Empath and Narcissist: Learn How to Become an Empowered Empath and Handle Narcissists. Start Today to Protect Your Feelings from Narcissistic People

By Liam Hoffman

HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU HEARD:

"I want the best for you."

"It was just a joke."

"I didn't say that!"

"You already told me that. Why do you keep repeating yourself?"

"Why are you being so difficult?"

"You are crazy."

"I did nothing wrong. I had no idea this would hurt you."

"I hate drama! You always create drama!"

"I'm just too busy right now."


If you have ever heard any of these, or if you still find yourself in one of these situations, know that you are probably dealing with a narcissist and it is time to protect yourself from these types of people.

At first, everything seems perfect. You have met a person with whom you are fine, smiling, and who incredibly, has a lot in common with you. It's all part of the narcissist's game.

It is a game that, once you are inside, takes away a lot of your energy. It is exhausting, you feel trapped, almost as if you are stealing the air you breathe every day.

In this book, I relate the empathic person to the narcissistic person. I explain in detail how to protect your feelings and how to unmask these mental manipulators so as not to ruin your life and to finally start expressing the real you.

In detail, you will find more about:

• Empath and Narcissist: all the truth you need to know
• Find out with absolute certainty if you are empathetic.
• All types of narcissists
• Are you the favorite target of narcissists? Let's find out together.
• The real manipulative strategies narcissists use
• Indisputable signs that let you know if you are in a narcissistic relationship
• Fundamental techniques to defend yourself from narcissistic abuse
• Recovering from a narcissistic relationship: what works
• How to become an empowered empath
• The hidden power of emotions
• How I managed to surround myself with genuine people

Empath and Narcissist: Your Feelings Matter is suitable for anyone who has had experiences with a narcissist, who is experiencing them now, or who wants to avoid them in the future.

Make the decision to put yourself first and buy this book now.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Liam Hoffman
• Release date: Jul 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201749941

Book preview

Introduction

It was spring, and Connie, a reporter at a city news station, had discovered through a friend that a new community garden was being created by the residents of the inner-city. The ground was now being cleared, and individuals and organizations were volunteering information and equipment to help where they were needed. There was a group of teenagers all ready to help older people with the hard physical work as well. Knowing that city gardens were a growing movement across the country, Connie knew it would make a great article and pitched it to the producers at the station’s weekly meeting. She was interrupted by Carla, another reporter.

Oh yes, I was thinking about that! Connie was pretty sure that wasn’t true. "I’d love to do it! I’d do a fantastic story with it!" Both Carla and Connie were good reporters, but Carla had a way of railroading right over people, and it certainly wasn’t the first idea she’d ever stolen. Once she got on a roll talking about how great her story would be, there was no room left for anybody else to get a word in, and by the end of the meeting, Carla had the assignment.

All day, every day, no matter what anybody else was talking about, Carla would turn the conversation back to herself. John mentioned having had a poor night’s sleep because of a noisy neighbor, and Carla talked about how she’d had some really nosy neighbors and had trained herself how to ignore them. Richard’s third-grader was falling behind in school, and Carla, without even a drop of sympathy, just started talking about what academic winners her kids were. Everybody was tired of it, but at the same time, she was so bright and charismatic that she didn’t seem to suffer the consequences of her self-centered behavior.

Someone at home was suffering, though—her oldest daughter, Stephanie. When her parents split up, Stephanie never got over feeling that it was her fault because the big fight between them had occurred the night her father, Adam, stuck up for her when she decided she would rather take art lessons than ballet. Carla insisted she should take the ballet lessons because that’s what she had wanted as a girl and was firm that her own daughter would regret giving it up. Adam had tried telling her their daughter was a different person, not a new version of Carla, but the fight progressed. Stephanie was witnessing such an emotional outburst from both of them that she began to forget what the fight was even about in the first place—that is, until she woke up the next day to discover that Adam had taken off, abandoning both Carla and Stephanie.

Every day when her mother got home from work, Stephanie, who was now 20, was bombarded not just by her mom’s words as she talked about her day but also by her feelings. She understood that Carla was always afraid that if she let down her guard about anything at work, she would be completely overlooked for assignments and would soon be seen as dead weight. So she pushed and fought and ran roughshod over other people so she wouldn’t be run over first. Stephanie was there to take the backlash.

Carla even used Stephanie’s younger brothers to punish Stephanie. They were both involved in after-school activities, and although there was a later school bus they could have taken home, Carla insisted that Stephanie needed to be the one to drive them home. The house needed to be kept clean, and dinner wasn’t going to cook itself. As long as Stephanie was taking care of things at home, though, she knew that Carla would be in a better mood, and that, in turn, helped protect her daughter from the storms that she’d feel otherwise.

