“I’m just putting myself first, is that narcissistic?” “Am I being selfish or setting a boundary?” “I think I might be a narcissist.” Sound familiar? If you’ve asked yourself any of these questions, take a deep breath. You’re probably not a narcissist. But the fact that you’re even wondering is worth unpacking, because somewhere between healthy self-love and full-blown Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), things get murky. So let’s clear it up. Today we’re digging into the difference between being self-focused (a good thing), being selfish (sometimes good, sometimes not), and having narcissistic traits or full-blown NPD (not great). Then, you’ll learn my five action steps for building healthy self-love without going overboard.
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For the One Love Collective Community:
Tier I: Inner Circle
- Healthy Selfishness Daily Checklist
- Journal Prompts: Healthy Self-Love
Tier II: Love Accelerator
- 20 Empathic Boundary Scripts
- Guided Visualization: Embodying Healthy Self-Love
Tier III: VIP Love Lab
- Rewriting the Rules of Selfishness Worksheet
- What Kind of a Giver are You? Reflection Exercise
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Resources for Are You a Narcissist and Don’t Know It?
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Learn to Hold Your Boundaries with Healthy Selfishness
Codependency, Counter-dependency and Narcissism, Oh My!
What Narcissists Do When Backed into a Corner: Lessons from Celebrities Who Lost Control
Identifying and Understanding the Narcissistic Personality by Elsa F. Ronningstam
Boundaries Made Easy: Your Roadmap to Connection, Ease and Joy by Dr. Abby Medcalf
Oakley, Barbara, and others (eds), Pathological Altruism (2011; online edn, Oxford Academic, 19 Jan. 2012), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199738571.001.0001,
Emmanuel Caliwan, J. D. selfishness and selflove by Erich Fromm.
Toward a Psychology of Being, 2nd Edition by Abraham H. Maslow
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