Episode 156: DIVORCING Your NARCISSIST: You Can't Make This Shit Up! With Tracy Malone
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 573 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Being in a marriage with a narcissist is exhausting. Divorcing a narcissist is no less exhausting. Tracy Malone is a surTHRIVER of narcissistic abuse, speaker, educator, and emotional resilience coach. In this episode, she joins me to share insights and information from her latest book, DIVORCING Your NARCISSIST: You Can't Make This Shit Up!
Tracy's book is a fantastic reference for anyone who is thinking about or in the midst of a high-conflict divorce with a narcissist. During our conversation, we talk about how to protect yourself before, during, and after divorce. When you are divorcing a narcissist, knowledge is empowerment. Tracy is such a great resource on this topic. I hope you get a lot out of our conversation.
Show Highlights
- Lessons from DIVORCING Your NARCISSIST: You Can't Make This Shit Up! (2:55)
- Why a rich narcissist can be much more vindictive than a poor one. (3:36)
- The masks a narcissist wears and how they use their masks to manipulate or trick the people around them. (4:28)
- Common mistakes people make when divorcing a narcissist. (10:31)
- The gray areas of the divorce decree! Tracy offers a reminder to get super finite about the details during your divorce. Plus, Tracy shares a specific decree that every divorce should have. (11:54)
- Post-separation legal abuse and how to protect against it. (16:14)
- Strategies for handling your emotional exhaustion. (26:27)
- Understanding (and having your support system understand) your triggers will be your salvation. (31:58)
- Why forming a team is so important to your divorce and how to determine what kind of lawyer you need. (34:18)
- The healing process and radical acceptance: addressing the wounds from narcissistic abuse and learning to let go of the things you cannot change. (42:31)
Learn more about Tracy:
Tracy Malone is a surTHRIVER of narcissistic abuse, speaker, educator, and emotional resilience coach. Tracy is the founder of NarcissistAbuseSupport.com, a global resource to victims of emotional abuse which offers support to those trying to break the ties with the narcissists in their lives. Tracy is the author of DIVORCING Your NARCISSIST: You Can't Make This Shit Up!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should you go. |
| 0:17.7 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate |
| 0:22.8 | some of the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. |
| 0:28.5 | I've been to hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side |
| 0:34.2 | of this process with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:42.2 | Hey, everyone. Welcome back. I've got a great show for you today. I have Tracy Malone on. She is |
| 0:51.4 | a surthriver of narcissistic abuse. She's a speaker and educator and emotional |
| 0:57.2 | resilience coach. She's the founder of Narcissistabuse Support.com and she's a global resource to |
| 1:05.2 | victims of emotional abuse. She is the author of divorcing your narcissist. You can't make this shit up, which is, in my opinion, should be a Bible for anyone going through a high conflict divorce. We know that being in a marriage with a narcissist or an abuser is exhausting. |
| 1:26.6 | Divorcing them is no less exhausting. |
| 1:29.9 | It can be worse. |
| 1:31.1 | It can be more exhausting. |
| 1:32.5 | And so this book will really help you understand how to go through the divorce process with this type of personality. |
| 1:40.0 | Super, super important. |
| 1:41.5 | Just a quick reminder that should I stay or should I go is my program, |
| 1:47.0 | should I stay or should I go, is going to be getting a full on revamp and it will have a new |
| 1:54.5 | price in April. So if you want to get in on the lower price, then absolutely get it now. Everyone who has purchased, |
| 2:04.4 | should I stay or should I go in the past, will have the option to upgrade for a very small |
| 2:09.0 | fee in order to get the new content. You know, if money is a concern and you want to get it at the |
| 2:14.3 | lower price, if you've been eyeing it for a while, get it now because it will be going up in April. |
| 2:21.6 | And one more thing. |
| 2:23.2 | If you love the Q&A format, which I think a lot of you did, make sure you go to kateanthony.com |
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