How To Do No Contact

How to Do No Contact by Melanie Tonia Evans
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Table of contents
Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 3 PART ONE: WHY YOU NEED TO DO NO CONTACT ...................................................................... 7 How the narcissist functions ....................................................................................................... 7 Conscience versus conscienceless ............................................................................................ 10 Attempting to right the wrongs ................................................................................................ 19 What are the basic requirements of a healthy relationship..................................................... 26 Your version of thinking versus the narcissists version of thinking .......................................... 28 What you are to the narcissist and what you need to be to yourself ...................................... 35 PART TWO: HOW TO DO NO CONTACT .................................................................................... 38 The narcissists reaction to No Contact .................................................................................... 42 In Conclusion ............................................................................................................................. 47 How to Recover......................................................................................................................... 49

Introduction
Please note if are a member of New Life Newsletter, and received both your eBooks with your subscription please read your eBook Narcissistic Abuse The Truth before beginning this one.
Although this publication has been written in reference to love partners, the principles still apply for all significant narcissistic individuals in your life.
One of the most vital elements regarding recovery from narcissistic abuse is NO CONTACT, (referred to as NC on many abuse forums), or in the case of shared custody of children is called Modified Contact whereby appropriate boundaries, or the implementation of third parties for communication are established.
Please note this eBook is not just specific information for individuals who are already out of their narcissistic relationship, or know they need to get out and stay out. If you are still in the relationship please know I understand your reasons for remaining there. There may be many reasons why its really hard to leave and you may still be holding hope for the relationship.
If you are still in the relationship I know this information may be very hard hitting for you, and may even seem incredibly distasteful, because No Contact may be the last thing that you want to do. If, at this point, you are still in the relationship and trying to save your union this information is still very helpful therefore I urge you to have an open mind when reading it.
The truth is this eBook will help you identify how bad the abuse really is (if applicable) and it will help you clarify if there is any hope for your relationship. Throughout this eBook you will gain greater insight into whether or not the individual you are dealing with has classic NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder), or has narcissistic traits to a lesser degree whereby there may be a chance of empowering yourself, creating strong boundaries and gaining a level of respect and decency from this person.

Please be very aware the dynamics that are explained in this eBook are NPD behaviours point blank. If you have already read my articles Narcissism Understood and Narcissistic Personality Disorder- Common Traits and Expressions of Narcissists and subscribed to New Life Newsletter and accessed the free eBook Narcissistic Abuse The Truth (if you havent yet read this eBook you may subscribe and do so here) and if you have ticked many or most of the boxes contained in these publications, and resonate with how you have been affected by your narcissistic relationship, then this eBook certainly is relevant to your situation very much so, because the truth is: you are experiencing significant narcissistic abuse.
If you are still in a narcissistic relationship which you have not yet identified as NPD or not yet accepted as NPD, this will assist you to understand how narcissism plays out, and it may be a powerful reference further down the track. It will also arm you with knowledge and tools if the time does come when you simply know you have to leave the relationship.
If your partner shows enough attributes to give you hope that he/she is not NPD that is great and there certainly may be hope. I have written an article that provides the tools and strategies to applying boundaries to gauge if your partner is capable of being accountable, stepping up and displaying the necessary levels of remorse, empathy and self disclipine in order to change his or her behaviour. Is He/She Really A Narcissist Laying Boundaries and Accountability
If on the other hand, you really do relate to this information its time to be honest with yourself and face the hard facts. In this eBook, the term narcissist used throughout, directly describes NPD behaviour which is not rare, and is in fact incredibly common and widespread.
From here on I am describing No Contact with an NPD individual.
I discovered within my own recovery, and in the case of the recoveries that I co-create with other narcissistically abused victims, the BIGGEST defining ingredient in regard to being able create the space to heal, recover and move on is the implementation and the sticking to of No Contact.
In the thousands of cases with individuals I have intimately viewed, from all over the world, Ive never seen a recovery from a NPD relationship that hasnt operated from this model.
This is regardless of the gender, nationality, class, capabilities and intelligence of the narcissistically abused victim. I mean it when I say not one case.
Even in the situations of ex-partners whove had children with narcissists, the people who have recovered did everything in their power to negate, reduce or eliminate direct contact. They all put up very strong boundaries, in order to keep the narcissist out of their life as much as possible.
In the case of my own life, I did the in-and-out dance with my narcissistic ex-partner for a total of 4 years. During this period I was battered, shattered and virtually destroyed. I lived through times when I d pull away and start getting myself and my life back on track, and then every time I slipped and went back into the ring I would very soon after, if not immediately, plummet again. All it would take was one phone conversation, text exchange or the reading of an email to feel hooked again.
Im certainly not alone. Its well known that when dealin g with a narcissist, when trying to re-claim yourself, its like dealing with poison. If you touch the poison you feel poisoned again. Chances are, if you are experiencing narcissistic abuse, you know exactly what this feels like.
There were times when I thought I had contact with him under control, and at these times I felt like some sort of safety or predictability had been secured. However, despite these brief moments of imagined relief, before I knew it the goal posts were moved, the rug was pulled out from under my feet, and again I would fall.
Each time lower and lower.
A perverse hooking aspect occurs when an individual is narcissistically traumatised, and a powerful addiction phenomenon ensues. This means that the narcissist continually finds a way to get under your skin, and will keep you coming back for more as a result of you trying to receive sensibility, fair play, accountable and / or validation from the narcissist.

Many individuals who are connected to narcissists believe they can somehow gain the upper hand, and some sort of control and safety when dealing with the narcissist, and are therefore able to retain their boundaries and sanity, and get some sort of resolution.
Nothing could be further from the truth...
When dealing with a narcissist, you need to be honest with yourself and have a firm understanding of the dynamics of narcissism.
By the time your relationship has become toxic, youve been damaged, and youre shellshocked, shattered and feel like youre losing your mind. Many aspects of your life, as well as your emotional and mental state are suffering. You directly experience the fact that the narcissist in your life is simply not interested in playing fair.
As a result, youre dismayed to realise theres little possibility of creating win / win outcomes. When dealing with property and custody settlements (let alone emotional ones) you need to accept the narcissist is not motivated by sensibility, reason, compassion and conscience, and until accepting these hard facts youll undoubtedly feel totally anguished, angered and frustrated beyond belief with the narcissists inhumane behaviour.
I know because Ive been there, and I listen to clients, and I work with people on the Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Program, and I receive emails about this anguish and disbelief every day.
Please know many people are going through, and have gone through what you are, if youre being narcissistically abused.
It can take a while, but finally the acceptance that you need to come to, can and will set you free. Education is vital in order to achieve your freedom, and for you to be able to create No Contact in order to focus on and create your necessary recovery. And within this education is the understanding of WHY a narcissist behaves the way he or she does, and WHY none of your attempts to receive safe and decent behaviour work.

Its my mission in this eBook to explain to you the narcissistic phenomena in a way that makes you realise why No Contact (or Modified Contact) is the only way to have the space to heal, regain yourself and have a happy, successful and gratifying life.
Im not going to apologise for my frankness, and for literally saying it how it is. This eBook is intended to smack you between the eyes about the severity of narcissistic abuse, and what is really going on.
If you are being severely narcissistically abused, this information could save your life, or someones life who you deeply care about who has experienced this level of abuse. My conscience, mission and experience with narcissism requires me to be very real about this information.
PART ONE: WHY YOU NEED TO CREATE NO CONTACT
How the narcissist functions

The narcissist operates from two modes when he or she is being unreasonable, cruel, calculating, pathological, or quite frankly like a nasty five-year old that refuses to act decently.
These modes are:
1) The narcissists primary driver is to receive narcissistic supply
This equates to the narcissist receiving attention. Good or bad it makes no difference.
In the early days of the relationship the narcissist received plenty of acclaim and adoration from you. Because the honeymoon period is now over, and you have experienced the personality cracks and insecure, nasty, demanding and abusive

behaviour, its unlikely that youre still supplying the narcissist with the energy of, You are SO wonderful by the time you have accessed this eBook.
At this point, the wonderful partner has not been present for quite some time, or only shows up sporadically. Youll, more often, be confronted with the narcissistic personality and all its fully blown extremes.
The veneers of respect, compassion, and genuine support (vital components within healthy relationships) have worn thin, and become less and less consistent.
Now, the attention the narcissist receives from you is him or her knowing how much he or she can affect you adversely. This grants the narcissist a sense of importance and even God-like omnipotence.
When a narcissist causes fear and distress, he or she feels extremely significant.
Healthy and emotionally mature individuals do not create significance at the expense of other people. Its very true that everyone seeks significance in their own way; however one of the defining pathological aspects of narcissism is that the narcissist will wish to create self-significance by reducing others.
The narcissistic model is: I win and you lose.
Lack of conscience is a clear and defining factor.
Individuals with a conscience dont cause pain in order to receive attention and significance. Narcissists due to a lack of healthy conscience (meaning the care and consideration for others, and being accountable) simply dont comprehend hurting others as wrong or unthinkable its a means to an end, in order to receive narcissistic supply.

