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Learn to trust again Nov 10, 2023

If you have experienced abuse, betrayal or persistently hurtful behaviour in your relationships, it is understandable that you might develop a strong sense of other people as untrustworthy and...

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Radical acceptance of offensive behaviour Oct 30, 2023

 

One of the biggest misunderstandings I see of the concept of "radical acceptance" is that it means accepting abusive situations or situations in which we are getting hurt. 


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Radical Acceptance: Welcoming Painful Emotions Oct 26, 2023

 

I recently interviewed John from the YouTube channel, PDQuestions, about his experiences after being diagnosed with Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

One of the things we talked about was...

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Do "narcissists" deliberately hurt those closest to them? Apr 19, 2023

People with Narcissistic Personality Disorder and narcissistic traits often hurt those closest to them and they are often characterised as evil, demonic, manipulative and predatory.

But is this...
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Reactive vrs planned break ups and one way to reduce relationship anxiety Apr 15, 2023

In some relationships, couples fall into a pattern of breaking up, making up and breaking up again. Reactive break-ups typically occur in response to arguments or conflict when partners are...

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Loving the enemy Apr 07, 2023

People with Narcissistic Personality Disorder are often intensely self-critical and impatient, even angry, at their own flaws and vulnerabilities, seeing them as the enemies to success, greatness...

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Fighting "narcissists"? Mar 29, 2023
  
 
Those of us who seek to understand and identify narcissism in others may find ourselves dehumanising, othering, ignoring grey areas and sacrificing peoples' humanity and the...
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Condemnation vrs acceptance Mar 22, 2023

None of us are simple, perfect creatures of light. We all have tricky parts of our personalities and patterns of behaviour that do not serve us. Many of us would prefer to push down, deny and...

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The power of acceptance in relationships Mar 19, 2023
 
There's a temptation in relationships to seek partners or friends that fill unmet needs from past experiences. We can do the same to ourselves - moulding, twisting and striving to be the...
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Alternatives to No Contact Mar 12, 2023

On recognising narcissism in a loved one, I meet many people who feel despairing as they have the impression from social media that the only way to cope with this situation is to cut off contact...
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Narcissist Hunters Mar 08, 2023

When journalist, Jon Ronson, got interested in psychopathy he trained in the 'Psychopathy Checklist' to recognise and identify psychopaths. He entertainingly discusses his experiences in his...
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