Alchemy: Energy TransmutationAlchemy: Energy Transmutation
Narcissism Recovery Podcast
Yitz Epstein explains how spiritual alchemy and present-moment awareness can transform negative energy, psychic attacks, and narcissistic abuse into fuel for growth. The episode focuses on protecting your energetic field, healing unconscious wounds, and using even hostile energy to build a more abundant and authentic life.
20:02•2 Sept 2026
Turning Attacks into Fuel: Alchemy and Energy Transmutation in Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
Episode Overview
- Alchemy is framed as transforming difficult emotions and experiences into awareness, strength, and spiritual growth.
- Present-moment awareness is described as the most powerful form of protection, allowing negative energy to be transmuted into higher-frequency energy.
- Psychic attacks, smear campaigns, and group energy (egregores) are portrayed as attempts by low-vibrational individuals to pull someone back into being a source of narcissistic supply.
- Empaths and highly sensitive people are highlighted as particularly vulnerable, but also as especially powerful when they heal leaks, wounds, and unconscious parts of themselves.
- Negative energy sent by others can be used as fuel for dreams and abundance if it is consciously transmuted rather than reacted to with more negativity.
“"In a very funny way, those who are attacking you are actually fueling your dreams."”
Curious about how others manage their energy while healing from narcissistic abuse? This episode of the Narcissism Recovery Podcast zooms in on "alchemy" as a way of turning emotional pain into genuine fuel for growth. Host and narcissistic abuse recovery coach Yitz Epstein breaks down alchemy in simple terms: transforming fear into courage, anger into purposeful action, shame into self-compassion, and trauma into deeper understanding.
He links this to everyday practices like meditation, breath work, movement, prayer, and visualisation – the kind of tools you'll recognise if you're already on a healing path. A big theme here is the power of present-moment awareness. Yitz explains that "the present moment is the most powerful energy in the world" and describes how staying fully present lets you meet negative energy with what he calls unconditional love and authenticity.
Rather than fighting attacks with more negativity, he suggests seeing them as "raw material" you can turn into high-frequency fuel. The episode also speaks directly to empaths, highly sensitive people, and anyone who feels like a "lone wolf" on their healing journey. Yitz talks about psychic attacks, smear campaigns, gang-stalking, and egregores in very practical terms, framing them as attempts by low-vibrational individuals – often narcissistic abusers – to pull someone back into being a source of supply.
It’s intense stuff, but he balances it with reassurance that being targeted often means your light is getting brighter. There’s even a bit of dry humour: Yitz points out the irony that those attacking you might actually be "fueling your dreams" by sending you energy you can transmute into abundance. Anyone repairing their sense of self after narcissistic abuse, or trying to understand why healing seems to attract backlash, will find a mix of spiritual language and grounded explanation here.
It’s an invitation to ask: what if the very attacks meant to break you could become the energy that builds your new life?
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