Hello everyone. Welcome back to the Living Easy podcast. This is Lindsay Myestis and today's

episode is a unique one. This is a topic that I have not ever touched on and there's a reason

for that. I have always hesitated to discuss narcissists or to label people in general because I think our world

gets really caught up in defining people with labels and the reality is that we are all broken,

we are all sinful, we all hurt other people in some capacity and I personally believe we all have some narcissistic tendencies

within us because we're very selfish. But the more I speak with people about their experiences,

whether it's with their parents or with breakups or with divorces, the more I see ties to narcissistic

behavior. And so I wanted to start understanding it myself. I wanted to

start researching it and just having an awareness because as I counsel women through messages or in video

calls, it's really helpful for me to just continue learning and understanding these types of situations. I've said this in the past

few episodes, but I don't believe that it's fully biblical or necessary to constantly obsess

about our past, but that we kind of accept what has happened and to move forward with a knowledge

of what has happened, but not allowing that to keep us

stuck. So again, fully believe in counseling and doing all of the things to understand why we are

the way that we are, what our parents did that caused us to live a certain way, to believe certain

things, to have certain values, relationships, all of that,

to kind of work through those things. But once we've worked through those things, we have the

responsibility to move forward, right? I think that it is important for us, though, to have an

understanding of why people do the things that they do. And with narcissists specifically, it can be really tough to understand the why because

logically you can see the patterns and kind of the red flags with their behavior.

But emotionally, they're really, really great at drawing you in and convincing you of things and lying and

manipulating that it makes you feel like you're going insane. And I don't want any of my listeners

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