2) The narcissist needs to offload his or her internal pain
Narcissists have limited or non-existent resources available in order to work through their own emotional conflicts, which are numerous. Because the narcissist struggles to be accountable and self-reflect, he or she projects pain, rage and unworthiness onto others (the parts of themself they cannot resolve) in order to gain relief from internal torment.
This is why the narcissist will proclaim that it is your fault, and will continually accuse you of everything that that he or she does that is unreasonable.
Projection is a strategy necessary for the narcissist to emotionally survive and retain his or her false self.
Projection is an egoic created defence mechanism. By remaining in his or her ego, the narcissist can defend his or her severely damaged inner self, by making it always someone elses fault.
Healthy and emotionally mature individuals have the ability to self-reflect and take responsibility for their own emotions and actions. The narcissist doesnt and wont. Hence why they dont heal, grow or evolve to a healthier self.
The unfortunate side-effect of the narcissists projections is that you may be incredibly confused, and may have been worn down into accepting that you are in fact the problem in the relationship.
Just ask yourself - Am I a malicious person who operates without conscience? Okay, yes you may have retaliated like a crazy person, and even been nasty and aggressive, but who doesnt crack when theyre being significantly and repetitively abused?
That certainly doesnt make you, at your core, a bad person.

I can assure you healthy people with emotional intelligence who really believed you were untrustworthy, manipulative, controlling, competitive, adulterous, nasty and wrong would NOT be having a relationship with you. Theyd leave! Yet the narcissist continues or continued to be with you while accusing you of these things...and more.
Why? Because he or she was maliciously maiming you and dumping his or her tormented self on you pure and simple.
Decent people simply dont do that. I dont care how deranged or crazy you feel you are being abused, and its important to get VERY clear about this.
Conscience versus conscienceless

It may shock you to realise that narcissists and co-dependents have many things in common, such as, a feeling of inner emptiness and trying to achieve validation of self through outside sources, however one thing they certainly do not have in common is a lack of conscience.
Co-dependents feel really bad about using abuse, lies and manipulation to gain attention, or the upper hand, and would feel devastated if anyone accused them of possessing anything less than decency and integrity.
Many of my clients have spoken to me in relation to how they could never operate like a narcissist.
It would be true to say, even in your most dire times of pain and grief, youd find it very difficult to lower yourself and literally sell your soul by performing the lies, manoeuvres, cruelty, atrocities and immoral behaviour that the narcissist is capable of.
You just simply wouldnt do it.
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And if you ever have, to try to one-up the narcissist, you were totally distraught when you looked in the mirror and realised who youd become.
The narcissist knows how to hook you because you have a conscience and care about what people think of you.
Youve been trying to prove to the narcissist that you are trustworthy, you are decent and you do love him or her, and you do possess integrity.
This has been an extremely fruitless task, because the narcissist is always insisting how bad you are (the projection of his or her disowned parts on to you).
Youre mortified that the narcissist believes youre a bad person, and you cant fathom how love can go like this. As a result, you are severely addicted to the goal of needing to prove your worth and gaining the narcissists approval.
You may be motivated by needing to be right and / or needing to secure the narcissists love in order to reduce his or her damaging behaviour.
It doesnt really matter what has hooked you into trying because its a soul-destroying trip.
Is it the relationship youre fighting for? Or maybe really its the need to be validated, respected, trusted and loved unfortunately by someone that never wanted to, and never held that as a normal human goal.
It isnt about that or you, never actually was, and never will be.
From the narcissists viewpoint and model of reality, it was always about you supplying the narcissist with narcissistic supply.
The interesting part in all of this is youve been conditioned by the narcissist to accept the assault of the narcissists projections.
He or she has day by day, piece by piece been using your insecurities and unhealed parts against you, and been turning you into another version of him or herself. By confusing and diminishing you and then projecting the bad parts of him or herself on to you, the narcissist has created you as the tormented person.
By doing so he or she has been able to feel momentarily healthy, and temporarily spared from his or her own internal torture.
The feelings that youre feeling the emptiness, manic depression, fear, loss of self-esteem, helplessness and loss of faith in yourself and life, are the feelings that the narcissist feels within their real core every minute of every day.
The difference is the narcissist, in order to function, goes after narcissistic supply (attention which means stealing other peoples energy), in order to have any sense of self. The narcissist requires other people reflecting energy back to him or her, because without this the narcissist is a literal wasteland of no-self.
The reason why you appear to be an empty shell and the narcissist doesnt, is because you dont sell your soul in order to go out and feed off and steal energy and resources from people and life in order to emotionally survive.
The narcissist will hit porn sites, internet dating, admiring acquaintances, previous lovers etc. etc., whereas youre more likely to be in the coma position under your bedspread.
Youre not doing the tactics which gain the relief. In fact youre much more likely to keep losing more and more pieces of yourself, shrivel and fall deeper and deeper into the black abyss that youre becoming.
Narcissistically abused victims all report the feeling of having NO self left, and that their life force has been literally sucked out of them.
The physical, emotional and mental torture of being in this state is unthinkable, and unless youve experienced it personally, which I know you have if youve been narcissistically abused, you know what I mean when I say no-one could begin to fathom what this feels like unless they had personally experienced it.
If the narcissist was cut off from receiving narcissistic supply, this is exactly what he or she would feel like.
He or she would experience a complete and utter breakdown.
Not being a bad person is killing you in this instance. Please know, in no way am I advocating that you become bad in order to survive, therefore becoming a model of no empathy or conscience.
The quick fix of gaining egoic (narcissistic) supply is not the durable answer. Such as going after a love relationship to pay the narcissist back, or in order to try and stop the pain.
Facing and embracing your unhealed parts and insecurities that led you into being in a narcissistic relationship, and healing and evolving through the pain and creating an authentic and empowered self is the answer, and this is something that the narcissist will never do.
The narcissist pursues narcissistic supply without conscience, and has no remorse about who gets used, or what pathological moves he or she has to make in order to secure supply. The narcissist controls people with his or her tactics, and humans arent humans to the narcissist, they are simply objects to extract energy from.
If you try to win some power back and control the narcissist, you are punching well above your weight. The narcissist is a seasoned professional, whereby youre a raw novice shackled with a conscience, and therefore the narcissist will always win when you go toe to toe with him or her.
If you try to control someone or something that is out of control, the only outcome is YOU will be completely controlled by that person or thing.
The narcissist is a model of self-serving entitlement, and he or she believes they own the rights to you, what you bring to the table, and anything else he or she feels entitled to take (which is most if not all things).
He or she needs to take, and the narcissist will cut you off from other sources that could grant you energy, such as friends, family, children (yours or the narcissists), hobbies and areas of your life that give you connection and pleasure.
The narcissist knows that by doing so, you will be shackled to him or her so that supply can be ensured and extracted. There is no way he or she is going to grant you the energy you require to feel strong, empowered and healthy.
When you can provide narcissistic supply the narcissist still wants you, and is finished with you when there is no more to extract. When the relationship is over, the narcissist wants to know you are destroyed, or will still be available to hand over more supply in the future.
Its an insult of the highest order to the narcissist for you to have a great life with or without him or her.
The narcissist is pathologically envious, to the point of inner rage, that you find ways and people to feel genuinely good. The narcissist knows this is impossible for him or herself, and dismantles all of your sources of energy, leaving you totally at the mercy of his or her control.
You know the disinterest, displeasure and even wrath of the narcissist when you were upset, or in a state of needing support from him or her, or when you got pleasure and energy from sources other than the narcissist.
The narcissist after the process of giving to get (securing you as narcissistic supply) has no desire, and no resources to genuinely give support, and has no desire to support and encourage your happiness and achievements.
The narcissist may monetarily grant you positive energy, but often its to keep you hooked as narcissistic supply. Often the nice behaviour comes about as a result of you starting to pull away, and when the wrath, manipulation, cruelty, smear campaigns and power tripping doesnt secure attention.
Narcissists require narcissistic supply like a drug addict requires heroin, and just like a highlevel junkie the narcissist will sell out individuals, or trample on other peoples emotions and resources without remorse, in order to feed this all-consuming need.
No-one receives immunity in the face of this compulsion.
Close intimates are the main targets from whom the greatest amount of narcissistic supply can be extracted long-term, simply because an intimate will hang around in the game whilst the extraction continues to take place.
Less intimate people that havent been successfully hooked , when the veneer inevitably wears thin, wont. They will pull away from the abuse. Narcissists will tend to have a lot of fleeting acquaintances that they extract narcissistic supply from, but very few, if any longterm friends.
The narcissist doesnt fear the abandonment and punishment that comes from his or her bad behaviour. In fact the narcissist welcomes the angst and repercussions. All of this grants the knowing he or she has the power to affect other people in extreme ways. This is A- grade narcissistic supply at its best.
This coupled with the inability for the narcissist to think about or learn from consequences, means the narcissist in a tirade is not concerned about the outcome. Its a bit like playing chicken. You will be fearful of repercussions, so it is much more likely for you to try to back down, apologise or repair matters first.
Individuals who suffer from Narcissistic Personality Disorder have inbuilt masochistic tendencies. The narcissist knows that he or she is empty, and has no self. Self-loathing takes the space where self-esteem, self-knowing and self-worth should reside, and there is a perverse and twisted relief when receiving punishment and failure. Narcissists unconsciously seek it out time and time again.
At a deep inner level they know that every significant relationship will fail, and they grind these relationships into the ground towards this conclusion mercilessly. By purposefully bringing about the end themselves, this grants them additional power and control.
The ending always comes through one of four means: the narcissist retains the relationship, and it is completely disconnected emotionally, with the partner complying to every demand the narcissist makes whilst the narcissist pursues other partners outside of the relationship, or the narcissist pushes the partner away until there is no choice other than to leave the narcissist, or the narcissist creates the complete disintegration of the partner and then discards the corpse when theres no narcissistic supply left to gain, or the partner of the narcissist develops a severe illness and dies, or chooses to suicide.
Theres no beating this system it just is what it is, and narcissistically abused victims who have tried to change this reality, and dont want to accept the relationship is doomed, all become literal shells in the relationship, or become discarded shells or die - literally. I was a hairs breadth from becoming a fatality myself.
It must be remembered, in amongst all of these startling and chilling facts, victims of narcissistic abuse do have the inner ability to heal their unhealed parts and have a self. Therefore for you, there is the hope and the opportunity to break away from this manic and soul-destroying dynamic in order to heal, empower yourself and recover.
I and many other people have done so.
The narcissist, however, cant create an authentic self, and wont, and will meet the same inevitable conclusion that all narcissists meet a place which he or she has been trying to avoid. Having no energy left to procure narcissistic supply, and being left alone with a horrifying tortured self with no way to gain relief.
It is then that the narcissist meets his or her maker and knows firsthand that the charade or his or her life, and the carefully scripted and constructed false self has all amounted to absolutely nothing other than the wasteland of having no authentic self .
Its here that the narcissist is demised, because he or she wasnt able to beat the system that we all face:
Without an authentic self, nothing is real, and there is no genuine love, happiness or pleasure in life.
Generally this happens to the narcissist later in life, rather than earlier, but it does happen. Therefore, dont envy narcissists and think they have it all. None of what they have is real, or brings real feelings of fulfilment.
The truth is: it is impossible for them to be genuinely fulfilled and at peace; they simply arent wired that way, and that doesnt change regardless of how much material stuff, notoriety, acclaim or even fame and fortune they manage to get.
Dont be tempted to try to save the narcissist from him or herself and this inevitable fate with the belief Love will conquer and fix all, because another truth is: the narcissist will resist all of these attempts, and in fact punish you for trying.
He or she is disgusted by individuals that try to love him or her, and will detest you for it. The unconscious reason playing out within the narcissist is: How repulsive and wrong it is to try and love a nothing, an entity that doesnt exist. This makes me despise you even more.
If you have been narcissistically abused, youll recall the times when the narcissist looked at you and acted as if he or she hates you. You were shocked to see the narcissists eyes become empty and lifeless, yet full of pure contempt and rage. You have seen the total lack of compassion that is akin to being confronted with a reptile, devoid of any warmth.
The narcissist is merciless at these times, and is a cruel, heartless machine.

