Sherapy Sessions: Cutting Toxic Family Ties

In this episode,  we uncover how toxic family dynamics mirror cult-like control.

Drawing on personal experiences and clinical expertise, this thought-provoking conversation with Vanessa Reiser will explore how toxic family environments resemble cults, tactics abusers use to manipulate, and the path toward reclaiming autonomy. 

✅ Cult of One - the qualities that make up a psychopathic personality 

✅ The power of isolation and confusion toxic relationships have on their victims 

✅ Why it’s often more challenging and painful to leave a toxic family than a toxic romantic partnership 

✅ Any group can take on characteristics of a cult. 

✅ Often don’t know know you’re in a cult-like scenario for quite some time 

✅ Families can be run as mini-cults 

✅ Emotional Cannibalism 

✅ How we replicate toxic patterns of behavior we learned in childhood in our romantic relationships 

✅ The impact of toxic relationships and leaving them on our children 

✅ Finding the will to leave and stay gone 

Vanessa Reiser is a mother, author, entrepreneur, 2x Ironman, and psychotherapist licensed in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Florida, specializing in narcissistic and cult abuse. She is also the founder of Tell a Therapist, LLC and is best known for her run across the state of New York (285 miles in 11 days) in a wedding dress to raise awareness for narcissistic abuse. She also subsequently ran across NJ, CT, and MA. Her insights are personal and professional, giving her a unique lens into this insidious form of domestic abuse.

Vanessa holds a bachelor's degree in political science and a Master of Social Work (MSW) from the University of Southern California with a focus on community organizing.

Vanessa is also a social media influencer, sharing life-changing information that is educational and validating to those impacted by narcissistic abuse. Vanessa has been interviewed by prestigious news and media outlets like People Magazine, The New York Times, Fox News, MSN, and The New York Post.

Mentioned in the episode:

📌 [Book] Narcissistic Abuse: A Therapist’s Guide to Identifying, Escaping, and Healing from Toxic and Manipulative People by Vanessa M. Reiser - https://bit.ly/3C6fGgO 

Connect with Vanessa:

📌 Website: https://tellatherapist.net/ 

📌 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vanessareiserlcsw/ 

📌 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vanessa.pugliese 

📌 Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@vanessareiser

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NEW BOOK!!! 

Adult Survivors of Emotionally Abusive Parents: How to Heal, Cultivate Emotional Resilience, and Build the Life and Love You Deserve - https://amzn.to/3UhURWI 

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Books by Dr. Sherrie Campbell:

⚉ Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut. - https://amzn.to/3L3sMuA 

⚉ But It’s Your Family…: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath - https://amzn.to/3tuNQEn 

⚉ Your Pocket Therapist: Quick Hacks for Dealing with Toxic People While Empowering Yourself - https://amzn.to/3JBql1R 

⚉ Success Equations: A Path to Living an Emotionally Wealthy Life - https://amzn.to/3uobd1u 

⚉ Loving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own Person - https://amzn.to/36mlXp5 

Connect with Dr. Sherrie Campbell:

⚉ Website: https://drsherriecampbell.com/ 

⚉ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SherrieCampbellPhD 

Check out the Sherapy Master Class: The Toxic Family Sherapy Course designed to help people master toxic family members and turn their life around to one of freedom, peace, and empowerment. Click here https://bit.ly/SherapyMasterclass 

Get early access to news, insights, and tips straight from your inbox. Subscribe to Dr. Sherrie’s email list, go to https://drsherriecampbell.com/ 

Navigating life after enduring the turmoil of a toxic family background can be one of the most challenging journeys. 

The process of unlearning negative beliefs and building a positive mindset is a profound and ongoing effort. 

In this episode we will delve into the various aspects of this journey with life coach, Jacqueline Hurst, offering practical advice and encouragement to help you find your way toward a healthier and more fulfilling life. 

