Narcissist's Mental Manipulation Tool: Overcoming Narcissistic Abuse
Lisa A Romano Breakdown to Breakthroughs
Lisa A. Romano
4.8 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast episode, you will learn about a narcissist's mental manipulation tool, chronic invalidation.
Chronic invalidation leads to cognitive dissonance, emotional and psychological dependency, trauma bonds, and eventually physical symptoms caused by chronic stress.
By identifying this manipulation tactic, you can guard yourself against the toxic consequences of dealing with someone with high narcissistic traits.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakdown to Breakthrough podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | My name is Lisa A. Romano. |
| 0:08.0 | I am a life coach, best-selling author, YouTube vlogger, meditation teacher, an expert in the field of codependency and narcissistic abuse. |
| 0:16.0 | I am a believer in the power of an organized mind. |
| 0:20.0 | My aim is to help people learn what it means to live above the veil of consciousness |
| 0:24.9 | rather than living a reactive life. |
| 0:28.3 | May your heart feel blessed, your mind feel expanded, and your spirit find hope |
| 0:32.8 | as you spend time with me here at the Breakdown to Breakthrough podcast. |
| 0:38.4 | When you are being emotionally invalidated by a narcissist, what you will notice over |
| 0:44.0 | time, you might not notice when you're right in the middle of it, especially if you're |
| 0:48.0 | struggling with a trauma bond and the narcissist has done a really good job at pulling |
| 0:52.6 | you in through love bombing you, |
| 0:54.4 | idealizing you, making you feel good about you. |
| 0:57.5 | You get activated or this level of narcissism in yourself gets activated and it's a natural |
| 1:02.9 | thing that happens. |
| 1:03.9 | You start to feel like, oh, there I am. |
| 1:06.3 | You don't know who you are until you look into a mirror or you don't know what you look |
| 1:10.0 | like until you look into a mirror. And don't know what you look like until you look into a mirror. |
| 1:12.0 | And so when someone is reflecting back to you, the qualities that you hold that are wonderful |
| 1:17.4 | qualities. |
| 1:18.4 | And when someone says, I see these qualities in you, it's a magical experience. |
| 1:23.1 | It helps you feel seen. |
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