178. Spotting a Narcissist with Dr. Ramani: 4 Ways to Set Boundaries
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
We can encounter narcissists in the workplace, in social settings, and in family structures. These relationships can be devastatingly toxic. In this episode of Spiritually Hungry, we discuss how to spot and set boundaries with the narcissists in our lives to maintain our well-being.
“Just because somebody has fantastical visions of the world doesn’t mean they know how to treat a human being… At the end of the day, when you are making a decision for yourself, you have to pay attention to whether you feel safe, seen, and heard in their presence.” – Dr. Ramani Durvasula
Further Readings:
Should I Stay or Should I Go: Surviving A Relationship with a Narcissist, by Dr. Ramani Durvasula
“Don’t You Know Who I Am?”: How to Stay Sane in an Era of Narcissism, Entitlement, and Incivility, by Dr. Ramani Durvasula
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to spiritually hungry. We are so excited about today's episode because we are talking to the one and only Dr. Romani. This is going to be a pivotal episode for many of our listeners. Dr. Romani is one of the leading |
| 0:22.6 | experts on narcissism and how to navigate relationships with narcissists we encounter in life. |
| 0:28.4 | She's a licensed clinical psychologist living in Los Angeles. She's also professor of psychology |
| 0:34.1 | at Cal State, L.A. Dr. Romani is also the author of several books, including |
| 0:38.9 | should I stay or should I go, surviving a relationship with a narcissist, and most recently, |
| 0:44.9 | Don't You Know Who I Am, How to Stay Sane in an Era of Narcissism, Entitlement, and Incivility. |
| 0:51.9 | In 2020, she launched a podcast called Navigating Narcissism, where she |
| 0:57.2 | discusses narcissism with other experts and guests. So help me welcome to the show, Dr. Romani. |
| 1:06.7 | We're very excited to have you today. Welcome. Hi. Thank you for having me. I'm personally very |
| 1:13.6 | excited to speak to you about this topic of narcissism. I remember when I had an aha moment where I went |
| 1:22.1 | through like the first half of my life so far, thinking that everybody was normal, whatever that means, or typical |
| 1:30.1 | just like me. And I remember when I would encounter people that were difficult or no matter |
| 1:35.7 | what I tried or whatever tool I grabbed from my toolkit, especially spiritual practices, |
| 1:41.9 | nothing worked with certain people. And so I got curious and I started |
| 1:45.3 | to research and study. And sometimes, well, obviously information is knowledge and having kind of |
| 1:52.5 | this outlook and understanding of the way people are wired differently helps us navigate in a way |
| 1:58.8 | where we don't then turn to ourselves that we're not good |
| 2:01.9 | enough or we didn't try hard enough or that we're not spiritual enough or however we want to fill |
| 2:07.4 | in the blank. So I'm really excited to have this conversation with you today. Absolutely. I begin |
| 2:13.6 | reading your book and also watching a lot of your YouTube. Is that it really open up. |
| 2:16.8 | The book's great. I have a quite, what percent of the pop? Oh, you're going to go right into it. Let me just give a little intro. Okay. We're husband and wife. So we're going to take turns. I just want to start. I want to read a little bit from your introduction in your book. |
| 2:34.9 | It's not you. |
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