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Reclaiming Pride's mission is to foster a sense of belonging, validation, and support, recognizing that the intersections of identity can add unique challenges to the healing process both during and after narcissistic abuse. Each episode is themed by situations that LGBT+ narc. abuse survivors encounter with their NPD partner / relative / friend / co-worker. New episodes every two weeks.
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Send the host a message here! This week, we’ll be looking at the ways in which narcissists use – or do not use – eye contact to control people and situations. If this sounds familiar from your relationship with the narcissist - tune in for a deep dive into this NPD tactic. I look forward to healing with you.…
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Send the host a message here! This week we will take a look at how society, and even those who are trying to help survivors of narcissistic abuse, can inadvertantly make us feel just as invisible as when we were in the abusive relationship. If you’ve ever winced at something a friend or even a therapist has said to you, while they thought they were…
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Send the host a message here! This week, we’ll be looking at the narcissist’s magical thinking and how damaging this can be. Magical thinking is the belief that one's thoughts, words, or actions can directly influence the world around them, often in ways that defy logic or reality. It's the idea that there's a causal connection between unrelated ev…
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Send the host a message here! This week, we are going to be looking at when narcissists flip the script, literally, and play the victim. A hallmark of narcissistic grandiosity is the tendency to portray themselves as victims. This contradictory behavior often confuses and manipulates others. Individuals with narcissistic personality disorder freque…
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Send the host a message here! In this week’s episode, we’ll be looking at how narcissists use spirituality and / or religion to control you. Has the narcissist in your life abused you using something that is meant to bring peace? You are not alone - tune in to this episode to hear what happens with spiritual / religious abuse and how to deal with i…
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Send the host a message here! This week, we will be looking at something infuriating for those of us who have survived narcissists in our lives: when the narcissist pretends they’re an empath. Many narcissists claim to be empathic, sensitive and compassionate, because that’s what they believe about themselves. As survivors of their calculated cruel…
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Send the host a message here! This week, we delve into the challenges posed by narcissistic individuals in professional settings. These individuals possess a knack for manipulation and can create significant hurdles for those around them. In the workplace, people with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) are acutely attuned to who receives recog…
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Send the host a message here! This week, we delve into the often-misunderstood topics of narcissism and gaslighting. These terms are often thrown around casually, but the reality of their impact in relationships goes far deeper than common usage suggests. We will look at the damage that misusing these terms can cause and, by contrast, what they mea…
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Send the host a message here! This week we will be looking at a question which puzzles many people who have not been in an abusive relationship – why did we stay in it? I hope this episode will provide you with answers and also ways to explain to someone who doesn’t understand. Next time someone says, "Why don't you just leave?" take a deep breath …
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Send the host a message here! This week we will be looking at sexual intimacy in the relationship with the narcissist. Truly, this is a misnomer – because narcissists / people with NPD cannot experience true intimacy. This is only the lie they tell themselves and the lies they feed you during the initial love bombing stage. While narcissists can wr…
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Send the host a message here! In today’s episode, we will be looking at two sneaky tactics narcissists use to control and manipulate us: sleep deprivation and its best buddy, the circular conversation. Does this sound familiar to you: You're finally ready to unwind after a long day, but your partner starts a dramatic argument or needs your "urgent"…
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Send the host a message here! This week, we’ll be looking at why the narcissist always seems to bored by us and the world around them. This can be extremely hurtful, particularly when we’ve bent ourselves into a pretzel trying to make the narcissist happy and feel loved. Narcissistic boredom is a specific manifestation of boredom often associated w…
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25. Is Someone Born a Narcissist? Recent Research on Differences in Brain Structure & Listener Q&A
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Send the host a message here! In this episode, we explore a common question from listeners: Is narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) nature or nurture? The episode delves into recent research suggesting differences in brain structure for individuals with NPD and also antisocial personality disorder. We will also look at recent medical research on…
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24. Cults & Toxic Relationships: Exclusive Interview with CEO, podcaster and entrepreneur, Tiphany Kane
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Send the host a message here! In today’s special episode, I will be talking with Tiphany Kane, a remarkable entrepreneur, podcaster, and the CEO of KaSa Media Productions. Tiphany joins me from California to talk about her extraordinary journey, from her upbringing in a cult to enduring a toxic relationship spanning nearly two decades. In our conve…
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Send the host a message here! In this episode, we will be taking a look at the top ten things that people should not say to a survivor of narcissistic abuse. Sometimes, the people who care about us may not understand what on earth we’ve just been through and may only be trying to help, but some of the things that they say can be counterproductive. …
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Send the host a message here! Today we embark on an exploration of the different dynamics to look out for to see whether you are in, or have been in, a narcissistic relationship. If you’ve listened to previous episodes of this podcast, you’ll notice that the various dynamics I explore here follow the cycle of narcissistic abuse – from idealization,…
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Send the host a message here! Missing an abuser is very confusing and can lead to us feeling immense shame. Someone who’s never been in a toxic relationship, may not understand why this happens and, in this episode I seek to take away the shame of this and explain why it happens and how we can move forward from this. We will also look at some of th…
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20. Riding in Cars with Narcissists: How Toxic People Use Road Rage to Trap You & Listener Q&A
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Send the host a message here! This week's episode explores a common, yet little talked about abuse tactic employed by narcissists: using the car as a place to abuse a person. In the episode, we explore how being abused while in a car that’s driven by our abuser can leave us feeling trapped, helpless, and isolated. we also cover the various ways nar…
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Send the host a message here! This episode, we’ll be looking at what the narcissist really means when they say, “I love you.” When people with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) say "I love you," they often mean "I love how you make me feel" or "I love the way you reflect positively on me." Their love tends to be self-centered and focused on t…
