Narcissistic Times with Richard Grannon
Are you in pain after narcissistic abuse? Finding yourself feeling lost? The CPTSD model and importance of trauma healing resonates with you? Turn your intuition back on again by developing emotional intelligence and healing the superego (inner critic). As you reduce your emotional flashbacks (main CPTSD symptom), you will notice your motivation and discipline go up. Richard Grannon provides insights from psychology and philosophy to assist humans with life on this here earth.
Episodes
34 episodes
The ONE Word That Reveals a Narcissist Instantly
Sometimes the damage is hardest to understand when it arrived wearing charm, certainty, and a perfectly rehearsed story. You stop trusting what you saw, what you felt, and eventually what you know.One of the clearest ways to cut through...
If a Narcissist Could Rewrite History… This Would Happen
Grandiosity gets underestimated all the time. People hear the word and imagine arrogance, attitude, a bit of vanity turned up too high. The reality can feel much bigger, almost mythic in scale. The fantasy is not just admiration or status. It r...
False Self
When someone gets pulled into a narcissistic dynamic, the deepest wound often reaches into identity. Over time, they can lose touch with their own instincts, needs, and boundaries just to keep the connection, avoid punishment, or hold onto hope...
How To Outsmart a Narcissist Without Them Ever Knowing
If you’re dealing with a narcissist and can’t fully cut contact yet, this episode explains a powerful self-protection strategy: the Secret Agent Technique. You’ll learn how to create emotional distance, protect your authentic self, stay unreada...
The 5 Narcissist Mind Games
Why do narcissists leave you feeling confused, guilty, and emotionally exhausted? Because the manipulation is designed to keep you off balance. What are the hidden tactics narcissists use to control your emotional state, weaken your boundaries,...
I Can't Heal
Recovering from narcissistic abuse can feel impossible when your confidence, identity, and hope have been stripped away.If you’ve been through narcissistic abuse, toxic relationships, trauma bonding, CPTSD, or emotional manipulation, thi...
This Is Narcissistic Abuse
If this episode helped you recognize the confusion, exhaustion, walking on eggshells, or loss of self that can come from narcissistic abuse, you are not alone. Recovery starts by reconnecting with reality, telling the truth, finding safe people...
Beyond Codependency: Dissociation, Hyperfocus, and Trauma Bond Recovery
I’m exploring a more nuanced way to understand trauma bonds, narcissistic abuse recovery, dissociation, hyperfocus, and why some people struggle more than others to recognize, leave, and recover from abusive relationships.
Simple 2 Step Test To Know If It Was Narcissistic Abuse
Confused about whether a relationship is emotionally abusive, narcissistically abusive, or simply unhealthy? Lets break down a simple grounding test: write down three real incidents that hurt, confused, or betrayed you — then ask yourself, “Wou...
STOP Calling It Narcissism (Say THIS Instead)
If you keep calling it “narcissism,” you may be accidentally softening what’s really happening. Lets drop the clinical label and use a clearer frame: an unfair relationship — where you can observe the pattern without getting trapped in diagnosi...
The One Thing That Breaks the Narcissist’s Power Over You (Instant Clarity)
Narcissistic abuse thrives on confusion — shifting rules, hidden agendas, and the feeling that your reality can’t be trusted. Lets focus on the single most important lever that collapses the narcissist’s advantage: the moment you identify the i...
STOP Calling It Self-Sabotage… It’s THIS (And It Runs Your Life)
Ever feel like you’re stuck at Point A no matter how hard you push toward Point B? If you’ve been blaming willpower, motivation, or “bad habits,” this will reframe everything. You’ll learn why the resistance can feel like fate, why shame/guilt/...
The TOP 4 AWFUL Ways Narcissists PROGRAM You
If you’re trying to recover from narcissistic abuse but you still feel pulled back — like you can’t get them out of your head — there’s a reason: it can function like long-term brainwashing and indoctrination.You’ll learn how the ...
IF YOU FEEL YOU’RE NOT NEEDED… CHECK THIS
If you were raised to feel like a burden, you may still hear that old “inner voice” telling you to stay small, stay quiet, and put everyone else first. Where that message comes from (childhood conditioning / inner critic / super-ego) and...
The ‘Safe Partner’ Checklist Narcissists Don’t Want You to Know
In today’s Narcissism News, we break down what a safe partner and a healthy relationship actually look like, especially if you’re carrying resentment, distrust, or trauma from past relationships.If the pain fr...
Why You Attract Narcissists
Why do you keep ending up with the same kind of partner: deceptive, manipulative, full of double standards? It can feel like you’re “attracting narcissists”… but the real pattern is deeper than labels.If this helped, subscribe for more ...
Sex Trap
Why can sex inside a narcissistically abusive relationship feel intense, addictive, even “life-changing” and then turn into a powerful tool of control and how pleasure can become the hook that makes leaving feel impossible?- Why shock m...
2 Questions That Will Instantly Boost Your Healing Journey
🔴 Deprogramming Intensive - https://link.richardgrannon.com/ed0ed4Most people trying to heal from narcissistic abuse or emotional trauma never ask these two critical questions and that’s exactly what keeps them stuck.In this epi...
You’re Not Responsible for Their Emotions
The holiday season can quietly activate guilt, obligation, and emotional manipulation, especially if you’re used to keeping the peace.Why you are not responsible for other adults’ emotions, how unconscious family dynamics intensify duri...
Surviving the Most Triggering Time of Year (Without Losing Your Mind)
It’s the most triggering time of the year… The holidays can feel like a battlefield of guilt, manipulation, and emotional traps. How to set boundaries, stay grounded, and protect your peace during the holiday chaos without losing your sanity?
What Happens When a Narcissist Finally Breaks?
A lot of violent offenders are labelled “psychopaths” by default.But in some cases, the psychology points somewhere very different — toward narcissistic collapse.If you’re studying narcissistic abuse, forensic psychology, or the dyn...
This Is Why You Miss the Narcissist
Why do strong, intelligent, and self-aware people keep returning to narcissistic abusers — even when they know it’s destroying them?This isn’t about weakness or lack of willpower — it’s about conditioning, neurochemical attachment, and ...
Why We Worship Narcissists | The Ancient Cult Psychology of Modern Love
In this deep psychological talk, we explore the spiritual and mythic roots of narcissism and narcissistic abuse — tracing how ancient worship, sacrifice, and cult psychology still shape modern relationships.Discover why narcissist...
Narcissists ENVY YOU — The Hidden Truth Behind Their Obsession
Narcissists aren’t just drawn to codependents — they’re driven by envy. In this talk, we uncover the hidden truth behind why narcissists are irresistibly drawn to empathic, warm, emotionally intelligent people — not for love, but for control.