Narcissistic Friends: #1 Best Way to Confront Them
Lisa A Romano Breakdown to Breakthroughs
Lisa A. Romano
4.8 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Narcissistic friends enjoy pushing you around, minimizing you, and embarrassing you in the name of a joke. By suggesting their antagonistic communication is a form of play, they covertly incapacitate your ability to push back rightfully.
In this episode, Lisa A. Romano, Breakthrough Life Coach, an expert in the field of codependency recovery and narcissistic abuse, explains the best way to confront a narcissistic friend. Learn about the psychological strategies that will help boost your confidence on how to push a passive-aggressive, narcissistic, and demeaning so-called friend back. Lisa will help you gain the clarity and the strength to hold your ground as you break the patterns that often cause us to be targets of narcissists at the level of the subconscious.
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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. |
| 0:38.3 | The power to heal our lives is within us all. |
| 0:42.3 | It's just that the way that we've been taught to see ourselves is dysfunctional. |
| 0:47.3 | And our childhood programming may have taught us or brainwashed us to believe that we are not good enough. |
| 0:53.3 | And so when that becomes your |
| 0:55.3 | point of focus and that becomes just the way you live your life, you are literally brainwashed |
| 1:00.9 | out of believing that you have the power to heal your life or that you are enough. And so you |
| 1:05.9 | spend your whole life looking for validation outside of you. And you attract people who need you to validate |
| 1:11.7 | them so codependence attract people on the narcissistic spectrum because a |
| 1:16.9 | narcissist expects you and feels entitled to your validation where you need |
| 1:23.4 | the validation from outside of yourself because you've never received it and you would |
| 1:28.5 | you think that in taking care of other people that they will validate you back but it doesn't |
| 1:32.3 | work. It's dysfunctional. And then you get sick, you know, your body isn't working the way it should. |
| 1:38.2 | You're depressed and lots of negative things begin to happen. I want to talk today about a pretty interesting email that |
| 1:47.0 | I received. Not a long email, but I think that it's going to drive, it's going to hit a lot of people. |
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