Season 7 Episode 286

Date: 1/9/2025

Title: Crazy Making 

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Join Andrea and Mary as they talk more about crazy making. They explore where the term gaslighting comes from and what this can look like in real life. They explore what actual gaslighting is versus what pop psychology defines as gaslighting. 

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Season 7 Episode 285

Date: 1/7/2025

Title: I'm Not Crazy You're Crazy (Gaslighting) 

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Today, we’re talking about crazy making. Gaslighting has been used in all current media, but the meaning of gaslighting is a way to manipulate people to allow addictive behaviors to continue. Addicts use this to defend and protect the acting out behavior. This crazy making is part of the cycle of deception.  Take a moment to understand how crazy making affects trust in self and how to rebuild this trust. 

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Season 7 Episode 284

Date: 1/2/2025

Title: Tired Of New Year New Me

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Season 7 Episode 283

Date: 1/1/2025

Title: Taking It At Your Own Pace (Why Timing Is Everything)

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Season 7 Episode 282

Date: 12/31/2024

Title : Why Does My Addict Behave Like A Narcissist?

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Season 7 Episode 281

Date: 12/26/2024

Title:Recuperate From The “Holiday”

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Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas from the Direct Impact Podcast! 

The holiday season may have been difficult for some of us. So today take this opportunity to focus on SELF- mind, body, spirit, thoughts, and words. Take a deep breath and relax. Now shake all that tension wherever you’re holding it. This moment for you and focusing on what brings us security, joy, contentment, and so on. 

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Season 7 Episode 280

Date: 12/25/2024

Title:You’re Not Fooling Anybody 

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Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas from the Direct Impact Podcast! 

Today enjoy this present of a Candid Conversation with Andrea and Mary as they talk about the concerns with post discovery and how denial is a main factor. Andrea and Mary explore how shame affects how partners may approach the situation and how to communicate this to others who are curious about the relationship. Andrea shares how boundaries are important. Andrea shares how there may be a feeling of obligation but reminds us as to what boundaries need to be set. Mary shares the perspective of how we can use the information of how others react and how we react to understand our boundaries. 

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Season 7 Episode 279

Date: 12/24/2024

Title:Why Set Boundaries With An Addict?  

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The betrayed partner set these rules to help control when they will become betrayed and deceived, but there’s more to you than this. These are attempts to manage betrayal and anxiety. Why do we set boundaries with an addict? The answer is to protect ourselves. We do not set boundaries to control or manage the addict but to ensure we protect our own sanity. 

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Season 7 Episode 278

Date: 12/17/2024

Title: Betrayal Begets Betrayal 

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Why does the cycle of betrayal continue to happen to us? This may be a question that you are asking yourself. Why does this keep happening to me? 

Pause for a moment and remind yourself that this is not your fault. Exposure to the same type of trauma makes us more susceptible to experiencing the same type of trauma. The trauma did not originate from you but is something that has been done to you. Andrea talks about the cycles of betrayal that we continue to experience and how we can break from these cycles. 

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Season 7 Episode 277

Date: 12/12/2024

Title: What is Healthy Intimacy? 

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Intimacy; Into Me You See 

Join Andrea and Mary as they talk about the importance of healthy intimacy. They first talk about the main pillars of creating healthy intimacy which are trust, sex, and emotional. They continue to discuss what dating looks like in regards to healthy intimacy like asking questions about chemistry, values, priorities, and what their relationship is with porn. 

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