The Narcissistic Abuse Cycle Explained
Trauma & Narcissism Redefined
Caroline Strawson
4.8 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
A narcissist will always need their narcissistic supply, and as they look for their next hit, the narcissistic abuse cycle will continue. In this episode, I will discuss what the narcissistic abuse cycle is and how we may find ourselves in it. From love bombing, to gaslighting, to straight-up abuse, the narcissistic abuse cycle can be incredibly damaging, so my hope with this episode is that you can identify what stage of the cycle you’re in and how to get out of it.
What you will learn in this episode:
- Are you destined to be in a narcissistic relationship?
- Why you must stop feeling guilty and how to break the narcissistic abuse cycle
- How narcissists will manipulate you to get their narcissistic supply
I discuss how I fell into the narcissistic abuse cycle and why I ended up with a narcissist based on my childhood experiences. I hope that my experience can help you understand why you may be going through the narcissistic abuse cycle. It’s also important to know that the narcissistic abuse cycle isn’t always a downwards trajectory where each stage is worse than the last. Sometimes the narcissist will love bomb again to get what they need. This is why it’s called a cycle.
Resources:
- Join my FREE Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/thriveafternarcissisticabuse
- Access my low cost Narcissistic Trauma Recovery Programme https://go.carolinestrawson.com/heal-the-trauma-of-narcissistic-abuse
- Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carolinestrawson/
- Find me on TikTok!: https://www.tiktok.com/@carolinestrawson
- My website: https://www.carolinestrawson.com/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the narcissistic trauma recovery podcast. I'm Caroline Strawson and I'll be sharing with you |
| 0:09.6 | awareness, understanding and education about the devastating effects of narcissistic abuse to help you thrive. |
| 0:16.5 | I want you to know that I've been exactly where you are and I believe you. |
| 0:21.6 | And this show is all about taking you from trauma to transformation. |
| 0:27.2 | Hey, my friends, it's really, really great to have your company on the narcissistic trauma recovery |
| 0:33.7 | podcast. |
| 0:34.9 | I'm still buzzing, I have to say, after last week's 100th episode and I was |
| 0:39.8 | hitting over 2 million downloads, you know, and again, I just want to express my gratitude for |
| 0:46.4 | all of the wonderful messages that I received on the back of last week's podcast and your |
| 0:51.5 | incredible messages in Instagram and Facebook about how much the podcast has really |
| 0:57.4 | helped and supported you. I just love, love, love getting them. I really do. So please keep |
| 1:02.8 | them coming. Make sure you're following me over on Instagram because I genuinely do try and |
| 1:08.4 | post all of the time every single day to help educate you around narcissistic |
| 1:13.1 | abuse and the trauma that comes with that as well. I am trying to do my reels and I've been putting |
| 1:19.2 | them on TikTok as well. And you'll see even over the last week I've been putting quite a few on there |
| 1:25.3 | and trying to do these sort of one minute little edutainment ones. Some of them are going to make you laugh and smile. |
| 1:30.6 | Some of them, I hope, are really going to help educate you and give you some tools and top |
| 1:35.5 | tips of how to navigate and manage your own emotions too. |
| 1:40.0 | So what are we talking about then in this particular episode? Well, it's something that I think |
| 1:46.5 | is really, really important for us to start to recognize as well. Because I think when we |
| 1:52.3 | kind of know this knowledge, it's really, really going to help us understand the effects of |
| 1:58.4 | narcissistic abuse. And I'm going to share with you on this podcast |
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