Episode 1 – Introduction to Dr. Craig Malkin



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WHY RETHINK NARCISSISM?

People ask, “Why rethink narcissism?” and sometimes they get a little confused from the title that somehow I’m talking about how great narcissism is – that’s not what this book is about at all. In fact, it draws on many of the most promising and recent research findings that we have in understanding narcissism and includes my own research in helping people understand narcissism in a different way, which gives you a much clearer path through all of this than we’ve ever had before.

THE NARCISSISM TEST

If you haven’t already done so, I suggest you go to The Narcissism Test on www.drcraigmalkin.com/the-narcissism-test and take the brief online version of the measure my colleagues and I have developed (The Narcissism Spectrum Scale) to see where you or your loved ones score (if you want to take it as if your loved one was taking it; many people have).

I really think this will help you make the most of what I’m going to be revealing over the course of the podcast and I hope you’re as excited to tune in as I am to share!

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Episode 2 – Part 1: What Is Narcissism? (The New Science)



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WHY RETHINK NARCISSISM?

People ask, “Why rethink narcissism?” and sometimes they get a little confused from the title that somehow I’m talking about how great narcissism is – that’s not what this book is about at all. In fact, it draws on many of the most promising and recent research findings that we have in understanding narcissism and includes my own research in helping people understand narcissism in a different way, which gives you a much clearer path through all of this than we’ve ever had before.

THE NARCISSISM TEST

If you haven’t already done so, I suggest you go to The Narcissism Test on www.drcraigmalkin.com/the-narcissism-test and take the brief online version of the measure my colleagues and I have developed (The Narcissism Spectrum Scale) to see where you or your loved ones score (if you want to take it as if your loved one was taking it; many people have).

I really think this will help you make the most of what I’m going to be revealing over the course of the podcast and I hope you’re as excited to tune in as I am to share!

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Episode 3 – Part 2: Origins of Narcissism



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WHY RETHINK NARCISSISM?

People ask, “Why rethink narcissism?” and sometimes they get a little confused from the title that somehow I’m talking about how great narcissism is – that’s not what this book is about at all. In fact, it draws on many of the most promising and recent research findings that we have in understanding narcissism and includes my own research in helping people understand narcissism in a different way, which gives you a much clearer path through all of this than we’ve ever had before.

THE NARCISSISM TEST

If you haven’t already done so, I suggest you go to The Narcissism Test on www.drcraigmalkin.com/the-narcissism-test and take the brief online version of the measure my colleagues and I have developed (The Narcissism Spectrum Scale) to see where you or your loved ones score (if you want to take it as if your loved one was taking it; many people have).

I really think this will help you make the most of what I’m going to be revealing over the course of the podcast and I hope you’re as excited to tune in as I am to share!

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Episode 4 – Part 3: Recognizing and Coping with Unhealthy Narcissism



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WHY RETHINK NARCISSISM?

People ask, “Why rethink narcissism?” and sometimes they get a little confused from the title that somehow I’m talking about how great narcissism is – that’s not what this book is about at all. In fact, it draws on many of the most promising and recent research findings that we have in understanding narcissism and includes my own research in helping people understand narcissism in a different way, which gives you a much clearer path through all of this than we’ve ever had before.

THE NARCISSISM TEST

If you haven’t already done so, I suggest you go to The Narcissism Test on www.drcraigmalkin.com/the-narcissism-test and take the brief online version of the measure my colleagues and I have developed (The Narcissism Spectrum Scale) to see where you or your loved ones score (if you want to take it as if your loved one was taking it; many people have).

I really think this will help you make the most of what I’m going to be revealing over the course of the podcast and I hope you’re as excited to tune in as I am to share!

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Episode 5 – Part 4: Promoting Healthy Narcissism



Welcome to Episode 5 of this special “Rethinking Narcissism” Podcast.
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WHY RETHINK NARCISSISM?

People ask, “Why rethink narcissism?” and sometimes they get a little confused from the title that somehow I’m talking about how great narcissism is – that’s not what this book is about at all. In fact, it draws on many of the most promising and recent research findings that we have in understanding narcissism and includes my own research in helping people understand narcissism in a different way, which gives you a much clearer path through all of this than we’ve ever had before.

THE NARCISSISM TEST

If you haven’t already done so, I suggest you go to The Narcissism Test on www.drcraigmalkin.com/the-narcissism-test and take the brief online version of the measure my colleagues and I have developed (The Narcissism Spectrum Scale) to see where you or your loved ones score (if you want to take it as if your loved one was taking it; many people have).

I really think this will help you make the most of what I’m going to be revealing over the course of the podcast and I hope you’re as excited to tune in as I am to share!

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Who Do Narcissists Pick As Partners?



