An Educated Empath Is a Sociopath’s Worst Nightmare
This blog is about learning to understand all of our feelings and learning to consciously face, feel, and experience all of our feelings within the context of our own childhood. Everything we become and everything that happens to us is connected to childhood. Not every victim becomes an abuser, but every abuser was once a victim of abuse. These are facts. Violence is not genetic; it’s learned. https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2014/08/a-dance-to-freedom-book-reviews.html
Thursday, December 29, 2022
An Educated Empath Is a Sociopath’s Worst Nightmare
11 WAYS TO SPOT A PSYCHOPATH AT WORK
The article below describes exactly my last boss.
11 Ways to Spot a Psychopath at Work
1. Emotional manipulator
Playing on sympathy is a favorite weapon of choice for psychopaths.While they are confident, outgoing, and mentally resilient and rarely feel sorry for themselves, they are master manipulators -- are extremely proficient at eliciting pity and compassion.Poor performers with psychopathic tendencies may frequently appeal to extenuating circumstances and pleas for support and understanding in order to shift the focus from their own behavior.
2. Control freak
3. Charming
4. Bloodsucker
5. Liar Liar
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Be Portuguese About It
When I moved to the United States in 1984 many Americans didn't know where Portugal was!
I remember one night dancing at the club one guy arguing with me that Portugal was in South America and I said no! It's in Europe -- I was born there -- so I know where Portugal is!
And he kept arguing with me that was in South America and I just told him to put Portugal wherever you want -- I don't give a fxck.
Now, when I tell people that I'm from Portugal so many tell me: we are moving to Portugal! It's like everyone is discovering Portugal nowadays! And I'm moving to Spain right next door and I will be visiting Portugal often.
Most People are too Emotionally Blind
Some enablers even take it a step beyond and switch from idling in neutral to all-out support of the morally disordered person. They may even turn into "flying monkeys" who carry out small attacks, in order to stay on the bully's good side. (Totally! was one after the other, when I thought I had one battle own, another would start the harassment) ...The abuser relies upon them not to back up the target. Before any attacks begin, a morally disordered person will carefully plan the battle. This can take months, or even longer before direct hits are launched. (Yes, the property manager in 2015 and my manager in 2022 very carefully planned the battle and were very sneaky. Professional criminals make sure they don't leave fingerprints. They know exactly what they are doing! )
Only if it's clear that there's an excellent chance of decimating a target, does the warfare begin. If there's a solid support system, the abuser won't make a move. (Totally, the property manager in 2015 and my manager in 2022 never had made their move before because they knew the whole community liked me, but the moment they found out that some became uncomfortable with my book, they made their move and knew they could get enough enablers to help them.)
This means the enablers are the variable, which can either make or break a plan, and the narcissist knows this. That's why so much effort is put into creating chaos and confusion. This makes it easier for the enablers to rationalize their position. They may even begin to believe the target is getting the treatment she deserves, and that she did something to warrant the narcissist's extreme reaction."
A violinist played for 45 minutes in the New York subway. A handful of people stopped, a couple clapped, and the violinist raised about $30 in tips.
No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the best musicians in the world. In that subway, Joshua played one of the most intricate pieces ever written with a violin worth 3.5 million dollars.
Two days before he played in the subway, Joshua Bell sold out a Boston theatre, and the seats averaged about $100.
The experiment proved that the extraordinary in an ordinary environment does not shine and is so often overlooked and undervalued.
There are brilliantly talented people everywhere who aren’t receiving the recognition and reward they deserve. But once they arm themselves with value and confidence and remove themselves from an environment that isn’t serving them, they thrive and grow.
Your gut is telling you something. Listen to it if it’s telling you where you are isn’t enough!
Go where you are appreciated and valued.
Know Your Worth.
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
It's the destination after all
Whoever said it’s the journey, not the destination, has not arrived. Sure, the journey was an adventure, sometimes very hard and painful, and sometimes a lot of fun! But the destination is pure ecstasy!
When reading a book or an article, or talking with people, the moment I spot a lie, I lose interest...
Once lit, the flame of truth will never go out. Plato
My only dream in this world is to make a safer world for children and animals. But it's not possible when many people have grown to be fully sociopathic, psychopaths, malignant narcissists, assholes, or whatever you like to call these evil people, who don't care about anyone else but themselves. They only want good things for themselves and take pleasure in the suffering of others. Their sadism and hypocrisy are disgusting.
