Tag: Covert

Simply by virtue of my genetic packaging, all who consider themselves superior, based on the categories of gender, race, wealth, education, and title, routinely talk down to me. Before retiring in 2022, I’d heard 36 years of toxic talk. Though I have repeatedly risen to the rigors of the mo...

How’s your relationship with past versions of yourself? Do you like who you are now better than who you used to be? Are you smarter, healthier, or more spiritually attuned? Our former selves can function like self-development collateral damage. Especially if you feel more self-awar...

Simply by virtue of my genetic packaging, all who consider themselves superior, based on the categories of gender, race, wealth, education, and title, routinely talk down to me. Before retiring in 2022, I’d been exposed to decades of toxic talk. Even though I’d repeatedly risen to the...

Covert narcissists will smear you. Not just when it’s over — while you’re together, too. Sometimes they say things about you to other people, straight out. They might tell people that you’re a loser. Or that they’re miserable with you. Or that you make their li...