The narcissist despises humanity, yet knows he or she needs to feed on humans for energy. This reliance on the very thing he or she detests (the human emotions of compassion, love and conscience) makes the narcissist feel vulnerable, and further fuels his or her disgust with life, people and him or herself.
Vampires similarly were depicted as hating humans intensely because of their reliance on them. Its no coincidence that the Vampire myth was inspired by the model of narcissism. Do some research on this fact and it will astound you.
When realising the truth of what a narcissist is, as hard as it is to accept, and as much as your sense of humanity, normality and life as you understand it struggles to comprehend the facts you can start to accept theres no hope for the narcissist when they are displaying classic traits of NPD, and no hope that you can have any real relationship with them.
If you cant accept this as truth ask yourself: Havent I experienced behaviour, twists, turns, pathologies and actions that totally defy anything I ever believed to be human?
If so, admit this to be true.
Now, are you ready to accept that the lack of conscience and humanity that youve seen firsthand is because you arent dealing with what you know as human? The ultimate truth is narcissists arent human not as we know human to be because they do not have the capacity, neuron brain pathways or desire (they despised normal human functions, believing theyre pathetic) to operate with compassion, empathy, love and conscience .
Without these components humanity isnt present.
Please understand the emotions compassion, empathy, love and conscience define humanity, and everything that is healthy, loving and connected about the human race. The absence of these emotions is the ultimate disconnection from humanity.
It is medical knowledge that the brain neuron pathways of compassion, empathy, love and conscience are numbed out, shrivelled up, or severely arrested within a narcissistic individuals brain. These emotions simply dont operate.
I certain agree with this theory that the only way an NPD could connect to these emotions is to be confined for an extended amount of time without narcissistic supply, and be saturated with the stimulus of compassion, empathy, love and conscience repeatedly until these pathways re-activate, develop and catch up to the necessary level of development required for them to function healthily.
For obvious reasons this is not going to happen...and if it could, how long would it take?
Attempting to right the wrongs

