Hello everyone, this is Dr. Ahmet Ergin and today we are going to talk all about low blood sugars So let's summarize what we are going to talk about today So we will start with what number is a low blood sugar number That is a big point that everybody needs to know number two is how do you really feel when blood sugar is really low, right and Can you also have a low blood sugar if you are not adiabatic that is also a common question that I get and Harm, how harmful is it really? Like do you really get harmed if you have low blood sugars mild blood low blood sugars or moderate to severe low blood sugars? How harmful it is we will discuss about that and what happens if you have severe Hypoglycemia, how does it feel and how do you really treat that the next thing we're going to talk about is The what causes low blood sugar because it is something that everybody needs to know to be able to prevent the low blood sugar and of course, we're going to talk about how to reduce the risk and One of the things that commonly can lead to hypoglycemia or low blood sugar is exercise We will talk about how exercise can affect or cause low blood sugar And we will discuss some about the fear of low blood sugar because once you have a low blood sugar You may start being fearful of low blood sugar and it can make a big change in your diabetes management And of course, we will treat how to treat we will talk about how to treat low blood sugars effectively and quickly and We will talk about a symptomatic low blood sugars as well as sometimes people will have a low blood sugars And may not know it. We will also have a touch base on Sometimes blood sugar being normal, but feeling low as well So stay tuned and we will dive deep into it right now So if you're new to the channel, I will just describe what we do here I'm an under chronologist by trade and Davi. This is my passion What we do is we treat patients either in person in our Florida West Palm Beach office or Virtually across Florida and New York State as well. So we can do everything and actually better than in person visits through virtual care Including remotely monitoring your blood sugars and staying in touch with you all the time So we have a different way of practice and these videos are educational and of course if you need individualized care Definitely, we will be more than happy to help you if you live in Florida or New York State Let's move on the first topic. What number is really low? typically We consider low blood sugar less than 70 milligram per deciliter That's 3.9 nanomall. We have a lot of members from outside the United States. They're sometimes asking about the numbers that is not in That that that I would say in metric units So 3.9 will be the the low blood sugar for that and 70 milligram per deciliter But on the other hand less than 54 is Really what we are concerned about that's really clinically important to low blood sugar now Less than 70 is important. Yes, it is but it's really not a big deal If you are just having 65 or 70 occasionally If you're going below 54, you will really have Quite a bit of symptoms and it will not feel good at all and it can also cause Problems in the body as well. So that's why we consider less than 54 symptomatic and and not necessarily symptomatic But it's clinically important Just because you can actually have symptoms even if your blood sugar is at 100 if you are normally running at 300 And going down to 100 sometimes can cause symptoms as well So, how do you feel? Really when you have a low blood sugar, well, it doesn't feel good. That's for sure So what happens is basically your body will go into a panic reaction We divide the symptoms into neurologic or neurogenic or adrenergic or adrenal induced so basically your body pumps a lot of adrenaline as If you are about to die, so it causes a lot of heart racing Sweating Panic reaction excessive hunger Shaking in the hands as if you're losing blood same reaction if you were bleeding to death Is given by the body like feeling clammy hot heart racing All that stuff that happens with any panic reaction in the body So it doesn't feel good at all The neurological symptoms could be dizziness could be confusion. It could be irritability I'm being snappy So if your husband or wife tell you why you're having a you know problem with me, you can just say oh my blood sugar is low I'll go although you have to prove it sometimes because that doesn't always work that way But regardless definitely neurological symptoms can happen severe confusion can happen I have seen people like zoning out totally When they have low blood sugars, they may actually hear you sometimes and they may not even respond so if somebody is Not responding to you Don't think that they are in salt trying to insult you or offend you just check your blood sugar Especially if they have diabetic. Okay, that's not that's a better idea But those things can happen, especially if this if the low blood sugar gets deeper and deeper Their responsiveness will be lower and lower and if they're not responsive at all and if somebody has diabetes What do you do? You have to make sure that you find Glucogon and if it is a relative or a friend You should probably know whether they're keeping your glucagon typically forage But it's not a bad idea to be familiar But how to use glucagon as well if somebody's having severe low blood sugar which at that point They may not even be responsive at all to you. So don't try to show Honey and sugar into their mouth that may not be very helpful Although if there's nothing else you can do if there's no IV line or or a glucagon around Then yeah, you have to do something so putting a little bit of a honey in the side of the mouth Can still help but it may not be very helpful Especially if they have taken a heavy dose of insulin you have to better call 911 before losing too much time I would say call 911 try to look for a glucagon Put some honey at the same time Do your best, but these are the number of things that you should be considering when somebody is unresponsive with diabetes Now can you have low blood sugar if you do not have diabetes? Yes, you can we call that reactive hyperglycemia That typically happens a lot of 10 to 15 years mostly after gastric bypass surgery or in some insulin resistant patients or prediabetic patients or some people who are just just being Prone to it Especially after a high carbohydrate load so sometimes they may eat just cookies bread or pasta stuff like that that are high carb But not a lot of fat content in the food that can spike your blood sugar significantly And that causes the insulin discharge of course But then since some of these carbs are rapidly absorbed and disappears from the blood And insulin may still Stick around and that excessive insulin can drop them Below 70 so they may start with 80 blood sugar. They may go up to 190 Although they're not diabetic, but it can happen go to 190 We call people diabetic if they're spiking more than 200 after meals, right? so they may go to 180 190 after a big heavy carbohydrate load and then the next thing you know that their blood sugar is actually plummeting down to 60 a very fast and they will feel that and that's we call that the reactive hyperglycemia dietary adjustment is the key and sometimes we do Medication management as well, but the dietary adjustment generally fix that problem when it happens in non-diabetic patients We discussed about the severe hyperglycemia a little bit But what causes low blood sugar is is manufacturers So I think that is the most important thing that you have to be familiar with Because that is basically what most people do not understand and the patient education is a key So I'm going to talk to you about a few things that can cause low blood sugar You should understand the risk concept You are at risk if you have certain features for low blood sugars low blood sugar does not happen Just from a one single thing it happens from many factors generally coming together So if you have a long duration of diabetes, let's say at least 10 15 years or more Then you're actually losing glucagon producing cells. Glucagon is the main hormone that makes you Contra act the low blood sugars so insulin reduces your blood sugar and glucagon increases the blood sugar Initially glucagon is a nuisance because it tends to increase your blood sugar for diabetics but later on actually that hormone goes away and then you totally lose the Protection against low blood sugar so that is one of the problems having diabetes for a long time can increase your risk of low blood sugar Especially if there's other offending factors such as some medications which we will discuss such as sulfonylureas or insulins Can make you more prone to have hyperglycemia or low blood sugar? Very easily if you're older That is also a risk factor because as you get older your reflexes your response your panic reaction everything becomes more dull Things become slower your body does not respond as well So your blood sugar may be dropping quite a bit and you may not even realize that the other on the other hand in older people They tend to not metabolize the medications well So they may occasionally be Overmedicated or drug interactions can happen which can potentiate the effects of medications and again older individuals do not Metabolize the medications sometimes too well They tend to have more chronic kidney disease chronic liver disease, etc Their organs are not well functioning at their protective hormones like glucagon or their liver. They're not as good They're not as robust. So as if you're older and you're diabetic, you're again at high risk of low blood sugars now, of course sometimes low blood sugar happens when either the doctors or the patients are Extremely passionate about bringing their blood sugars to as low as possible Well, when you do that and when you try to use everything in the