I no longer hope the narcissist in my life will one day get it. Y'all, if I had a dollar for every

highly sensitive person, that looked me right in the face and said, yeah, but I just, I want them

to get it. God, I just, I just, I want them to get it. Anybody who has ever tangled with someone with low empathy and low maturity,

which is what narcissism essentially is, has beat their own head against a wall going,

they have to get it. Some of these people have degrees. They have higher education. They are

CEOs of companies. These are highly intelligent people. They must get it and I will make it my mission.

That's not right for our minds, our hearts, our bodies to have to be on a warlike mission

to make the low empathy person grow empathy.

It won't happen, y'all.

If there was a way to make them get it, I would have figured it out.

I'm convinced.

Hello, welcome to the show.

This is Emotional Badass, where Moxie Meets Mindful.

I'm your host, Nikki Eisenhower, life coach and psychotherapist, and on today's episode, we are talking about

letting go of toxic relational patterns. So I'm calling this the no longer list to end 2025.

As I walk you through this list, I ask you to squeeze all the therapeutic value out of it

by noticing your emotions. Notice your thoughts that come up in your head and notice your body

as I read through them. Notice which ones resonate, which do not. Notice of a very young or wise

older part responds. if a part wants to

defend or argue or dismiss. I don't think it's explained enough in healing or general self-development

this concept of how we get to know ourselves. To get to know our true authentic self, it takes nuanced noticing

and an ability to be honest with what comes up. This is different than letting our thoughts go to

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