Bullet Points | Emotional Vampires: who's living rent-free in your head?
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
On a global scale, we can probably all identify that people such as Donald Trump and Meghan Markle polarise opinion to such an extent that they are the subject of millions of social media posts, podcasts, Youtube videos and media column inches.
But what about your regular local emotional vampire? The friend, colleague, neighbour, acquaintance who somehow manages to occupy your thoughts, always be front of mind and somehow manipulate you without being anywhere near you.
In this episode, I ask if someone is living rent-free in your head. (Quite possibly) Plus, how you can break their spell and focus on the people who deserve your mental, emotional and physical attention.
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| 0:44.6 | Hello, hi and welcome to another episode of The Emma Gunn Show and a midweek instalment of bullet points. |
| 0:46.6 | This is the episode which you can find on audio on the podcast platforms that you're |
| 0:52.3 | probably very used to navigating, but it is also the podcast |
| 0:56.0 | that I upload as video on my substack and also over on YouTube, which is rather thrilling |
| 1:01.8 | and exciting. Anyway, in this episode of bullet points, I wanted to talk about something that |
| 1:07.5 | actually came up in conversation with my brother at the weekend. |
| 1:16.9 | We were talking about a wide variety of things, to be completely honest, and then we sort of stumbled across this idea of emotional vampires. This is not a new concept. This is not something |
| 1:23.9 | that I am finding out about for the first time, but it was the context within which |
| 1:28.6 | we were talking about it that I thought was really interesting. So the first time I ever heard |
| 1:35.1 | really about emotional vampires was when I became quite interested in this idea of the |
| 1:40.5 | narcissist empath dynamic. This idea that a narcissist will latch onto an empath or that an empath will be drawn into |
| 1:49.3 | the lure of a narcissist and a hideously codependent and ultimately destructive relationship, |
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