When were viewing life through the model of humanity, we cant comprehend narcissistic operation.
We may scream out to ourselves and anyone wholl listen. How can she / he do that?! I dont understand! Thats terrible behaviour! as well as many other emotionally charged statements, and feelings of gut-wrenching disbelief.
The narcissists behaviour does not make sense to our humanity model, and we feel threatened, chaotic and extremely vulnerable regarding behaviour that just doesnt add up.
This creates incredible hooks whereby we try to right the wrongs. We fight fruitlessly to make the narcissist get it and stop the behaviour that we are accepting by staying or trying to hang on.
We allow the narcissist to destroy us on so many levels, especially emotionally.
Everything we believed to be true about people, ourselves and life is under siege.
This suits the narcissist perfectly, because he or she knows that this will keep attracting you into the battle, and by trying to fix and change the behaviour, the narcissist can line you up in order to receive more narcissistic supply.
The more aggrieved and incensed you become, and the more you try to fight for justice, accountability and decency, the more narcissistic supply you hand over.
How do you know when youre being targeted and used for narcissistic supply?
You receive untruths that torment you. You have discussions that are so twisted it feels like youre losing your mind. You continually feel like you are justifying yourself and explaining facts, values and standards of human behaviour that the narcissist simply does not acknowledge or apply. You experience cruel, uncaring and dismissive treatment that has no consideration for your emotional state. Youre given false promises that set you up for hope, yet lead to profound disappointment which tears you down into further feelings of abandonment, rejection and despair. You realise that the narcissist wants it all his or her way, rather than trying to achieve healthy win / win outcomes. You feel like you in a competitive me versus you relationship whereby you are made out to be the enemy. None of your needs are taken into account, or are simply played upon in order to deceive you into handing over more self and more resources. Youre blamed for all of the problems.
Even if there is an apology or a show of accountability, you feel its hollow, and if you try to gain some sense of stability around it, youre met with major resistance, diversion or rage. You receive insane Jekyll / Hyde behaviour which can switch from loving to condemning and from dismissive to needy in a heartbeat. The narcissist will regularly accuse you of caring more, and giving more attention to other people and interests than him or her. The narcissist will denounce you to other people and even tear down your credibility with other people in your presence. The narcissist will regularly bring up allies to back his or her story, (real or imagined) in order to gas-light you and diminish your faith in yourself and life. Information that you have disclosed to the narcissist, or was discovered by him or her about you, will be used as a weapon against you.
The soul-destroying list goes on and on. All of these behaviours, as well as the many others in the narcissists arsenal, all lead to MAJOR losses to your self-esteem.
Staying attached and receiving and allowing the punishment and mining of energy, can only create, and does create, a total disintegration of self.
Youve been conditioned and programmed, as a result of your unhealed parts, and your insecurities and fears by the narcissist, to try harder and harder to receive understanding, safety and decency, and the more hoops you try to jump through, the higher they get and the harder you crash.
Whilst doing so, you provide the narcissist with malicious inner delight, as he or she watches you try to perform this impossible feat.
It allows the narcissist to feel oh so important.
Evil is absolutely at play here. If you dont believe evil exists, its time to get real, open your eyes and accept that it does.
Just as there is hot and cold, up and down, night and day and all polar opposites that exist in physics in order to hold the balance of life together, evil is in opposition to Love, and it does exist.
Evil quite simply is a dark place that is the absence of Love.
Just as we could never know hot if we didnt know cold, or up if we didnt know down, we could never know what Love is if we did not know what the absence of Love is.
The narcissistic model is exactly that the absence of Love.
Just as we have no need to fix, change or eliminate down or cold in order to be up and warm, theres is no need to fix, change or eliminate evil.
In fact its impossible to do so.
Whenever we struggle with and place our focus on anything in our life we become it. We take on its energy and make it all about us. Whenever we ignore energy thats not good for us, and place our energy on what does serve us instead, we no longer have unwanted and painful energy in our life.
If you were to choose a holiday destination, you would be much more likely to choose Vanuatu rather than war-torn Beirut. You know the difference, but you have no need to go to Beirut and try to make it Vanuatu, when Vanuatu is a choice you could make for yourself.
Accept this - love, safety, and healthy is NOT narcissism. You are looking for these things where they dont exist. You cant force someone to be what they simply do not have the resources to be.
Do you believe that you can make a crocodile play fetch, roll over and lick you while you scratch its belly?
Have you ever heard the tale regarding a crocodile who convinced a forest animal he would carry him over the river and deliver him safely to the other side? Half way across the crocodile threw the forest animal up into his mouth and prepared to eat him.
The forest animal squealed You promised!
The crocodile said matter-of-factly just before his first bite, Yes, but I AM a crocodile.
Youre only option to get what you want is to let go and start making choices and decisions that align you with flying to the peace, warmth and pina colodas of Vanuatu, rather than trying to survive and dodge bullets in Beirut.
If youre dealing with an individual who refuses to play fair, then theres no chance youre going to be able to fix them, force them or change them into being a decent person. You may feel that the success of your whole life hangs on this outcome.
Rest assured it certainly doesnt.
Shamelessly the narcissist is totally disinterested in coming into accountability, taking your needs into consideration and playing by the rules in order to reach a healthy conclusion. It isnt the healthy conclusion that he or she wishes for, its the narcissistic supply.
Get very clear on this: The narcissist is not interested in what you want in life. The narcissist does not want to give and receive love, and create a life of togetherness, safety and happiness. The narcissist wants to steal your energy and diminish you in order to feel better about him or herself and knows no other way to operate.
The narcissist cant comprehend winning without someone else losing. Win / win to them is unthinkable and does not compute.
Its not a great way for you to live. In fact its a devastating way, and it truly is a life threatening deal for you with no happily ever after.
The narcissist needs your anguish and pain, just as you are addicted to needing him or her to supply you with safety and decency, regardless of the fact that its not happening.
You and the narcissist are now the supplier and the users for each other in this toxic, destructive cycle of dependency. The drug is neediness.
A relationship of two co-dependents, although disadvantageous, is better than this. At least there are two needy people receiving energy. The narcissists bottomless pit of needing your energy, because he or she cant manufacture his or her own, is getting fed constantly by you, and you are getting nothing except the constant battering that ensures that you will hand over more and more supply.
Thats right. This means you will be emptied out all the way to your demise.
The addiction to the narcissist is a horrific part of the abuse (because we continue to allow ourselves to be abused), and the addiction like all serious addictions is life threatening.
Severe co-dependency and relationship addiction to a narcissist is incredibly serious. The results, until the addiction is healed and overcome, are dire and can be fatal.
To understand more about the addiction that you have to the narcissist, you can watch my video series here. This series grants a lot of insight into how you can break the addiction cycle and start moving forward in your life.
Just like any severe addiction, we have many excuses as to why we dont want to let go, we cant let go, regardless of how much damage were sustaining.
Dont be fooled by thinking I have seen him / her be loving, and I know he / she is capable of being the person I want to be in love with. Or I know that this person WAS loving and kind, and therefore I know they DO have the resources.
Narcissists know the actions that will attract you and make you fall in love with them, but they are feigned, they arent real and theyre not genuinely felt by him or her. They all have the agenda of securing narcissistic supply behind them. The narcissistic was pretending to genuinely give, simply in order to get.
Real substance requires aligned actions and consistency. The words I love and adore you, and You are the only person Ive ever truly love, and Ill do anything to make this work (or any other version of undying love or commitment) carry very little weight when actions repeatedly surface that express the exact opposite.
Real people follow through and demonstrate what they say.
Real actions are a far cry from the declarations of false love that is delivered by a narcissist, followed by destructive words and actions, broken promises, and twists and turns that completely obliterate the previously feigned consideration.
Be brutally honest with yourself, because the truth will always set you free. Regardless of the little bits of hope that you received intermittently, the rest of whats going in is destroying you piece by piece.
How on earth can that be real love?
The truth is it isnt.
Can you understand how futile it is to try to make an unmakeable deal work?
Being in narcissistic relationships feels like being a greyhound chasing a rabbit that we never catch, and we get more and more exhausted trying to catch it.
Just like the greyhound, were running after something that doesnt exist. Thats no real rabbit! The relationship we wanted with the narcissist never was what we thought it was, and we have no ability, and quite frankly no right to try to force it into becoming real.
What we are here to learn in this instance is to become real and embrace: The reality of our life can never be gained from another person, because its our responsibility.
That is the liberation.
What are the basic requirements of a healthy relationship?

I have included the following points in this eBook for a very good reason, to awaken the knowing within you, as a human being that you DO deserve decent behaviour, and decency is a basic requirement which many people on the planet ARE capable of providing.
Clearly narcissists arent.
Luckily the odds are great for you in creating a life-partner who is emotionally mature and responsible, because out of all of the decent people on this planet, you only want one person as a love partner.
So stop trying to change what isnt into what is, and start creating what is within yourself, so you can heal, and then you can attract, allow and maintain healthy people in your space.
Then if you do that, if you work on your unhealed parts and heal, you will find out that people who are not a match for love, safety, support and integrity, you will easily let go of, and move on.
This is exactly the process I put myself and others through, and the results speak for themselves.
These processes do deliver a fulfilling and joyous life.
Easier said than done, you say but I can assure you that when you get clear and know how and why you need to live life by a model of honouring and healing yourself, its gets easier to do because you will align with what you really do want to receive in love, and then your life will start going right.
When assessing how emotionally mature individuals operate, we can accept that anyone when hurt in the midst of relationship breakups and problems can act in non-appropriate ways yet certain underlying principles are foundational within an emotionally healthy individuals integrity.
People who are healthy and do have Emotional Intelligence:
Tell the truth. Will attempt to discuss matters in rational terms, and will seek to return to mature discussions even after problems. Have enough respect and care about the other person to not purposefully maim them. Try to achieve fair and equitable outcomes. Have consideration for the other persons emotional and practical needs and will attempt to support these needs. Take responsibility for their actions and behaviour. Will apologise full-heartedly when they overstep the mark. Have the capacity to be genuinely accountable. Have no requirement to seek and carry out revenge in order to feel better.
Realise that there is no upside in the goal of creating and experiencing a satisfying relationship by purposefully destroying their partner. Want a satisfying, loving, safe and healthy relationship. Have the ability to ask for what they need honestly, healthily and directly.
If you have any doubt about whether or not youre dealing with a narcissist look at these two last bulleted lists carefully and honestly. They really are like chalk and cheese. An individual either operates from a model of decency or they dont, and if they dont narcissism is at play.
Your version of thinking versus the narcissistic version of thinking

