Trigger warning, violence is discussed. Why it is hard and scary to leave an abusive partner. How to heal anxiety and depression after in your recovery. The ups and downs of recovery and coping.

This episode covers Learning to love spending time with yourself again after trauma bonding, control, and brain washing. Gaining trust in yourself back after feeling like you can’t ever do anything right. Learning how much environmental factors and life style contribute to recovery and a happy life.

This episode covers the value in the ability to identify feelings of emotional safety versus feeling unsafe in a relationship, using the rational mind and the emotional mind together, and developing personal boundaries.

This episode covers red flags of abusive partners, how the cycle of abuse works, how to stay out of it. Special guest Steve McCrea, MS who is an author and domestic violence educator shares helpful tactics for staying away from abusers and how they develop an emotional hold in the first place.

Topics include developing resiliency, men and children in therapy, and benefits of recovering from an abusive relationship for your children. Special guest speaker, Christopher Genco.

Attempts to resolve childhood trauma through romantic relationships in adulthood. Skills for developing self-compassion and healing childhood wounds through timeline analysis. This episode is dedicated to my little sunshines, Aubrey and Maggie.

Feelings of wanting to kill the part of ourselves that still loves them so we don’t re-engage in the relationship. Goals for finding inner peace instead, ending self shame, and starting to let love in again.

Dealing with the feelings in between the lines. Knowing you can’t go back but still caring about the person you were with and their well being. Is it wrong to feel love for someone who has hurt me and deceived me? Should I tell them how I’m feeling? These questions are discussed.

Dealing with anxiety, a mean negative inner voice, and overcoming attacking ourselves. How to look at mental health symptoms in a new way without feeling less than or labeled. Leaving unhealthy coping behind.

Special guest speaker on her personal survival journey with a New York fire fighter, her abusive partner of 16 years, and her recovery advice. Gas lighting and dual nature are discussed.