Live from Belmont Library MA – Who Do Narcissists Pick As Partners?
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WHY RETHINK NARCISSISM?

People ask, “Why rethink narcissism?” and sometimes they get a little confused from the title that somehow I’m talking about how great narcissism is – that’s not what this book is about at all. In fact, it draws on many of the most promising and recent research findings that we have in understanding narcissism and includes my own research in helping people understand narcissism in a different way, which gives you a much clearer path through all of this than we’ve ever had before.

THE NARCISSISM TEST

If you haven’t already done so, I suggest you go to The Narcissism Test on www.drcraigmalkin.com/the-narcissism-test and take the brief online version of the measure my colleagues and I have developed (The Narcissism Spectrum Scale) to see where you or your loved ones score (if you want to take it as if your loved one was taking it; many people have).

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The Public Lie We’ve Been Told About Narcissism



Live from Belmont Library MA – The Public Lie We’ve Been Told About Narcissism
www.drcraigmalkin.com/the-book

WHY RETHINK NARCISSISM?

People ask, “Why rethink narcissism?” and sometimes they get a little confused from the title that somehow I’m talking about how great narcissism is – that’s not what this book is about at all. In fact, it draws on many of the most promising and recent research findings that we have in understanding narcissism and includes my own research in helping people understand narcissism in a different way, which gives you a much clearer path through all of this than we’ve ever had before.

THE NARCISSISM TEST

If you haven’t already done so, I suggest you go to The Narcissism Test on www.drcraigmalkin.com/the-narcissism-test and take the brief online version of the measure my colleagues and I have developed (The Narcissism Spectrum Scale) to see where you or your loved ones score (if you want to take it as if your loved one was taking it; many people have).

BUY THE BOOK

If you like what you’ve heard learn more from the book, the link to purchase in the USA is tinyurl.com/qz7tyuf or the UK is amzn.to/1M5BLct

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Why All Narcissists Use The Silent Treatment

The Narcissist Is Getting Their Karma Every Single Day

It may seem like the narcissist gets to coast through life never receiving the karma for the pain they cause. But it’s just not true!

Even if the narcissist has a hot partner, a Ferrari in the garage and an opulent home and lifestyle they don’t truly enjoy their lives.

Understandably, it’s hard to see this side of things because it is us that has been cruelly cast aside, stripped of everything,and left as a mere shell of who we once were … where’s the karma in that?

In today’s Thriver TV episode, I unpack and prove to you how the narcissist’s fantastic life is anything but the truth. In fact, the narcissist is having a shocking time and is locked into their hellish karma every single day! There is nothing to envy in that.

 

 

Video Transcript

Today I want to talk to you about how the narcissist is getting their karma every single day. This is so important for those of you who feel like the narcissist stripped everything from you and that he or she is having a great life and that you never can again.

Please know this, what appears to be true regarding the narcissist’s fantastic life is anything but the truth. In fact, the narcissist is having a shocking time and in today’s video, I’m going to unpack this for you and prove it to you.

 

What Happiness And Success Really Is

Let’s start off by getting a perspective on what happiness and success really is, because I know you may think the narcissist has these things but they don’t, and after I explain what it is, you may understand why he or she doesn’t have it at all.

What does everybody really want? I think that we can all agree that it’s love, happiness, good health, success, all the good stuff. If we peel this back even more, it’s important to understand that true happiness comes from feelings of inner peace, solidness, and wholeness. They need to be durable, they need to be lasting, not like some sugar rush gratification that gives highs when certain things happen and then crashes into lows when they don’t.

In fact, a life like that is identical to one of an addict, which goes like this: I feel good when I get my hit of whatever it is that takes me away from how I’m really feeling on the inside and I feel terrible when it wears off and I can’t get more of that.

Being in a state of happiness – which is durable inner peace and wholeness – has nothing to do with what people are getting or what they already have, because this is precarious. It’s subjective and it’s dependent on supply and a continuation of stuff.

Rather, a true state of happiness has to do with beingness. This is so important to understand. I’m going to explain more about this soon, but now let’s look at the narcissist’s karma every day that they’re experiencing as a result of their unhealthy beingness.

 

The State Of The Narcissist’s Beingness

So, what is the state of the narcissist’s beingness? I’m just going to be really frank with you – the narcissist’s state of beingness is garbage. It’s terrible and I really mean that. It’s in a desperately broken state. Because they’re feeling so insecure, toxic, and tormented on the inside, the narcissist tries to medicate with stuff and here is their grand delusion of, “I’m going to try to continually get things outside of me to try to feel better inside of me.”

The narcissist is the ultimate addict. He or she needs narcissistic supply to try to self-regulate these emotions. The narcissist needs attention, stuff, the claims, superiority, significance, objects, and whatever they decide that they’re entitled to have.

