THX Series Hub: The Narcissist’s Playbook & The Life After
A THX-guided journey through emotional harm, survival, and post-traumatic growth.
This series is for those recovering from narcissistic abuse—whether from a partner, parent, boss, or system. It offers a dual path:
The Narcissist’s Playbook helps you understand the tools of control and manipulation through THX frameworks.
The Life After: A Survivor’s Map offers healing language, reflection, and next steps to rebuild trust in yourself, others, and the world.
You are not alone. These posts are built to validate your experience and equip you with insight and strength.
🔹Mapping Religious Trauma: A THX Framework for the Faithful Wounded
Reframes spiritual harm through Clarity, Emotion, Closure, and Meaning. A companion for anyone healing from weaponized faith and reclaiming belief as a personal, not political, journey.
🧭 The Life After: A Survivor’s Map
A sequence of deeply personal chapters designed to walk with you through recovery, redefinition, and renewal. Each chapter is grounded in emotional truth and system clarity.
🟣 Prologue – Why It Hurt So Deeply: Understanding Narcissism Through THX
Explores how emotional harm goes beyond behavior—revealing how Utilities, PERMAH, and Prospect Theory explain the intensity and aftermath of narcissistic abuse.
🔹 Chapter 1 – Healing After Narcissism: A THX Journey
Lays the foundation for recovery by redefining healing through THX—offering emotional clarity and permission to grow at your own pace.
🔹 Chapter 2 – Walking on Eggshells: The Hidden Cost of Survival
Unpacks the emotional toll of hypervigilance and the micro-moments that shaped your nervous system's need to stay small and safe.
🔹 Chapter 3 – Why I Stayed, and What I Feared Most
Breaks the shame spiral with truth: the reasons we stay are rooted in loss aversion, attachment, and the desperate hope for closure.
🔹 Chapter 4 – The Exit Plan: Strategy in the Face of Chaos
Details how survivors use clarity, accuracy, and access to build safe escape—often silently, slowly, and with no applause.
🔹 Chapter 5 – A Survivor’s Letter
A raw and honest message to anyone who’s ever felt erased by love that wasn’t love—anchored in voice, vulnerability, and reclamation.
🔹 Chapter 6 – The Life We Lived in Hiding
Reveals how survival strategies became a way of life—and what it takes to shift from concealment to coherence.
🔹 Chapter 7 – The Things That Made Us Feel Safe
Honors the adaptive rituals and tiny comforts that protected you—and reframes them as sacred, not silly.
🔹 Chapter 8 – Reclaiming My Humanity
The turning point: recognizing that healing is not becoming someone new, but remembering who you were before distortion.
🔹 Chapter 9 – Becoming Someone I Admire
Introduces the Admiration Equation as a tool for rebuilding self-worth—not from perfection, but from skill, goodness, awe, and gratitude.
🔹 Chapter 10 – How I Realized I Was Free
A powerful emotional shift: noticing freedom not as an event, but as the quiet return of clarity, control, and choice.
🔹 Chapter 11 – Becoming Me
Integration begins. Identity expands. Flourishing starts to feel less like theory and more like embodiment.
⚪ Epilogue – Rebuilding After Narcissism: Healing Through the THX Frameworks
Connects the journey to the frameworks—showing how design, emotional honesty, and small consistent choices lead to sustainable transformation.
📖 The Narcissist’s Playbook
Framework-based essays that decode the patterns, tactics, and predictable emotional logic of narcissistic behavior.
🔹 Chapter 1: The Illusion of Utility
Narcissists appear helpful, generous, and supportive—but what they offer isn’t true utility. This post unpacks how they simulate usefulness to create dependence, and how recognizing what was missing can be the first step toward freedom.
🔹 Chapter 2: Hijacking PERMAH
Using the lens of human flourishing, this piece explores how narcissists mimic love, meaning, and growth—not to connect, but to control. When every good thing gets twisted, how do you tell what’s real?
🔹 Chapter 3: Twisting the Admiration Equation
Admiration should feel earned, mutual, and expansive. But narcissists distort it into obligation. This post reveals how they manipulate skill, goodness, awe, and gratitude to extract loyalty—and punish doubt.
🔹 Chapter 4: When Admiration Becomes Worship
This entry shows what happens when admiration is no longer enough. Narcissists demand reverence, punish independence, and expect silence in the face of harm. Love is replaced by performance—and dissent becomes betrayal.
🔹 Chapter 5: Prospect Theory and Narcissism
Why do narcissists explode over small things? This post uses behavioral economics to explain how narcissists experience boundaries, autonomy, and truth as losses—and why they’ll do anything to avoid them.
🔹 Chapter 6: The Micro-Moment Manipulation
Sometimes what keeps us hooked isn’t the big promises—it’s the little moments. This piece explores how narcissists use micro-moments of affection and relief to reset your hope and obscure the harm.
🔹 Chapter 7: RKYC for Survivors
Originally designed as a business tool, “Really Know Your Customer” becomes a healing practice here. This post helps survivors rediscover their truth, needs, and voice—after years of emotional distortion.
🔹 Chapter 8: Dedication
A quiet offering for those who stayed too long, left too late, or are still trying to name what happened. This piece honors survivors, holds space for grief, and speaks to the person you used to be.
📖 Author’s Note & Series Closure
This final entry reflects on why the series was written, how the THX frameworks helped decode personal experience, and what it means to move forward—with clarity, dignity, and your story intact.
🔍 See Also
THX Reflections & Personal Essays (Series Hub)
Wider context for healing, parenting, and rebuilding a life after survival.THX Framework Deep Dives (Series Hub)
Explore the theory behind the frameworks that guide these posts.
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