Guts on the Table with Amy Moore | Attachment Style, Healing Scripture, Boundaries, Narcissistic Abuse, People-Pleaser

Episode 3  

In Part 2 of this conversation on narcissistic abuse and the nervous system, we move from awareness into integration — focusing on what it looks like to reclaim your voice, rebuild self-trust, and choose freedom after prolonged emotional abuse.

If you listened to Episode 2 and found yourself thinking, “That’s me,” this episode is about what comes next.

I continue my story by sharing how, after years of abuse and trauma, I attended The Bridge to Recovery in Kentucky for six weeks of intensive treatment. That experience helped me address childhood abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, and abandonment — and I left grounded, anchored, and clear.

But healing doesn’t just live in logic — it lives in the nervous system.

In this episode, I talk about how even after deep healing work and clarity, the nervous system can still pull you back toward familiar patterns. When this person re-entered my life, my mind knew it was wrong — but my body was still conditioned for survival. The discomfort was there, but my nervous system hadn’t yet learned that safety no longer required chaos.

It took time for my logic to catch up to what my nervous system had been trained to expect.

We talk about trauma bonds, why knowing the truth intellectually doesn’t always lead to immediate action, and how healing often unfolds more slowly in the body than in the mind.

This episode also explores boundaries — not as punishment or control, but as protection. Boundaries are not about changing the abuser; they are about honoring yourself, guarding your heart, and partnering with God in your healing.

This is an episode about discernment, not self-blame. About restoration, not rushing. And about learning how to live from truth instead of fear.

What This Episode Covers  

Nervous System Insight  

Biblical Perspective  

• Proverbs 4:23 — “Guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.”  

If This Resonates  

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You are God’s daughter — beloved, deeply known and understood, with potential and purpose.

XOXO,  

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Episode 2  

In this episode of Leave Your Toxic Relationship, we cut through the lies, confront destructive patterns, and use God’s truth to begin stepping into freedom.

If you’ve ever been told by a covert narcissist that you’re “mentally unstable,” “too emotional,” or that you need psychiatric help, this episode will help you understand what was really happening behind closed doors.

I share personal examples of covert narcissistic abuse, manipulation, and gaslighting, and explain how these dynamics quietly train your nervous system to stay silent, doubt yourself, and tolerate mistreatment.

This episode is about awareness — not shame.

My Story  

From a fake ring and a confusing, emotionally disconnected proposal, to a deeply one-sided premarital agreement, the message beneath the surface was clear: I was not meant to feel secure, chosen, or protected.

The premarital agreement outlined restrictions that left me without financial autonomy, ownership, or long-term security — even in the event of his death. Nothing could be in my name. My children would receive nothing. Everything would remain under his control.

What should have been a season of love instead became a season of emotional deflation, confusion, grief, and self-doubt.

And yet, when I reacted with sadness or hesitation, the narrative was turned back on me — as if my response was the problem, not the circumstances.

This is how covert narcissistic abuse operates: not through overt cruelty, but through the quiet erosion of safety, voice, and worth.

What This Episode Covers  

Nervous System Impact  

You may notice:  

These responses are not weakness — they are survival strategies.

Your body learns that staying quiet feels safer than being honest.

Biblical Perspective  

• John 8:32 — “And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”  

God’s design for love does not require you to disappear, shrink, or surrender your agency.

If This Resonates  

You are not imagining it. Your nervous system learned what your mouth was not allowed to say.

What’s Next  

Call to Action  

Please take a moment to:  

You’re also invited to join my Facebook group, Break Free From Codependency, where we walk this healing journey together with truth, compassion, and biblical grounding.

XOXO,  

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Episode 1  

In this first episode of Leave Your Toxic Relationship, we confront destructive patterns, expose gaslighting, and use God’s truth to begin stepping into freedom.

Is staying silent betraying your own well-being? When does keeping the peace begin to do more harm than good?

In this episode, we talk about abuse, gaslighting, and the nervous system — and how God can use everything meant to break you for His glory.

I share how cycles of childhood abuse, emotional neglect, and learned silence can train us to ignore our own needs and tolerate mistreatment in adulthood. Many women who find themselves in abusive relationships learned early on that their thoughts, feelings, wants, and needs did not matter — and that conditioning doesn’t simply disappear with age.

We explore how codependency develops as a survival strategy, why red flags are often ignored, and how gaslighting causes women to question their reality and distrust themselves.

This episode also addresses covert narcissistic abuse — how image control, manipulation, and lack of accountability operate behind closed doors — and why trying to change or save an abuser only deepens harm.

This is not about shame. This is about understanding what happened to you so healing can begin.

What This Episode Covers  

Nervous System Insight  

Biblical Perspective  

• John 8:32 — “And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”  

If This Resonates  

Call to Action  

Please take a moment to:

You’re also invited to join my Facebook group, Break Free From Codependency, where we walk this healing journey together with truth, compassion, and biblical grounding.

My Book Rec's

Lysa TerKeurst:

FORGIVING WHAT YOU CAN'T FORGET & GOOD BOUNDARIES AND GOODBYES

XOXO, Amy

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Trailer  

Do you feel trapped in a relationship that drained your spirit and left you questioning your worth?  

Guts on the Table is a faith-centered, trauma-aware podcast for women who have experienced emotional abuse, narcissistic dynamics, and codependency — and are ready to reclaim clarity, safety, and freedom.

This podcast cuts through the lies, names destructive patterns, and integrates biblical truth with nervous system education so you can stop blaming yourself and start healing with discernment.

Here, we talk about:

My mission is to help women leave toxic relationships by addressing what keeps them stuck — not by telling them to “try harder,” but by restoring identity, agency, and truth through God’s eyes.

I’m Amy — a Jesus-loving mom and overcomer. My story includes childhood abuse, abandonment, sexual trauma, and a pattern of emotionally unavailable and abusive relationships. For years, I searched for love in broken places and kept ending up more disconnected from myself.

Through intensive healing work, trauma therapy, and a deep return to faith, I learned how to break free from codependency and stop confusing endurance with love. Healing didn’t happen overnight — but freedom became possible when my mind, body, and faith aligned.

This podcast is for the woman who is ready to stop surviving and start living. Grounded in truth, supported by God, and no longer defined by the harm she endured.

If you’re ready to choose God as your source instead of a broken relationship, you’re in the right place.

It’s time to break the chains and pop the confetti!

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XOXO,  

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