What this is really about is trying to get happiness and durable gratification, feeling gratified for a lasting amount of time, but it doesn’t last because the narcissist keeps defaulting back to how they really feel on the inside, which is horrifically insecure, broken, unacceptable, and empty.

They have the constant surges of addiction, which is the anxiety, that itch that always needs scratching of, “I need something outside of me to try to feel healthier on the inside.” This is so like taping sandwiches onto your jumper or pullover and hoping that you feel like you’ve had lunch. It’s not going to work.

The narcissist, if they are able to, keeps chasing the things that feed their ego, that’s what they do, such as the hot looking person, the money, the flashy car, the expensive dinners, the holidays, or whatever they can parasite off other people if they’re not capable of creating these things themselves, yet the narcissist is always coming up empty.

It’s like a sugar rush and their demanding insatiable False Self, which is like a black hole can be appeased momentarily but then like every addict, it wants more and more next time. I want you to think about this. We all know about people who have what we may think is everything, but yet they’re in a shocking emotional state and they’re nowhere near happy.


 

A Snapshot Of The Narcissist’s Everyday Reality

I’m going to explain these following two facts about narcissists. Number one, narcissists are never genuinely happy. They’re constantly chasing the hits of faux happiness when their ego is being fed and they’re seething pits of suffering, victimization, and hatred for themselves, life, and others when their False Self is not getting what it wants.

Number two, the delusion that the narcissist is stuck in is the belief of, “If I do the getting, then the beingness will follow.” No, it doesn’t. Just like no amount of exercise can make up for a terrible diet, no amount of doing and getting can make up for a broken beingness.

I want to give you a snapshot of the narcissist’s everyday reality. So let’s imagine together this scene regarding the narcissist who you may feel has it all and it looks like they’ve got it all.

Let’s imagine this: He or she wakes up to the current hot partner, there’s a Ferrari in the garage, and there’s huge rooms full of opulence that surround the narcissist as their home. But the narcissist isn’t happy. In fact, he or she wakes up feeling horrible, like narcissists generally wake up feeling because they’re low on narcissistic supply.

The hot partner, the Ferrari, and the palatial home were all hits of significance from previous days. These things have worn off now. There is an inner anxiety and the ever-threatening inner self-critical black hole, threatening to engulf the narcissist once again.

The narcissist needs a hit from the outside to try to feel better. He or she, whilst in the bathroom alone, texts their lover to see if they can make an excuse, slip out, and go and get sex on the side this afternoon. They leave a message with the lover, which isn’t answered yet.

The narcissist’s anxiety is building. The new neighbour who the narcissist has been grooming for adoration by helping this person, is out in front of their home, watering the garden.

“I’ll ask them in for coffee,” the narcissist thinks. This person comes over and starts sharing the hard time that they’re going through at the moment. The narcissist makes an excuse that they have to go, cuts the talk short, and decides how much they despise the neighbour now. “They’re so selfish. It’s all about them,” the narcissist projects.

The narcissist who is now precariously low on narcissistic supply needs attention fast as they feel their energy becoming dangerously low, threatening depression, and turns to look at the hot partner. “Why aren’t they making me feel better?” seethes the narcissist.

Then paranoia erupts from within, they decide that the hot partner is a horrible person out to get them and take all of their money. The narcissist starts to give them the silent treatment and you could cut the air with the knife. The hot partner senses something’s up and asks, “What’s wrong?” The narcissist snaps back, “You know what’s wrong. I know what’s going on with you.”

The hot partner questions further, what on earth does the narcissist mean? And then the narcissist accuses them of all sorts of things, ironically, exactly what the narcissist themselves does behind this partner’s back.

The partner is devastated, fights back, and is shattered emotionally. The narcissist starts to feel some relief because they’ve offloaded and attacked and gained superiority again as a result of affecting this person so emotionally, so impactfully. The relief is getting better.

The more that they can tell the hot partner how shocking they are, how terribly they treat the narcissist, and take advantage and so on and so forth … as the hot partner descends into hysteria under the wrath of this callous abuse, this exonerates the narcissist who says to themselves, “I was right. This person is the cause of why I feel this way. Look at them now.”

Then feeling some semblance of power again, the narcissist deserts the partner, which grants them even more superiority seeing how devastated the partner is when abandoned, and they go to work. The partner is not there that evening when the narcissist returns. After, the narcissist did drop in for quick sex with their lover on the way home. The current partner has gone to stay with their friend. They’ve had enough of the narcissist’s nastiness, accusations, and abuse, and abandonments, and they’ve left to try to save their Soul and their sanity.