Note: If the narcissist is a female please substitute him for her.
The narcissist says youre unsupportive, dont love him and you dont care about him. YOUR THINKING: I do and I will try anything to get him to realise this. Why cant he get it?! NARC THINKING: I know youre going to try harder and harder for me to get it. Now I can continue treating you badly and youre going to hang around. Its me who doesnt have the ability to love, and by blaming you I can keep doing what I do.
The narcissist telling you that youre unfaithful and cant be trusted. YOUR THINKING: I have no intention of playing up; you are the only person I want to be with. I have too much integrity to play up. Im so upset you think otherwise. NARC THINKING: This one really gets you going. I love seeing how upset you are about this. It also gives me an opportunity to do what I want, because youre going to push the point about how much you trust me and why cant I trust you. And even if you dont trust me youre going to be too busy worrying about what I think about you, to question me.
The narcissist telling you that youre ripping him off and taking his money. YOUR THINKING: I am totally shattered by this accusation. Its you who has taken my resources and my life. How on earth can you twist this around and accuse ME?! NARC THINKING: I love it when I make it all your fault and accuse you and you get hurt. You deserve it and Im going to get as much out of this as possible, its my right to do so. I dont care what happens to you, I just want what I can get.
Any argument with the narcissist over details that dont make sense and he brings up and argues points which are ridiculous and painful to hear. YOUR THINKING: I know this particular point to be wrong, and the evidence is so logical that it isnt right. Im going to keep arguing this until he gets it and admits hes wrong. This is sending me crazy that he can argue about something so ridiculous and turn it into an issue that feels like Im arguing with a five year old. NARC THINKING: I couldnt care less about the specifics, the details, or whether or not its right or wrong. In fact Id argue about a fly going up the wall if I knew it pushed your buttons and got a reaction. The more hurt, frustrated and distraught you get the more it makes me feel powerful and important. In fact I get malicious delight watching you turn yourself inside out every time I move the goal posts and confuse you.
The false promises and the feigning of how the narcissist was just about to do the very thing that you wanted from him, but now because of something youve done youve ruined that chance. YOUR THINKING: This crushes me. I was so close and now hes taken it away again. This hurts so much and I am so devastated that hes making it my fault. Its so cruel and unfair. Hes punishing me again. I feel suicidal. NARC THINKING: This one really is so much fun. I never had any intention of granting you what you want. In fact I hate seeing you happy because it reminds me of how I cant be. I dont want to give; Im only here to take. I only told you I would give you that to hook you back in. I want you to think its your fault, and I know that youre going to hang around now and I can keep tormenting you with the promise of what Im never going to give you.
I know you may think this information is outrageous and how could anyone really think and operate like that.
I occasionally have narcissistic individuals come forward for healing when they are at rock bottom as a result of severe narcissistic injury. Something in their life has been so devastating, their false self temporarily crumbles and there is a tiny window of opportunity of honesty and openness without defences because their true self has emerged.
Unfortunately the NPDs (unlike people who do have inner resources) as soon as they recover some energy, go straight for narcissistic supply again and the window closes over. This may take hours or days but rarely any longer.
Narcissists do not remain in a genuine or humble space where any self-healing and growth can take place. Being authentic and real, and working on self-recovery is discarded accordingly hence why therapists are discredited and left.
The point to this is: when narcissists come forward in narcissistic injury there is the ability to gain incredible knowledge about how the narcissist views the world, how they think and the way they operate.
Ive had discussions with narcissists about their operations, what they perceive as normal and acceptable (their lens of life), and truly I have wanted to vomit and have felt totally poisoned for hours afterwards.
The details were so vile that I couldnt believe what I was hearing, or how anyone could have such a twisted perception on life.
Until I again accepted: Of course they think and operate like that! Theyre narcissists!
Unfortunately very little is really understood (and needs to be) in relation to how the narcissist thinks when extracting narcissistic supply via other peoples pain .
Some of the narcissists admitted that it was an enormous compliment when ex-partners were broken, institutionalised or contemplated committing suicide. A male narcissist whose ex-partner had committed suicide felt incredibly special whenever he thought about her demise.
Many other facts, which are too numerous to mention, were disclosed that completely confirmed the narcissistic model and operations.
The consistent theme is the lack of conscience, belief in entitlement with no consideration or concept of compassion, and the twisted view on life that is like a selfish, spoilt five-year old in a vindictive adult body.
These people view everyone else as objects from which to extract narcissistic supply, and are dangerous chameleons charming and lying their way through life, and sucking resources and people dry in order to achieve their drug of omnipotence.
Scarily, they believe they are entitled to behave that way, and that theres nothing wrong with that.
In their model of the world the insatiable need for narcissistic supply in order to avoid complete emotional self-implosion and annihilation the behaviour is essential.
Therefore the truth is, no matter how much you dont like it, if youre continuing to con tact and hook up with a narcissist, and are suffering greatly as a result, youre providing a wonderful source of narcissistic supply.
You are prey to him or her.
Regardless of whether the narcissist is your mother, father, brother, sister, friend, boss, lover, husband, wife or partner, it makes not one scrap of difference.
The narcissist cant act decently and show love and care simply because he or she is meant to. Narcissists do what they do because theyre narcissists it just is what it is, and they are what they are.
This doesnt make you unlovable and unworthy, you most certainly are lovable and worthy, and you will start demonstrating that, and attracting the reflection of that into your life when you stop trying to tame the monster that is continually ripping pieces out of you, and when you break away and you do the work on your recovery.
I really could write down probably 100 more scenarios that come from the narcissists bag of tricks, but I think you get the point. Ive experienced these digressions personally and hear about the same ones over and over.
The frightful thing is that they all go the same way, and all have the same effect on victims. When I was in recovery, talking to other people and doing a great deal of research, I discovered that other narcissistic abuse victims I talked to were speaking about my life, and the conversations they had with narcissists were identical to the ones I engaged in with my narcissistic ex-partner.
I cant tell you how many people read my material and then tell me You are describing my life word for word. Maybe you are having the same experience.
The truth is narcissistically abused people all go through the same inhumane experiences.
When some clients struggle to realise the narcissistic formula, Ive asked them for the topic of angst, and been able to identically describe what the narcissist said and did, and then describe their exact response, feelings and reactions to what the narcissist did.
This proves this is not just some weird, random and terrible thing happening in the relationship rather, they are caught up in the trap of typical narcissistic abuse where the narcissist can create projection and suck them dry for narcissistic supply.
This helps facilitate the acceptance that the person you are dealing with is point blank narcissistic.
I urge you to accept the same conclusion if youre being narcissistically abused because its essential for your liberation.
A no-person operating from a false self, with no genuine sense of humanity, acts in incredibly unconscious and destructive ways, and it all manifests as the same behaviour.
This is why if youre suffering events that have lead you to information regarding narcissism, and the points and behaviours resonate with you youre definitely dealing with a narcissist.
I really dont care how much contemporary psychology states this person has not been diagnosed, and therefore you cant be sure. I dont care that you may be hanging on to the hope that the wonderful partner could come back, I dont care that psychology authorities are trying to de-list the clinical diagnosis of narcissism, and I dont care that labels such as bipolar, and Asperger and histrionic are used to describe narcissistic behaviour.
The fact of the matter is: these behaviours are very stock standard, and apply to any individual, regardless of their label, locked in egoic defence mechanisms who acts without conscience and displays self-entitled behaviour. This spreads confusion and destruction personally and collectively.
IF this is going on in your life, there is no way to resolve it and get better, other than to see it for what it is and get away from the abuse.
I dont know how many times Ive heard narcissistically abused individuals discuss in great detail the he said/she said details of the arguments. I did this myself. You need to realise that the details are totally insignificant.
The narcissist will do and say anything to push your buttons to get narcissistic supply. That is it in a nut shell. You actually have no way of knowing whether or not the details of the narcissists words or actions have any credibility or even any meaning.
Literally it will be anything delivered in the moment without conscience in order to gain attention.
Your humanness is going over and over the crazy details in your head. You are not dealing with a human model, youre dealing with a narcissist whose reality is a universe away from yours.
Again: The narcissist does what he or she does because he or she is a narcissist.
Dangerously the narcissist is riddled with rage, pathological envy and deep undercurrents of revenge on humanity. Humans have what he or she never can. The narcissist is the ultimate victim who positions him or herself against the world.
If you are in close proximity, the narcissists torturous feelings mean that the narcissist has to take you down to try to get emotional relief. This is one of the main reasons why you were recruited.
Ironically the narcissist was attracted to you for the very things that he or she hates. The narcissist chose you because he or she wanted to steal your energy and your good feelings. But like everything else, your good stuff does not make the narcissist happy.
Nothing makes the narcissist genuinely happy its a bottomless pit.
The narcissist despises his or her own neediness for the energy from people who are a constant reminder of the narcissists inadequacies, and the narcissist cant escape this selfcreated hell.
The only relief the narcissist can get is the tearing down of everything good in order to gain some type of significance for self.
What you are to the narcissist and what you need to be to yourself
We can begin to understand the emotional dependencies that lead us into unhealthy addiction with narcissists, and these understandings assist our ability to get clear and break free.
Then we can perform the necessary work on really embracing, supporting, loving and healing our unhealed parts to become healthy and empowered individuals who validate, know and trust ourselves, and have no requirement to tolerate and fix damaging others in order to try to have a fulfilling life.
We can begin to realise that this responsibility to ourself is ours and not the narcissists.
Just because the narcissist pretended that he or she was the person who was going to give you a great life, does not mean that its his or her job.
Certainly there is no possibility of forcing him or her to do that job. The narcissist never signed up for that job, and simply doesnt possess the resources to do it. The narcissist was never going to miraculously morph into the person that you want him or her to be for your life to be great.
The real reason you experienced a narcissist was always to give you enough pain for you to be able to get on to the necessary mission of fully taking responsibility for creating yourself.
Thats the gift, and its a make or break deal.
Youre either going to hang out in the contemporary model of narcissistically abused people shattered and battered for a great deal of, if not the rest of your life, as a result of never
being able to let go of the pain, loss and despair of what the narcissist did to you and fearfully try to get a great life going from that space,
or,
youre going to let go, fully take responsibility for your own journey, heal your unhealed parts, and create a self that is empowered, more empowered than you ever were even before you met the narcissist, and then you can attract the life and love into your experience that matches the truth you want to live - without fear and pain.
No matter how bad it feels now, you DO have the ability to create this journey of self.
Many people have done it.
If you become a full and healthy source to yourself of happiness, authenticity, truth and fulfilment, you will never accept anything less than what you are being to yourself.
Because less than that is no longer your reality.
And that reality is not just from a conceptual level, it is from a deep, inner soul knowing level.
Its from that level we create our truth.
Youll easily be able to say No! and keep walking and only welcome and sustain those people and situations that do match your energy.
When you are clear and walking truth and feel inwardly authentic about it healthy people and situations start coming into your life much more easily. And you more easily identify the counterfeit articles, and you easily let them go.
We proclaim that of course people should behave decently, honestly and with respect for others! This tendency to try to force other people to be a certain way in order for us to be healthy and safe; this exclamation of Whilst you are wrong, I have no control over my own life to feel right is the very root of the self-disintegrating effects of co-dependency and relationship addiction we can play out with narcissists.
The more we try to control the uncontrollable (which is highly amplified with narcissistic individuals) the more we lose control of ourselves, and become the empty, demented, lifeless shells that narcissistic abuse creates.
It can be very tempting when discovering information about narcissism to try to discuss it with the narcissist, and try to get him or her to understand whats really going on. If you go down this track, as many of us do or did, youre only attempting prescribing, lecturing, fixing or the forcing of the narcissist into some sort of accountability.
These are co-dependent actions that you need to avoid at all costs. They just dont work all they do will line you up for more narcissistic abuse.
These attempts are futile, and will only create more self-damage. The narcissist will not tolerate having his or her mask taken down and having his or her ego challenged. He or she would rather lose his or her physical life than be accountable to the truth, and will twist and turn, project, confuse and attack you mercilessly for trying to do it.
There is no way to corner a narcissist and work within parameters. There are no parameters. He or she is a no-self willing to use all and any resources without conscience to achieve a self-entitled agenda.
There is no way to create and contain results within these limitless boundaries. Its a free for all war zone with no peace, or possibility of healthy outcomes.
The individuals who hang on and fight the hardest to try to reach resolution with the narcissist are usually highly intelligent and capable people. Ironically despite these peoples resources and intelligence, they are the people who get damaged the most.
These people, and you may be one of them, have always believed they can rise and succeed in any area of their life. They dont like losing and back themselves time and time again.
I was one of these people. My greatest strength (not accepting defeat) became my greatest barrier to moving into acceptance, letting go and creating my own truth and freedom.
I see this happen all the time...
Narcissistic abuse in Western (free) societies usually happens to people who do have powerful resources to create their own survival. Narcissists like to help themselves to the goodies.
Additionally, people who are weak stop trying to survive and win, and leave much earlier. I can assure you, if you have been tolerating narcissistic abuse its not because youre unintelligent, have no survival options or are weak.
The very opposite is more likely to be true you are highly intelligent and strong and dont want to lose this fight and you dont want to lose what you have put in, and you dont want to admit defeat.
Fundamentally, the battle with the narcissist is a battle of egos a tussle of who is right and who is wrong, and the narcissist in this forum will always come out on top.
There is no human being who has a larger ego (false self) than a narcissist, and no-one who knows how to fight as dirty.
Dont ever believe youre going to gain the upper hand as a result of the narcissist knowing you know the truth about him or her. Quite frankly the narcissist doesnt care about what you think, as long as youre still handing over narcissistic supply.
The details of how the supply comes about are irrelevant. If you grant attention and energy and hang around for the vile projections of abuse (regardless of why), the narcissist is getting exactly what he or she wants.
Now its time to realise that its not weak to admit defeat and walk away, its actually a sign of strength, and will lead you to your real inner development of yourself.
It is the only answer, and the only way to WIN.
There is no greater defeat to the narcissist than you moving on, and him or her becoming irrelevant in your life.
PART TWO: HOW TO DO NO CONTACT

