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Hey, everybody.

Welcome to a special bonus episode of The Virtual Couch.

I'm your host, Tony Overbay, licensed marriage and family therapist and host of this podcast. But also, today we're going to do a little bit of a crossover.

And I'm going to share a complete episode of my newest podcast called Waking Up to

Narcissism. And I'm about, I think this is episode seven of waking up to narcissism. And

it's if you are interested at all in anything related to narcissistic personality disorder,

narcissistic tendencies, just narcissistic awareness.

If there's anybody in your family, rather directly or your boss or anybody at your church or

that sort of thing where you just feel like they have a difficult time taking ownership

of things where they may show up a little bit more immature and some of the conversations

that you have. The episode I'm going to share today just talks about how there is, when we think of the term narcissism, which it is a bit of

a buzzword, it has been for a few years now. There's a definition or a clinical diagnosis of

narcissism, this grandiose narcissist. And really the percentage or numbers of people that would fall into

that category are not very, not very big. And what we see instead are there's a lot of us that have

narcissistic tendencies, traits. I often refer on this virtual couch podcast to my own

narcissistic tendencies and traits and dustings. And sometimes people will write me and say,

hey, are you just kidding around? And I say, oh no, people will write me and say, hey, are you

just kidding around? And I say, oh, no, I, you know, we all start out in our lives as little

tiny narcissist by definition. And then the hope is that we grow from this self, self-centered

as a kid and grow into self-confident with the right modeling and that sort of thing. So I'm

airing an episode that I think will be pretty fascinating just in general. We're going to talk

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