Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse5 Aug

Rerelease | Inez & The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

In this rerelease episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Inez shares how childhood scapegoating, emotional invalidation, and the belief that she had to earn love shaped the vulnerabilities an abusive partner later exploited. He presented himself as caring, empathetic, and deeply devoted, using love bombing, future promises, and stories of his traumatic past to gain her compassion and trust.

As the relationship progressed, praise turned into put-downs, care became control, and vulnerability was met with punishment. Inez describes jealousy, gaslighting, guilt, sexual coercion, circular conversations, silent treatments, and repeated abuse cycles that slowly depleted her confidence and self-care. Her story explores reenactment, trauma bonding, and how an abuser can study someone’s deepest wounds before using those wounds to keep them trapped.

It's a story of intergenerational trauma, reenactments, jealousy, control, sexual coercion, gaslighting, love bombing, empty promises, abuse cycles, future faking, guilt, denial, mirroring, self care, self discovery, circular conversations, silent treatments, childhood scapegoating, emotional invalidation, beliefs, ghosting, minimization, denial, rage, addiction, and invalidation.

*** CONTENT WARNING - This episode discusses animal abuse and sexual coercion. ***

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Rerelease | When People Pleasing Becomes Survival: Fawning in Abusive Relationships

In this rerelease episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Brandon explores the different ways people pleasing can appear and how qualities such as loyalty, caretaking, peacemaking, and a desire to help can ...

4 Aug 27min

Debrief | Weaponized Empathy, Crisis Control, & Gaslighting in Teddy’s Story

In this debrief episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Brandon Chadwick breaks down the patterns of abuse in Teddy’s survivor story. Teddy’s empathy and desire to be a dependable partner were repeatedly us...

3 Aug 19min

Teddy & The Crisis-Creating Abuser

In this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Teddy shares the story of a relationship built around empathy, rescue, and repeated crisis. What began as a connection between two ambitious people slowly bec...

2 Aug 41min

Rerelease | Joanne & The Pain of Loving an Abusive Mother

In this rerelease episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Joanne shares the pain of growing up with a gaslighting and abusive mother while still desperately wanting her love. Joanne’s mother made kindness f...

30 Jul 49min

Rerelease | The 6 Stages & 4 Styles of Emotional Blackmail

In this rerelease episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Brandon discusses Susan Forward and Donna Frazier’s book Emotional Blackmail and explains how manipulation can be used to control your choices, rela...

28 Jul 30min

Debrief | Constant Correction, Trauma Bonds, and Invisible Control in Barb’s Story

In this debrief episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Brandon discusses the abuse patterns found throughout Barb’s survivor story.The debrief explores how constant correction became a form of dehumanizati...

27 Jul 24min

Barb & The Raging, Critical, Coercive Controller

In this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Barb shares the story of surviving a 22-year marriage to a raging, critical, coercive controller. Raised in purity culture and taught that a wife should defer...

26 Jul 1h 37min