Rerelease: Signs of Enmeshment & Red Flag Dysfunctional Family Dynamics - With Dr. Kenneth Adams

Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse

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🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse Q&A, Brandon talks with Dr. Kenneth Adams about the signs of enmeshment, emotional incest, and red flag dysfunctional family dynamics. Plus they discuss, codependency, surrogate companions, boundaries, and warning signs that your partners apple may not fall far from the tree. *** CONTENT WARNING - Non Sexual and Sexual Incest is briefly discussed in this episode. *** Dr. Kenneth Adams' website is https://www.overcomingenmeshment.com If you want to be a guest on our survivor story podcast, please click here or send us an email at [email protected] To help out our podcast, please fill out our listener survey, click here. PODCAST RECOMMENDATIONS: Perfect Prey With Dr. Christine Cocchiola | Click Here The Covert Narcissism Podcast | Click Here Something Was Wrong | Click Here If you or someone you know are experiencing abuse, you are not alone. DomesticShelters.org offers an extensive library of articles and resources that can help you make sense of what you're experiencing, connect you with local resources and find ways to heal and move forward. Visit www.domesticshelters.org to access this free resource. If you need help moving due to domestic violence, Shelter Movers may be able to help you. They operate by referral. Clients may be referred by any person of authority (social worker, doctor, police, crisis counselor, teacher, etc.) or public agency (shelter, hospital, school, workplace, place of worship, sexual assault centre, etc.). To reach them, click here. Join our new Community Social Network at https://community.narcissistapocalypse.com/ Join our Instagram Channel at https://www.instagram.com/narcissistapocalypse Join our Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpTIgjTqVJa4caNWMIAJllA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.2	On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse Q&A, we talk with licensed psychologist Dr. Kenneth Adams about enmeshment, emotional incest,
0:41.4	and observing family dynamics as a warning sign for future toxic behaviors. Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse Q&A everybody. I am Brandon Chadwick and with me today we have Dr.
1:16.9	Kenneth Adams. How are you? Well, good. Nice to be here. Appreciate your work and have an opportunity
1:23.9	to talk about a measurement with you to see how it sits with your audience.
1:30.4	Well, thank you for being here.
1:33.9	And for those that don't know you, you are a licensed psychologist.
1:40.6	You are a leader, an expert, and consultant in childhood abuse, dysfunctional family systems, and sex addiction.
1:46.8	You are, you know, when it comes to enmeshment and family enmeshment, you are the number one person to go to and foremost expert in it. And people can reach you at overcoming enmeshment.com.
1:55.0	And the first time I was introduced to you was through our support group when we were looking for information for people about their
2:04.2	own enmesh situations and I stumbled upon your books and your books are when he's married to mom
2:12.3	and silently seduced. I suggest everyone who's in these situations go read these books.
2:18.7	So I guess the first way that we're going to start off here is just to define what is
2:24.4	enmeshment.
2:26.8	Well, so emmeshment is a broad descriptor that is used.
2:32.7	And you can hear it bantered around in the you know common
2:37.8	lore of our public domain now right you can hear people using the word of measurement and it means
2:43.0	that people are intertwined and too close at a cost to their own independence or their own journey
2:49.0	and they've absorbed the loyalty implicitly demanded or explicitly demanded from this
2:57.0	case a family member at a cost to what they should be doing for themselves or for their
3:02.3	romantic partner or even their professional interests.
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