High Conflict Hell

Ep 5: You Can’t Heal While You’re Still Under Attack: High-Conflict Co-Parenting


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TL;DR Everyone tells you to heal, but no one talks about doing it while you’re still under attack. We break down how high-conflict co-parenting and toxic divorce dynamics affect your family relationships, friendships, and ability to function at work.

Long Description: We keep asking ourselves if we’re healed.

Not because anyone else needs to know — but because when you’re in a toxic divorce and high-conflict co-parenting, it takes over your life. You think about it constantly. You talk about it constantly. And eventually, the people around you get tired of hearing about it — even while you’re exhausted just trying to survive it.

That’s why we’re here.

In this episode of High Conflict Hell, Jen and JeniLynn talk honestly with each other about healing — and not healing — while still actively navigating a toxic relationship and a high-conflict co-parent. We’re not checking boxes or proving progress. We’re asking the question we actually live with: are we healed, or are we just still under attack?

We talk about what it feels like to parent inside ongoing custody conflict, how toxic co-parenting keeps your nervous system stuck in fight-or-flight, and why healing doesn’t come in clean stages when parenting plans, legal pressure, and emotional landmines are still part of daily life.

This conversation goes deeper than self-care. We talk about how high-conflict custody dynamics reactivate childhood trauma, how survival mode shows up in family relationships, friendships, and work, and why being told to “move on” misses the reality of living inside active conflict.

We cover:

  • Asking yourself whether you’re healed — not for others, but for your own sanity
  • Why healing feels impossible when the attacks haven’t stopped
  • How toxic divorce and high-conflict co-parenting bleed into friendships and professional life
  • The isolation that comes from being tired of talking about it — and tired of thinking about it
  • Parenting kids who are watching you navigate conflict you didn’t choose

This episode is about a truth most people don’t want to sit with:
Sometimes you’re not unhealed, you’re just still in the middle of it.

If you’re quietly wondering whether you’re doing okay, not because someone asked, but because you need to know, this episode is for you.

This is not a podcast for peaceful co-parenting.

If conflict has ended and communication is respectful — truly, we’re happy for you — but this is not your church.

This is High Conflict Hell: two single moms living inside it, talking it through in real time — so you don’t feel crazy for recognizing your own life in the details.

If any of this hits…

Welcome, Hellion.
You’re exactly where you belong.

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High Conflict HellBy JeniLynn Marks and Jenn Gladish