This is understanding today's narcissist.

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And now here's your host, Christine Hammond.

Hi, welcome back.

We are talking about the different types of abuse tactics that narcissists use.

Our first episode, we talked about mental abuse. Now we're going to do with a more common abuse thatists use. Our first episode, we talked about mental abuse.

Now we're going to do with a more common abuse that you see, which is physical abuse.

So part two today is physical abuse.

So there are times when we kind of know what physical abuse is.

The problem is that there's other types of physical abuse

other than hitting that most people don't even think about as being abusive. So that's what I

want to really talk about today with you are what some of those other types of physical abuse

actually look like so that you can get a better feel for it yourself.

We will talk about the hitting, but that will be saved for much later.

So let's go ahead and begin by discussing the five main types of physical abuse that

narcissists like to use.

The very first one is intimidation.

So while intimidation might not seem, by the word itself, a physical abuse tactic,

let me explain for a second why I put it in that category.

So a, let's take, for instance, a narcissist who becomes,

who's very bully-like and is standing over a person, like literally stands up. I had this happen

to me in session. I know it sounds crazy. But I had a narcissistic client who got upset by something I said, shocker,

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