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Are you the type to suppress and ignore your emotions? It's important for us to understand that emotions don't just go away. They must be verbalized and let out safely or they do some damage. Today's episode discusses how we can get in touch with ourselves and find physical and emotional well being.

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PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS:

00:43 A highly disconnected husband and a highly sensitive wife

01:45 Being emotionally isolated all the time

02:06 Emotions

02:20 What ignoring and suppressing emotions can do to your body

02:49 Separation in Western Medicine Vs Eastern Medicine and in the Bible

03:36 Body Wisdom

03:57 How do you get connected to your body

04:17 Gut-Brain Connection

04:34 The dramatic impact on my body with gut-brain connection

05:16 My story: emotional challenges and health concerns

06:14 How my body was reacting to all the stress

06:40 Body keeps the score by Bessel van der Kolk MD

07:23 Mind Body RX by John E Sarno MD

08:13 Tension Myocyto Syndrome (TMS) and my experience with it

09:43 Brain Energy by Christopher M Palmer MD

11:18 Western Medicine is starting to awaken

11:40 Our responsibility

12:07 Getting in touch with your body and emotions

12:41 Loving yourself and listening to your body

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Do you use distractions to avoid dealing with hard situations and challenges? Or do you have a hard time processing or dealing with your emotions? In today's episode, We will talk about why people "buffer" and how we can reflect and change.

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Podcast highlights/timestamps:

00:44 What is Buffering?

01:09 My form of buffering

02:05 Forms of buffering and examples of buffering

03:32 Why do people buffer?

04:06 Unravel Notebook and Barf notebook and how it helped me

05:33 Exercise for processing a negative emotion

07:20 Questions to reflect on with processing a negative emotion

07:51 What emotions do

08:13 Self-reflection about buffering that's affecting you

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tags: #SelfImprovement #PersonalGrowth #Relationships #podcast #toxicrelationships #buffering #numbing #selflove #selfawareness #redflags #emotionalhealing #formsofabuse #emotionalabuse #religiousabuse #emotionalmanipulation #healing #selfdevelopment #mentalhealth #emotionalintelligence #empowerment

Many of us have a picture in mind when we consider the word abuse, but abuse can take many different forms and it's so easy to miss. Join me in unraveling the different forms of abuse and how we can heal and avoid these situations.

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PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS

00:56 Common picture in our minds when we think of abuse

01:09 Abuse can have different forms/flavors

01:29 Overt/covert abuse and why did I miss my abuse

02:41 Root of abuse

03:50 The Cycle of Abuse

05:20 My long abuse cycle

06:01 Getting out of the situation and healing our mind

06:55 My situation after being in a destructive marriage 22 years

08:22 The key to not jump from an abusive relationship to another

09:42 Healing Journey: 1) God and Me

10:31 Healing Journey: 2) Me and self

10:43 Healing Journey: 3) Me and others

11:06 Unravel notebook and Barf notebook

12:28 Sitting with negative emotions

13:37 Forms within forms of abuse

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In this episode, we will dive into the addictive side of abuse and talk about steps on how we can rewire our brains and improve our thoughts about self.

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PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS

01:13 Being a functional codependent and managing others' feelings

01:41 Second commandment: Love others as you love yourself

01:37 Functional codependent with someone that's aspergerish and a covert narcissist

02:29 The wheel, the addictive side of abuse, and trauma bonding

03:34 Trauma bonding programmed my brain

03:45 Reprogramming our brains

04:18 First step to rewiring our brain: Awareness

04:53 Ways on how you can have awareness

05:27 EMDR and how it works

07:31 Dr Laura Leaf App

07:41 Podcasts

08:12 Barf notebook and how I used it to reprocess my brain

08:48 Breathing practices to calm the brain

09:34 "Tapping"

10:07 Pause

10:35 God's Bible and help

11:13 Life coaching

11:25 Our brain have the ability to improve our thoughts/self

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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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