I've been told for so many years that I was the problem and I wasn't enough. And I've also been told by the medical community that I was bipolar. Being told these words over and over again affects your brain and can cause trauma. In today's episode, we'll be diving on how little traumas and abuse can cause brain damage and health problems, as well as how it affected me more than I expected them to be.

PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS:

1:39 Brainwashing: stonewalling and passive-aggressiveness

02:36 My story: relationship destructive, gaslighting

03:04 First 5 years of marriage: health concerns, destructive marriage, first child

07:14 Got sent to the Psych ward

08:08 How my bipolar diagnosis invalidated my story

09:35 Group think and brainwashing

10:08 Mental health challenges affects your brain

10:21 Trauma and its effect: little and big T

11:35 Dr. Amen's psychiatrist brain scans

14:26 How trauma and brain damage can be destructive/unhealthy for us

14:44 Self soothing

15:04 Brainwashing and abuse causes brain damage, mental & health problems

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Do you see your kindness as a strength and also as a weakness? Do you find yourself regularly serving others and feeling a little bit of resentment? In today's episode, let's dive in on how kindness became a bullseye on my forehead and became one of the reasons why I missed the abuse that was happening in my life.

PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS:

00:50 Kindness: my greatest strength and weakness

01:57 How do you define loving others and loving yourself?

02:27 How do we listen to ourselves and how do you respect what your body is saying

04:03 Knowing yourself and practices in getting to know yourself better

06:03 Dr Cloud and Dr Townsend book: what our needs are?

07:32 Be kind and encourage yourself: importance of self talk

07:44 Practice compassion and doing nice things for yourself

09:35 Working to heal yourself

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How can you miss that you're in an abusive relationship? Well, here are 8 reasons why you could have missed that you might be in an abusive relationship.

PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS

01:00 Brain damage and Brainwashing: thinking that I was at fault

02:42 Lack of connection with my body: suppressing emotions causes body weakness

03:28 Different forms of abuse

04:45 My Normal and comparing my situation with others

05:27 My family and Christian background: considering others' feelings more important than yourself

06:26 My Kindness: my greatest strength and weakness

06:59 Numbing with busyness

07:56 Words: lack of knowledge and awareness with terms

08:38 Summary of the 8 reasons why I missed that I was in an abusive relationship

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Was your childhood a setup, a setback, and how do we step up? Are the things you've been taught that aren't working for you in your adult life? Let's talk more about it in today's new episode wherein I'll dive deeper on how my family background became one of the reasons why I missed that I was in an abusive relationship.

PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS:

01:18 The blueprint: ages 1-7 - how we catch information

03:05 My christian background: considering others "more" important than yourself

04:41 Concept of submission in marriages/relationships

05:57 God "hates" divorce

07:22 God hates abuse

08:23 Church sermons

08:50 "Generational Normal"

09:58 Evaluate, question and look into it no matter how you grew up

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A 30 year story of dealing with a covert narcissist as a high functioning codependent. My name is Tara and join me as we talk about living brighter.

PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS

01:12 Love bombing: a complete switch from dating to marriage

02:15 Narcissism and codependency in a relationship

03:10 Defining Gaslighting and its examples

03:58 The Perfect storm: postpartum, 8 years of misdiagnosis, a horrible marriage, and undergoing a fight or flight mode

06:23 Getting institutionalized in a psych ward and getting diagnosed as a 'bipolar'

07:40 The saint and the sinner: second try in the relationship and trying to survive the stonewalling and passive aggressiveness

10:54 The five year bitterness spiral

12:35 Cognitive dissonance of someone telling you they love you and yet be bitter

13:06 Psych ward #2: stuck in a cycle and wrapping my mind to a possible divorce for my mental health

14:25: Awakening: speaking my truth, and realizing that I am not the problem and I am in a passive aggressive/stonewalling relationship

16:39 Counseling with Mark and the start of divorce

17:48 Starting to rewire my brain

18:56 Final notes and conclusion

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