No contact means No Contact.
Every time you have contact with a narcissist, especially if they have been able to previously inflict high-level damage, you are incredibly susceptible.
The narcissist knows all of your frailties; all of your insecurities, all of your blind-spots and will mercilessly use this knowledge to get narcissistic supply. Youre a sitting duck.
Even if you feel that youre getting justice by looking out for yourself and being strong with the narcissist, the narcissist can shift from rage to indifference, and discard you in a heartbeat, leaving your reeling.
Its another nasty trick that ensures gaining narcissistic supply, because he or she knows youll obsess about it, suffer immensely and then have to say something. Then youre straight back in the web again.
How many ways can I say it to you? Youre never going to win the battle of trying to make the narcissist be someone or do something that is going to make you feel better. The narcissist is an expert at setting up every encounter so that you lose when playing the game.
Human resolution with a soulless person is impossible; youre an object to him or her, a source of narcissistic supply. If this is too heartless to comprehend, as it was for me initially, you need to realise and firmly embrace that this is not about trying to get the narcissist to care for you and love you.
Its about learning to care for and love yourself.
Caring for yourself, respecting yourself, and loving yourself is WHY you need to do No Contact.
No Contact means that you dont answer text messages, emails, phone calls or your front door. No Contact means that you dont check up on Facebook, that you dont look into what the narcissist is or isnt doing, and that you dont speak to people who are connected with the narcissist.
No Contact means you avoid everything that is connected with the narcissist.
No Contact often means placing an intervention order on the narcissistic, in order to get him or her out of your life.
Do not believe for a moment that you need to prove physical violence or actual physical threat in order to get an Intervention Order. You dont. If you have told someone to not contact you and they continue to, and you feel immense anguish and torment as a result then that is ABUSE!
If you explain yourself calmly and without emotion to your Court House you will be able to have an intervention order served period! It is your civil human right to be able to live a life of peace without harassment.
When you mean it, youve stated to yourself, life and the narcissist NO MORE!
No Contact means no reactions, no need to get the upper hand, and no need to change him or her. No Contact means NO ENERGY in any shape or form is given to the narcissist, and you DONT accept their abusive energy anymore.
And this may mean that you change phone numbers and email accounts and you use any app that you need to in order to block the narcissist getting in contact with you.
In the case of Modified Contact where you have children with the narcissist, as little contact as possible is whats required. This means not biting on the hooks he or she throws down in front of you. It means creating powerful boundaries around where you live, and use intervention from the law if necessary to provide it. The narcissist is not allowed to come into your home and invade your life or continue to practice entitlement.
Ensure that he or she sees the children alone, and you dont get tempted to try to do family time together. It isnt healthy for you or the children, as obviously your children are a part of your susceptibilities and the narcissist will use the kids to get to you without any remorse about how it may affect them.
Children are much healthier with narcissists if you remove yourself when he or she has time with them.
If you are really concerned about the narcissist abusing your children, and can prove this is a real threat, then through legal means you can deny the narcissist access, and allow only supervised visitation rights (if appropriate).
If you do need to have conversations with the narcissist, keep them short and to the point. Answer in mono-syllables and offer nothing more than the bare basics in any dealings or conversations. Keep your tone one dimensional, and show no emotion.
If the narcissist tries to bait you, take yourself out of the conversation. Dont reply, hang up or leave.
You may consider using a conversation book whereby you write down emotionless instructions regarding the childrens well-being, and put the book in your childs bag to give to the narcissist, rather than speaking to him or her directly.
If joint parenting, you are absolutely entitled to get an intervention order with conditions that eliminates specific contact from the narcissist which can be enforced.
You may wish to set up that all communication is done via third parties.
Narcissists are greedy, they like to have a trail of people from their past that they can keep extracting supply from. Ex-partners make great sources of narcissistic supply. Its very pleasing to a narcissist that they can still affect people, and that people arent over them. Dont be another on-going victim to add to the list.
You will find that the more you work on healing your inner parts, and shifting out of the fear and pain connected with your children, custody and settlement battles that things will start dropping into place for you.
This is the most powerful and durable way that you can start achieving real results, and you will discover how quickly the narcissist loses his or her power or ability to affect you.
The narcissists reaction to No Contact

