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Healing from A Break-Up With A Narcissist and How to Date After Experiencing One
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Healing from A Break-Up With A Narcissist and How to Date After Experiencing One

The ultimate guide.

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Shahida Arabi, MA
Jan 27, 2025
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This is a more in-depth guide to healing from heartbreak customized to what we know about narcissists. Part one will cover how we can recover from a traumatizing break-up with a narcissist based on neuroscience research; part two will cover how to date mindfully after experiencing one, and tips to ward off manipulative types in the dating world.

Part I: Healing from a Break-Up With A Narcissist

How do you emerge victorious, especially if you’ve experienced heartbreak or a toxic relationship? You’ve just survived a psychological battlefield and now just want to survive the aftermath. It’s true that the ultimate focus should be on healing. But what if you’re in a state of learned helplessness where you can barely motivate yourself to get out of bed, let alone take the steps to process what you’ve just been through? Sometimes survivors need the motivation to begin to heal—and sometimes, counterintuitively enough, embracing all your taboo emotions, rewriting and disrupting your compulsive habits related to your trauma bonds with the narcissist mindfully, and engaging in novelty and productive actions you otherwise might not engage in is actually what gets you there in meaningful ways.

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