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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Season 7 Episode 276

Date: 12/10/2024

Title: Knowing Your Position

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Today, Andrea is talking about the Karpman Triangle. Imagine in your mind’s eye a triangle with a label in each corner of the Enabler, Persecutor, and Victim. These are the roles that we may take on. We do not stay in these roles. As Andrea explains, when big emotions occur, each individual will shift to these different roles. Many factors can affect these roles. 

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Season 7 Episode 275

Date: 12/5/2024

Title: What Is Narcissism NOT

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It’s a Candid Conversation with Andrea and Mary! Today they’re talking about narcissism specifically what isn’t considered to be narcissism. Andrea focuses on the development of the narcissistic personality and considering the insecurities a person has and how that can be projected to others. She also explores how trauma, attachment, and addiction play in the role of developing narcissism. Mary asks Andrea what are the myths of narcissism and explores what are the truths of narcissism and how this relates to addiction. 

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Season 7 Episode 274

Date: 12/3/2024

Title: Who or What is DARVO?

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What’s a DARVO? Is this a new slang term? Maybe it’s what the kids are saying and talking about? 

Not exactly… DARVO is a cycle that helps us understand how the active addict continues to act out their disease while trying to deceive you. DARVO stands for Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim Offender. DARVO lives in the Cycle of Deception; check out our previous episode on the cycle of deception. 

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Season 7 Episode 273

Date: 11/28/2024

Title: Faking It For The Holidays 

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Happy Thanksgiving! 

Join Andrea and Mary for a Candid Conversation today! In this conversation, they share the difficulties surrounding the holidays and how this can be difficult especially when faced with family of origin. Andrea ensures that we understand the meaning of No and showing up as our authentic selves. Andrea and Mary take an in depth conversation about how we can show up and be our authentic selves during the holidays by looking into boundaries, inner needs, and how to show ourselves love and compassion. 

Call to Action: Make the phone call to those individuals who you feel safe with and ask if they can be your support during the holidays. 

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Season 7 Episode 272

Date: 11/26/2024

Title: Deception And Its Cycle

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Today we’re exploring what the cycle of deception is. Andrea takes us step by step through the cycle and explains what this can look like in our lives. The Cycle of Deception has nine phases- Suspicion, Confrontation, Denial of reality, Investigation, Accusation, Staggered disclosure, Deception & bullying, Ultimatum/bargaining, Promises. Learn more about each phase and how it relates to our previous episode on the anatomy of disclosure. 

The Anatomy of Disclosure: https://www.lightninginabottle.biz/podcast/episode/4f0603d9/s7-270-the-anatomy-of-disclosure 

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Season 7 Episode 271

Date: 11/21/2024

Title: Shield Of Protection

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Let’s take a moment to get grounded. As you take a few deep breaths, just notice how your body responds to being attuned to this moment. This is your moment. Today in this meditation, we are focusing on creating a shield of protection. Invite in what keeps you safe, calm, healthy, and allows you to live the best version of your life. Let Andrea guide you through creating this shield of protection. 

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Season 7 Episode 270

Date: 11/19/2024

Title: The Anatomy Of Disclosure 

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Intense Pain and Negative Impact of a Staggered Disclosure:

When dealing with the damaging effects of staggered disclosure, the deception you feel is a multistage process that profoundly and negatively affects your sense of self and your safety.

Staggard Disclosure is the process of tricked truths, manipulation, deception, denial, blame, followed by more half-truths and traumatic information & damaging (earth shattering) details that send an individual spiraling all over again.

The betrayed can not possibly recover from one massive below before the next is delivered. This is common when the addicted party is in the first -third stage of change.

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Season 7 Episode 269

Date: 11/13/2024

Title: Direct Impact w/ Dana Diaz

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Dana S. Diaz is a wife, mother, and author of the best-selling book GASPING FOR AIR: THE STRANGLEHOLD OF NARCISSISTIC ABUSE. In addition to her life-long experience with narcissistic abuse, Dana's education in journalism and psychology at DePaul University in Chicago gave her the ability to accurately verbalize and express how narcissistic abuse creates confusion and conflict within victims, so that she can help other victims know they are not alone and better understand their own circumstances.

Today, Dana is a proud voice for fellow victims who are unable, afraid, or ashamed to share their experiences. She has been a guest on over a hundred podcasts globally, striving to create awareness and understanding to ensure victims are given the support they need to first understand their situation and then begin the healing process. She has also been a featured speaker in a Summit for healing after trauma and will be featured in two more Summits in 2024.

Her first book, chronicling her own abusive marriage that lasted nearly three decades, started as a journal that she hid under the couch cushion in the 

basement.

Dana lives with her husband in Illinois and is in the process of publishing the prequel and sequel to GASPING FOR AIR.

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