The narcissist then starts weighing up the options to get attention back from the current hot partner. What will drive him or her mad the most and make them come back for more? Will it be ignoring them, blaming them, love bombing them? Maybe it’s time to discard them all together and take up with the part-time lover more permanently. Hang on, no, the lover is too convenient. They keep things quiet and casual and don’t ask for more. What about the new person at work? Maybe. Or maybe the neighbour. Hang on. They wanted attention this morning. They need to serve me not the other way around, or maybe I could pretend to care and be interested and start a relationship with them. On and on and on and on it goes. The drama, the chaos, the ups, the downs, the sugar rushes, the sugar crashes, the lies, the covering up of lies.

Please know what I’m sharing with you is the truth. You may think that the narcissist has it all. They don’t. With this much internal chaos, disaster, and neediness, and the need to regulate the drug of narcissistic supply to hold up their insatiable, defective False Self, do you really think the narcissist has any consciousness, peace, space, or time to even be grateful and enjoy what they have? Of course not.

Their inner world and their outer life are a constant mess. It’s a life built on lies. When one lie has to turn into dozens to maintain that lie, and then even more, and the greatest lie of all is this external chase that the narcissist is always on, a merry-go-round that they can never get off that will never deliver them to personal nirvana.

There’s nothing to envy here. I know you want the narcissist to have the karma for what they do to people and specifically for what they’ve done to you, but I hope you now know that the narcissist is getting the karma of their insane dysfunction every moment of every day. He or she will never hold onto peace, wellbeing, and inner wholeness.

 

Narcissists Are Not Having A Great Life

So where does this leave you? Where does it leave all of us actually? Let’s have a look at our wholeness. We can learn a lot from understanding narcissism. We can even see parallels with ourselves in the ego, False Self attachments that narcissists have. Please let’s get clear. This does not mean that you’re a bad person. You have a conscience. You don’t purposefully lie to others, exploit them, and do terrible things behind their back. That’s not the normal, natural way that you operate because you don’t just see people as objects to serve you. You do recognize human beings as flesh and blood, autonomous human beings. I know you do. You wouldn’t be here if you didn’t.

However, if we are honest with ourselves, we may have been missing the point about stuff and happiness. We may have believed that narcissists are having a great life and we aren’t, and we are the victim because they ran off with our stuff.

It’s not true that they’re having a great life for all the reasons that I shared with you today and it’s not true that because they took your stuff, that you can’t have a great life. You can in fact be better, healthier, happier, and more prosperous than you could ever imagine as a result of getting your beingness healed up and right, then everything in your life can follow.

Please don’t worry about stuff because when your Being heals and feels durably whole and at peace and happy as you are as yourself, then the doing and the getting becomes far more easy and empowered and real and durable than you could ever imagine. This is the Thriving that I teach people. It comes from letting go of the narcissist and healing ourselves.

 

In Conclusion

Hopefully today has helped you let go of feeling envious and devastated and I hope it’s helped you know that there is nothing for you to envy about the narcissist who is locked into karma – this terrible karma in their life that they are living as hell every single day.

If you want out of all of this pain and drama and chaos and into your personal heaven and nirvana that does work and is durable, I’d love to help you with this by offering you my free two-part Masterclass, which explains this and much more. You can access this by clicking here.

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Why Do Narcissists Lie So Much?

Why Do Narcissists Lie So Much?

 

Sooo many people have wondered why narcissists lie so much!

It is gut-wrenching to be with someone who pathologically lies.

About small things, big things and things that they don’t even need to lie about.

Does a narcissist know they are doing it?

Do they intend to do it?

Why do they do it even when it is not necessary to do it?

What would it take for them to stop doing it?

There is an old expression that goes around abuse communities – ‘If a narcissist’s lips are moving, they are lying.’

It’s not always true – but sadly often it is.

Today’s article answers the question ‘WHY do narcissists lie so much?’ – and how you can detect it and start to live a life where truth, honesty, and safety are your constants.

Before we get into this information today, I’d like to thank all of you who have supported the Thriver Mission by subscribing to my blog, and if you haven’t yet done so, please do.  Also, if you like this article make sure you give it a like and share it with others.

OK on to today’s article.

 

What Constitutes A Lie?

I just want to start off by getting very clear about what is or isn’t a lie.

We all know there are times that we are not 100% truthful to people. We don’t lie as much as narcissists do, but maybe at times, we do lie a little. We may tell someone that their outfit looks lovely when we really think they shouldn’t be wearing it. We could tell people what they want to hear to keep the peace, or we may even lie by omission and simply leave out facts that we don’t want people to know about.

I personally believe, as we evolve into an authentic True Self, that we do become more honest. Meaning we become more willing to say the truth to people to help give them genuine feedback, that possibly another outfit (in our opinion) many be more suitable, or we will reflect back to them their blind spots in perceptions or behaviours to help them heal and grow.