world to trying to reduce your blood sugars Sometimes you are really putting yourself at risk of dropping your blood sugar too low It's like if you are trying to if it takes two hours from go from a to b from cda to cdb And if you're trying to make this in one and a half hours trying to save another half an hour Yes, you can do it But then you may have an accident down the road, right? If you're going faster and without caution Same thing with diabetes if you're trying to use a lot of medications to try to bring the blood sugar down as much as possible Or you're reciting your diet too much But you're also taking medications to reduce the blood sugar Then you're really looking for trouble. That is another big factor that you have to balance out How much medication you are taking? What's your diet and so forth a lot of people go into a diet? You'll like for example, they hear about this keto diet They say oh, I'm gonna do this and then they don't think about their medications They're already on and a suddenly next thing they know is they bottom out because they're taking medications that can cause severe low blood sugars and That's why I always tell you guys always talk to your doctor Preferably a diabetes specialist or a neurochronologist so that you can actually modify your regimen if you are going into a diet Again, if you're on let's say a cell phone a urea such as Glypozide Glyboride glima paride, these are the cell phone ureas or megalithinize that are more shorter-acting agents such as Repa-Gyllainide or Nathe-Gyllainide some people know these as starlyx or prondin These are medications also although they are pills They still put you at significant risk of low blood sugars if you do not have a regular eating schedule So you have to be very careful about these drugs if you're on them You have to have a regular eating schedule same thing with insulins if you're taking insulin I'm not talking about the long-term insulin or a long-acting insulin But I'm talking about the short-acting insulins if you are taking short-acting insulins for meals You better eat that meal so if you're taking ten units of novel log or hemologue or a pedra And that ten units will do its job. It's gonna bring your blood sugar down. So if there's no blood sugar Coming or if there's no carbohydrates coming into the bloodstream from the food There will be no balancing. So we typically give short-acting insulins to balance the The sugar that's coming from the food, right? So but if you do not have that then you will definitely Go down on The blood sugar very rapidly.  So they watch you, right? So so if if you are if you had a low blood sugar, that's not a crime I'm just giving an example But if you have a if you have a low blood sugar that that means that there is something going on that put you at Hypoglycemia or low blood sugar to begin with So whatever it may be unless it is totally fixed You are at risk of having another low blood sugar. So that is something that you have to pay attention The fear of hypoglycemia kicks in low blood sugar fear of low blood sugar kicks in once once somebody have a Severe low blood sugar. It's not a good feeling at all That is that's that's a psychological thing that we have to address separately But again, we always pay attention if somebody had history of low blood sugar Again, the another big factor is exercise, right? So when you guys exercise your body starts utilizing the blood sugar like heavily So if your blood sugar is normal or mildly a little bit high before the exercise I always tell my patients eat some carbs now how much carbs that is generally one gram per kilogram per hour or like maybe you can say half half a gram per per pound per hour and depends on the intensity of exercise and you know occasionally though interestingly if you're doing a high intensity exercise that can Discharge a lot of adrenaline at the beginning and your blood sugar actually may go up during the exercise Which follows by a low blood sugars down the road in like let's say three five six hours later But if you do not want to actually drop your blood sugars during the exercise like in the middle of the exercise You may want to mix the high intensity and low intensity exercise So high intensity exercise will actually boost your blood sugars and low intensity or cardio We'll try to bring your blood sugars down So that that is a strategy, but the most important strategy is checking the blood sugars You can do a finger sticks if that's what you have you can do you can use your dexcom g6 or g7 is coming You can use freestyle librae or freestyle librae 2 is coming You know all those good advancements You can use if you have the means if your insurance covers it great tools to help you understand What's going on with your blood sugars why dexcom g6 is so good or g7 or freestyle librae 2? Because they actually tell you what is about to happen based on the current to drop in your blood sugars So if you are starting your exercise a hundred and fifty and your blood sugars are dropping at 60 milligram or 90 milligram per hour Or depending on the minutes, you know that the machine calculates and tells you it shows you for example two arrows down That means that you're going to drop severely so stop the exercise and eat something before you go down there So these are the important things that you have to be really really on top of if you are exercising, which is important I'm not saying don't exercise you have to exercise It's just that especially if you're on insulin and certain agents that can drop your blood sugars You may be at significant risk Now of course guys, you know, they're not every medication is high risk So you can be on ozampic ribalsis Ribalsis, Turulosidae, Bydrian, Genuvia, Jardians, Farsiga, Invokana, Methformin These agents are not high risk, Pyaglutazone, Octos, these medications are okay So they do not really cause it so but what ends up happening in my practice is if somebody is having low blood sugars I don't just turn a blind eye to it. So what I do is I say, okay Let's just try to manage this. If we can change our medications to something else that does not cause low blood sugar Let's do it We try to find ways to always always avoid low blood sugar Why first of all, it doesn't feel good second of all It causes people to eat more and more as every time they have a low blood sugar They kind of try to eat more and that causes significant problems weight gain and so forth rebound High blood sugars that those are the problems associated with low blood sugar So our goal in my practice is always always avoid prevent low blood sugar and find ways to do that That three changes education and medication management is the key when it comes to these points Now, of course, alcohol is another big factor. Just a glass of wine at night is not gonna really do too much But if you're going and partying and having three or four shots you are looking to Have low blood sugar next morning because you're actually shutting your liver off now liver is the biggest glycogen store Which is glycogen is the molecule. That's like a packed glucose together. So The biggest glucose depot is your liver And when you shut that off you are basically are totally helpless So if there is insulin in your system Even if there is glucagon that's trying to save you like an internal glucagon that's trying to save you Your body is still is going to be non responsive When you are under the effect of alcohol so Another point is the chronic kidney disease if you have underlying chronic kidney disease starting from stage 3 stage 4 stage 5 You are at very high risk of low blood sugar, especially you if you're using cell phone urea And insulin again if you're not using cell phone ureas or megaliton eyes or or insulins You're not necessarily at high risk. Just because you have chronic kidney disease like I hear a lot of patients on GLP1 agents such as ozampic trilocity sometimes trigenta and so forth DPP for inhibitors They really don't cause any problems just because the way they work is not necessarily through a kidneys then I'm metabolized by the kidneys and As a result you you're not looking for a problem So if somebody has a kidney failure, we choose the drugs accordingly. We do we you know, we look at things holistically That's part of being a doctor. So that's why my advice is Watch these videos and learn as much as you can about diabetes But let the doctors make a decision for you Do not stop and start medications Do not go on your own to do things to help your diabetes because more than likely you are going to end up having a problem associate with it now malnutrition and You know is a big factor some people just go in a this crash diets and that's just not going to help Sometimes when you're sick and you know, you just don't have any means of eating your appetite is down You have cancer God forbid, you know, these are the things that can definitely reduce your glycogen and glucose stores and It may definitely put you at risk of low blood sugars Now so we discuss about the risk factors about hot is, you know Why low blood sugars can happen what are the risk factors? But then you know, of course how to treat is the biggest thing, right? So it's actually how to treat is very easy. I call it 15 or 20 rule So basically what you do is you try to use a heart candy or glucose tablets, which are proven to be the best Some people use crackers. Some people use juice Regular coke whatever But you have to be very careful about how much you're ingesting because at the moment of stress or panic People tend to eat the whole kitchen. It's a don't do yet. So it's try to stick with your 15 to 20 rule. Basically you are eating You know say 15 20 grams of carbs, which is equal to for glucose tablets Which is equal to half a glass of juice equal to three to four crackers And then Basically, you're checking it again in 15 to 20 minutes