The narcissist and the caretaker -- It's all about them, narcissists -- What about you? -- Why relationships with narcissists always crash -- How could this be over? -- The end game -- What just happened? -- Coping with the end -- Letting go -- Healing after the crash -- Grieving -- Healing self-esteem -- Rebuilding self-confidence -- Loving your self -- Empowerment -- Developing inner strength -- Self-protection -- Becoming independent -- Transform your life into your dream -- Forgiveness -- Coming home to yourself -- Finding others to love -- Living your intention -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the author

When a relationship with a narcissist ends, the caretaking partner is often left confused, deeply hurt, and often still emotionally connected, while the narcissist seems to easily move on to the next relationship. Healing from a Narcissistic Relationship offers guidance about what to expect as the relationship unravels and how to cope with the fallout. It also helps the reader learn to truly disengage and move through the grief process. Presenting techniques for healing and rebuilding self-esteem and self-confidence, this book offers a guide to developing emotional strength and encourages forgiveness and reconciliation with the past. It shows the reader how to increase emotional self-protections, quit caretaking in relationships, and become more independent and self-loving. Using real stories, Margalis Fjelstad offers a process of healing that can direct the reader away from former patterns of inequitable relationships and toward loving, caring connections that can truly grow healthfully and flourish. It shows that ending a relationship with a narcissist may be the best thing that ever happened