Often ‘not telling the truth’ is something we think we are doing to not hurt someone else’s feelings, but usually, if we are brutally honest with ourselves (which is what Thriving is all about – leaving our self-delusions behind) we know that really we are ‘lying’ to try to avoid having uncomfortable confrontations with others – and risk being criticised, rejected, abandoned or punished by them.

When we start healing and thriving healthily, we know that honesty and integrity really do serve ourselves and everyone else in the highest ways, because if you love and care for someone you are going to have an authentic relationship with them. After all, in virtually every case, the power of truth does set everyone free.

When lies are intended to not just ‘spare confrontation’ but are used to cover up pathological behaviour, then they are even more horribly impactful.  Things that the other person would not be thrilled about – such as cheating, embezzling, smearing and manoeuvring things for one’s own self-serving benefits – are all the types of lies that narcissists are famous for.

And … discovering the ‘love’ that you thought you were sharing with a narcissist was a lie – is beyond devastating.

Lies severely damage relationships – period.

They destroy communion, connection, and trust. After knowing you have been lied to, how do you know what is real or what isn’t? Many of us even discovered after being lied to and catching out lies, that we became paranoid, that we started stalking, checking up and reading and looking into things we normally would not have.

It’s a shocking way to live.

Yet even if lies are NOT big things – and it is mere embellishments that are found out – this is also very disturbing and causes a lack of trust, respect, and connection.

Narcissists exaggerate. They insert their own delusional version of things. Generally, things that make them more significant, dramatic and noticed.  And these things often bear little resemblance to facts – it is their fictitious rendition of how they would have liked something to be, or what is necessary for them to get attention (narcissistic supply) from people.

Let’s look at WHY they lie as easily as taking their next breath.

 

A False Self’s Life

When a person submerges their True Self, believing they can’t get their needs met by being this person, the only option is to recreate themselves as someone else.

This ‘someone else’ is a False Self, a fictitious character who is being a person and living a life that isn’t the truth.

This is the number one reason why narcissists lie so much.

Because of stepping outside of this integrity and authenticity, one’s self and life becomes distorted. The default brain wiring is on ‘stories’, ‘make-believe’ and ‘delusional excuses’.

Many times, a narcissist doesn’t know that they are lying, because their reality is so far off-tap that they don’t know what is real or not anymore.

Narcissists embellish stories. They exaggerate. They lie about themselves being more unique, better, more dramatic, accomplished, interesting and the like. They do this to get attention, favours, trust, and empathy – all valued aspects of narcissistic supply and positioning for gain.

Sometimes they lie to protect themselves from narcissistic injury – truths that the ego simply can’t handle. Things like, ‘It was my decision to leave the relationship’ after someone else dumped them, or they walked away from their job after being replaced … or whatever it may be.

At these times, because the truth is too much of a threat to the damaged insecure self-image, the narcissist has adopted the lie as a necessary buffer.

Another example of when the narcissist believes their own lies is when he or she projects onto you – these are the times when a narcissist blames you for everything that he or she does and sounds so convinced that it is you doing these things. The reason is because the narcissist thoroughly believes it is you doing these things.

There are reasons for this.

The narcissist’s severely disowned inner self which is beyond reproach – never wrong and never to be held accountable – the inner core that the narcissist is actually disgusted with, is projected outwards onto someone else. This disowned damaged part is then externalised and the narcissist beats it up mercilessly through you.

The truth of the matter is this – living in unconsciousness brings delusions – the greatest being the constant lying to oneself and being stuck in unconsciousness as a result.

 

When the Narcissist Does Know He Or She is Lying

 A narcissist lies so much because in reality he or she is a drug addict.

The drug of choice is the constant unstoppable need for narcissistic supply – attention, acclaim, energy and stuff that feeds the False Self and keeps a narcissist from falling into the all-consuming black hole inside themselves of defectiveness and nothingness that is always threatening to eat them alive.

Like any addict who needs their drug, lots of lying is involved. A narcissist can’t tell people their TRUE motives, they have to create fabrications to get what they really want.

Like telling someone they are their newly found soul mate and the love of their life – simply to get a hit of sex.

Like telling someone that they have all this experience and qualifications, that aren’t real, to get involved in something that will benefit them.

Like stating ‘I care about you and what can I do for you?’ when this is really about getting the ego feed of you telling them how wonderful they are.

Or … sidling up to people with compliments and granting attention to promote one’s own advancement.

These are the things that a narcissist is having to work at every day – it is the only way to regulate enough constant narcissistic supply.