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Send the host a message here! This week is one for the psychology buffs out there – we are going to be taking a look at how the narcissist has you addicted. The narc uses the functions of operant conditioning and its sidekick, intermittent reinforcement to do this. We will look at how these function in narcissistic and toxic relationships. Even tho…
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Send the host a message here! This week's episode is a special edition! I had the pleasure of sitting down and talking with Hannah Jenarine from the Victim Service Center of Orlando, Florida. We spoke about what it is like to be LGBT+ and live through a relationship with a narcissist and come out the other side. We cover everything from inherited t…
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Send the host a message here! Emotional reasoning is a cognitive distortion in which people believe that their emotions are accurate reflections of reality. Narcissists are particularly prone to emotional reasoning because they have a strong need to maintain a positive self-image. They often interpret events and other people's behavior in a way tha…
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Send the host a message here! This week, we are going to be looking at the ways in which narcissists and toxic people use financial abuse to coerce and control us. We will take a deep dive into how this happens including examining financial gaslighting, control, debt accumulation and how the narcissist will use financial abuse to further isolate yo…
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Send the host a message here! This week we will be looking at the insidious and debilitating use of the silent treatment by the narcissist. We will look at why silence is such a loaded weapon to the NPD abuser and explore some of the things we do to avoid it. Then we pan out and look at the bigger picture of their plan to isolate you from friends, …
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Send the host a message here! This week we will be diving into how and why narcissists ruin holidays, celebrations and special times. We will be looking at what is present in their disorder that makes them do this and also why they will try to make it look like it is you who is ruining the event. We will also look a the pathology behind why their o…
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Send the host a message here! This week, we look at the hope we have that the relationship will get better. We look at how and why narcissists manufacture this sense of hope in us by first showing us what we long for in them and then slowly devolving into abuse. Just as we hit rock bottom, the cycle starts again with idealization, igniting hope all…
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Send the host a message here! "Flying monkeys" is a term, as you’ve probably already connected, that’s borrowed from the Wizard of Oz story, where the Wicked Witch of the West sends out her flying monkeys to do her bidding. In the context of dealing with narcissists, "flying monkeys" refer to individuals who are manipulated or recruited by a narcis…
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Send the host a message here! For the next three episodes, we will be covering narcissistic parenting. A number of subscribers (both LGBT+ and allies) have reached out to say that they listen in because they have been parented by a narcissist. In response to this, I have recorded this three episode arc on narcissistic parenting and it's fallout. In…
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Send the host a message here! In this second of three episodes on narcissistic parenting, we call out all of the hallmarks of a narcissistic parent. if you are the adult child of a narcissist, you may recognize many or even all of these. There are certain key elements that are usually present in parenting. To the best of someone's ability they will…
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Send the host a message here! In this third of our three-part series on narcissistic parenting, we will be looking at the health effects on the child or adult child, then we will examine how growing up in a narcissistic family dynamic can have deep ramifications later in life, and finally – healing from the narcissistic parental figure in your life…
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Send the host a message here! This week’s episode delves into the acronym, J.A.D.E (Justify, Argue, Defend, Explain). JADE is something that we tend to be lured into by toxic people and this episode looks at each of the parts of JADE and how they function in the toxic relationship. We also look at why JADE never works with narcissists and other tox…
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8: What Type is Your Narc?: Grandiose, malignant, covert / manipulative, communal or benign? & Journal Entry #7
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Send the host a message here! Narcissism, like any other personality disorder, occurs on a spectrum to different degrees. It also occurs in different forms, and these can include grandiose malignant covert manipulative communal and benign. In this episode we look at the spectrum on a continuum all the way from entitled people to malignant narcissis…
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Send the host a message here! Does the toxic person in your life leave you feeling confused, off-balance and even wondering whether it’s been you all along who is the toxic one? Have you lived with their toxic behaviors for so long they’ve become normalized but you just know it’s far from normal? Has anyone ever described NPD behaviors to you and y…
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Send the host a message here! This episode dives into what gaslighting is, and what it isn't. We also explore the various aspects of how the narc will lead you down repetitive dead ends with word salad as they gaslight you. To top it all off, they'll say it's all your fault by projecting their flaws onto you! Does any of this sound familiar? Tune i…
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5. Why Pop Psychology and Couples Therapy Doesn’t Work with a Narcissist & Journal Prompt #4
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Send the host a message here! This week, we are going to look at how pop psychology self-help will not work with an NPD person and nor will coupes therapy. We unpack all of the reasons why and Sally shares her couples therapy experience with the NPD individual. The episode also includes tips on questions to ask in order to find the right therapist …
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Send the host a message here! This episode examines the cycle of inherited trauma through the lens of the emerging research on epigenetics. We look at how childhood trauma can leave us vulnerable to narcissists and toxic relationships. We also look at 8 key challenges to watch out for from inherited trauma. Included are 6 journal prompts to choose …
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Send the host a message here! This short trailer provides an overview of Reclaiming Pride and how it can help you overcome narcissistic abuse. Hosted by an LGBT+ survivor of 13 years of narcissistic abuse, this podcast welcomes all. I look forward to healing with you.由Sally
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Send the host a message here! This first episode looks at childhood trauma and why this may leave some of us susceptible to narcissistic abuse. Sally shares her history and also delves into what the B-cluster personality disorders are. Do you hear anything familiar in the B-cluster descriptions that matches the the situation with the abuser you've …
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Send the host a message here! In this episode we look at the hallmarks of narcissistic abuse. We also explore 14 ways to begin healing from a relationship with someone who has narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). This episode also includes the first of our journal prompts based on this weeks topic. Stay tuned for a journal prompt in every episo…
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