A2R – Advanced Recovery 3 – Narcissism and manipulation

by | Aug 16, 2014

This is the third in the ‘advanced recovery’ series and I am starting to look at how to engage with your own tendency to manipulate and think you know more than you do. It’s all related to developing healthy relationships and will extend into the next podcast as well.

Improve your relationship with things

You may not have thought about things this way but you could be said to have a relationship with everything, not just people! If you are addicted to cocaine, think about your relationship with it as something that started, developed, and can change. 

It is useful to think of inanimate relationships as appropriate or inappropriate. When you keep asking your neighbour for things, it might be okay for a while, but if you keep doing it they will eventually get tired of it. If you keep asking alcohol or drugs to help you avoid your responsibilities and needs, this is the basis of an inappropriate relationship and will not end well.

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