can focus instead on staying true to who you need to be. Listen to Surviving Narcissism Podcast [...]
Narcissistic parents can cause lifelong damage.Having a narcissistic parent can damage a child's self-esteem, self-concept, and how they view the world. As adults, they may unknowingly be drawn to narcissistic partners or exhibit some of their parent's pathological behaviors. Narcissistic parents often exhibit certain common behaviors that can affect their children. Read the full article on [...]
Anxious and avoidant attachments styles can attract each other. Attachment theory suggests that how we form emotional bonds in early childhood influences our attachment styles and behavior patterns in adult relationships. According to research by psychiatrist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby and developmental psychologist Mary Ainsworth, there are three main types of insecure attachment: anxious, avoidant, and disorganized. People with an anxious attachment [...]
Toxic people can erode our self-esteem. Some people seem to radiate positivity, while others leave us feeling emotionally drained and manipulated. Toxic people impact our mental and emotional well-being, leaving us exhausted and stressed. How do toxic people leave us feeling depleted and like a shell of our former selves? Learn what makes a person [...]
Narcissists from your past can pop up in your life and leave just as quickly. Your ex texts you out of nowhere and asks how you are doing. She tells you she misses you, and you don't hear from her again until months later. You may have been breadcrumbed. Breadcrumbing is when a person gives [...]
Learn if a trauma bound may exist in your relationship. You may develop a trauma bond in relationships with toxic people, whether they have narcissistic or sociopathic tendencies. A trauma bond occurs when you have become emotionally attached to someone that abuses you (Reid, 2013). You may have heard of a trauma bond named Stockholm [...]
Narcissists will try to suck you back into contact with them. Resist it. When a pathological narcissist is out of your life, they may eventually try to “hoover,” or suck you back into contact with them. Hoovering may be done by emailing, texting, calling, or snail mailing. A narcissist may send you a long email [...]
Learn how to identify a toxic relationship from the beginning. Toxic relationships generally follow three stages: idealizing, devaluing, and discarding. Learn about each of these stages and the impact it has on you. Idealizing: Love-bombing is a clear sign of the idealizing phase. You are told you are the best thing to happen to your partner, [...]
I think everyone has probably had one toxic relationship. Whether that's in the workplace, in a romantic relationship, or with family members. I started to see them in my practice as a psychotherapist because I initially specialized in patients with ADHD and anxiety, and I noticed more people asking what they were doing wrong in their [...]
