Dionne Sanchez joins me today to talk about her experience growing up from a young child who couldn't talk or hear to a pivotal experience in junior high school that changed her life. While not directly related to narcissistic or sociopathic abuse, the lessons she learned and how she grew from her experience is a great example for all of us no matter what kind of trauma we've experienced. Beating the odds through the support of her family, friends and years of therapy, Dionne has gone on to go to college and is now host of the podcast Words of Heart in which she has inspiring conversations about mental health.

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This mindfulness exercise is designed to help you overcome feelings of helplessness and hopelessness following a traumatic experience by increasing your sense of agency. Agency is just another word for your ability to make things happen. Developing a sense of agency will help you move from fear to empowerment.

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Use your breath to calm your mind in this guided meditation.

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Mindfulness can help you feel less stressed and improve your sleep, which will help you heal after abuse.

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Take Aways:

1. Your feelings are normal.

2. It is normal to want to blame and/or retaliate against the abuser.

3. He broke the relationship. He did not irreversibly damage you.

4. You can learn to channel the urge to blame/retaliate into thoughts and behavior that benefit you.

5. Tracking your impulses to retaliate, criticize, blame, etc. is a good way to show yourself your progress over time.

6. You can download the log at https://subscribepage.com/episode23download.

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The Take Aways:

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TakeAways:

1. If the average person bumps into your boundaries, they are likely to apologize, back up and try not to do it again.

2. If a predator, emotionally unstable or narcissist bumps into your boundaries, they are likely to create drama, blameshift, gaslight or create chaos. They won’t apologize and they will be sure to do it again in the future. It’s part of their bag of manipulative tricks.

3. Boundary pushes are designed to keep you off-kilter, confused and distracted.

4. Being self-aware is the first step in creating and maintaining boundaries with a problematic person.

5. When setting and maintaining a boundary do not defend, debate or over-explain your feelings.

6. You have the right to set and maintain your own boundaries and the right to end the conversation if someone refuses to abide by your boundaries.

7. Holding a boundary can be scary, but it gets easier with practice.

8. You were not put on Earth to be mistreated.

9. Download and complete the pdfs to help you set and maintain your boundaries.

Download the Self-Awareness Tool & Log pdf zip file

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I’ve been thinking about the topic of “feeling better” lately. In other words, what does ‘healing’ look like and feel like? A lot of women report that even years after the fraudulationship ended, they realize that they are still stuck. Sometimes this realization hits like the proverbial “ton of bricks.” Women report that they thought they were doing ok, but when they look in the mirror, they don’t recognize themselves. They think back to a time before the fraudulationship and wonder what happened to the vibrant, intelligent, strong, spunky, curious, witty woman they used to be. They wonder if they will ever feel like that again. Maybe you can relate.

Your feelings after betrayal and abuse are normal. In this episode I talk about the purpose of anger after betrayal and how we can get stuck in chronic resentment...and how to move out of resentment to create version 2.0 of yourself. 

The Takeaways:

1. You can’t go back to who you were prior to the betrayal trauma. You can create version 2.0.

2. You are not broken or irreparably damaged. Your feelings are normal.

3. The highs and lows of the anger/crash cycle can turn into chronic resentment.

4. You don’t need a memorial of resentment to honor or validate your pain.

5. After betrayal your brain temporarily goes into a “better safe than sorry” mode.

6. Moving from victim identity mindset to healing identity mindset is the key to moving forward in your own life and creating version 2.0.

7. You can decrease your emotional reactivity by acting on your values rather than your feelings of the moment.

8. Doing the work will build new neural connections in your brain.

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In this episode I discuss Dr. Martha Stout's 13 Rules for Dealing with the Sociopath in Everyday Life.

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