✅ Mindset to heal negative emotional patterns 

✅ The difference between toxic positivity and mindset training 

✅ Mindset gives you a choice to feel and do better 

✅ Overcoming ingrained mindsets 

✅ Going from victim to victor 

✅ Any worthy change process requires discipline and commitment to yourself 

✅ Go To’s to change your mood and thoughts around to being more lovable 

✅ There is nothing wrong with bad days —it how you get through them 

✅ The gifts of our painful times along the journey 

✅ Boundaries are a mindset practice of self-love and self-respect 

✅ Learn to allow your more negative thoughts and emotions become motivational superpowers 

Jacqueline Hurst is the UK's leading Life Coach. She is also a specialist in Advanced Structured Hypnotherapy and a Master NLP Practitioner. She has over 15 years of experience and has worked with over 5,000 clients. With many tools in her box, she uses a unique, specialized, and highly sophisticated technique to help clients drop their negative thoughts and behaviors, to get past their own limitations, and achieve a life they love. 

Jacqueline is GQ Magazine's resident therapist and is regularly featured in the media as an expert in her field including The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, Harpers Baazar, The Times, Easy Living Magazine, The Daily Mail, BBC London Radio, Talk Radio, and the Oprah Winfrey Network. She has also worked alongside major brands including Clinique, Eve Lom, Space NK, Sweaty Betty, Lulu Lemon, and Bank of America. 

She works with clients 1:1 by phone, Skype, or in person at her office in Mayfair in London. She also works with clients who bring her to their home country for a day, 3 days, or 5 days. 

Mentioned in the episode:

📌 [Book] How To Do You: A Life-Changing Art of Mastering Your Thoughts and Taking Control of Your Life by Jacqueline Hurst - https://amzn.to/4dplJLv 

📌 [Book] Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert - https://amzn.to/4fyBIIA 

Connect with Jacqueline:

📌 Personal Website: https://www.jacquelinehurst.com/ 

📌 Business Website: https://www.thelifeclass.com/ 

📌 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Jacqueline_hurst_/ 

📌 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jhurstcoaching 

📌 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacqueline-hurst-83a35628/

*****

NEW BOOK!!! 

Adult Survivors of Emotionally Abusive Parents: How to Heal, Cultivate Emotional Resilience, and Build the Life and Love You Deserve - https://amzn.to/3UhURWI 

*****

Books by Dr. Sherrie Campbell:

⚉ Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut. - https://amzn.to/3L3sMuA 

⚉ But It’s Your Family…: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath - https://amzn.to/3tuNQEn 

⚉ Your Pocket Therapist: Quick Hacks for Dealing with Toxic People While Empowering Yourself - https://amzn.to/3JBql1R 

⚉ Success Equations: A Path to Living an Emotionally Wealthy Life - https://amzn.to/3uobd1u 

⚉ Loving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own Person - https://amzn.to/36mlXp5 

Connect with Dr. Sherrie Campbell:

⚉ Website: https://drsherriecampbell.com/ 

⚉ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SherrieCampbellPhD 

Check out the Sherapy Master Class: The Toxic Family Sherapy Course designed to help people master toxic family members and turn their life around to one of freedom, peace, and empowerment. Click here https://bit.ly/SherapyMasterclass 

Get early access to news, insights, and tips straight from your inbox. Subscribe to Dr. Sherrie’s email list, go to https://drsherriecampbell.com/

Drawing on insights from breathwork expert, Josh Connolly, we explore the transformative power of truth, the significance of acceptance, and the role of alternative therapies in overcoming the shadows of a toxic upbringing.

✅ Understanding our toxic family members, doesn’t change them or heal us

✅ Forgiveness doesn’t change our toxic family members

✅ The belief that “Everyone is good inside” irrelevant.

✅ The value of breath-work and learning to be in your body to heal your pain

✅ Healing comes from adhering to truth

✅ The most important choice you can make is choosing authenticity over attachment

✅ Debunking the cognitive dissonance around the idea that family is everything

✅ Healthy parenting doesn’t imply perfect parenting

Josh Connolly stands as a prominent mental health advocate in the United Kingdom, recognised for his impactful presence in the media and a substantial social media following of 250,000. As a certified Breathwork Coach, his mission centre's on guiding individuals to gain deeper insights into their own selves and emotions by fostering a connection with their intuition and body.

Josh actively conducts resilience workshops, catering to both local village schools and international corporate giants. Additionally, he serves as a passionate ambassador for Nacoa, a national charity dedicated to providing support to those affected by a parent's alcohol consumption.