Its likely that the narcissist is going to react to No Contact and thats why intervention orders are a wonderful device to create boundaries with the narcissist and with yourself.
Most narcissists back off when an intervention order is put in place, and usually dont leave you alone unless one is executed. Virtually all narcissists are sociopaths, and not psychopaths. They are bullies who are scared of organisations that are more powerful than their false self illusion, and its only in rare cases that an intervention order wont work.
If a narcissist does breach an intervention order and you report it immediately to the police, and you mean it, generally after the police contact the narcissist, you will not hear from him or her again.
The intervention order may help you stay away too, and not give in to the extreme addictive pulls youre feeling towards the narcissist. Having an intervention order in place will make you think twice before reacting in the moment and calling, texting or dropping in on your ex-narcissist.
If you break the intervention order there can be dire consequences. The narcissist as a form of punishment may report you, and will certainly use your actions as ammunition against you in the future (havent you already experienced this many times ?) Also it can be more difficult to be taken seriously and put an intervention order in place next time.
If you dont create strong boundaries enforcing No Contact, you leave a precarious gap open whereby the narcissist will keep trying to extract narcissistic supply from you. If he or she feels that theres any chance of doing so, the motivation to try for contact will be strong.
Its incredible how a narcissist who is not gleaning a response will continue days, weeks, months and even years down the track to contact you. You can be sure this is done at a time when sources of narcissistic supply have dried up, or are precariously low in his or her life.
Narcissists have admitted to me that when they are low on supply they will contact anyone who may hand it out. Ex-partners are most definitely on the hit-list.
Normal, healthy people dont do this and wouldnt want to risk appearing desperate or needy. Again, the narcissist really doesnt care what his or her targets of supply think; its all about getting the much needed drug of attention.
Leaving yourself open to these messages that could continue for a long time is dangerous. You may be having a weak moment. You may still be struggling with the pain and the what ifs.
The narcissist generally does not make contact like a normal healthy person would, with things like How are you? Im wondering how you are getting on or any other sane approach.
The narcissist is likely to make contact in a way that he or she knows will crawl under your skin, and get your head ticking.
Tactics such as cryptic messages, derogatory accusations, messages that feign undying love, and some sort of promise, or stating fabricated situations that prey on your vulnerabilities (blind spots) will be used to try and re-establish contact.
When receiving messages from the narcissist out of the blue, it can feel like a bomb has gone off. Youll experience feelings of anxiety.
For me it felt like shards of ice coursing through my veins.
Until youve recovered and empowered yourself by working on your unhealed parts it will affect you, and youre kidding yourself if you dont think it will. Narcissists are high-level abusers, and as a result of the abuse you endured, until you get on to your healing, you will be suffering from Complicated Traumatic Stress Disorder, and your emotions by association with the narcissist are easily thrown into a spin.
When disconnecting from the narcissist, until youve undergone recovery of self processes, you will be terrorised by possible contact, as well as suffering from the addiction withdrawal symptoms of pulling away.
The knowing that a message could come through at any time is tortuous. Every time your phone goes off youll be wondering if its the narcissist. Its likely that youll be checking constantly and almost obsessively, and this is certainly not useful in the goal of establishing yourself and moving on with your life.
If the narcissist knows that not contacting you is causing you extreme pain, he or she will delight in this, and continue to not contact. Be very aware that simply you obsessing and agonising is energetically granting the narcissist narcissistic supply.
I promise you this: The narcissist can feel it.
The only way to achieve your personal success is to get your focus off the narcissist and firmly on to yourself.
Your recovery process will go so much better when you cut off any of the possibilities of contact. If this means placing an intervention order and / or changing your email address, phone numbers etc. then do it. Then you wont be in the constant anxiety of what if he / she makes contact?
If youre struggling to create these powerful boundaries, have a friend that you trust hold your hand, and encourage you to go through with it.
Its really important, and absolutely imperative, to put the effort into healing yourself during this period of disconnection (the aftershock) of leaving a narcissistic relationship. If you dont, you may be one of many that take intervention orders off (I reneged on 2 before following through and meaning it), or hand out the narcissist your new contact details, only to have to change them again in the future.
More people do this than you could imagine. Maybe you have already been through this repeat experience yourself.
If you make it a mission to work on and recover yourself and your life, its more likely that youll kick the horrible habit that is destroying you.
If you dont have strong boundaries in place, and your goal is truly to disconnect, the narcissist is not going to easily accept his or her loss of narcissistic supply. If the narcissist currently has other high level sources granting attention its possible youll be left alone, but often this is not the case even when the narcissist is receiving supply from others.
In this case, it is usual that the narcissist will do all he or she can to re-hook you. If this means he or she has to plead, beg and promise you the world, thats the strategy that will be used. This is normal narcissistic behaviour when he or she is abandoned.
Or the narcissist may threaten and try to bring your life down, forcing you to go back, or may purposefully discard you and act like he or she doesnt care, especially if the tactic of abandonment pushes your buttons and keeps you running back.
The narcissist knows that acting like he or she doesnt care about you is one of the most powerful ways to not allow you get to get closure, and keeps you on the hook.
All of these tactics could change shape at random intervals. In amongst the madness one thing is for certain: The narcissist does not keep his or her word.
The promise to give you space will fall over. The promise to change will fall over. The I hate you and will never speak to you again will fall over.
Nothing can be taken literally as truth....
If confronted by the begging and pleading narcissist, dont be fooled into believing that finally he or she has got it, turned the corner, had the epiphany and can now become a healthy partner.
The narcissist may even offer to get help, to go to therapy, and may even start doing so. This is common.
However when therapy starts if its joint, youll quickly discover the narcissist starts twisting the therapy sessions - which doesnt grant you any sense of relief regarding his or her behaviour, and if the narcissist sees a therapist alone, he or she will be working diligently at manipulating the therapist.
Therapists despise working with NPDs for this very reason.