So at that point if your blood sugar is above 70, that's great If you're going to have a meal go ahead and have your meal go ahead and take your medication You should be all right But still monitor your blood sugar maybe at least an hour after a meal If you're not going to have a meal at that point even if you're at the above 70 I would suggest checking it again at 15 20 minutes again to make sure that the staying up Or maybe having a more Snacks such as something that has protein and fat in it along with carbs So it can actually keep you until the next meal. That is also very important if you have had Esophonylurea agent such as glupazide liboride with disgust insulin etc. If there is the effect of insulin in your body That is another reason that you have to be really keeping an eye on it If your blood sugar is not going above 70 after eating 15 to 20 grams of these carbs Then you eat another 15 to 20 grams and again check it again in 15 to 20 So that is a cycle that goes on on and on So if you are if you're above 70 great monitor again great meal time You're good to go but still monitor at one hour If your blood sugar is not coming up keep eating at 15 20 grams And at some point, you know once you're above 70 You can have a small snack with protein and fat and you should be good to go one thing You should be paying attention also, which is a mistake a lot of people do Is relying on your continuous glucose monitoring system when you have a low blood sugar? That's not necessarily the time to rely on your dexcom g6 or g7 whatever it may be It's not the time to rely on your freestyle liberate So freestyle liberate Ordex com g6 Is not going to tell you that your blood sugar is up. Why? Because they are delayed They are telling you the blood sugar in your tissue level not necessarily in the blood level So the transition from blood to tissue and then the time the sensor detects the the sugar increase All those chemical reactions to happen and all that so in this time of rapid changes in the blood sugars You do not rely on your cgm or continuous glucose monitoring device You rely on your finger stick. Yes, they try to you know market you those things are no more finger sticks and so forth Yeah, yeah, that's typically most of the time is true But in the time of like severe situation like a severe low blood sugar You're you're trying to fix it your blood sugars are changing rapidly That's not a time to rely on your dexcom or freestyle liberate. That's that's a good clinical point I want you to remember rely on your finger stick up checks at those times Now when do we use the glucagon? That's another point that we need to discuss Glucagon is a time when you don't use it on yourself somebody else uses glucagon on you Glucagon is available in a traditional format where it comes in a potter And you have to mix it and then you have to get an intramuscular injection Nowadays, there are new formulations where it comes in a pre pre filled syringe So all you have to do just take the syringe on and just jab it into the muscle of that person who's not responsive And just let it run to the system Also, there is a nasal glucagon the the one that's called The the pre filled one. I believe it's called g-voke It's a good drug, but it's new drugs. So it may not be covered by your insurance But you can always have your physician try if they're willing to try Also, the other thing that that the nasal glucagon is called baksimi Also is available Again, you know insurance companies may not be that great, but your physician if they're astute and if they are On top of their game, they should know how to get you those medications Especially if you have commercial insurance, there are many ways of finding coupons, copay cards and and stuff like that. So For some people that may be an easier thing to do, especially As a family member, let's say your wife is Is diabetic and You're you're you're really fearful that she may have a severe low blood sugar But you're afraid of using A needle or a syringe that you have never used before Uh, if that's the case you may want to try to go for a nasal because all you have to do is just It's like a like a osman medication. Just do two puffs and and then you're good to go So what happens if your blood sugar is low, but you don't really feel it But that happens a lot in patients who have um blood sugar problems frequently So if they're having frequent of blood sugar low blood sugar, your body at some point just stops responding It's like this is too much. We are having low blood sugar every day. I'm done.  That's not not the body talks to you. It's just this called in in medicine We call this down regulation when something happens repeatedly your body becomes risk responsive to it So so as a result, you know, this is a problem Why because you are not going to realize that you're really low until your blood sugar goes low So what's the treatment for that? We just tell the people just calm down I have a lot of patients who are so obsessed about their blood sugars They rather live in the 40 50 blood sugars than than a 180 blood sugar. I'm like, look, yes High blood sugar is harmful But low blood sugar is harmful too and actually it can cause you Cost your life. So let's say you're having a low Driving you have a you have a low blood sugar severe low blood sugar and then you pass out What's gonna happen?  Do everything you can to avoid the low blood sugar. So But sometimes I just can't change people's minds, you know, they just they're just stuck in what they think they know And but you know, that's something that the treatment for that is basically relaxing The sugars so your body will realize the difference. Oh, yeah, now your blood sugar is coming high Now when I go low, I know I'm going low So the difference is what your body realizes So you have to give your body a break and let your blood sugars go up a little bit not like in 200s 300s But at least in the sometimes in in the high 100s Is going to allow your body to realize that you actually can have a low blood sugar when you're going down to 70 so Anyways, and there are some people who will actually have low low blood sugar symptoms without having low blood sugars Right, so we sometimes treat people and we have very effective medications and dietary modifications And we can bring people to blood sugar from 400 down to 100 within a week or two nowadays, right? And we do that a lot actually And some people love it. They are impressed.  We just relax it We just say let's just come down. Let's just bring your blood sugars up a little bit to 150 180 whatever You're comfortable with and we take it easier on these patients to bring their blood sugars down Maybe in the in the in the next few months instead of just three weeks so I do not recommend treating blood sugars when they are down to just um, you know 100 and You know, that's not something to treat. It tends to go away. Your body gets adjusted to it And that is basically what it is and as long as you know what it is, you should be good to go Again guys, this is dr. Ahmed Ergin. I hope that Lecture was helpful to you. I think every diabetic should know about how to deal with hyperglycemia and low blood sugars What puts them at risk and if they are at high risk medications and they are having low blood sugar They have to discuss their doctor. Again, if you're in florida or new york, uh, we are definitely available Just call us Give us a thumbs up for this video And we are going to bring up more and more videos. 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So let's talk about how you might perform a subtraction. If I use tape diagrams or counting down, they very naturally lead to a method known as subtraction by decomposition. And the basic idea is that if I want to find the value of the subtraction a-b, what I'm going to do is I'm going to break b and possibly a down into a number of useful parts. And then at that point, what I'm going to do is I'm going to remove the parts of b from the parts of a. So for example, let's say I want to take the subtraction 87 minus 23. And again, to put this in perspective, we have not yet at this point learned a formal algorithm for performing any sort of subtraction. However, that shouldn't make too much of a difference because we have an idea of what we're doing when we subtract. So I'm going to subtract 23 from 87. And so the idea is I can think about 87 as being composed of the parts 80 and 7. And likewise, I can think of 23 as being composed of the parts 20 and 3. And so what I want to do is I want to subtract 23. Well, I want to subtract 20 and 3 from whatever I can subtract it from. So I can subtract 20 from 80, that leaves me 60. I can subtract 3 from 7, that leaves me with 4. And so when I subtract the parts, I get the parts 60 and 4. And I can retrieve my final answer as the number 64. Now another way of looking at this again once we gain a little bit more facility with basic arithmetic is to think about it as follows. I started with 87, I subtracted 20, and then I subtracted 3, and then I got my remainder 64. Well, let's take a look at a different example, 103 minus 47. So again, I can think about the number that I'm subtracting as 40 and 7. So I can start with 103, and I can subtract 40. This is essentially just a benchmark counting down subtraction. So I'm going to subtract 40, and that takes me back to 63. Now I can subtract 7. Now if I don't know how to cross a 10 with a subtraction, that's okay. Because all I have to do is figure out how I'm going to subtract 7 using what I can subtract. So again, I can think about this as a counting down problem. I want to count back 7. Well, I might start by counting back 3, that takes me down to 60, and then count back 4, subtract 4, and that takes me, let's see, 59, 58, 57 to 56. And so all together I've gone back 43, 47. I've gone back 47 from 103, and I've gotten back to 56.