The narcissist is deeply aware of his or her defence mechanisms and beliefs of ‘having to have the upper hand’ and ‘me versus you’ in order to survive. Because the narcissist knows he or she thinks and behaves like this, they believe everyone else also does this.

The narcissist doesn’t trust anyone.

At the times when the narcissist does know they are lying, and constructs the fabrication, there is always the perfect excuse constructed to do this. The narcissist deems themselves deserving of lying because of what has been done to him or her, or whatever they believe their entitlement may be.

They also imagine that if they don’t get in first, that you will. They believe that you are out to get them.

The truth is narcissists don’t think there is anything wrong with lying – it’s just a way of life. They don’t feel bad about it or guilty – rather they are just terrified of being caught out for REAL, which is people discovering the crippled inner defective self that is hiding beneath the fictitious omnipotent False Self.

 

How To Protect Yourself From Narcissistic Lies

There is only one way to make ourselves no longer susceptible to narcissistic people and how and why the narcissist lies so much.

I’m going to be really straight with you about this – as I had to be with myself – STOP … lying … to … yourself.

This is what I mean by this.

Stop being with someone who has shown their hand at being a pathological liar (not to mention all the malicious things that narcissists do) because I promise you real and healthy people just don’t do this.

Stop ignoring the terrible feelings in your body that allow you to know you are trauma bonded, you know this person is not healthy for you, is severely damaging you, and yet you are trying to find justifications and excuses to find a way to make it work with them.

You know how it goes, we all did when we ignored the screams of our Inner Being and continued regardless. We paid a shockingly, hefty price.

I promise you that when you listen to, and start to honour, support and align with the truth of your Inner Being, all of life and the healthy supportive resources of life will do so with you too.

It’s Quantum Law – so within so without.

I know it is the hardest thing to do initially – to face the truth.

But we know, deep in our core, in our true selves that this person is not real, doesn’t have the capacity to be safe and is destroying us.

And the reason we do hang on is because we don’t know yet that we can be REAL for ourselves – we can be True Selves, generating truth, safety, power, honesty, and decency with other people.

We can BE authentic and have our needs met.

We CAN come out of the trance of hiding and dimming down, handing our True Selves away trying to get others to be REAL for us.

I know it is easier said than done, and that is exactly why I created a step-by-step healing process that not only allows you to go free, but fully supports you to lose your trauma, reignite your True Self and start navigating and creating your life from that place – which is what True Thriving is about.

You can access the Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Course, known as NARP, by clicking on this hyperlink.

So, I hope that this article has helped you a lot, and if you enjoy my blog please make sure to subscribe to my free newsletter below so you will be notified as soon as each new one is released.

Also please make sure you share this with somebody who you know is being lied to.

And as always, I look forward to answering your comments and your questions below.

 

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How Narcissists Use Sex As A Weapon

How Narcissists Use Sex As A Weapon

 

Let’s talk about the horror of sex with a narcissist. Even if you feel like the sex was (or is) great, there really is a much more sinister game going on.

Why does sex with a narcissist come with so many highs and lows? Why do you feel so empty, used, and even violated after sex with a narcissist?

What is really going on in the sexual, energetic and soul exchange with a narcissist?

I can’t wait to help enlighten you, as well as help you know how to escape a narcissist’s sexual clutches, and detox yourself from their sexual pollution.

 

 

Video Transcript

For today’s Halloween special, I want to talk about something that is gruesome.

Sex with a narcissist!

Why is it so unwholesome? Because narcissists use sex as a weapon against you.

This can happen powerfully and quickly, or be an induced trauma-bonding over a period of time. Whichever way it happens it can feel almost impossible to break free from.

Many people report ‘the sex is so great’ and find it incredibly hard to break away and stop being abused. Others may not believe the sex is great, but still be bonded energetically through sex to the narcissist.

Today, I want to talk to you about the psychological, physical and also deadly… yes, deadly… psychic ways narcissists can use sex as a weapon against you.

So, watch on to find out…

Okay, so just before I get into this episode, I would like to thank everyone who has subscribed to my channel and for supporting the Thriver Mission. And if you haven’t yet subscribed, I want to remind you to please do so. And if you like this video, please make sure you hit the like button.

Alright. On to it, sex … and what that means with a narcissist!

 

Why Is Sex What Many Narcissists ‘Hunt’?

Many narcissists are very sexually active and hunt people sexually. This is true for narcissists in and not in so-called committed relationships.

Via sex, narcissists are able to gain A-grade narcissistic supply – which means having people show them masses of attention and being controlled by what the narcissist is or isn’t doing. If a narcissist is the centre of someone’s Universe that is a prime position – because it means he or she has secured attention and energy that the narcissist can then regulate with ‘I want you now’, ‘I don’t want you now’ games.

