A Hilarious Survival Guide to Narcissists, Toxic Exes, and Everyone Who Makes It All About Them. Includes a 30-Day Narcissist Detox Plan & The Narcissist Glossary.
You know them. And somewhere deep down, you’ve always known something was off.
The person who turns every conversation into a TED Talk about themselves. The ex who somehow managed to be both the hero and the victim of every story. The colleague whose feedback always begins with “I” and ends with “me.” The friend who only calls when they need an audience. Welcome to the Ego Circus — and congratulations: you’ve been performing in it for years. This book is your official field guide, your exit strategy, and your permission slip to stop explaining yourself to people who will never listen. With personal stories, gloriously absurd analysis, a 30-Day Narcissist Detox Plan, and the Narcissist Glossary, Hubertus Geller shows you how to identify the performers before they cast you in their show, why you kept explaining yourself to someone who was never actually listening, how to recognize the patterns — love bombing, gaslighting, DARVO — and stop falling for them, how to leave without a scene, set limits without a war, and stop being the supporting character in someone else’s one-man show, and how to find your way back to yourself. This book is for everyone who has ever left a conversation feeling smaller than when they arrived — and is ready to stop buying a ticket to the Ego Circus.
"A narcissist walks into a room and immediately improves it — at least according to them.” — Hubertus Geller
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Four key themes that make this book essential reading
Learn to identify the performers: the Ringmaster Narcissist, the Spotlight Thief, the Victim Acrobat, and the Gaslight Magician. Once you can name them, you can stop buying a ticket.
Day 1: Stop explaining yourself to people who won’t listen. Day 7: Recognize the drama loop. Day 14: Exit gracefully. Day 30: You’ve left the circus. The tent is still standing. You just don’t live in it anymore.
From “love bombing” to “DARVO” — a glossary that finally puts words to the patterns you’ve been living through. Because naming the trick is the first step to not falling for it again.
How to leave without a scene. How to set limits without a war. How to stop being the supporting character in someone else’s one-man show. And how to find your way back to yourself.