If youve already gone through these cycles, you know how false the promises and Ill do anything to save this relationship statements are. The narcissist is simply doing whatever it takes to re-establish narcissistic supply.
If you do succumb, as I did often and give it another try, it wont take long before the old behaviour begins again and youre re-hooked.
Dangerously, now the relationship gets worse. The narcissist is furious that you left, and that he or she had to grovel, and will be driven to punish you mercilessly.
Now there are more reasons for revenge, and extreme-level abuse will ensue.
Additionally, the narcissist will start setting up separate bank accounts, trying to siphon money and resources out of the relationship to the best of his or her ability. The justification will be I have to protect myself in case I get left again, and Im going to get everything I can in case this happens.
In Conclusion
The overwhelming evidence and truth of narcissism is that you must get out and stay out.
This is true; regardless of the losses you wish you could re-coup. If you stay things are only going to get worse. If you continue to stay the losses will only be magnified, the ship is going down and youre going down with it.
A life with a false person is not the truth, and whatever isnt real will not stand the test of time, it must crumble. Theres no holding on, surviving or recovering, let alone experiencing and creating a great life when connected to a narcissist. It just doesnt happen. He or she will make sure this is not possible for you. Its the last thing that the narcissist wants.
The narcissist also makes us realise one of the greatest spiritual lessons of all.
Nothing - no bricks, mortar or financial things are worth selling our soul for.
Most people who exit narcissistic relationships lose out financially. Its just the way it goes. But what they do gain is the opportunity to heal and become a True Self, who can then add anything to their life as a bonus.
When you were with the narcissist, nothing in life was real, regardless of the stuff you thought you had as a result of the relationship.
Sometimes it takes losing it all to realise the destruction of what living a life that isnt real creates, and the losses that occur when we dont heed the warning signs, back our inner truth, and when we continue to stubbornly hang on to something that clearly isnt healthy for us.
As you may have understood by the snippets of my story, until I discovered the truth of what was happening to me, and committed to really recover, I made enormous mistakes that kept me chained to the abuse.
I didnt want to lose the dream, I didnt want to lose out financially, and I wanted to force my version of how it should be and how he should be to work.
At that point there was nobody to be found that had the answers and the clearly defined processes that were going to help me recover.
I found and formulated the answers myself piece by piece, and since that occurred there was no turning back I recovered powerfully and quickly, and discovered more inner peace, joy and fulfilment than I had ever known I could possibly feel.
I now help other people, who have lived this nightmare, do the same.
I sincerely hope that this publication will help you get clear, and bring you to the understanding of what it is that you need to do.
Not tomorrow, not after Christmas, not when the house has been paid off, and not when the kids leave home. The decision of separation, reclaiming yourself and No Contact is required sooner rather than later.
Later means What state will I be in, when I do get out?
You are human, you do deserve to live, and you do deserve to be emotionally healthy and fulfilled and in love. You will achieve these perfectly normal human goals when you use the power of truth and acceptance to set you free.
Life only beats us up when we resist what we know is truth, and try to make an unmakeable deal work. When we let go into truth and flow with it, life takes us towards what is our truth which is always glorious and a match for what we truly do want to experience.
The narcissist clearly isnt what you stand for and what you want. The narcissist is the polar opposite of life, love, creation, support and happiness, and will not provide you with any of these things.
Living with the narcissist means death.
Living without the narcissist and healing your unhealed parts and empowering yourself means LIFE.
If you now know that you have been dealing with NPD, and feel clear that you do have to get out, stay out and rebuild yourself, the next section is relevant for you.
How to Recover
In order to grant the space to get well, heal your unhealed parts and empower yourself No Contact or Modified Contact is irrefutably necessary.
And of course initially that is going to be really tough. It is very usual that until you do start making your recovery all about yourself, that you will be very tempted to succumb to contact again.
In fact your addiction to the narcissist may be so extreme that you feel powerless to stop doing that.
When we allow our self to be defined by what another person is or isnt doing we are powerless, and we are usually emotionally overpowered by that person.
This journey is all about you committing to the healing of yourself so that you do learn how to be the true definer of yourself and your life.
It is so important to understand that creating No Contact or Modified Contact is the beginning. It is not the complete answer. This is why people weeks, months, years or even decades down the track are still feeling pain, fear, and the symptoms of narcissistic abuse.
No Contact and Modified Contact creates the space to apply yourself to the real work in order to recover.
Once you have created this essential boundary you will immediately be dealing with the withdrawal effects of your addiction to the narcissist. There are two ways to experience this withdrawal.
The white knuckling, tormented and difficult way, or the much easier and empowered way.
The first version is done when you are not focused on your own deep inner healing recovery rather your focus, energy and anguish is fixated on the narcissist.
The second way is when you are focused deeply in your inner work and recovery which means that as you recover and gain yourself, the narcissist becomes less and less on your mind, within your emotions, and loses his or her power to affect you and your life.
To understand your unhealed parts and the bigger picture of narcissistic abuse, and how you can claim the gift to become empowered, please read these blog articles and listen to these radios shows:
Blog Article: Taking Personal Responsibility - Your #1 Tool to get Your Recovery Started Blog article: Healing From Narcissistic Abuse by Loving Yourself and Taking Responsibility Radio Program: What is Co-dependency?
Please note all of my healing philosophies and processes are applicable if the narcissistic in your life is your love-partner, a family member or parent, or any other significant narcissistic person in your life.
These processes are applicable even if you are still in the relationship, and know you need to get out but havent had the strength to do so yet.
In order to make your life easier, and move forward into your great and true life quicker, these processes and philosophies are invaluable because they have proven time and time again to work even when nothing else has.
There are 10 specific steps that I discovered and applied to myself in order to powerfully break free, recover and completely transform my previous patterns of painful and abusive relationships, which have proven to also be successful for thousands of other people who have applied these steps.
Id like to inspire you again about what you can achieve, and how you can heal by again sharing this link to the people who have worked these inner processes.
These steps are 10 deep inner healing processes, that transform your previous limiting beliefs at your Inner Identity level about self, life, love and others that has allowed you to get tangled up into narcissistic abuse.
Your true healing lies in deeply changing yourself at your Inner Identity level into an empowered being who no longer has belief systems that are painful gaps and insecurities that narcissists can prey on.
By healing yourself at this level, not only do you emerge as completely disconnected and indifferent to narcissists, you also learn to become at one with yourself and life, which changes all of your previous struggles with co-dependency and poor boundary function and the difficulty to back and honour yourself.
This means that every area of your life improves in ways that you only previously dreamed possible.
These solutions are practical as well as spiritual and vibrational in nature. They get to the core of your being in a language that goes much deeper than what your logical mind can achieve.
In order for these steps to have maximum effect, it is best if they are applied directly to your Inner Identity belief system level.
These steps are:
Step 1: Release the immediate pain, torment and feelings of loss and despair
Step 2: Release and heal the illusion of the perfect partner
Step 3: Forgive yourself and Life for what youve been through
Step 4: Release and heal the pain of the injustice and the betrayal
Step 5: Let go of the fight to win and create decency
Step 6: Release and heal the need to take responsibility for and trying to fix the abuser / narcissist
Step 7: Connect to the gift of your own personal and spiritual empowerment
Step 8: Release and heal the fear of the narcissist, and what he or she may do next
Session 9: Release and heal the connection to the narcissist (he / she is a part of me I cant let go of)
Step 10: Become my liberation, freedom and truth
By working on these steps at your Inner Identity level, you will heal and release your unhealed parts that have been programmed and conditioned via previous painful beliefs about yourself, life and love, to be susceptible to narcissistic abuse.
When you heal these wounds within you you will break free from the narcissist and rise to a level of indifference, and where the narcissist has no power over you.
Then you are free to create a life where narcissists and narcissistic abuse is no longer your reality.
To sample the Quanta Freedom Healing method, which is the powerful process of the 10 deep healing steps in The Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Program, you can listen to this radio show. Make sure you have approximately 90 minutes of free time where you can really get the benefit from this healing. Radio Program: Create Your Goals, Dreams and Your Identity
For more information, and to activate the inner healing processes to release the pain, and flow into creating your freedom and True Life please see the Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Program
Please use this time of No Contact powerfully. It is the reprieve you need to heal and gain your True Self and this time needs to be worked with determined and wisely.
As per this eBook I hope you understand how important No Contact is, and the more you do to heal your unhealed parts, and the more you do to love, support and grant yourself the attention that you need, the easier and faster this crucial and painful time will go for you. There is a huge difference between simply going through an experience, or growing through an experience.
I hope with all my heart that you choose the later.
It is the difference between survivors and thrivers...
And you can become a true thriver as a result of this experience, and I look forward to working closely with you in order to co-create your True Self with you.
Much love
Melanie

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How to Do No Contact by Melanie Tonia Evans

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From here on I am describing No Contact with an NPD individual.

Each time lower and lower.

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Nothing could be further from the truth...

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PART ONE: WHY YOU NEED TO CREATE NO CONTACT

How the narcissist functions

These modes are:

1) The narcissists primary driver is to receive narcissistic supply

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The narcissistic model is: I win and you lose.

Lack of conscience is a clear and defining factor.

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2) The narcissist needs to offload his or her internal pain

That certainly doesnt make you, at your core, a bad person.

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Conscience versus conscienceless

You just simply wouldnt do it.

He or she would experience a complete and utter breakdown.

No-one receives immunity in the face of this compulsion.

I and many other people have done so.

The narcissist is merciless at these times, and is a cruel, heartless machine.

If so, admit this to be true.

Without these components humanity isnt present.

Attempting to right the wrongs

We allow the narcissist to destroy us on so many levels, especially emotionally.

It allows the narcissist to feel oh so important.

Evil quite simply is a dark place that is the absence of Love.

The narcissistic model is exactly that the absence of Love.

In fact its impossible to do so.

The forest animal squealed You promised!

Rest assured it certainly doesnt.

Real people follow through and demonstrate what they say.

How on earth can that be real love?

The truth is it isnt.

That is the liberation.

What are the basic requirements of a healthy relationship?

Clearly narcissists arent.

These processes do deliver a fulfilling and joyous life.

People who are healthy and do have Emotional Intelligence:

Your version of thinking versus the narcissistic version of thinking

You are prey to him or her.

Nothing makes the narcissist genuinely happy its a bottomless pit.

Thats the gift, and its a make or break deal.

Many people have done it.

Because less than that is no longer your reality.

Its from that level we create our truth.

I see this happen all the time...

It is the only answer, and the only way to WIN.

PART TWO: HOW TO DO NO CONTACT

Its about learning to care for and love yourself.

The narcissists reaction to No Contact

For me it felt like shards of ice coursing through my veins.

I promise you this: The narcissist can feel it.

Nothing can be taken literally as truth....

Therapists despise working with NPDs for this very reason.

Later means What state will I be in, when I do get out?

Living with the narcissist means death.