Laura Ferri grew up in a house where love came with conditions and threats, where her mother used suicide as a manipulation tool so consistently that Laura carried the guilt of it into her thirties without ever questioning whether it was hers to carry. She built a life anyway. She got married, raised three kids, built a career, started a podcast, wrote a book, and kept showing up for everyone around her while privately believing she had nothing worth offering any of them. Then she lost the job, the relationship, and almost every person she knew inside of a year, and wound up alone on her kitchen floor asking out loud for someone to love her. What happened next changed everything.

In this episode, Rob and Laura go deep on what it actually costs to grow up under narcissistic control, why self-worth does not collapse all at once but erodes slowly through the relationships you tolerate and the crumbs you accept, and what the path back looks like when you have finally run out of crutches to lean on.

This episode covers:

• Growing up with a narcissistic, abusive mother and not recognizing it for decades
• The identity collapse that comes when you lose your job, your relationship, and your community at the same time
• Why the mother-daughter relationship is the foundation of every relationship a woman will have for the rest of her life
• Taking crumbs from people because bare minimum felt exciting, and what finally broke that pattern
• How low self-worth quietly destroys your finances without you noticing
• The kitchen floor moment that cracked everything open
• Rebuilding confidence as a single mother starting a business from scratch
• What a three-day solo backpacking trip in the woods taught her about what she was actually capable of
• The one thing she would scream at her eighteen-year-old self

Laura Ferri is the host of the My Inner Struggle podcast, author of Is It an Open Bar?, and has spent over a decade documenting her own transformation across more than 300 blog posts so that nobody going through the same thing has to feel like they are doing it alone.

Find everything Laura at https://myinnerstruggle.com/

Grab Rob's book F*ck The Script: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/CK-SCRIPT-Caring-Others-Rebuild/dp/B0FQ4F5NBB