Katrina Lillian Sorrentino is an artist working in film, photo, and performance. She produced and shot ‘Crossing Over’, (Univision and Participant) which won a GLAAD award for ‘Outstanding Documentary Spanish Language’. She directed ‘The Curious Life of Bill Mont’, (SXSW, Hot Docs) which was part of Oculus & Facebook’s ‘VR for Good’ program. She is in post-production for ‘We Ride For Her’, a documentary about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s epidemic in the U.S. and is currently writing ‘Naughty By Nature (NXN), a tragic comedy TV series about two sexually repressed women who “break up” with white male god based on her own story of leaving the Christian church. 

In this episode , I talk with documentary film producer and director, Katrina Sorrentino. We dive into Katrina’s personal experience with narcissistic abuse, which she brilliantly captured in her latest documentary short film, Tidal. Katrina talks in-depth about the making of her documentary and shares with listeners details of her own healing journey and the clinical stages of the cycle of narcissistic abuse.

 

Timestamps

• 5:23 - Healing from toxic relationships through creativity 
• 10:28 - The “the one” storyline and why it’s problematic 
• 15:21 - What is “love bombing”? Katrina’s experience with love bombing 
• 23:10 - What is “gaslighting” and what it looks like 
• 29:55 - The wake-up call for Katrina to finally get out of her toxic relationship 
• 37:36 - One main thing to look out for in new relationships and Katrina’s advice 
• 53:20 - Katrina’s deep compassion in her healing journey

 

Resources Mentioned

Find Tidal the documentary 

Katrina’s Instagram

Katrina’s Website