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Awesome. Welcome to another 12pm tutorial. This tutorial will show you how to download and use PUF, a circumvention tool that connects you to the internet through a proxy server. By connecting you to the internet through a proxy server, PUF attempts to give you access to information that may not be available in your area, making it a great tool for those people who are stuck behind firewalls or other forms of internet filtering. Now that you know how PUF works, I'm going to show you how to use the software. First, open up a web browser and go to www.erite.net. At this point, I would normally tell you to take a look around the website, but there isn't much here, so let's just keep going. There are two versions of PUF to download, the commercial version and the free version. We're going to download the free version, so go ahead and click the link for the free version and save it to your computer. Once the file finishes downloading, you can close your browser and then go find the file. Opening the PUF file requires that your operating system can open archived files. If yours doesn't automatically open this file, go to www.7zip.com and download 7zip, which will be able to open the file for you. Once you have extracted the files, double-click on this file here in order to start the installation process. Click Next. Choose where you want to install the program and then click Next. Click Next again. Go ahead and check this box if you want to create a desktop icon and then click Next. Read through the information here and click Install. Feel free to run PUF after the installation is done. I'm going to run it from the desktop. Double-click the PUF icon in order to start the program. Most of these buttons should be pretty self-explanatory, so take a look over here at the black screens. These black screens mean that we aren't connected to the internet through PUF. Go ahead and click Connect. When both screens turn blue, you have successfully connected to the PUF service. And here are two options for opening up internet explorer browsers. IE via proxy is a secure browser that connects to the internet through PUF. IE local is a non-secure browser that does not connect to the internet through PUF. If you are looking to access information that is regularly filtered in your area, you'll want to click IE via proxy. Go ahead and do that now. You should automatically be redirected to a page that shows the IP address that people will see while you are using PUF. How do I know that's not my actual IP address? I'll open up a rub browser that isn't using the PUF service, like so, and go to www.checkip.org. Those numbers look different to me, so that tells me that PUF must be working.  Now you know how to use PUF.


My very first concert was the legendary Ricky Skaggs while touring with the Dixie Chicks. Sixteen years later, he's making his way back to the region to play at concert at the East Kentucky Expo Center. Before the show, he joined the employees at East Kentucky Broadcasting. Skaggs was born in Lawrence County and started his music career at the early age of six, which he says is probably one of his favorite musical memories, even if it was many moons ago. Being on stage with Bill Monroe at six years old, I have a vague memory of that, but that was, you know, you talk about defining moments, you know, in your life. What do you want, son? And then the year after that, I was on Flatten Skrug's television show in Nashville at seven years old. There I am about that tall with a vacation Bible school haircut really short and playing the mandolin and got my little white shirt on and a Flatten Skrug string tie. You know, I wanted to look like the boys. Skaggs says his musical influence also came early in life. Hearing my mom and dad sing together was a wonderful thing, you know, in church. Hearing them sing duets together and then when I was three, I started singing around the house, you know, and harmonizing with mom. I'd be in here in one room playing with my little toys and mom would be in the other room singing and I'd be singing harmony to her just nonchalantly, you know, and she realized that I could hear harmony so she told my dad and dad bought me mandolin when I was five. Ricky Skaggs will be live at the Expo Center tonight where he says everyone will feel right at home. Just a lot of picking and singing and a lot of fun and probably a lot of stories about my folks and, you know, it's going to be a great night. You know, Kentucky music for Kentucky people. I mean, it doesn't get any better than that. Reporting in Pikeville for EKB News, I'm Shelby Steele.


Russia will equip cruise missiles with cluster munitions which will be used to devastate Ukraine. Russia plans to equip its KH-32 cruise missiles with cluster munitions, the Ukrainian National Resistance Centre reported, citing documents obtained from the PELCOM Dubna machine-building plant which manufactures the missiles. These documents allegedly contain an order from the Russian Defence Ministry to the factory's engineers to modernise the cruise missiles with cluster warhead in October 2023. There have been no recorded instances of Russian use of such missiles thus far. This announcement follows an earlier report by the National Resistance Centre which stated that the Russian Military Industrial Complex planned to produce 683 cruise missiles and 215,000 aircraft bombs and unguided missiles in 2024. An international convention banning the use of cluster munitions was signed in 2008, though the United States, Russia and Ukraine are not signatories. On July 7th, the United States handed over a new military aid package for Ukraine which included DPICM munitions or cluster munitions. Later, US President Joe Biden explained that he agreed to send cluster munitions because the Ukrainian army was short of shells. The US Department of Defense has assessed that Ukraine is using cluster munitions properly on the battlefield. Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder said at a briefing on August 10th, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan stated that Russia has been using cluster munitions since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. At the same time, Sullivan stressed that there is a big difference between the type of cluster munitions used by Russia and the type the United States has supplied to Ukraine.


