Breaking Free from Narcissistic Abuse
by Kerry McAvoy, Ph.D.
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How Narcissistic Abuse Destroys Your Identity | Meg Tuohey
Oct 19, 2026
31m 19s
They Told You Who They Were on the First Date: The Narcissist Red Flags No One Taught You to Hear
Oct 15, 2026
21m 07s
Why Narcissists Need Ongoing Drama: It's All About Keeping You Exhausted & Under Control
Oct 12, 2026
29m 13s
Reactive Abuse: 4 Questions That Reveal Who Was Really the Dangerous One in the Room
Oct 8, 2026
26m 50s
Dr. Les Carter: Stop Trying to Make a Narcissist Understand You — Do This Instead
Oct 5, 2026
32m 27s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/19/26 | How Narcissistic Abuse Destroys Your Identity | Meg Tuohey | Struggling to make sense of your relationship? https://kerrymcavoyphd.fillout.com/toxic-troubled-survey Have you noticed how leaving the narcissist didn't bring YOU back? Why you still feel blank, indecisive, and disconnected from yourself long after the relationship ended? In this episode, Kerry and author Meg Tuohey unpack the hidden mechanics behind identity erasure after narcissistic abuse. How chronic gaslighting, control, and survival-mode living shut down your inner signal, keep your ... | 31m 19s | ||||||
| 10/15/26 | They Told You Who They Were on the First Date: The Narcissist Red Flags No One Taught You to Hear | Feeling trapped in a toxic relationship? Get my free guide, Still Torn? 7 Signs You’re Emotionally Trapped: https://7-signs.subscribepage.io/ They didn't hide who they were. They told you on the first date—it’s just that nobody ever gave you the dictionary to read it. In this highlight from Kerry's weekly live Q&A, she walks through the language manipulative people use from the very beginning, drawing on Jenny Young's research into how dangerous people reveal themselves in their own word... | 21m 07s | ||||||
| 10/12/26 | Why Narcissists Need Ongoing Drama: It's All About Keeping You Exhausted & Under Control | Feeling trapped in a toxic relationship? Get my free guide, Still Torn? 7 Signs You’re Emotionally Trapped: https://7-signs.subscribepage.io/ Have you noticed how the narcissist’s apology never is an apology? How yesterday's fight get rewritten so you’re the villain? In this episode, Kerry and Lynn Strathdee expose the hidden mechanics behind chronic antagonism. Why some narcissists need ongoing drama to stay in control and to keep you exhausted. The history-rewriting along with the non-sto... | 29m 13s | ||||||
| 10/8/26 | Reactive Abuse: 4 Questions That Reveal Who Was Really the Dangerous One in the Room | ARE YOU FEELING STUCK? Take the FREE “Toxic or Troubled?” survey to discover your relationship type and get instant access to a complete, private mini-course—educational overviews, reflective questions, grounding techniques, and new strategies tailored to your situation. ▶ Start here: https://kerrymcavoyphd.fillout.com/toxic-troubled-survey Reactive abuse isn't a sign you've become the abusive one. It's the predictable end of a setup: months of provocation, timed for the moment you finally br... | 26m 50s | ||||||
| 10/5/26 | Dr. Les Carter: Stop Trying to Make a Narcissist Understand You — Do This Instead | Are You Feeling Stuck? Take my FREE “Toxic or Troubled?” survey to discover your relationship type and get instant access to a complete, private mini-course—educational overviews, reflective questions, grounding techniques, and new strategies tailored to your situation. ▶ Start here: https://kerrymcavoyphd.fillout.com/toxic-troubled-survey —— What if every explanation you offer becomes ammunition? Have you noticed how a narcissist stays one-up without ever having to raise their voice In this... | 32m 27s | ||||||
| 10/1/26 | They Didn't Miss You, They Ran Out of Money: How Hoovering Actually Works | Future faking hoovering isn't a change of heart. It's a second round of grooming, aimed at exactly what the first round wanted. In this highlight from Kerry's weekly live Q&A, she takes on what's actually happening when someone shows up with flowers, apologies and a raked pile of leaves after months of silence — and why the answer has almost nothing to do with you. In this episode: • Why not being hoovered is a read on what you had left to give • Hoovering is a role vacancy, not a longi... | 21m 04s | ||||||
| 9/28/26 | Narcissist, Psychopath, or Sadist? Does Naming Your Abuser's Personality Type Actually Help? | What if naming the disorder never actually got you out? And what if the thing you've been calling proof was really just a way to feel in control? In this episode, Kerry and co-host Lynn Strathdee take on the debate splitting the recovery world right now — one universal predator type, or many distinct subtypes. You can know exactly what someone is and stay anyway. You can't choose your neighbor, your coworker, or the parent sitting next to you at the PTA meeting. Understanding the diagnosis ... | 29m 30s | ||||||
| 9/24/26 | Gray Divorce and the 30-Year Con: Why Covert Narcissists Never Wanted You to Leave | Gray divorce isn't a midlife crisis. For a lot of people, it's the end of a con that ran for decades. When researchers ask why people divorce after 50, the top answer from women isn't money or infidelity — it was abuse. In this highlight from Kerry's weekly live Q&A, she takes on why so many people stay in psychologically abusive marriages for 20 or 30 years, and why leaving late isn't a failure of judgment. In this episode: * Why boomers are divorcing at four times the rate of 1... | 19m 18s | ||||||
