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My Inner Torch DS
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My Inner Torch offers direct and personal insight with help for those of us in a relationship with someone who is undiagnosed/diagnosed with a Cluster B Personality Disorder. This is a safe place to come for words of inspiration that draw from my personal experiences and is produced to gain understanding and to find direction as we navigate through the often difficult relationships with those we love who suffer with a Cluster B personality disorder that includes BPD and NPD. PLEASE NOTE: This podcast is NOT for those who suffer with these disorders. This podcast is for survivors of these challenging and difficult relationships.
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Cold Hard Truths
Send us a Text Message.Today I reflect on toxic relationships, particularly with individuals displaying traits of Cluster B personality disorders. I question why we expect intense love from such individuals, only to realize their incapacity to sustain it over time. Terms like narcissist, borderline, and psychopath are used to describe such behaviors, pointing to relational abuse. Despite efforts to diagnose, the focus should be on recognizing toxic behaviors and understanding why one stays in...
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Look Back Listen 2020: Emotional Intelligence
Send us a Text Message.In today's Look Back Listen: 2020 podcast I delve into the challenges faced by individuals in relationships with those who have Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), focusing on emotional intelligence. I share struggles with a spouse exhibiting BPD symptoms, exposing the lack of empathy and distorted reality common in such situations. I touch on the challenges of managing BPD through therapy but acknowledge the difficulty of staying composed during emotional outbursts....
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Why we REMAIN.....
Send us a Text Message.This podcast explores my personal struggle with staying in a toxic relationship with a Cluster B partner despite being aware of her flaws. Drawing insights from a post in a narcissistic support group, they delve into the lack of empathy in individuals with Cluster B personality disorders and the futility of trying to prove love to such partners. Despite feelings of fear and being consumed by thoughts of abandonment, I no longer blame myself for my partner’s behavior. I ...
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"Shock and Sell" Have you fallen prey to this?
Send us a Text Message.In relationships impacted by cluster B personality disorders like borderline, narcissistic, histrionic, and antisocial personality disorders, manipulative tactics are prevalent. One common strategy discussed in this week's podcast is the “shock and sell” approach, where a shocking statement or action is used to destabilize someone, followed by rationalizing it to manipulate them into accepting behaviors that may not align with their needs. "Shock and Sell" aims to make ...
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End of the Line? Where to now?
Send us a Text Message.What happens when you reach the end of your line, your tolerance, your desire to remain in a relationship with your Cluster B?I explore this idea and feeling as it relates to my 23 year relationship with my Cluster B in this podcast of My Inner Torch.Support the Show.
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Look Back Listen to 2020 "Emotional Sandcastles"
Send us a Text Message.In this week's podcast of My Inner Torch we take a "Look Back Listen" to one of my most downloaded podcasts "Emotional Sandcastles". I hope you enjoy this Look Back Listen if it is your first time hearing this podcast, or a quick re-listen. Emotional Sandcastles still resonates with me and is a chapter in a soon-to-be-finished book I am completing and hope to make available in the Summer. Support the Show.