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Hey guys, what is up, welcome to my channel. Today's video I'm intending is gonna be quick, but you guys know how that goes. But I did receive my Jaclyn cosmetics order in the mail today, so I wanted to do a very quick first impressions for you guys, so let's get started. Hi guys, if you're new here, my name is Morgan, I'm a product knowledge and boosiest. I just love knowing anything and everything about all the new makeup on the market, so I had to pick up the new products that Jaclyn launched. Now, I didn't pick up very much. Like I said, I only ended up picking up two duos because I was teaching when the launch happened and I forgot about it. And I did end up getting two of the three blush and bronzer duos that I wanted because by the time that I went on, it was about an hour after launch. There were still some items available, but it was very, very minimal. And I decided just to go with the blush and bronzers because this is what I was most curious about. And she did launch other colors and the other formulas that she's previously released like the Mood Light Luminous Powder and then we have her loose highlighter and then her actual press powders. But I did pick up one of each formula in her holiday launch a couple of years ago and I couldn't remember what shades I already did have because I was interested in picking up another luminous powder shade and another loose highlighter shade but I couldn't remember what I had, so I figured I already have those formulas, I didn't need them, I was most interested in the duos anyways. So I'm gonna start off with the duos and then if you're still interested in my thoughts and the other formulas, I will swatch what I have in case you're curious but these are gonna be the main guys of the show. So while most of these products with the exception of like one or two colors in the highlighting formulas, everything sold out on the Jacqueline website. However, she's going to Ulta so March 7th, you'll be able to get these products from Ulta which I do recommend because it's always a little bit easier to turn as well and you can gain points with your Ulta stuff but it is always nice as well to purchase from the original brand's website when you can but if it's a rush to be able to get some stock, I think Ulta will be a little bit more of a relaxed experience. So let's start off with the blush and bronzing duos. So she came out with a range of seven shades. Oh and in case you're wondering about shipping and all of that, I do live in Maryland and I did pay for expedited shipping. So here's what the boxes that come in. It comes in a really beautiful rose gold box and then it has the name of the duo here. So the details about this, it has a 12 month shelf life and it's made in Italy and Italy makes my favorite powders from my experience. Now here is what the packaging looks like. It is a plastic cover, like it doesn't feel as luxurious as her holiday packaging. However, I love the packaging you guys. This is a unique compact in that, I mean, I can't really explain it but you can see how the product just rests in the packaging and the clasp, I don't even know if it's really a clasp but it feels very, very sturdy. So I'm really into the packaging. If there's one thing that she doesn't as well with her brand, it's her packaging. What's inside has been questionable in the past but the packaging really is spot on. It feels luxurious. It's such an experience to open it. And then of course I love the beveled products themselves. So I think overall the aesthetic of the packaging, very lux, I love it. So these are $36. I ended up with two shades. The first one is the Lilac Love in top tan and then the other shade that I picked up is the Pink Me Up in Oh Honey. There was one more that I thought was a little bit deeper that I wanted but these were the only two available that I really thought would fit my skin tone. So let me show you the comparison of the two. So this one right here is the Lilac Love blush and this one right here is the Pink Me Up blush just so you can see the differences. The Pink Me Up has a little bit more of a golden bronzer whereas the Lilac's a little bit more neutral and then you can see the Lilac of course has that cooler mauve tone to it. So we're gonna do a side by side swatch comparison because I do know that there's been a little bit of question about how similar the shades are. So I'm gonna swatch the Lilac Love in top tan first. So they do swatch very sheer but they feel very buttery smooth. I don't mind a sheer formula when it comes to face products because if it's too pigmented, it can be harder to work with. All right, I'm gonna swatch Pink Me Up and then the bronzer. So that's going to be the bottom swatches. I really feel like you can tell a difference in the bronzer and you can tell an undertone different in the blushes. Now in the grand scheme of things, when you sheer everything out on the cheek with a brush, are you gonna be able to tell the difference between the two? Probably not, but we will find out. So we're gonna start off with bronzer. I'm using a BK Beauty 103 brush. We're gonna do the Lilac over here and by the way, if you're curious about anything else that I'm wearing, it will be linked in the description box. Now I will say this foundation is darker than my actual natural skin tone. I guess because I'm a PE teacher and I always teach outside, I've always had more color to me. And obviously for the last year, basically not going outside, none of my foundations match me. But anyways, we did get a little bit of kickback but nothing obnoxious. It's definitely that kind of loose baked formula and I'm gonna put this all over. And I'm not getting a ton of payoff but it's really pretty and soft. You definitely have some playroom. So if you're a heavy-handed person or you're more new to makeup, it's pretty foolproof. So you'll be good. I think this is a great beginner formula as far as the bronzer. We'll get into the blush. But I don't think this is an amazing bronzer if you're deeper than myself. I think you'll definitely have to go towards the deeper end of what she offers because I did pick up the two lightest ones. Those are what was available. Okay, and I'm looking really cute right now but the show must go on. I did wanna point out that the two shades I picked up were for fair to light skin tones according to her website. So you'll see that it's very, very sheer on me. I think the one that would have flattered my skin tone the most is warm flush because that one is directed for light to medium skin tones. So I think I'm gonna pick that one up at Ulta. Okay, and then I do want to actually use something that's a little bit more dense. So I'm gonna use a BK Beauty 104 because I think this will pack on the color a little bit better. So you don't need to use a really loosely packed brush with this. Something dense might actually apply a little bit more color quick. This brush is stained, it has white bristles but I promise you it's clean. This is the Esum V50. We're going to apply the Lilac blush. Again, not a lot of fallout. Ooh, and it definitely applies just a nice wash of color. If you don't like a ton of pigmentation in your blush, you're really gonna like this, especially if you're more on the fair side. For me, I think I typically do prefer a blush with a little bit more color. But again, if you're heavy handed, you're more fair, you're a beginner to makeup, you might actually really appreciate this formula and it does have a very natural glow to it. This is going to be beautiful with cooler toned looks. So that's really pretty, very soft, easy to blend. Everything applied very nice and it was really smooth. So so far so good. Okay, so I'm gonna wipe off the brushes. All right, so now we're gonna go into Pink Me Up and Oh Honey. So starting off with that original BK of Beauty 103 brush and these bronzers aren't gonna give you a flat finish. They are gonna give you a very, very minimal sheen. And I mean, very, very slight. It's just not a flat color. Sorry, my baby hairs are like everywhere. So these bronzers probably aren't gonna be the best for me when it's actually summer and I'm this color.  Honestly, I really like the bronzer color. It's soft. It's nothing that's making my skin look really muddy. So I find both of these bronzers to be very complimentary to my skin tone. Now, can you tell much of a difference? No. I think you have to be quite fair to be able to tell the difference between the two bronzer shades. And now we're gonna go into Pink Me Up here and I went in pretty heavy with this blush because you have the ability to do that and you'll see it definitely has that luminosity to the cheek. I think this one is a little bit more luminous than the Lilac blush. And you can go back in for more because you have that flexibility with this product. And there you go. This is the Lilac blush duo. This is the Pink Me Up blush duo.  