Alternatives To A Narcissist's Lack Of Vulnerability
Surviving Narcissism with Dr. Les Carter
Dr. Les Carter
4.8 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The mark of a healthy relationship is openness and honesty, but those are traits that narcissists dread. Due to their need for tight image control, they cannot be vulnerable. In this episode, Dr. C poses multiple questions he wishes he could ask narcissists to remind them of their own influences, and how their lack of vulnerability was created. He then highlights primary traits that accompany a relationship style that makes vulnerability possible.
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| 0:00.0 | Dr. C here. Before we begin, I'd like to make sure that you're aware that this podcast is |
| 0:11.6 | sponsored by BetterHelp.com. A BetterHelp is a leading provider of online therapy and then they |
| 0:17.6 | provide video, phone, or live chat sessions with a licensed professional |
| 0:22.1 | therapist. It's affordable and you can connect with your therapist within 48 hours. Now, as a special |
| 0:28.3 | offer to our surviving narcissism listeners, they'll offer a 10% discount for your first month |
| 0:34.4 | of professional therapy. All you have to do is go to betterhelp.com. |
| 0:38.7 | That's betterh-h-E-L-P dot com slash surviving narcissism podcast. I know that many of you would find |
| 0:47.3 | online therapy to be quite life-changing. And so go to betterhelp.com slash surviving narcissism |
| 0:54.1 | podcast. And many thanks to the people at |
| 0:56.9 | BetterHelp for sponsoring our podcast. Welcome to this week's episode of the Surviving Narcissism |
| 1:08.0 | podcast. I'm Michelle, the program director, and I would like to start |
| 1:11.5 | this episode with a quick introduction. For those of you not familiar with surviving narcissism, |
| 1:17.1 | it is the product of many years of work done by Dr. Les Carter. Dr. Carter is a best-selling |
| 1:22.1 | author and therapist with more than 40 years of experience, specializing in anger management |
| 1:27.1 | and narcissistic |
| 1:28.2 | personality disorder. This week, Dr. C's topic is alternatives to a narcissist's lack of vulnerability. |
| 1:41.2 | Hey there, Team Healthy. I'm very pleased to be with you yet again, and I so enjoy you allowing me to be a part of your day as we try to figure out this whole topic of narcissism and how we're going to respond when we see it right there in front of us, or perhaps even the possibilities of it being on the inside of us. |
| 2:00.4 | I want to talk with you today about the word |
| 2:03.2 | vulnerability. Now, when you think of a person who struggles strongly with narcissism, do you think |
| 2:12.6 | of them as being people who are comfortable with vulnerability? And of course, the answer is no way. |
| 2:19.3 | Heck no. |
| 2:20.4 | Narcissists absolutely do not want to become vulnerable. |
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