Shahida Arabi

Shahida is a graduate of Harvard University and Columbia University. She is a published researcher and author of Power: Surviving and Thriving After Narcissistic Abuse and Breaking Trauma Bonds with Narcissists and Psychopaths. Her books have been translated into 16+ languages all over the world. Her work has been featured on Salon, HuffPost, Inc., Bustle, Psychology Today, Healthline, VICE, NYDaily News and more. For more inspiration and insight on manipulation and red flags, follow her on Instagram here.

18 Best Mind Games and Gaslighting Movies On Netflix

Audiences enjoy and feel validated by “mind game movies” – where the narcissistic or toxic characters play mind games with a victim thus revealing the impact of gaslighting or the movie itself plays mind games with the viewer, making them…

Why Narcissists Pretend Their Victims Are “Obsessed” With Them

Have you ever met someone who assumed everyone had a crush on them regardless of the lack of evidence suggesting this? Your occasional smile is seen as an inevitable sign you’re falling in love with them. Your ability to respond to them the same way you do to everyone else is deemed a deep-seated infatuation – it can’t be the fact that you’re just a generally friendly person of course. You merely existing is you trying to “seduce” them. At least that is what the narcissist claims, even when they’re the ones who have been spending time and energy tracking your every move. Projection, much?

Netflix’s ‘Damsel’ Is A Twisted Fairy Tale of Toxic Romance and Marriage Gone Wrong

“There are many stories of chivalry where a heroic knight saves the damsel in distress. This is not one of them.” So starts the twisted fairy tale of Damsel, the trending movie on Netflix that offers a new vision of “fairy tales gone wrong.” Featuring Stranger Things’ Millie Bobby Brown as soon-to-be princess Elodie, this dark fantasy survival thriller offers a subversion of the fairy tales trope, positioning the damsel in distress as her own knight in shining armor. Like most marriages, the movie begins with a proposal – but this is one with unforeseen and deadly sacrifices.

5 Lifetime Movies About Narcissists (With The Biggest Plot Twists)

There are certain lifetime movies that do a great job of highlighting the character traits, motives, and behaviors of narcissistic people in relationships, and resonate with people who’ve been in toxic relationships. Here are the top five Lifetime movies available to stream on Amazon prime about narcissists that will give you chills and validation and have big plot twists.