Not really. Like very, very, very slight differences in undertone because I'm looking for them. But if somebody's gonna see you out on the street, they're not gonna know you're wearing different colors. So my suggestion would be definitely you don't need to own all of these. I think picking one up with the undertone that you typically prefer to wear will do you well but you do not need all of the colors in this range. But the formula itself is really nice. And if you're a beginner to makeup, they're very soft, they blend very beautifully. Now it's not a formula that I prefer. I do prefer a little bit more pigmentation, especially in the blush. I think the bronzer is actually a really nice change because a lot of the bronzers I have in my collection are actually very pigmented and it really is a nice change to have something that's very light that I know I can't overbuild and it's not going to look really muddy on me. So I actually prefer the bronzers more than I prefer the blush. I do have a really beautiful luminosity to them. But again, I'm a huge blush person so I think I prefer something a little bit more pigmented. No, but you definitely don't need more than one. I would say because the formula is so sheer. I think they're pretty good. I definitely do, but you're not gonna die if you don't have them. That covered the blush duo. That's everything new that I bought. But I did wanna talk about the other formulas in case you wanted to be a little bit more informed on my thoughts if you do plan on picking up what she has coming out on Sunday. So we'll start off with the Mood Light Luminous Powder. Now keep in mind there is a different packaging now. This was from her holiday collection. So her new packaging looks beautiful. So these are gonna be $32. And when she originally brought this product out a couple of years ago, she described it as the product that's just gonna give you a luminous lip from within glow. Now I own the shade Carrots. I'm very interested in trying a couple other shades like Do Me and Brighten Up because the tones are different. So let me show you what Carrots looks like. There are five shades altogether and it's gonna be hard to show you what the color exactly looks like because it's a sheer product. But here's what Carrots looks like on my finger. I just want you to be able to see some of that luminosity. And because of my studio lights, it definitely looks very, very shiny. So she described this product as something that you should use all over the skin. I'm using it all over my skin today and it does look very nice but you need to use it very, very sparingly.  It's a highlighter really. If you use a more dense brush, let me show you actually. So it actually does make a beautiful highlighter but to use it as what she originally advertised it for, I think it's too shiny personally but if you like that glow from within highlight and you're not into really intense highlight, it's actually quite beautiful. You can see it really does give that very natural highlight to it. So I do like this product. The only thing is when you put it all over the face, I find it to be a little bit too sparkly. You can kind of see the individual sparkles on the face. I think for this to really actually be a true finishing glow from within powder that you apply everywhere, those sparkles can't be there. It needs to hold that radiance without having those sparkles and that's something that I cannot convey on camera. It's not going to show to you but that's kind of my tip on this product. I do like it. I think it's nice and I think it's a really gorgeous, just natural, glowy kind of product but just be aware, if you're gonna use it all over your face, there's some tips that I have for applying. We also have her loose highlighters right here. So these are her Beaming Light Loose Highlighters $24. Again, the packaging is different. She has six shades. Now I have the shade Bomb in case you want to take a look at that and these are exactly as they sound. They're gonna give you a super intense metallic highlight right there. And I like these, they're nice but I don't find myself reaching for loose highlighters really. It's just a bit messier. This is like, you can see that. This is a really kind of outdated product in my opinion for Jaclyn Hill. It certainly is on brand but for me and what I prefer nowadays, it is a more natural highlight. So the mood light is actually what I would prefer for the highlighter. If I was gonna use something loose but you can blend it out to be very nice but just be aware it's a loose highlighter. It's quite beaming. So if you're not into that kind of vibe, you might not be in love with this product but it's nice for what it's supposed to do. I like it a lot. So if you're into that product, thumbs up on that. I already have one of the colors. I don't feel like I need any more. And the last product that she released are the Accent Light Highlighters. These are individual highlighters. They're $29 each. And I believe most of the shades are from the original Holiday Highlighter palette. So when I was taking a look, I couldn't find Gleam on sale on the website but I do have Ice, Sparks and Mesmerize. So I'm gonna show you them if you are interested. So Ice, Sparks and Mesmerize. I'm just gonna show you on my palm. Ice, Sparks, Mesmerize. So you can see. And these are a really beautiful highlighting formula. They're very smoothing on the skin. I think that they blend onto the skin quite seamlessly. Not that I need to be packing on more but I really do, oops. I really do love this highlighting formula. So if you're on the market for a pressed highlighting formula, this is really nice. It's really buildable. You can get it to be quite shiny but you can also get it to be quite natural. She really nailed this formula. My only thing is like, I mean, do we all need highlighters? Probably not. We already have so many but if you are looking into the highlighters, I recommend that formula a lot. It's very nice. All right, you guys, there we have it. That was my first impressions on the blush jewels. Again, the video ran a lot longer than I intended because I talked so much. Also, if you had a question about the background, this is my artificial light background. It just, because the walls are light, okay, you don't care about this. You can exit out the videos done if you don't care about what I have to say but this background is what I use when I film at night because the light bounces off the white walls so the video stays bright. Whereas my normal background that I use to film, I definitely need the daylight to light up my background. It definitely looks way too dark when I film in the nighttime. So I hope that makes sense. But anyways, I'm filming at night. This is what I have to use at night so that you're able to see the true color of the product. Anyways, if you guys aren't subscribed to my channel already, I hope you would consider taking the time to do so. I hope you found this video helpful and I will see you guys in the next one. Have a good one.


The last time I cut my hair was back in June 2020, so it's been exactly two years since I've had a haircut. During this time, I've adopted a natural hair care routine that works to help nourish my hair, promoting soft, shiny, healthy hair while helping to prevent split ends from forming. This is my all-natural hair care routine that I follow. So I thought I'd share my all-natural hair care routine that I've recently adopted to help repair the ends of my hair because I've been growing it out. As you can see, it's getting really long from when I last shared when I cut my hair, which is probably last year during quarantine. As you guys can see, I have something very new to share with you. I have actually just cut my hair. So it was actually really long before I've been growing it out for two, two long years, and I finally decided to get it cut the other day because all the ends of it were starting to become more split and dead. So I cut a lot of it off and it's so healthy now. I love it. I am growing it out again though. That is something that I really want to do, but I've decided not to be so lazy with cutting my hair. So I'm going to cut it every six months to ensure that the ends don't become dead again. So it's been a while. I mean, it's actually started growing really long and I'm just so happy about it. But since I've started some teaching and I'm getting in the chlorine most days, it's just killing the ends of my hair. Like it's really drying it out.  