{"id":187,"date":"2012-07-03T12:54:02","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T12:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.narcissismcured.com\/blog\/?p=187"},"modified":"2012-09-17T12:38:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T02:38:15","slug":"dont-build-me-up-dont-put-me-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/narcissismcured.com\/thelovesafetynet\/dont-build-me-up-dont-put-me-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Build Me Up &#8211; Don&#8217;t Put Me Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><H2>Do you know the difference between building self esteem and priming someone&#8217;s ego?<\/H2><\/strong>  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cLike an addictive drug, ego is very seductive<br \/>\nand makes us feel good, while at the same time alienating<br \/>\nthe very people in our life who really care.<br \/>\nOnce addicted, the \u2018feel good\u2019 becomes all we crave<br \/>\nwhile, without seeing it, we begin to destroy<br \/>\neverything truly valuable in our life.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today I want to challenge you to be with your friends and family without building them up and without putting them down.<\/p>\n<p>One nice thing to say, I find, is &#8220;You don&#8217;t have to do anything to be nice to be around. Even when you are quiet and doing something else I can still really feel you here with me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then just get on with being you and enjoy the relaxed companionship which hopefully follows.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know how you go with this, it is more powerful than you may at first realise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know the difference between building self esteem and priming someone&#8217;s ego? \u201cLike an addictive drug, ego is very seductive and makes us feel good, while at the same time alienating the very people in our life who really care. Once addicted, the \u2018feel good\u2019 becomes all we crave while, without seeing it, we&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":321,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[320],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emotional-intelligence-skills","category-narcissistic-personality-disorder","tag-gold-level-members","entry","no-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narcissismcured.com\/thelovesafetynet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/narcissismcured.com\/thelovesafetynet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/narcissismcured.com\/thelovesafetynet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narcissismcured.com\/thelovesafetynet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narcissismcured.com\/thelovesafetynet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/narcissismcured.com\/thelovesafetynet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narcissismcured.com\/thelovesafetynet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narcissismcured.com\/thelovesafetynet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narcissismcured.com\/thelovesafetynet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narcissismcured.com\/thelovesafetynet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}