The Self-Love Recovery Podcast

Ross Rosenberg has spent 35 years working as a psychotherapist, and he uses that experience to reframe how we think about codependency. He coined the term Self-Love Deficit Disorder as an alternative to the traditional codependency label, and his podcast is built around that concept. The idea is simple but powerful: people who repeatedly end up in relationships with narcissists are not broken or weak. They have a specific pattern of self-love deficiency that developed in childhood, and it can be systematically addressed. The show has 126 episodes, a 4.8 star rating from 66 reviews, and releases new content weekly. The format alternates between solo teaching episodes where Ross breaks down psychological concepts and interview episodes with other mental health professionals. Recent topics include critiquing Co-Dependents Anonymous with researcher Chelsey Cole, understanding how narcissists build invisible psychological prisons, the mind-body connection in chronic pain, and coherence theory and its role in childhood programming. He brings real clinical depth to these subjects without making them feel like a graduate seminar. Ross has a direct, no-nonsense teaching style that some listeners find refreshing and others might find intense. He does not soften his language when describing manipulative behavior patterns, and he is willing to challenge conventional recovery wisdom when he thinks it falls short. If you have been through a relationship with a narcissistic partner and the standard advice to just set boundaries has not worked, this podcast offers a more structured framework for understanding why you got there and how to genuinely recover. The clinical precision is the point.