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The Narcissist in Your Life Podcast is hosted by Linda Martinez-Lewi, Ph.D., clinical expert on the narcissistic personality, psychotherapist and author. I offer in-depth analysis, strategies and practices for those psychologically and emotionally harmed and abused by toxic, predatory narcissistic personalities through my books: Recovering and Healing After the Narcissist and Freeing Yourself from the Narcissist in Your Life, international telephone consultations and global podcasts. I put the emphasis on helping individuals to access the calming, restorative parts of the parasympathetic body/mind systems that lead to healing, recovery, personal transformation and the evolution of your true, authentic self and your unique creative gifts.

Mar 31, 2020

What are your memories of the Moon from childhood.  I remember the Moon as my friend and I still do. 

This is a beautiful quote by Neal Armstrong, the first human to walk on the Moon: "It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye and my thumb blotted out...


Mar 30, 2020

Be kind and understanding with yourself, especially at this time. Make yourself comfortable, eat nourishing foot, hydrate.. 

Be sure to rest each day, diaphragmatic breathing activates the vagus nerve, the parasympathetic nervous system. The blue sky is beautiful, calm, soothing and healing. 

Move at your own pace....


Mar 29, 2020

Narcissists are compulsive liars; they can't help themselves. Narcissists spend their lives in a state of delusion, a world of their making. Narcissits reach their goals through overt and covert lying. Narcissists have no compunctions about lying to everyone. They have clever concocted stories for each person in their...


Mar 29, 2020

There are large numbers of children who were "raised" by narcissistic mothers. Psychoanalyst Alice Miller describes the psychodynamics between the narcissistic mother and her child: "The child... was the narcissistically cathected object. What these mothers had once failed to find in their own mothers they were able to...


Mar 28, 2020

Growing up in a narcissistic family is one of the most difficult and painful legacies. You were surrounded by family members whom you thought you could trust and who cared about you but that was not the case. 

Those who discover early that they must fend for themselves travel a very hard road. They use every resource...