Anxious or Avoidant? Why Your Relationship Patterns Repeat & How to Change Them (Part 1)

The Virtual Couch

Tony Overbay LMFT

Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

5 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Are you tired of repeating the same relationship patterns? Whether it's constant worry about abandonment or a tendency to keep people at arm's length, these behaviors - known as attachment...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the virtual couch. Please take a seat for pillars, emotional majority.
0:09.1	Hey everybody. Welcome to the virtual couch and waking up to narcissism. Now, how does that work?
0:13.3	First, happy 2025. This is one of the first times that I've taken a little bit of a break from the podcast world.
0:19.8	And I have missed it.
0:21.3	I have missed each and every one of you listeners. So I'm glad to be back. There are so many
0:26.1	exciting things playing for 2025. Now, why waking up to narcissism and virtual couch? Let's go
0:32.3	on my train of thought. There have been a fair amount of people who have said that they
0:36.5	almost have to sneak listen or sneak watch waking up to narcissism.
0:40.9	And that truly does break my heart.
0:42.3	And while I have all of my podcast friends listening here, virtual couch and waking up to narcissism, I will own that I am contributing to the overuse and even maybe the desensitization of the word narcissism over time. But the name
0:56.3	of that podcast was very well thought out, waking up to dot, dot, dot. That could be waking up to
1:01.7	the narcissism or narcissistic traits or tendencies in yourself in your relationship to anyone,
1:07.0	a spouse, a boss, a pet, if you happen to be a cat person.
1:17.2	But I was clear early and I try to say often as much as I can to the detriment of word count that it's more like waking up to the narcissistic traits, tendencies, or states
1:22.0	in yourself or your spouse or boss or cat or even more.
1:26.5	I think it's really important to recognize that narcissistic
1:29.4	personality disorder is a very small percentage of the population. And I would even say that if you are
1:34.5	listening to this, even in protest, chances are probably that you are not a narcissist. But you are
1:40.8	most likely emotionally immature. I believe we all are. So welcome to the club.
1:45.3	Becoming more emotionally mature, more emotionally consistent, more emotionally safe is a lifelong
1:50.6	pursuit. But once you get the hang of it, it is actually a very empowering feeling and
1:56.9	something that becomes part of the journey of finding out who you are, the whole solid
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