On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse Q&A, everyone. I am Brandon Chadwick and with me today, we have Don Malcolm. How are you?

I'm great, Brandon. How are you? I am doing well. And for those that don't know who you are,

Don Malcolm is a high-conflict consultant with expertise in divorce and is also a member of

our support group. And today we're going to be talking about radical acceptance. We're going to

be talking about proper sources of validation,

new perspectives on circular or high tense conversations, respecting your energy, and bringing awareness to how you show up in other areas of your life. And before we get to that,

if you want to be a guest on our Survivor Story episodes, please do go to our website at Narcissistapocalypse.com. Top of the page, there's a button that says guest form. When you click on that button, it takes you to our guest form page. There you can read all of our instructions and either send us an email at Narcissist Apocalypse at gmail.com or fill out our guest form and press the submit button.

And Don Malcolm, you are a very valued member of our support group in every single way.

And I can't thank you enough for being part of that group.

And you always bring not just validation for other people, but you are always someone who is,

you know, just thinking about the next steps of what's going on. Your really deep processor and

thinker and can really get to the root of things in ways that not too many people can. So we are going to talk about

five different concepts today, and the first one is radical acceptance. So walk us through

this concept. So yes, we know, first here about radical acceptance.

And when I was first preparing this, I thought, do I put this at the beginning or at the end?

And I think it belongs here at the beginning and why, a big part of why I wanted to come on the show today and share some of the knowledge I've gained

is when I was the person listening to this show and trying to file for divorce and figure out

what I was going to do with my child and confront all these huge questions that this situation brings up.

I wanted advice that was tangible that I could do now,

something I could do something with instead of hiring another professional

or reading another book.

I needed something now.

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