Mentioned in the episode:

📌 [Book] It's Them, Not You: How to Break Free from Toxic Parents and Reclaim Your Story - https://www.joshconnolly.co.uk/its-them-not-you

📌 TEDx Talk Not All Parents Are Good by Dr. Sherrie Campbell - https://youtu.be/deyHwDkG7oc

📌 Inner You: A flagship online 6 week programme: www.joshconnolly.co.uk/inner-you

📌 Breathing Space: An online community away from social media - www.joshconnolly.co.uk/breathing-space

Connect with Josh:

📌 Website: https://www.joshconnolly.co.uk/

📌 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/josh_ffw/

📌 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joshffw

📌 Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@josh_ffw

📌 X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/josh_ffw

📌 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/JoshConnolly_FFW

📌 Work with Josh: https://www.joshconnolly.co.uk/contact

*****

NEW BOOK!!!

Adult Survivors of Emotionally Abusive Parents: How to Heal, Cultivate Emotional Resilience, and Build the Life and Love You Deserve - https://amzn.to/3UhURWI

*****

Books by Dr. Sherrie Campbell:

⚉ Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut. - https://amzn.to/3L3sMuA

⚉ But It’s Your Family…: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath - https://amzn.to/3tuNQEn

⚉ Your Pocket Therapist: Quick Hacks for Dealing with Toxic People While Empowering Yourself - https://amzn.to/3JBql1R

⚉ Success Equations: A Path to Living an Emotionally Wealthy Life - https://amzn.to/3uobd1u

⚉ Loving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own Person - https://amzn.to/36mlXp5

Connect with Dr. Sherrie Campbell:

⚉ Website: https://drsherriecampbell.com/

⚉ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SherrieCampbellPhD

Check out the Sherapy Master Class: The Toxic Family Sherapy Course designed to help people master toxic family members and turn their life around to one of freedom, peace, and empowerment. Click here https://bit.ly/SherapyMasterclass

Get early access to news, insights, and tips straight from your inbox. Subscribe to Dr. Sherrie’s email list, go to https://drsherriecampbell.com/

In a society that often downplays or dismisses men's emotional struggles, Dave's willingness to share his story and engage in open dialogue is a powerful testament to the importance of breaking the silence.

In this episode, Dave shares how he navigated growing up with a narcissistic mother, married a narcissistic woman, found healing and reclaimed his life.

✅ All things toxic family 

✅ The Value of No Contact when nothing else works 

✅ Breaking destructive generational patterns of poor parenting 

✅ Repeating patterns of abuse with romantic partners 

✅ Starting Fresh 

✅Healing childhood and marital wounding 

✅ Establishing a strong sense of self through the setting of healthy boundaries 

Dave, founder of @healing.after.a.narcissist on Instagram, is dedicated to raising awareness and providing education on narcissism and narcissistic abuse. Through his platform, he validates people's experiences and offers valuable tips on healing after encountering narcissistic individuals in all aspects of life. His mission is to empower others to navigate the aftermath of such toxic relationships and find healing and resilience.

Mentioned in the episode:

📌 [Book] The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté MD - https://bit.ly/3QMhCPY 

📌 TEDx Talk Not All Parents Are Good by Dr. Sherrie Campbell - https://youtu.be/deyHwDkG7oc 

📌 [Podcast] How to Effectively Co-Parent with a Narcissist on Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari - https://bit.ly/3QNHZVP 

Connect with Dave:

📌 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/healing.after.a.narcissist/ 

*****

NEW BOOK!!! 

Adult Survivors of Emotionally Abusive Parents: How to Heal, Cultivate Emotional Resilience, and Build the Life and Love You Deserve - https://amzn.to/3UhURWI 

*****

Books by Dr. Sherrie Campbell:

⚉ Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut. - https://amzn.to/3L3sMuA 

⚉ But It’s Your Family…: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath - https://amzn.to/3tuNQEn 

⚉ Your Pocket Therapist: Quick Hacks for Dealing with Toxic People While Empowering Yourself - https://amzn.to/3JBql1R 

⚉ Success Equations: A Path to Living an Emotionally Wealthy Life - https://amzn.to/3uobd1u 

⚉ Loving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own Person - https://amzn.to/36mlXp5 

Connect with Dr. Sherrie Campbell:

⚉ Website: https://drsherriecampbell.com/ 

⚉ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SherrieCampbellPhD 

Check out the Sherapy Master Class: The Toxic Family Sherapy Course designed to help people master toxic family members and turn their life around to one of freedom, peace, and empowerment. Click here https://bit.ly/SherapyMasterclass 

Get early access to news, insights, and tips straight from your inbox. Subscribe to Dr. Sherrie’s email list, go to https://drsherriecampbell.com/

Join me in a powerful conversation with Laura K. Connell as she talks about her experiences growing up in a dysfunctional and emotionally abusive family, where she was subjected to a narcissistic mother and an emotionally neglectful father. And how she battled with alcoholism while addressing the deep-seated trauma she endured. 

