Escaping the Covert Narcissist

You finally left, so why does freedom feel like falling apart? This is the part of starting over after divorce that no one posts about.

Still living with her ex after filing for divorce, Sammie DeMarco was losing sleep, barely eating, and growing more unwell under relentless stress.

She speaks honestly about the warning signs, what inpatient psychiatric care was really like, and the therapy and support that helped her begin again.

Then she rebuilds from zero with a puppy named Arizona and a new apartment in Jacksonville. Learn how asking for help can feel like courage, not failure.

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🌐 Website: https://www.sammierose.me
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You feel most like yourself everywhere except home, and that contrast is getting impossible to ignore. Leaving a toxic relationship rarely starts with one big moment.

For Sammie DeMarco, it started when concerts, conventions, and friends reminded her what peace actually felt like, while the criticism and tension at home kept wearing her down.

She breaks down the trauma bond that kept her stuck, how control hides as jealousy and concern, and why her body reacted with anxiety and shutdown before her mind caught up.

Sammie is a relationship coach who helps women break toxic cycles. After this, choosing yourself stops feeling selfish.

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🌐 Website: https://www.sammierose.me
📸 Instagram (Personal): https://www.instagram.com/SammieRose1010
📸 Instagram (Coaching): https://www.instagram.com/SammieRoseCoaching
▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Sammie_Rose
🎥 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@SammieRose1010
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Losing a parent can split your life into a before and an after, and no one warns you how physical that grief becomes. You hold it together for everyone else until the day a pan of food slips from your hands and you collapse with it. If someone at home is rushing you to move on, that is not weakness. It is a signal.

Sammie DeMarco, a certified life coach, walked through devastating loss inside an unhealthy marriage and found her way back to herself. After this, grief feels different.

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🌐 Website: https://www.sammierose.me
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She looked up from her computer and realized, for the first time in her life, that her mind had gone quiet.

For decades, Sammie DeMarco thought she was simply anxious.

Therapy helped. Medication helped. But the anxiety always came back.

Then, five years ago, one diagnosis changed everything: ADHD, the kind that hides in girls as worry.

But quieting her mind let her finally see what she had talked herself out of for years. Her body had been warning her about a marriage that looked supportive in public and drained her in private. 

Sammie is a certified life coach who helps women rebuild through breakups and divorce. Listen, and you'll stop asking what's wrong with you and start asking what your body knows that you don't.

CONNECT WITH SAMMIE DEMARCO
🌐 Website: https://www.sammierose.me
📸 Instagram (Personal): https://www.instagram.com/SammieRose1010
📸 Instagram (Coaching): https://www.instagram.com/SammieRoseCoaching
▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Sammie_Rose
🎥 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@SammieRose1010
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Covert narcissist abuse can leave you confused, exhausted, and wondering if you’re the problem.

Host Lisa Urbanski sits down with Sammie DeMarco, survivor, certified life coach, and divorce recovery coach, to unpack the hidden patterns of emotional abuse that often look normal from the outside.

You’ll learn:
🧠 Why covert abuse is hard to spot
💔 How love bombing creates attachment
🚩 Subtle signs of emotional manipulation
😔 Why joy can trigger control
🛑 How stress shows up physically
🌱 What rebuilding yourself can look like

This episode gives language to the confusion and helps survivors begin trusting what they already feel.

CONNECT WITH SAMMIE DEMARCO
🌐 Website: https://www.sammierose.me
📸 Instagram (Personal): https://www.instagram.com/SammieRose1010
📸 Instagram (Coaching): https://www.instagram.com/SammieRoseCoaching
▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Sammie_Rose
🎥 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@SammieRose1010
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