So I've started adopting this natural hair care routine and I'm going to show you guys over a month or a few months how it goes on my hair, see if there's any improvement. I'm hoping so. And I'll share with the products that I use that I use for my natural hair care routine. So the first thing I use is a thick bars. I use the same Clements one. It just smells really lovely. It's oily hair. It's just a solid shampoo bar. And I'll keep that in a little container and whenever I go to work or if I'm swimming out in the ocean, I'll bring that with me and I have like a shower. It's just so handy because I have it on like just on hand. So I love it. That's why I love shampoo bars as well, because they're plastic free, which is originally why I switched to them. And this one I found works really well. Like I've tried other shampoo bars in the past and I find they leave, some of them, leave like a clay like residue on my hair and it just doesn't wash it my hair as well. Whereas this one actually does such a good job. And the ingredients are really quite clean. And it was highly recommended by ethically Kate, if you follow her on Instagram, that's how I found out about them. But I totally highly recommend to, if you are looking for a shampoo bar that you want that really works, a thick is your go-to. I'll still try not to wash it too often because the more you wash it, the more the hair tries to replace the wheel that's been stripped. So I'm trying to kind of keep it in balance, not washing it too often. But just like when, you know, when it needs it, when it needs it really. So that's the first thing that I do. The second thing that I use is a conditioner. And I mean just recently added this to my routine. I will actually be showing you guys how I make that today because I don't have any moment with me. I've just recently bought the emulsifying wax that is needed for the recipe because you are combining the oils and like moisture tonic kind of together. So it helps with emulsifying that and combining it so it doesn't separate. So I found this just online. I got the olive oil one, but you don't have to. There was a palm oil one. I was trying to stay away from palm oil as much as possible. Even if it's certified sustainable palm oil, I find it's just still taking it land and made for us. That could be used for other things, like growing for us. So I just tend to stay away from it anyway. But if everyone's like choice, like everyone has their own opinion of it. So I got this olive oil one. And then the third thing that I do is in between washing my hair, I'll do some coconut oil hair masks and I'll just put that all the way through. And I feel like that's also helped with the hair growth. It's just been incredible. Like my hair hasn't grown this fast quickly. Since I can remember really. So it's amazing. Sorry, I have a bit of a cold. Hence my raspy voice. So yeah, that's what I do is my third thing and I'll put all the way through my hair and I'll tend to leave it on. You don't need to leave it for 30 minutes to like an hour or so, but I'll tend to leave the coconut oil hair mask in or during the morning and I'll leave it in all day just to like let it have the super moisturizing, super deep hydrating effects. So yeah, that is my routine. So I'll kind of walk you through it and hopefully in a month or two, I'll share when my hair will look a little bit healthier. So I'll show you the before. This is the before. From a distance it seems okay. I'll do a little close up to show the ends, which is what we're all really looking at really. The ends are looking a little bit mmm. And I'll be back again to show you the after of my hopefully hair transformation. So I've brought up my coconut oil. This is my giant jar of coconut oil. I refill it when I need to at the bulk food store. So I can just keep reusing the same jar. So I'll usually do this on the days I'm going to wash my hair. So just before so I'm going to wash my hair today because it's like a little bit oily. So I can't work clean. I'll just pop this in. I try and sort of melt the coconut oil with my hands before rubbing it through my hair. I always get clumps of just coconut oil in your hair. So that's not a nice. So in the summer it's a lot easier because coconut oil is already liquidy. We're going into winter, it's really cold so I'm going to try and melt it before I end. That'll do. And then I sort of start with my scalp. So I sort of massage it through, bring it all the way to the roots and sort of work it all the way down to the length of my hair. Then you do get bits of hair stuck to your joy. So it is a bit messy but the results are good.  It's a good thing. And then once I've finished rubbing all the coconut through my hair, I grab my comb and then I just brush it through to make sure that all the strands are coated in it. So none of it's under my hair, none of my luscious locks have been missed. I usually get like patches where it just hasn't sort of coated. This helps especially for the ends of my hair. I always find that it's very challenging to sort of coat them in the oil, all of them anyway. So this sort of just helps get to the ends of the hair a bit better. And that's it. It's super easy. And then I just leave this in for three hours minimum but usually I just leave it in most of the day and I'll just wash my hair in the evening. It does take a couple of washes to kind of get rid of all the oil because it is quite like strong. I put like a lot of oil in. So I find that after about two like washes with my shampoo bar, it's gone and it's great. And then my hair is all hydrated. It's wonderful. I used to do this mask probably one or two times a week. I love it because it makes my hair smell of coconut. So it just reminds me of the tropics so much. It's awesome. It smells amazing. I love coconut. My haircare routine goes as follows. After leaving the hair mask in for the day, I'll begin washing my hair using the shampoo bar. I scrub my hair once through and really try and remove as much of the oil as I can in the first wash. Then I rinse my hair. I'll follow up with a second wash through to remove any remaining oil residue and rinse again.  After washing my hair with shampoo, I'll add in the conditioner. I use about a small handful of the conditioner for my long hair and rub that through the ends of my hair. I'll then comb it through to make sure each hair strand has been coated in the conditioner and then I'll leave it in for a couple of minutes before rinsing it out under the water. Now this conditioner is actually a leave-in conditioner that uses all natural ingredients to promote soft, shiny, healthy hair and repair split ends. On days when my hair is looking particularly dry, I'll only wash my hair with a shampoo bar and after gently towel drying my hair to remove the excess water after my shower, then I'll apply my conditioner only to the ends of my hair, not the roots or my scalp. And just gently comb that through with my fingers or a comb again avoiding my scalp. This just helps to moisturize my dry hair naturally and leave it more silky, soft and shiny. The reason why conditioner is really important when it comes to hair care is it helps to replenish hair of its natural oils after the shampoo has stripped these oils away during the cleaning process. To make this conditioner in a heat-proof glass bowl, add in one teaspoon of jojoba oil, one teaspoon of argan oil or castor oil, one teaspoon of vegetable glycerin and three teaspoons of emulsifying wax. Then place the bowl on top of a saucepan filled with water to make a double boiler and bring the water to a boil. Stir the mixture occasionally until completely melted, then remove the bowl from heat and stir in a quarter cup of distilled or boiled filtered water or you can use peppermint or tea tree hydrosol. Once the mixture is warm and no longer hot, stir in half a teaspoon of vitamin E oil and 20 to 40 drops of essential oils if you're using. Stir together until the mixture has cooled to room temperature, then transfer the conditioner to a pump bottle and store in a cool dry place out of sunlight and away from excess heat. To increase the shelf life of the conditioner, you can keep it in the fridge. So it's been a month and this is what my hair looks like. I hope you can sort of stay from that distance. It is definitely not like frizzy, which I'm so happy about. Now I did do a coconut oil hair mask yesterday, so I didn't quite get all the coconut oil out, hence why it looks still a little bit like story. You can still see a bit of the oil residue sitting in there, so I will have to wash it again tonight. But overall, it's so, I feel like it's so much more hydrated since starting this proper actual routine. Like I've been consistent with my coconut oil hair masks every week. I at least do one a week, which really makes such a difference because I leave it in all day. It just transforms my hair. It starts off just really dry, like so much like just breakage, just looks frizzy. And then by the end of the day, I'm like, ah, it's hydrated again. Oh, that's probably a huge thing that I've noticed.  Just like a trim. But otherwise, I feel like I can get by. Like it doesn't look like frizzy or it's like with like a lot of split ends showing. It looks actually okay, which I'm really happy about. The main thing of this whole hair care routine is to have hair that actually looks healthy and not like with a full of split ends, frizzy, dry, just have breakage happening everywhere. So I feel like that's really good. So that is pretty much the end of today's video. Do let me know if you try out the hair conditioner recipe that I share or if you use the thick shampoo bars yourself as well and let me know what you think of them. I love them so much. They've honestly been such a good find in terms of shampoo. Like I honestly, I'm obsessed. I love them so much. They make hair washing so easy. It says they're having to make my own. And I love how they come in compostable packaging, which means that you can just compost it in my bin. And there's no waste. Like there's no plastic packaging, which is amazing. Yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Please let me know what you think in the comments below. If you guys try out the hair mask, the shampoo bar, hair conditioner, I'd love to hear it. Thank you so much for sticking around to the end of this video. It really does mean so much to me. And I do try and get to each and every comment. And again, if I don't get round to responding, I do try and like and show that I have seen it. And so appreciate your comments and messages. It really just, it makes my day and really inspires me to keep doing these videos to see that you guys enjoy them. Yeah, thank you so much for watching. And I hope to see you again soon. Take care. Bye.