The narcissist’s total necessity to stay emotionally functional requires getting the significance from others that can keep self-medicating away the trauma of their broken insecure inner self. Sex is a powerful tool to secure a constant supply of valuable narcissistic supply.

Sex is not just a ‘connecting’ mechanism for narcissists; it works for many non-narcissistic people as well.

We all know that sex can take involvement with someone to another level. For most women, this starts a deep chemical, cellular and emotional bonding process, where she will feel ‘coupled’ and start desiring a deeper relationship with that person. She may start believing in and wanting a commitment and a life-partner relationship.

Men, when being drawn into a narcissist’s sexual net, can be mesmerised by the narcissist’s sexual performance which is designed to provide the attention, compliments and fantasy that makes him feel sexually met and gratified, as well as providing the possibility for lasting love.

To gain narcissistic supply through sex is generally very easy for a narcissist to do. The winning formula is this: identify what someone has missing in their life emotionally or some past grievance or unresolved hurt, pretend to be the remedy for that, and many people will automatically trust you and even be extremely attracted to you.

This formula is especially powerful to snare unsuspecting females who have been hurt and struggle to find someone who they believe they can trust. The narcissist feigning ‘a saviour’ to them, appears to be their dream come true in spades.

For men, often it is the sexuality and aesthetics – the physical beauty – as well as interest in and care for him that lures men into sexual relationships with narcissists. It’s very interesting that men who are captured sexually by narcissists may not have started off considering a relationship with this person, but discovered that very quickly they found themselves in one.

This is because, once a narcissist connects sexually, they have more ability to induce trauma bonding and get control over their prey.

The Emotional Sexual Hooking Game

Being in a sexual relationship with a narcissist is not trustworthy, soothing or secure.

Rather, your sexual times are mingled with all sorts of insecurity and lack of safety.

You may wonder who they are talking to when their phone rings and they walk off around a corner. Or a trigger goes off within you when they start texting or engaging in social media on their computer.

You may question your own paranoia, but if you are honest with yourself, you know something feels off.

The narcissist may be all loved up with you one minute and then verbally and even physically disregarding, or even discarding you the next.

Maybe the narcissist has told you they are re-evaluating the relationship or don’t know whether they want to be in it anymore. The narcissist possibly, at times, goes missing in action.

Yet … at other times this person seems to not be able to get enough of you, including under the sheets.

Possibly there have been affairs you have discovered with exes or new targets, or porn involvement or you have caught him or her on internet dating sites.

Then the narcissist will convince you that it is all a mistake, or it didn’t happen or even appear to take responsibility and apologise – if that is necessary to snare you back in.

Or he or she will offer ONLY as much as it will take to retain you, which in advanced stages of narcissistic abuse isn’t much, and then you are having sex with the narcissist again.

WHAT is going on here?

I promise you that this is trauma-bonding. This is not how healthy, safe, kind sexual relationships go at all.

The narcissist knows that if you are suffering unease, uncertainty and trauma, and then he or she gets back together with you, the relief of that rollercoaster ride is such a HIGH, that it feels like LOVE.

It’s not love. It’s abuse, and it’s terribly unhealthy because what happens is that you chemically start to chase the ‘relief’, the high, and start tolerating greater dips down and down into the ‘lows’ to try to recapture that sense of ‘relief’.

If this is what you are going through, (as I promise you I once was too) you are severely and dangerously addicted to a person who can and will destroy you.

You’ve lost your boundaries as well as your self-worth bargaining chips.

Once you are hooked and traumatised and suffering from dire emptiness within and craving the narcissist to fix it, the narcissist can start relaxing on behaviour, allow his or her mask to drop and abusively demand even more compliance and acts to satisfy the narcissist’s insatiable and insane control and takeovers.

This could include having you accept sexually degrading acts like threesomes, getting you to agree to an open relationship, and even worse things.

Maybe now sex is withheld purposefully to punish you.

At this point, you need help to recover – badly.

Sucking Your Soul

Without going all Harry Potter Dementor-ish, I really want to offer my opinion about this.

If you are having sex with a False Self, who is a No-Self, you are getting your soul sucked out of you.

Narcissists don’t make love, they don’t have the ability to connect with you soul-to-soul, because they have divorced themselves from their True Self, which is the gateway to soul health.

Self-love, humanity, oneness and a connection with their Higher Power has all been obliterated by the narcissist’s False Self takeover. What is left is a relentless, unappeasable black hole. No matter what you do or give, it will never be enough.

Sex with a narcissist is only performed by them to self-medicate away the inner screams of their catatonic, disowned severely damaged Inner Being, and to feed the False Self with importance. Or to manipulate you to give them something that you normally would not.

To a narcissist you are no more than a masturbation and self-acclaim tool. The sex is not about you, or the union, and never will be.