✅ How and why survivors turn to various addictions (alcohol, substance abuse, eating disorders, etc) to cope 

✅ Feelings of relief from our emotional pain addictions initially bring. 

✅ Ah-ha moments that awaken the need to change 

✅ What triggers help us turn our lives around 

✅ Both the growth and the grieving of toxic family dynamics are round/whole rather than linear 

✅ It’s Not Your Fault -realizing your parents are character-disordered 

✅ Going No Contact 

✅ Stay the course, life gets better after definitive boundaries have been set on our toxic family members 

Laura K. Connell is a trauma-informed author and coach who helps professional women discover the subconscious reasons they self-sabotage and how to finally have the fulfilling life they deserve and desire. She writes about the impact of dysfunctional family dynamics on her website, laurakconnell.com. 

Her guest articles have reached millions through personal development websites Life Hack, Pick the Brain, Dumb Little Man, Highly Sensitive Refuge, the anthology Chicken Soup for the Soul, and national newspapers The Globe and Mail and Toronto Star. 

She has helped thousands heal from dysfunctional family trauma through her popular online retreats. Her book It's Not Your Fault: The Subconscious Reasons We Self-Sabotage and How to Stop is available now at the Simon & Schuster website.

Mentioned in the episode:

📌 (Book) It's Not Your Fault: The Subconscious Reasons We Self-Sabotage and How to Stop - https://amzn.to/48Xpi8A 

📌 TEDx Talk Not All Parents Are Good by Dr. Sherrie Campbell - https://youtu.be/deyHwDkG7oc 

📌 (Book) Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life - 

📌 (Book) A Million Little Pieces - 

Connect with Laura K. Connell:

📌 Website: https://www.laurakconnell.com/ 

📌 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/soulminimalist 

📌 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurak.connell/ 

*****

NEW BOOK!!! 

Adult Survivors of Emotionally Abusive Parents: How to Heal, Cultivate Emotional Resilience, and Build the Life and Love You Deserve - https://amzn.to/3UhURWI 

*****

Books by Dr. Sherrie Campbell:

⚉ Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut. - https://amzn.to/3L3sMuA 

⚉ But It’s Your Family…: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath - https://amzn.to/3tuNQEn 

⚉ Your Pocket Therapist: Quick Hacks for Dealing with Toxic People While Empowering Yourself - https://amzn.to/3JBql1R 

⚉ Success Equations: A Path to Living an Emotionally Wealthy Life - https://amzn.to/3uobd1u 

⚉ Loving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own Person - https://amzn.to/36mlXp5 

Connect with Dr. Sherrie Campbell:

⚉ Website: https://drsherriecampbell.com/ 

⚉ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SherrieCampbellPhD 

Check out the Sherapy Master Class: The Toxic Family Sherapy Course designed to help people master toxic family members and turn their life around to one of freedom, peace, and empowerment. Click here https://bit.ly/SherapyMasterclass 

Get early access to news, insights, and tips straight from your inbox. Subscribe to Dr. Sherrie’s email list, go to https://drsherriecampbell.com/

While the holiday season is often associated with warmth, love, and familial bonds, for survivors of toxic family systems this is not the case. Toxic family members gift wrap holiday nightmares packaged as love. They ruin holidays for sport.

In this episode, you'll learn

✅ The time period between Halloween and Valentine's Day is the time when survivors of family abuse are subject to the most intense “hoovering” from their family.

✅ The holidays are a time we all want to feel love, safety and warmth, and not the nightmare of our psychologically abusive family members and all their attention-seeking antics.

✅ Holiday hoovering puts a fearful twist and gut-wrenching anxiety into our holiday season.

