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Narcissism and Caregiving: Dancing around the Truth
This post explores narcissism and caregiving and how at the core of both is a difficulty with vulnerability and either creating boundaries with caregiving and respecting boundaries with narcissism. Post explores the giving-taking spectrum and how to go about growth from either end of the spectrum.
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Mind-Reading: An Ineffective Way to Address Needs
This post discusses the ineffectiveness of mind-reading in relationships and explores the impact of Self-Sacrificing, Narcsissistic, and Borderline Personality characteristics on relationships.
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Trauma and Parts of Self: Understanding Narcissistic and Self-Sacrificing Managers in Ourselves
This post explores conceptualization of Narcissistic and Self-Sacrificing or Caregiving relationship styles through the lens of Internal Family Systems and managing parts-of-self.
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Other-Directedness and Anxiety: Does Focusing on Others Help or Hurt?
This post explores the Other-Directedness domain schemas of Approval Seeking, Self-Sacrificing, and Subjugation and the impact that these schemas have on anxiety.
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Change: A Million Little Things
This blog explores the many factors that contribute to growth and healing in the context of counseling and therapy.