He called me his Ferrari.

I called him my Case Study.

I was a hypnotist helping women recover from narcissistic abuse. When I met him, I recognized the traits almost immediately. I knew I was looking at someone far beyond narcissism–a pathology I'd only ever encountered in textbooks.

At the time, I didn't realize that understanding manipulation wasn't quite the same as being immune to it.

What followed wasn't just an education in psychopathy. It became an investigation into suffering, meaning, friendship, faith and the experiences I couldn't explain away. It's the story of how surviving extreme violence forced me to question everything I thought I knew, and how those questions eventually became the foundation of everything I now teach about authority, identity and lasting change.

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