Join Dr. Kerry McAvoy — author, educator with a 25-year background in psychology, and survivor — for expert interviews and deeply validating insight into why these relationships are so confusing, and how to find your way forward.
Narcissistically disorder individuals often use basic needs, like food, to establish dominance and control. They like to use a reoccurring and emotionally loaded activity to express their specialness and to point out your inadequacies. Learn 3 practical steps to rediscover your autonomy and pleasure around food.
In this episode, Dr. Kerry identifies the often missed sadism dressed up as pranks in this breakdown of a Smosh Pit podcast retelling of a Reddit story. We often feel the "flinch" or wrongness of the sadistic behavior in our body before categorizing it as intentionally hurtful.
UK psychotherapist, expert in echoism, and fellow survivor
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What’s the biggest sign someone has significant emotional intelligence?
Why do narcissists rush new relationships by using speed?
I think I’m being financially abused, but I’m not sure. Can you tell me what financial abuse actually is?
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Dr. Kerry McAvoy is an author, educator, and narcissistic abuse expert with a 25-year background in psychology.
She combines research-informed frameworks with personal insight to help people navigate toxic dynamics, break free from cognitive dissonance, and reclaim their lives.
“Lynn Strathdee is a UK-based Psychodynamic Therapist and relationship abuse recovery specialist with years of clinical and lived experience.
She combines deep psychological insight with personal understanding to help survivors make sense of what happened — and find their way back to safety and themselves.
