narcissists Archives

Podcast Ep. 235: Delusions of Inferiority

by NATALIE | Podcast: The Baggage Reclaim Sessions

This week’s episode of The Baggage Reclaim Sessions is about inverted narcissism. This is where we make everything about us, only it’s that we have an overinflated sense of our inferiority. Narcissists and the narcissistically-inclined, on the other hand,...

Superficial relationships signal the need to develop a more intimate relationship with ourselves

by NATALIE | Healthier Relationships

It can be pretty uncomfortable to acknowledge that sometimes we’re more superficial than we imagined ourselves to be. When we reflect, for instance, on our attraction to someone we experienced a great deal of pain with, we were often drawn to the appearance of...

Jumping into relationships and belatedly realising commitment is involved

by NATALIE | Emotional Unavailability

Being on the receiving end of not just someone’s intense interest in and attraction to us, but their seeming desire to jump into a relationship, can be pretty intoxicating. The intensity creates this romance of false intimacy, and we think we’ve jumped into a fairy...

Rejection and disappointment are wounding when you were willing to give you up

by NATALIE | Letting Go

Society has conditioned us to believe that abandonment of the self at the mere whiff of romantic interest or a potential relationship is normal. We think it’s the cost of finding love, so we’re willing to exchange loss of self for someone else’s...

Boundaries regulate our inner narcissist

by NATALIE | Boundaries

All humans can be narcissistic at times, but we don’t like to see ourselves in this way, even though it’s part of being human. Often, we associate narcissism with the shadiest, self-absorbed and unempathetic of folk. In reality, every single one of us has...