✅ Their hoovering is not occurring because they genuinely miss us. Nothing our family does is motivated by love. They are motivated by their own needs and feelings.

✅ Our family views the holidays as the “season of second chances.”

✅ Our abusers need us, transactionally, to uphold the image of “family” they desire to project into the world.

✅ Our family intentionally preys on our guilt during the holidays because guilt (and our natural sentimentality) are the easiest emotions for them to manipulate.

✅ Tactics of Holiday Hoovering

✅ How To’s and Boundaries to Set

Books by Dr. Sherrie Campbell:

⚉ Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut. - https://amzn.to/3L3sMuA

⚉ But It’s Your Family…: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath - https://amzn.to/3tuNQEn

⚉ Your Pocket Therapist: Quick Hacks for Dealing with Toxic People While Empowering Yourself - https://amzn.to/3JBql1R

⚉ Success Equations: A Path to Living an Emotionally Wealthy Life - https://amzn.to/3uobd1u

⚉ Loving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own Person - https://amzn.to/36mlXp5

Connect with Dr. Sherrie Campbell:

⚉ Website: https://drsherriecampbell.com/

⚉ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SherrieCampbellPhD

Check out the Sherapy Master Class: The Toxic Family Sherapy Course designed to help people master toxic family members and turn their life around to one of freedom, peace, and empowerment. Click here https://bit.ly/SherapyMasterclass

Get early access to news, insights, and tips straight from your inbox. Subscribe to Dr. Sherrie’s email list, go to https://drsherriecampbell.com/

Join Dr. Sherrie in a candid conversation with Kimberly Shannon Murphy as Kimberly tells her story of survival from sexual abuse perpetrated by her family,  as told in her book, Glimmer. 

In this episode, you'll discover: 

✅ The pain of being an unprotected child. 

✅ Why family members tend to take the side of the perpetrator. 

✅ Why self harm is so often involved as a way to cope in victims of sexual abuse. 

✅ How to find your voice and set boundaries on all family members who choose to stay in the denial. 

✅ How to liberate yourself and reclaim your voice and your body. 

✅ The power of journal writing as an avenue to finding your voice. 

✅ Coping with the multiple layers of betrayal trauma and feelings of abandonment. 

✅ Breaking the cycle of generational  trauma. 

✅ Family members who don’t heal simply learn to abuse in different ways. 

✅ Finding love and learning to thrive. 

Kimberly Shannon Murphy is an Award-Winning Stuntwoman and the Author of Glimmer, A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing.

Kimberly is Hollywood's Go-To Stuntwoman for Premier Silver Screen actresses. Her resume is loaded with top box office films such as Top Gun Maverick, Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, Knight and Day, The Lone Ranger, Jack Reacher, Hunger Games, Savages, Men in Black 3, and the list goes on. 

Mentioned in the episode:

📌 (Book) Glimmer, A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing by Kimberly Shannon Murphy - https://amzn.to/3r431Ge 

Connect with Kimberly Shannon Murphy: 

📌 Instagram: @kimberlyshannonmurphystunts

📌 Facebook: @TheGlimmerSpace

📌 X (Twitter): @KSMstuntwoman

📌 Youtube: @StuntwomanKimberlyShannon

Connect with Dr. Sherrie Campbell:

📌 Website: https://drsherriecampbell.com/ 

📌 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SherrieCampbellPhD 

Books by Dr. Sherrie Campbell:

📌 Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut. - https://amzn.to/3L3sMuA 

📌 But It’s Your Family…: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath - https://amzn.to/3tuNQEn 

📌 Your Pocket Therapist: Quick Hacks for Dealing with Toxic People While Empowering Yourself - https://amzn.to/3JBql1R 

📌 Success Equations: A Path to Living an Emotionally Wealthy Life - https://amzn.to/3uobd1u 

📌 Loving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own Person - https://amzn.to/36mlXp5 

Check out the Sherapy Master Class: The Toxic Family Sherapy Course designed to help people master toxic family members and turn their life around to one of freedom, peace, and empowerment. Click here https://bit.ly/SherapyMasterclass 

Get early access to news, insights, and tips straight from your inbox. Subscribe to Dr. Sherrie’s email list, go to https://drsherriecampbell.com/

Understanding the differences between the silent treatment and no contact can help you navigate your relationships with toxic family members.

