Aaron DoughtyAwareness Mastery, Awareness Mastery, Awareness Mastery, Awareness Mastery, Awareness Mastery, LLC · Spiritual Teacher and Educator

empaths and narcissists: the dance of self-discovery

20 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker explains why empaths are drawn to narcissists and how the relationship functions as a learning dynamic. Empaths are described as seeking external validation, approval, and safety, which leads them to give of themselves without a solid sense of self. Narcissists, on the other hand, are portrayed as having a strong, though toxic, sense of self that they protect by manipulating others to satisfy their own needs. The interaction becomes a lesson for the empath: the narcissist continuously tests the empath, pushing them toward developing a stronger self‑identity. The lesson may culminate in the empath either achieving greater self‑awareness or exiting the relationship entirely.

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The thing that a narcissist does that attracts an empath is an empath wants to give themselves, wants to tune themselves, give themselves to then get the validation, the approval, and the safety of something on the external. Then on the other side of the spectrum, you have that of a narcissist who's on the toxic side of feeling in their self. What they do is they will manipulate everyone else around them to get their own needs met. And what happens is then they are actually in a strong sense of self, even though it's toxic. But the empath over here doesn't really even have a strong sense of self. So empaths attract narcissists to learn something from them, to learn how to be in their own sense of self. And the narcissist will constantly test the empath until they get the lesson. And sometimes the lesson is no more. I'm out.