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Exploring Red Flags and Narcissism: A conversation with Darren Magee

In this conversation, I sit down with experienced therapist Darren Magee for a deep dive into red flags or warning signs in relationships, particularly focussing on what they might be and how to recognise them and why we might ignore them. Darren has extensive experience of working with narcissism with both individuals and couples and there is often an overlap between these red flags and potentially narcissistic partners.

Our conversation covers a wide range of topics, offering valuable insights into the patterns of behaviour that might constitute worrying red flags, including 'love bombing', the significance of a pattern of minor rejections, struggles to communicate and comparisons with others, including exes/previous partners.

We dive deep into his perspectives on the stages of relationships, the psychology of someone with highly narcissistic traits, covert narcissism, the 'dark personalities' (including sociopathy) and the psychology of people who get into relationships of people with highly narcissistic traits and why they might deny or endure red flags and stay in toxic and coercive relationships.

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I had a really interesting conversation with Richard Rogers about his fascinating career to date. He began training with me as a therapist and then moved into training to be a garden designer and now has a portfolio career. Subjects covered include:

- why Richard wanted to train as a therapist

- deciding to change direction from therapist to garden designer

- winning a medal for his mindfulness garden at RHS Chatsworth

- benefits of coaching versus therapy

- some advice about changing careers

- the relationship between talking therapy and alternative/complementary ‘therapies’

- the psychological and wellbeing effects of gardening and nature

- life lessons from Richard’s lifetime of personal development

- future plans and having a balanced portfolio career

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If there’s anything else you’d like to know about John-Paul and how he might be able to help you, please do contact him via his website www.thistrustedplace.co.uk

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This is an edited version of the video podcast I recorded for the Mentality Podcast with Lau Ciocan on the subject of loneliness.

It was a great conversation, I really enjoyed it and we covered all kinds of areas on the topics including:

- what loneliness is

- the importance of relationship with self

- importance of solitude

- why loneliness might particularly affect men

- why loneliness can have such a stigma

- how technology might aggravate it

- how being in a couple might affect our ability to connect with others

- ways to overcome loneliness

Spotify link to the Mentality podcast (for the unedited version of the podcast) and LinkedIn page are as follows:

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5rH7FweCSwHIOUFlIr9kAP?si=6343794770d146ca

Linked In: www.linkedin.com/company/man-mentoring/

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If there’s anything else you’d like to know about John-Paul and how he might be able to help you, please do contact him via his website www.thistrustedplace.co.uk