Dr. Ramani Durvasula will teach during Wisdom & Wellbeing Week 3: Transformation, Resilience and Relational Intelligence | January 25 – February 1, 2025 at Blue Spirit about the following topic:

Taking Yourself Back from Unhealthy Relationships: Learning How to Get Unstuck

Talking about toxic relationships is never comfortable and can often feel like finger-pointing and pathologizing.  However, these cycles often create insidious internal narratives around excessive self-blame, limiting ourselves to retain attachments, and a loss and even fear of identifying our authentic selves.  These relationships hold us back from articulating needs, wants, feelings and aspirations.  In the very quest to remain attached to family members, partners, friends, even institutions, many people have had to sacrifice more of themselves than is ever healthy.

Once we get past the initial overview of what is unhealthy in a relationship, we will turn our attention to the far more important work of excavating ourselves.   Whether you are exploring family of origin patterns, issues that have arisen in intimate relationships, or even workplace issues – this workshop will turn off the gaslights so you can identify these patterns in your life, become more discerning, and recognize behavioral, cognitive, and emotional patterns that persist because of unhealthy relationships characterized by antagonism, narcissism, invalidation, or betrayal.

Dr. Ramani Durvasula is a licensed clinical psychologist in Los Angeles, CA, Professor Emerita of Psychology at California State University, Los Angeles, and the Founder and CEO of LUNA Education, Training & Consulting. She is an author of several books including Should I Stay or Should I Go: Surviving A Relationship with a Narcissist, and “Don’t You Know Who I Am?”: How to Stay Sane in an Era of Narcissism, Entitlement, and Incivility. The focus of Dr. Durvasula’s clinical, academic and consultative work is the etiology and impact of narcissism and high-conflict, entitled, antagonistic personality styles on human relationships, mental health, and societal expectations. Her work has been featured at SXSW, TEDx, Red Table Talk, the Today Show, and Investigation Discovery. You can also find her on YouTube where she has accumulated millions of views on her videos discussing narcissism on her successful channel, and on social media @DoctorRamani. Now she will be adding the role of host to her resume as she launches her new podcast, Navigating Narcissism with Dr. Ramani, a show that focuses on narcissism and its impact on relationships.