Let's explore these topics:

✅ It is natural to have many moments of questioning ourselves around no contact because we never want to be like our toxic family members.

✅ The difference between the silent treatment and no contact comes down to intent. 

✅ Signposts to when silence is being deployed for abuse. 

✅ When we go silent we do so to  stay silent. We have no want, need, or desire to hurt our toxic family members by toying with them in any way. 

✅ How do we know we’re not the bad guy (toxic person) our family accuses us of being? 

✅ What is going on when our family members call us the toxic ones for going no contact?

✅ How To’s and Boundaries to Set

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Get my latest book!  — Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut. Get it here:  https://amzn.to/3L3sMuA 

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Connect with Dr. Sherrie Campbell:

• Website: https://drsherriecampbell.com/ 
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SherrieCampbellPhD 

Books by Dr. Sherrie Campbell:

• But It’s Your Family…: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath - https://amzn.to/3tuNQEn 
• Your Pocket Therapist: Quick Hacks for Dealing with Toxic People While Empowering Yourself - https://amzn.to/3JBql1R 
• Success Equations: A Path to Living an Emotionally Wealthy Life - https://amzn.to/3uobd1u 
• Loving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own Person - https://amzn.to/36mlXp5 

Check out the Sherapy Master Class: The Toxic Family Sherapy Course designed to help people master toxic family members and turn their life around to one of freedom, peace, and empowerment. Click here https://bit.ly/SherapyMasterclass 

Get early access to news, insights, and tips straight from your inbox. Subscribe to Dr. Sherrie’s email list, go to https://drsherriecampbell.com/

Our family members are famous for their pristine ability to play the victim. 

Playing the victim can manifest in a variety of contexts.

In this episode, we are going to unpack:

✅ Our psychologically abusive family members get thrills off any opportunity they can create that affords them the opportunity to take the stage to put on their Oscar-worthy winning performance of the victim.

✅ They use this victim role to gain pity or sympathy, and to evoke compassion as a path to getting their way.  

✅ They play this role publicly and privately to evade accountability by smoke-screening their abuse of you. 

✅ The basic story your toxic family members tell of themselves is that they are the“good,” “caring,” “moral, “selfless,” person in the relationship, and you are the “bad,” “abusive,” “cruel,” “immoral,” “selfish,” “toxic,” one.

✅ Conversations with your family members that play the victim can never be about your feelings. It must be all about them.

✅ Family members who play the victim grossly embellish the untruths they tell about your “monstrous” behavior to create a more powerful narrative about how profoundly you have victimized them. 

✅ Goals and payoffs of playing the victim

✅ Impacts of this emotional game on the targets

✅ How to’s and boundaries to set

Get my newly released book!  — Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut. Get it here:  https://amzn.to/3L3sMuA 

Connect with Dr. Sherrie Campbell:

• Website: https://drsherriecampbell.com/ 
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SherrieCampbellPhD 

Books by Dr. Sherrie Campbell:

• But It’s Your Family…: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath - https://amzn.to/3tuNQEn 
• Your Pocket Therapist: Quick Hacks for Dealing with Toxic People While Empowering Yourself - https://amzn.to/3JBql1R 
• Success Equations: A Path to Living an Emotionally Wealthy Life - https://amzn.to/3uobd1u 
• Loving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own Person - https://amzn.to/36mlXp5 

Check out the Sherapy Master Class: The Toxic Family Sherapy Course designed to help people master toxic family members and turn their life around to one of freedom, peace, and empowerment. Click here https://bit.ly/SherapyMasterclass 

Get early access to news, insights, and tips straight from your inbox. Subscribe to Dr. Sherrie’s email list, go to https://drsherriecampbell.com/

In this bonus episode, we will explore one of the most deadly emotional games that our toxic family members play — the emotional game of gossip.

Key Takeaways:

✅ Not all gossip is created equally.

✅ Our emotionally abusive family members use gossip to avoid looking at their part in any negative interaction.

✅ Signs you’re being gossiped about.

✅ In psychologically abusive families, gossip is used primarily to expend negative energy where talking poorly about you or others brings your family members feelings of power and satisfaction.

✅ Psychologically Abusive family members who gossip about you feel totally empowered when trashing you.

✅ Psychologically Abusive family members love creating negative triangles between you and others. 

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