You're a possession. You're not a person. You're not someone they love. They never loved you. That is a brutal statement.

That knocked me on my ass when I had to hear it. But you're a possession. You're a toy. You're theirs. They own you.

So that stalking component, that constant, provaring or reverse hoovering to get you back and get your attention or to watch what you're doing, show up where you are.

It's because they own you. They just want to make sure they still own you. They may be with a new supply. And yet they're still going to show up at your favorite bar on the corner by your house.

Because they just want to know. They just want to know that they own you.

I'm Jamie BB and I'm chicked up to a lot on today's episode of Storkely Stock and we're speaking with Ashley Levych, who's in a toxic relationship with the narcissist to a later stock.

Well, in the relationship, he used abusive tactics like trauma bonding, devaluing, breadcrumbing, dog whistling and future faking.

Once she gained the strength to leave him and started to heal, she could see the full impact of the trauma she had experienced.

Ashley's here to discuss her story of abuse and the way narcissistic behavior and stalking often peer together in relationship.

Her new podcast, The Narkin Me, explores the physical and sometimes long lasting effects of being with a narcissistic partner. Ashley, thank you for joining us today.

You're welcome. Thank you for having me. So you grew up performing as a child actor. How early did you get started?

I started dancing really young, like a lot of kids apparently I had a lot of energy. So my mom put me into dance when I was three.

She also thought I was awful and wanted to take me out right away. I think she was a little embarrassed. She took me shopping for like, you know, your little ballerina outfit.

And most little girls want pink tights. And I picked an all P green situation pink like P green lead tart P green tights.

And apparently I just sucked it at all, but she was encouraged to let me stick with it. And by about six years old, I was dancing 40 hours a week, six or seven.

And that led to the natural progression is theater and, you know, I sing and then it turned into commercials and that escalated into TV shows, movies and all that stuff.

And so yeah, I did. I grew up as a child actor.

What was dating life like growing up in the public eye?

You know, dating as a child actor is weird. It's just weird, not because of any notoriety, but because you don't have that normal interaction.

So I didn't go on dates until I was in my early 20s because I was tutored in a trailer for school. And I graduated at 16 because I was able to do high school in all AP classes in two years.

And then I was picking up college classes at UCLA at night. And I was working around the clock. And I was very lucky. I worked a lot more than the average actor.

There's something we call like first position second position, like when they're doing pilot TV shows and they usually cast two in first position. And that's it.

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