On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse Q&A, everyone. I am Brandon Chadwick. And with me today, we have Tracy

Malone. How are you? I am great. Thank you for having me. It's always fun to see you.

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and press the submit button and please send it in the actual form that we ask for. Thank you. And

Tracy Malone, if you have not heard of Tracy, Tracy's been on an episode with us before. So you can

go back in the archive and look that one up. Tracy is an author.

She is a surthriver of narcissistic abuse. She's an international educator and can be found at

Narcissistabuse Support.com. That will be in the show notes. And Tracy, you have a new journal out

that is called My Story of Narcissistic Abuse.

And this journal helps you put the pieces of the puzzle together of the situation that you

are in because it's very difficult to kind of figure out what was going on everything.

So from the actions to understanding your feelings and it's there to help you process everything.

And we are going to discuss that journal.

And we're also going to be discussing the idealization phase and the devaluation phase and the discard phase.

So Tracy, a big thank you once again for being here with us today.

Thank you for having me. So before we get to the abuse aspect of things, let's just discuss

idealization because abusers aren't the only ones that idealize people.

So what is idealization and why do we idealize?

So idealization is a psychological and biochemical process that happens when we create a positive

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