| 9/21/26 | Narcissistic Love Withdrawal: Why You Chase Their Affection and Lose Yourself | Why did you do things you swore you'd never do, just to get their love back? In this episode, Kerry and researcher Dr. Karen Mitchell unpack why affection from a narcissistic or predatory partner can feel like a drug. It's intense and strategic, and then it's suddenly withdrawn. They also explore who predatory people target: honest, kind-hearted people. And why recovery can take years. This was never about you being weak. The pull you felt was engineered, and understanding it is how you... | 43m 16s | ||||||
| 9/17/26 | DARVO Exposed: How Manipulators Make YOU the Abuser When You Confront Them | Why did the narcissist’s collapse look so real — curled on the floor, shaking, sweating, begging you not to leave — yet nothing changed after? What looks like a breakdown is often a temporary loss of status, not a loss of identity — the defensive structure drops for 30 seconds, then rapidly reconsolidates and the manipulation continues. This is a highlight from a recent live Q&A, repurposed here as our second weekly podcast segment. In this episode, Kerry unpacks the hidden mechanics be... | 17m 30s | ||||||
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| 9/14/26 | Why Narcissists Ruin Your Sleep: Don't Miss This Nasty Bedtime Control Tactic | What if the reason you feel like you're always “nagging” has nothing to do with you being difficult — and everything to do with deliberate provocation? In this episode, Dr. Kerry McAvoy and Lynn Strathdee break down the hidden mechanics behind pathological provocation — why abusers poke, prod, and sabotage your boundaries at bedtime and beyond. How they insist on misunderstanding you, wear you down, and then recast you as the “whining nag” to make themselves the victim. This isn’t about the ... | 27m 21s | ||||||
| 9/10/26 | narcissismmental health+3 | — | — | — | narcissistic abusecollapse+3 | — | 27m 01s | ||
| 9/7/26 | narcissistic abuseagreeableness+3 | Chelsey Brooke Cole | — | — | narcissismagreeableness+3 | — | 32m 58s | ||
| 9/3/26 | scapegoatingfamily dynamics+4 | — | — | — | scapegoatfamily+5 | — | 17m 46s | ||
| 8/31/26 | narcissismabuse+3 | Don Hennessy | — | — | narcissistsvictims+3 | — | 35m 21s | ||
| 8/27/26 | narcissistic abuserumination+3 | — | — | — | narcissistic abuserumination+5 | — | 24m 05s | ||
| 8/24/26 | narcissismrelationship cycles+3 | Lynn Strathdee | — | — | narcissistic abuserelationship dynamics+3 | — | 26m 40s | ||
| 8/20/26 | narcissistic abusesmear campaign+3 | — | — | — | narcissisthit-and-run tactic+5 | — | 12m 48s | ||
| 8/17/26 | narcissistic abusedivorce+4 | Diana Romanov | Family Law | — | narcissistic abusedivorce attorney+4 | — | 29m 37s | ||
| 8/14/26 | narcissismapology+3 | Dr. Anthony Mazzella | Covert Narcissism PodcastThe Narcissism Decoder | — | narcissistic abuseapology+4 | — | 31m 16s | ||
| 8/13/26 | narcissistic abusefinancial control+3 | — | — | — | narcissismfinancial abuse+5 | — | 15m 24s | ||
| 8/10/26 | How Narcissists Use Love Bombing to Build a Financial Trap | He checked the grocery receipt. And the look on his face said everything: he expected to catch you at something. You weren't a partner. You were a suspected thief. But that moment — that first time money became a surveillance tool — didn't come out of nowhere. It didn't start with the receipts, or the interrogations, or the separate account he opened without telling you. It started the moment he made you feel like the luckiest person alive. Because that feeling — of being ch... | 28m 16s | ||||||
| 8/6/26 | Narcissistic Parents Don't Love Their Children — They Use Them | They said they were managing the finances — because you weren't good with money. That every purchase had to go through them. But somehow, there was always money for what they wanted. They made you feel like a child asking for an allowance — in your own home. And the moment you tried to leave, you realized you had nothing. Because they had made sure of it. That wasn't financial stress. That was financial control. This Thursday episode, Kerry reads from your stories — re... | 13m 33s | ||||||
| 8/3/26 | When Your Narcissistic Ex Weaponizes Your Children in Their Smear Campaign | Your child comes home from a visit with the other parent guarded. Repeating things they couldn't have come up with on their own. Now they’re looking at you differently. That's not just "divorce being hard." That's a smear campaign — and your narcissistic ex has recruited your own children to run it. This week, Dr. Josh Davis — neuroscientist, psychologist, and author of The Difference That Makes a Difference — joins Kerry McAvoy to break down exactly how narcissistic exes weaponiz... | 33m 30s | ||||||
| 7/31/26 | Feed Swap: Covert Narcissist Relationships — When You Can't Live the Lie Anymore with Renee Swanson | If you can name the patterns and see the behaviors, have you wondered why do you still feel so stuck? This week I'm sharing an episode from Renee Swanson of the Covert Narcissism Podcast — a feed swap I wanted to bring straight to this community. Renee unpacks what she calls "hitting the wall": the moment you can no longer live the lie in a covert narcissistic relationship, when you can't keep pretending that you're fine, that your family is fine, when it simply isn't. Renee Swanson, the host... | 22m 18s | ||||||
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Chart history for Breaking Free from Narcissistic Abuse
Peaked at #30 in New Zealand, currently #30 in New Zealand.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand | — | #30 | #30 | — |
| IS | — | #52 | #52 | — |
| Finland | — | #58 | #58 | — |
| Norway | — | #79 | #79 | — |
| New Zealand | — | #88 | #88 | — |
| South Africa | — | #90 | #90 | — |
| India | — | #97 | #97 | — |
| Canada | — | #103 | #103 | — |
| United States | — | #111 | #111 | — |
| United Kingdom | — | #117 | #117 | — |
| Australia | — | #160 | #160 | — |
| IS | — | #164 | #164 | — |
| Ireland | — | #178 | #178 | — |
Chart Positions
13 placements across 11 markets.
Chart Positions
13 placements across 11 markets.