There are two kinds of people: those who think, "I don't want others to suffer as I did." And those who think: I suffered, and I want others to suffer too.
Life can be fun if we manage to liberate ourselves from the emotional prison we were born in.
Psychopaths are bullies who do not like it when people stand up to them. They feel perfectly entitled to push boundaries, criticize, abuse, and lie. But god forbid someone to call them out on this behavior, suddenly you become enemy #1. In order to divert the blame, they'll immediately twist it around on you, so suddenly you're on the defense, and the focus is shifted away from them. Their hypocrisy will be so unbelievable that you won't even know where to begin. They'll accuse you of doing things they're actually doing, all in an attempt to drag you into a chaotic distraction. Psychopaths are bullies, and bullies are too cowardly to fight fair battles.
"Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts and never lies. ...If the repression stays unresolved, the parents’ childhood tragedy is unconsciously continued on in their children” - Alice Miller
http://www.alice-miller.com/en/we-all-are-the-crew/
Ten things you can't do with a Narcissist
Ten things you can't do with a Narcissist
1. Have friends.
2. Enjoy intimacy.
3. Find Peace.
4. Share good times.
5. Be guaranteed success.
6. Be comforted.
7. Find your true love.
8. Reach consensus.
9. Hear the truth.
10. Reach your true potential.
"Religion is always in the control business, and that's something people don't really understand. It's in a guilt-producing control business. And if you have Heaven as a place where you're rewarded for your goodness, and Hell is a place where you're punished for your evil, then you sort of have control of the population. And so they create this fiery place which has quite literally scared the Hell out of a lot of people, throughout Christian history. And it's part of a control tactic. (...) The church doesn't like for people to grow up, because you can't control grown-ups. That's why we talk about being born again. When you're born again, you're still a child. People don't need to be born again. They need to grow up. They need to accept their responsibility for themselves and the world." Retired Episcopal bishop John Shelby Spong.
Religion it's where most sociopaths, psychopaths, malignant narcissists, assholes, or whatever you like to call these evil people like to hide behind acting as if personality pretending to be good people but are wolves in sheep's clothing.
And yes, all these types of people are in the control business and religion is the hook they use to attach the invisible reins of guilt to rein us in. Of course, religion doesn't want people to grow up and become autonomous free-thinking people. You can't control mature autonomous free-thinking people. They need people to remain endless in the state of the child in order to be able to control them...
This is why I constantly get targeted in the workplace by these types of assholes since I published my book. With my book, they learn I have grown myself up and I'm a mature, conscious, autonomous adult and that's the last thing these assholes want around... they want emotionally blind people endlessly stuck in the role of the child that they can fool and manipulate easily.
As I wrote in my book A Dance to Freedom: Your Guide to Liberation from Lies and Illusions. Pages 9 and 10: At an early age, organized religion turned me away from God. Religion felt like a straitjacket keeping me down. Just like Alice Miller, I was “unable to fathom God’s motives,” and, in my own way, came to the same conclusion she did, that the God of the Bible was perverse and cruel. “The Bible was written by men,” Alice Miller writes. “We must assume that those men had been through some unpleasant experiences at the hands of their fathers. Surely none of them had had a father who took pleasure in their inquiring minds, realized the futility of expecting the impossible of them, and refrained from punishing them. That was why they were able to create an image of God with sadistic features that did not strike them as such. God as they saw Him devised a cruel scenario in which He gave Adam and Eve the tree of knowledge but at the same time forbade them to eat its fruit — that is, to achieve awareness and become autonomous personalities. He wanted to keep them entirely dependent on Him.”
Narcissistic Smear Campaigns
Narcissistic Smear Campaigns
1 PREEMPTIVELY starts smear campaign by planting seeds in the minds of others
2 Begins the smear by painting himself or herself as the devoted, loving, innocent VICTIM of you
3 Twist stories and tells lies about your character making sure to incorporate a GRAIN OF TRUTH
4 Lines up REPLACEMENT to use for future reputation management, supply. and triangulation
5 DISCARDS you out of the blue, then flaunts new supply and uses your reactions as proof you're to blame for all the problems in the relationship
That's exactly what Mr. RM, my last manager did at my last job of almost 8 years. I'm so tired of being targeted in the workplace by these malignant narcissists.

