Who Is Your "Ego" (It's Not You) - 9 Ego Functions

Codependency Trap ep.3: The Intermittent Reinforcement Abuse Machine

- Why the “good moments” are the real hook - The cruel psychology of relief after pain - Why leaving feels like withdrawal, not freedom - How love bombing turns into emotional gambling - The slot machine hidden inside toxic relationships - Why you keep chasing the version of them from the beginning - When affection becomes a reward pellet -The difference between love and nervous-system relief - How abuse tolerance builds without you noticing - Why the person who hurts you feels like the only cure - The trap of trying to “earn” the good version back - Why calm love can feel boring after chaos - How the relationship trains you to blame yourself - The machine that keeps codependents coming back - Why the highs feel so powerful after the lows **podcast on apple & Spotify: search 'the olne relationship podcast'

Codependency p2: LOVE-BOMBING - The Idealization Phase

- Why the “perfect beginning” of a toxic relationship can feel so real - love-bombing i.e. the idealization phase of cluster b - the psychological trap before a shared fantasy - addictive part of the idealization - why abuse survivors stay attached - where devaluation begins - reality-testing using OLNE - podcast on apple & spotify: search 'the olne relationship podcast'

Codependency ep. 1 - "Why Me" | Why You Were Chosen

- Answers the question, "Why Me" - you weren't chosen because you're weak - the narcissist does not fall in love with you - psychological scanning - love bombing - the vulnerability spot - codependents, empaths, people-pleasers - shame into self-knowledge

The Resurrection Protocol- After A Cluster B Abusive Relationship

- Vaknin's 9-step recovery blueprint - Body → Mind → Functionality... 3 groups, 9 principles - The authenticity filter: how to tell which voices are actually yours - The Reality Sentinel: why victims of narcissistic abuse are prone to fantasy, and how to rebuild your relationship with what's real - Why positivity isn't naivety: it's the refusal to split OLNE's four pillars as the emotional infrastructure that makes all nine steps survivable - The supernova reframe: they were absence before you met them. You were whole. You can be whole again. - Series closer... 7 episodes, one complete arc: how the ego gets built, how it gets compromised, and how to rebuild it - Podcast on apple & spotify: search 'the olne relationship podcast'

The Void In Narcissistic Personality Disorder

- the maternal mirroring failure - empty schizoid vs schizoid personality disorder - the false self construction - information scrambling - Waldron's idea on being drawn to the black hole - structural collapse - co-independence structural requirement - podcast on spotify & apple: search 'the olne relationship podcast'