The problem with this, of course, was that Stephanie couldn’t start her own life. She’d won a scholarship to Brown University, which had one of the best art programs in the country. But her mother needed her at home and still didn’t truly respect what she wanted to do. Between Carla’s belittling of her talent and constant imposition of her own needs, Stephanie found that she had a hard time doing anything but taking a part-time job in the mornings and spending her afternoons and evenings taking care of the home and her brothers.

Carla was a narcissist.

If you find that you understand this situation all too well—if you find that you are dealing with a narcissist, whether that’s at work, at home, in a relationship, or a friendship—this book will help you understand yourself better, understand the narcissist in your life better, and learn how to empower yourself to deal with the narcissist in your life. We will break down what a narcissist and an empath are in more detail. We will also discuss their similarities and differences, how to safely break away from a narcissist who has you in their grip, and how to heal from the trauma. You will also learn how to hone your abilities and avoid abusers like these in the future.

This book will give you all the tools to work through the trauma you may have experienced in your life and begin healing and growing as a person from your experiences. This book is designed to empower you to free yourself from the cycle of abuse and become a stronger, more capable individual. You don’t have to settle for what you can get. You no longer have to be afraid or walk on eggshells around the person in your life who is draining you emotionally.

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Chapter One: Empath and Narcissist

Let’s start at the beginning. This chapter will focus on the differences between an empath and a narcissist. As you read, you can discover whether you’re an empath and if you’re in a relationship with a narcissist. If this is you, then it’s time to educate yourself on both sides. Knowledge is power, and the more you know about yourself, the empath, and how you relate to the person you’re in a relationship with, the narcissist, the more able you’ll be to find a way out of it. And gain your life back.

Who is a Narcissist?

Narcissism is officially called Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Those who have it are unable to care about others. They only see others as objects who revolve around their wants and needs. Despite their seemingly high opinion of themselves, inside, they may feel very fragile, insecure, and have low self-esteem due to a combination of poor parenting and genetics. They can’t bolster their self-esteem, so they look for it from outside themselves. They don’t just look for it; they demand it! At first glance, you would never know there was so much fear inside them because they present themselves to the world as someone who knows they’re superior to the rest of us and never has a doubt in their mind that everything they do proves it. They’re the best at everything, and they’ll be the first to say so. So at every party, they tell the loudest jokes because they need the most attention. At every card game, they get visibly cranky if they don’t win. And in your relationship with them, they expect to run things and you to be their servant.

But when you think about it, why is it so important to win a card game? Why is it important that other people laugh at their stories? It’s because they believe that any instance of not being on top means that they’re on the bottom. There are only two places to be. Unlike most of us who accept that we’re good at some things and not as good as others and still recognize that we have worth, narcissists can’t do that, and they can’t ever look at anything from anybody else’s point of view, except to look for ways to manipulate them. The idea that we’re all of equal value and have the same feelings and many of the same experiences are foreign to them. You’ll never hear a narcissist sincerely say, Wow, I can see why that was so upsetting. I’m sorry you had to go through that. They’ll just tell you about something worse that happened to them. In relationships, they don’t understand the idea that both people can be equals and share the decision-making power and that it’s important to be able to honestly ask for things from your friend or partner while being equally open to meeting the needs the other person may have.

Who is an Empath?

On the other hand, an empath is very attuned to what other people think and feel. They can get inside people and see the world from their point of view. They see people as being just as valuable as themselves and as fully human. Empathy is different from sympathy—sympathy is when you have a caring feeling for someone else for what they’re going through, but there’s a distance for you between their feelings and yours. This is really important for professions such as nursing, where the nurse has to understand what the patient is experiencing so that they can help. Empathy, on the other hand, is feeling what the other person is feeling. It can be overwhelming, and a nurse who is also an empath might feel the patient’s emotions so strongly that they will have trouble putting that aside and taking action to help. Of course, empaths can and need to learn to shield themselves, and many people in the caring profession are empaths who’ve learned to do that. When you have other people’s feelings battering you, you have to protect yourself and pull back at times.

Empath and Narcissist: Similarities and Differences

Although we experience living with narcissists and empaths in very different ways, there are some important commonalities necessary to acknowledge.

●  Both are emotional beings. Both are highly sensitive and intuitive. It was once thought that narcissists had no sensitivity to other people’s feelings and were completely focused on themselves. However, that understanding has changed. Empaths and narcissists are actually both extremely sensitive and attuned to the feelings, thoughts, and motivations of others, but the difference is in how they react to it and how they utilize that knowledge. Narcissists are well aware of what’s going on around them. They can pick up other people’s motivations and moods just as

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