This is why sex with a narcissist, no matter what happens in the act, leaves you feeling empty, and even violated afterwards.

True Intimacy means ‘in-to-me-see’. It is a sharing of one’s complete self with trust and love with another. A narcissist is never going to let you in or share his or her True Self with you. You are having sex with a fictitious character who is not soul connected with you at all.

In fact, the lack of soul health that the narcissist suffers from means that this False Self is stealing energy from you to buffer up the False Self, the narcissist’s core identity that can’t create and maintain energy of its own.

Sex provides a very direct way for you to be mined for your psychic and energetic resources. You are literally being pillaged of your soul energy.

You may have noticed that after sex with a narcissist you feel exhausted, drained or even unwell.

Now you know why.

How To Protect Yourself

Getting sexually involved with a narcissist is damaging on multiple levels.

Once they have infiltrated your body, not only are they sucking your soul and sanity, it is also likely that they will try to get their tendrils into other aspects of your life, such as your finances, resources and contacts, as well.

As a player in the dramatic stage show of the narcissist’s life, with them positioning themselves as the leading star, you could become entrenched in the drama of it all.

You may be used as sexual punishment against one of the narcissist’s other supply objects, be included in a traumatic love-triangle, or be the next dramatic discard and ‘lunatic’ that the poor narcissist has suffered from … all of which gains him or her wonderful compassion and supply from others.

I have said it so many times, and I will say it again, not everyone can get taken in by a narcissistic person.

If we are too eager to trust and connect and don’t do our due diligence to ascertain someone’s character accurately, then we are potential targets.

If we feel empty, needy, and unloved or unlovable we can be as susceptible to being love-bombed and complimented into being the next supply, as a dying person in a desert will dive headlong into a mirage.

Yes, narcissists love the thrill of the chase and to snare, take control and have people be submissive to them – but they are short sprinters. They need a payoff quickly – just like a lion does when he strikes upon a limping gazelle at the edge of the passing herd.

A narcissist has limited energy to expend to secure new supply. He or she is not going to keep trying if you have been tested and found out to be a robust bison. Meaning, you are not needy, falling for the love-bombing or found out to have scanty or non-existent boundaries (I promise you narcissists work it out pretty quickly).

Take your time to get to know someone. Let go of the beliefs that sex is how you will get someone to commit to you, or that if you don’t hand over sex, someone will discard you. None of that applies for decent and whole people seeking decent whole relationships.

And above all, be full and healed and developed enough within yourself to feel inwardly secure, full, self-assertive and honest, before becoming sexually involved with anyone.

Then you will flush out a narcissist by not caving into their demands to enmesh and hook up quickly. You will retain your interests and life whilst dating respectfully. You won’t jump to someone else’s beck and call, and you will honour yourself by questioning something and saying ‘No’ if your boundaries are pushed and something feels uncomfortable.

The bottom line being – you are TOTALLY prepared to lose someone else from your life than risk putting your soul and life in jeopardy.

Healthy love in NO WAY carries those risks!

I promise you that when you have all of that in place, narcissists will unravel and expose themselves right in front of you, or will disappear as quickly as they appeared. ‘No food for me here’ is their total understanding.

The Sexual Truth About Narcissists

Sadly, narcissists are damaged and polluted beings.

Not only is it common to run the high risk of sexually transmitted diseases, because of their non-discriminant sexual behaviour, they are also intensely toxic energetically when you combine your sexual energy with theirs.

If you have already been intimately narcissistically abused, is it worth the risk again?

If you know you have work to do to never get taken in by a narcissist again – then please check out my Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Program (NARP), which is the complete healing and training package to reprogram your Inner Love Code so that this can’t happen again.

And if you know you need to detox from the terrible sexual addiction to, torment with and traumatising emotional and psychic pollution from a narcissist, then please consider NARP to get this done. Humbly I don’t know of any tool that works so powerfully to achieve this, and in record time.

You can find out more about NARP by clicking this link.

Also, I am so excited to share with you that I am going to be hosting my Premier Live Events in Australia. They’re in my home country.

Early December this is happening, and myself and the MTE Global Team will be hosting these in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane where we are going to birth your recovery, by sharing with you the most potent and powerful tools (humbly) there are in the world for people to recover from abuse.

So, I would so love to see you there so you may join in these events with a support person, so that they understand more deeply what your recovery is about and what you are going through. Or maybe bring friends and family who you know have gone through abuse as well, who could benefit from this.

And, for a limited time, I’m offering a $100.00 discount off tickets.

I’m so excited about this, I can’t wait– so click this link to find out dates and to secure your tickets.

And I am so looking forward to connecting with you in your comments and questions below.

 

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