by Alan Chatting | Sep 1, 2020 | Narcissism, Relationships
If your parent is or was a narcissist, your early experience can affect the way you experience love in your adult life. We form attachments to our main caregivers, and we become conditioned with the messages of our family of origin, and these become the rules that we...
by Alan Chatting | Aug 24, 2020 | Confidence, Narcissism
Narcissists and narcissism are popular subjects for articles nowadays. The world is used easily for almost anyone who is a bit self-centred. What would it actually be like to be brought up by a real-life narcissist as a parent? From my own experience I know it can be...
by Alan Chatting | Aug 17, 2020 | Management and Leadership, Narcissism
People are the product of their family of origin. They might turn out to be like their parents, or they might behave in certain ways because of how their parents treated them. Narcissists as parents are usually very strict and controlling, and can be very angry and...
by Alan Chatting | Aug 10, 2020 | Management and Leadership, Narcissism
If you grew up with a narcissist as a parent, then you might be susceptible to being a victim of your resident workplace narcissist. Bear in mind that narcissists are charming, selfish, manipulative, competitive and quite likely to “bend the truth.” Avoid them if at...
by Alan Chatting | Jul 30, 2020 | Narcissism
Healthy narcissism describes how we pay more attention to ourselves than to others. We might to say that we want some “me time”. However, it’s possible to have too much narcissism, and extreme narcissism is described as a narcissistic personality disorder. In...
by Alan Chatting | Nov 4, 2019 | Personal Development
It’s surprising what can occur to you when you are looking at your Facebook feed. A few days ago, I was following a spirited argument about the current government, legal rulings, and Parliamentary discourse and of course the Brexit debate. The people taking part were...
by Alan Chatting | Oct 24, 2019 | Personal Development
The story goes that a farmer’s horse runs away. His neighbour says “What terrible news!” The farmer replies “Good news, bad news, who knows?” The following day, the farmer’s horse returns, accompanied by a wild horse. Now he has two horses. His neighbour says “What...
by Alan Chatting | Jul 21, 2019 | Personal Development
by Alan Chatting | Jun 27, 2019 | Personal Development
They didn’t teach you at school how to work this out when I was a kid. Most people I know went for a quick answer, chose a life path, and got on with following it. We tended to base our choices on a range of influences. Maybe you have also run your life like...
