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On today's episode, Sarene chats with Angelika Koch, a certified life and relationship coach who also serves as the breakup and relationship expert for the Taimi app, an inclusive dating app dedicated to the LGBTQIA+ community. Angelika is also an abuse survivor and the author of The Asshole Pandemic: A Field Guide To ID'ing, Deleting, and Healing From Toxic Relationships.

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On today's episode, Sarene chats with Dr. Hayley Nelson, a neuroscientist, tenured psychology professor, international speaker and founder of the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience, where she is passionate about making neuroscience approachable and accessible. 

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On today’s episode, Sarene chats with emotional abuse survivor and licensed clinical social worker Nina Batista. Nina and I discuss the unfortunate truth about mental health professionals, which is that not every therapist is trained in emotional and narcissistic abuse treatment. Nina, however, has undergone several trainings in these areas, and shares new developments and insights in the understanding of narcissistic abuse.





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On today's episode, Sarene chats with Theresa James, LCSW. Theresa is an emotional abuse survivor who has channeled her experiences into a fruitful career as a trauma therapist. As a teenager, Theresa was groomed by an older man who would eventually become her husband. After 12 years of abuse, she finally divorced him and began her life anew as a single mother. Theresa shares her story, discusses the important work she does as a licensed clinical social worker, and talks about the power of meditation as a solid first step toward healing. 

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On today's episode, Sarene chats with a young woman named Emily*. Emily is an emotional abuse survivor who spent several years in a secretive, toxic relationship with a controlling, manipulative guy, and is only now starting to process what she experienced. 

This is the first time Emily is speaking publicly about her abuse. 

*Name changed to protect the survivor's privacy. 

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On today’s episode Sarene chats with V.L. Brunskill. Brunskill is an emotional and narcissistic abuse survivor, and the author of The Killing Closet, a memoir released in late 2023. The Killing Closet is a harrowing story of the abuse Brunskill – as well as her adoptive mother and brother – suffered at the hands of her adoptive father back in the 1960s and 1970s. Brunskill’s father would eventually come out as transgender later in life.

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On today’s episode, Sarene chats with Dr. Erika Bach. Dr. Bach is a licensed clinical psychologist based in New York, specializing in trauma, relationships, anxiety and depression. More and more, she finds herself working with emotionally abused clients, which enabled her to provide invaluable insights about emotional-abuse-adjacent  topics like generational trauma throughout our conversation.

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On today’s episode, Sarene chats with Julie Keating. Julie is a mom of six, a writer and marketing professional, and an emotional abuse survivor. After losing her first husband to cancer, Julie married a man who turned out to be her worst nightmare. In our conversation, we talk about how she had to give up almost everything just to be free of her emotionally abusive husband, but, as she’ll tell you, it was absolutely worth the sacrifice.

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For a number of reasons, I’ve decided to put “Emotional Abuse Is Real” on hiatus starting today – but I promise we will be back in early 2024. 

In the meantime, please listen to this brief update for ways to stay up-to-date and engaged with me, my work, and this podcast, until January. 

No matter what you celebrate, I hope you all have a lovely holiday season!

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On today’s episode, Sarene chats with Sarah Jacobs, Esq. and Jamie Berger, Esq. of Jacobs Berger, LLC.  As family law attorneys who specialize in  divorces involving narcissistic abusers, Sarah and Jamie provide not only fascinating insights into the process of divorcing a narcissistic partner, but they also offer expert tips for victims contemplating separation.

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