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“In narcissistic abuse recovery you will raise your awareness of bad behavior. You will see people’s actions through a lens of protection and no longer tolerate drama and lower vibrational energy vampires. Of course knowing red flags is important but tapping into and listening to how someone makes you feel, is the key to happiness. A drama free zone must be the protection you deploy. If someone causes you to run to others to try to understand their behaviors, this relationship is not healthy for you. We need no labels, we need no proof they are a narcissist, you need to listen to your gut, and you need courage to walk away. No drama equals peace. Drama equals confusion, sadness, and fear.”

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Author:Tracy A. Malone
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“One day you may get angry at yourself. Angry for staying, angry for allowing bad behavior without a stronger fight, and angry for not knowing exactly what this was. Getting angry at yourself is a stage you must go through as you look for answers. Anger propels change, without anger victims stay or allow them back. Your goal should be to move through the anger and not stay in anger too long.”

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Author:Tracy A. Malone
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“HEARING THE NARCISSIST IN YOUR HEAD The voices, the words, and the devaluing messages will haunt you. At first you may hear the good promises or things they said that were seemingly loving. You cling, wishing they were true again. These messages are holding you to them. Other times the internal messages become haunting words. 'You are no good', 'you can't do anything right', 'you are not good enough'. These messages internalize as truths until we heal and accept the truth. They were lying to keep you controlled.”

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Author:Tracy A. Malone
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“B.S., I Luv You (Final Version) by Stewart Stafford In Black Widow's grip, senses denuded, Heathen preen in savage web deluded. Sweet nothings said tongue-in-cheek, Shaman's mask for deception's peek. Check blood bank, deposit paid! It's a sociopath's shameless, sick parade. In sycophant shade, carrion crows convene, Alibis caw over a cadaver's gangrene. Bury your drained victims, vampire creep, From oozing floorboards, vile secrets seep. Botox sessions cease, a purse frowned, Dredged up memories when you're around. Communing in brackish revelry, Bacchanal feast amidst hellfire devilry. Scapegoating slithers to slippery past, In tumbling runes, flaws naked cast. Choke on scabrous words yourself, Unison choir of your faces on the shelf. Self-worth void is your parasitic twin, Overdue promises, to flay second skin. Puppeteering your rigged game, Cracked compass of faux shame. Pompous pharisaic fête queen, A selective soundbite murder scene. Swimming lessons ended drowned, Regurgitated before it was downed. Hide your bodybag laundry away, Swallowed by a cesspit's wanton decay. I'll hold my hands up for all my wrongs, Not gleefully bamboozle you in songs. A wanted poster on your mirrored path, Eyelids glued to face your own wrath. © 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”

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Author:Stewart Stafford
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“In 1991, betrayal trauma was originated by Jennifer Freyd, PhD, an American psychology researcher, author, and educator. She states, 'During trauma it is usually not safe or possible for individuals to consciously access their emotional reactions or experiences, awareness often emerges after trauma ceases.”

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Book:Toxic Siblings: A Survival Guide to Rise Above Sibling Abuse & Heal Trauma
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“Have you not realised how fragile and brutal the ego is? It will always choose what it perceives as in its best interest for the cheapest price. It may be as blatant as short skirts and lies. It may be more sophisticated and hidden behind ‘kind’ words. But it all comes from the same place of either using people to get what we want or trying to eliminate people who get in our way.”

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Book:Together
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“I want to see her naked, " Mengele said pointing to Marlene. She cried and shock. My mother flung her body in front of Marlene's and said, "You can't have her. I love her, my daughter." My father said, "Take the younger one. She's smarter, " as he pushed me over forward. Marlene cried because father said I was smarter even though he was just trying to manipulate Mengele. The doctor's chest grew large.”

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Book:The Enslaved Queen: A Memoir About Electricity and Mind Control
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“We are all children, they thought, and none of us is equipped to deal with such an adversary. We go through life under other people's protection. We listen to instructions and try to follow them. We don't know what's true and what's not. What's fair and unfair. Our world is small. Our world is narrow. We do as we are told.”

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Book:The Laws of the Skies
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“They lie side by side under the quilt. He’s aware he could have sex with her now if he wanted to. She wouldn’t tell anyone. He finds it strangely comforting, and allows himself to think about what it would be like. Hey, he would say quietly. Lie on your back, okay? And she would just obediently lie on her back. So many things pass secretly between people anyway. What kind of person would he be if it happened now? Someone very different? Or exactly the same person, himself, with no difference at all.”

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Book:Normal People
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“A second relationship between advertising and identity is seen in the growing exploitation of desirable identities. Farberman and others have described how advertisers have marketed their products less and less on the basis of the product's merits and more and more by associating a "dream identity" with a possession of a given product. The suggestion is that the possession of a particular brand of car or cigarette will furnish you with the identity of a successful, attractive, worthy person. The message is clear - accumulating things is an effective means of achieving identity and actualizing one's potential.”

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Book:Identity: Cultural Change and the Struggle for Self
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“Feeders (A Narc in Love): They'll feed off your energy, Soak up your adoration, Seem perfect in your eyes, As the love-bombing ignites the manipulation They will never truly love you, They do not love themselves, But they'll break you down from the inside-out And demolish your sense of self And then when they see they cannot control you, They'll shout, and shut the door, As you elevate from the ashes, Gone, is the backing down you had displayed before Then, they'll drop you, And from a shaky, fantastical ivory tower you'll fall, Because they've realised, They cannot keep you on their puppet-strings anymore”

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Book:The Stars In Our Scars: A Collection of Unique, Healing and Inspirational Poetry
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“He’s going to walk away with it,’ he said. ‘He’s just throwing words around. The Trunk’s too big to fail. Too many investors. He’ll get more money, keep the system going just this side of disaster, then let it collapse. Buy it up then via another company, maybe, at a knock-down price.’ ‘I’d suspect him of anything,’ said Miss Dearheart. ‘But you sound very certain.’ ‘That’s what I’d do,’ said Moist, ‘er . . . if I was that kind of person. It’s the oldest trick in the book. You get the punt— you get others so deeply involved that they don’t dare fold. It’s the dream, you see? They think if they stay in it’ll all work out. They daren’t think it’s all a dream. You use big words to tell them it’s going to be jam tomorrow and they hope. But they’ll never win. Part of them knows that, but the rest of them never listens to it. The house always wins.’ ‘Why do people like Gilt get away with it?’ ‘I just told you. It’s because people hope. They’ll believe that someone will sell them a real diamond for a dollar. Sorry.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett
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