hey survivors and frivers please like comment share and subscribe click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos if you would like to donate or if you're interested in coaching the links are in the video description in this video I am going to be discussing how you can avoid narcissists. Narcists can be very invasive in your life they see you as an object or as an extension of them they do not see you as a separate being with your own thoughts feelings and beliefs they expect you to conform to however they want you to think and feel whatever they want you to believe if you refuse to do this overt narcissists will become aggressive to you and sometimes even physically abusive covert narcissists are more likely to stalk you and use more subtle tactics to coerce you into however they want you to think and feel whatever they want you to believe they want to control you and every aspect of your life because it makes them feel powerful it gives them a nasty supply they are also pathologically envious and jealous of you as they cannot get the same fulfillment this is why they are so driven to waste all of their time just to sabotage your experiences in life because they cannot get the same fulfillment and witnessing your satisfaction or fulfillment with whatever you are doing in your life triggers them to reflect on their own fulfillment you may have tried talking to them just to be spun around in circles and then leaving more confused than you were before any interaction with them leads to you being abused manipulated and having your energy drained the conversation has to go the way they want and they have all of these defense mechanisms to ensure that the truth cannot be exposed so they have all of these perceived limitations or restrictions when you interact with them there are certain areas where the conversation cannot go which is completely unnatural this is why they use manipulative tactics like denial projection blame-shifting gaslighting and the double bind I don't want to get too deep into this as I have already done a video called trying to explain to the narcissist that video explains how they have an inner dialogue or an inner critic which they are always reacting to which means that when you try to be real or genuine with them they cannot hear what you are saying all they can hear is the inner dialogue or the inner critic in their minds and it's telling them that they are worthless and insignificant so when you present yourself to them regardless of what you think or say they already assume that you think they are worthless and insignificant this is why they are always trying to project their feelings on to you they do not self-reflect or look within themselves they do not accept responsibility or accountability for anything not even their own feelings so their only other option is to project these feelings on to you they never acknowledge or accept their emotions they are always trying to fight them or blame someone else for how they feel it's like a constant fight with their own thoughts and feelings which they are then projecting on to you and they choose to do this they could make the choice to reflect on how they think and feel but it's painful and they don't want to deal with that they actually enjoy projecting these feelings on to you it gives them a narcissistic supply and this is something they are addicted to so why would they ever want to self-reflect or look within themselves why would they ever want to accept responsibility or accountability for anything that they do sure they might be full of hatred anger envy and jealousy most of the time but that's what gives them the motivation to obtain narcissistic supply that little high they get from abusing and manipulating you they don't really consider that healing their traumas and confronting these emotions could then lead to them experiencing this high most of the time without ever needing to abuse or manipulate anyone instead they remain locked into this endless cycle a survival mode where they are constantly chasing the sense of power control and being larger than life they carry on their issues one day to the next and it can go on for years they do not want a resolution it's sad but that's just how they are a weak example of our species the smallest of disagreements or any little thing that provokes hate anger envy or jealousy within them will cause a narcissistic injury and while you and I could resolve something like that within seconds this is something a weak narcissist will hold on to for months or even years it will be like ground ground hard day dealing with these people the narcissist has an inferiority complex which then leads to a one-up complex this is what makes them so competitive they are obsessed with trying to win well if they have the ability to win it will be over in no time but the problem is it is impossible for them to win because of their inferiority complex which then leads to their one-up complex you cannot win when you have that so you have to compete again and again with no end because you are constantly losing naturally if you are a person with any level of self-worth self-esteem self-belief self-assurance or self-respect you wouldn't want to be around these insecure narcissists but they are not going to let you go that easily because they are using you to regulate their own self-worth and self-esteem the problem is these qualities are meant to be developed from within that's why they have self at the beginning so no matter how much these narcissists try to abuse manipulate exploit degrade and humiliate you it never sustains their self-worth and self-esteem because those qualities are supposed to be developed from within not from manipulating or controlling anything externally this results in them being hooked on you like a drug they go about their day targeting innocent people and then using them to regulate their self-worth and self-esteem by abusing manipulating exploiting degrading or humiliating them in some way and for a few seconds they feel powerful and in control but it never sustains them because those qualities are supposed to be developed from within not by using external influences they also have this delusional mindset sense of arrogance and entitlement that you actually want them deep down I think they know that you are not interested in them in any way but if they were to acknowledge those thoughts they would feel deeply ashamed ashamed of themselves for still proceeding to stalk or interact with you as we know narcissists are shame-based individuals who do anything they can to avoid feeling shame so they will focus on this delusional mindset and tell themselves that they are everything you could ever want they create a false self illusions they try to mirror you and appeal to your own ideals because they want to be something that you are interested in they want what comes with that they want attention validation approval and admiration from you they want to feel desired but no matter how abusive or manipulative this person may be they still have this delusional mindset that they are still desirable because they do not acknowledge their abusive or manipulative actions they have this inner critic or inner dialogue in their minds and it's very painful for them so they refuse to acknowledge anything bad or undesirable about about themselves they just tell themselves that they are something great they are desirable this is why they will do all kinds of sick twisted things to you and still stalk and force themselves onto you as though they are something you would want in your life it's their delusional thinking sense of arrogance and entitlement which pushes them to operate in this way never acknowledging how truly undesirable and distasteful their way of thinking feeling and behaving truly is if you want to avoid narcissists you could move to an environment where narcissism is not as common but there will always be narcissists wherever you go narcissists are everywhere some places may have more narcissists than others but they are everywhere if you want to avoid narcissists you need to cut them off as soon as you recognize that they are narcissists there are there are always red flags in the beginning it's just we overlook them we want to believe that they are good people when you believe that you are a good person you naturally want to see the good in everyone else and this is what causes us to overlook the red flags you will also get the sensation in your solar plexus area when you are in the presence of a narcissist if you practice self-love you will instantly detect when someone is trying to cross your boundaries and you will naturally want to leave and never interact with them again if you are practicing self-love and working on healing you will be on an opposing frequency to the narcissist two opposing frequencies cannot exist in the same space which means that somebody's frequency is going to change and it's not going to be the narcissist their frequency is so low they are shame-based individuals shame is the lowest emotional vibrational frequency so naturally it is going to bring you down you will never leave an interaction with a narcissist at the same frequency as you were before interacting with them when you have an interaction or even just by being around certain people your frequency will not stay the same it's either going to go up or down and if you are around narcissists it's going to go down they will also affect your self-worth and self-esteem often through put downs or backhanded compliments they cannot raise your vibration even if they wanted to for them to do this they would have to be whole and complete themselves but they're not they have a void and they need excessive attention and admiration to constantly fill it up so all they can do is take from you when a person has a void that can never be filled giving is a very difficult thing for them to do they expect you to give to them remember they have this delusional mindset sense of arrogance and entitlement as soon as you notice the red flags walk away nothing is going to change it only gets worth worse with with time as they become more comfortable around you the potency of their supply will decrease and soon enough those backhand compliments will become more and more overt if you practice self-love or if you are a healthy individual you simply cannot function around these people for long periods of time if you are at a certain frequency of emotional vibration you might be able to deal with a person who isn't much lower than you if they are only slightly below where you are you could pull them up to your level and have a great time but when you are dealing with narcissists who have the lowest emotional vibrational frequency shame you will not be able to pull them up to your level they are going to bring you down so as soon as you notice any red flags or you get that sensation in your solar plexus area do not interact or if you are in an interaction just say you have to go somewhere or do something and then walk away as soon as you notice any signs or you feel your frequency dropping it's time to go so to summarize this video how to avoid narcissists practice self-love develop boundaries pay attention to the red flags do not overlook them be aware of the sensation in your solar plexus area if you follow these steps you will be able to successfully avoid narcissists thank you for watching I hope this video has resonated with you please like comment share and subscribe more videos soon