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Love and Abuse

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Sep 20, 2024

What if you're doing all you can to maintain your own health and well-being but you have someone in your life who a consistent drain on your mental and emotional health? Can you rebuild your energy or do you have to accept that it may never stop and you may have to make tougher choices about the relationship?


Aug 22, 2024

How can you tell if your partner’s affection is genuine or a manipulation tactic? Love bombing usually takes place at the beginning of a relationship to create a strong bond between an abusive person and their victim. But it can also be used to get away with bad behavior in long-term relationships as well. 


Jul 13, 2024

The victim of abusive behavior will eventually reach their breaking point. In that moment, they finally feel like they can take their life back. But they may still not be out of the woods yet during the transition from victim to empowered. 


Jun 6, 2024

The healed former emotional abuser looks a lot different than the person they used to be. If you've ever accepted a hurtful person back into your life after they said they've changed but notice after a short while that their old behaviors are creeping back in, you might have missed an important clue that they...


May 22, 2024

Why does it seem so easy for some people to leave a relationship, get into another one, and act as if the one they were in didn't mean anything?

If you've felt discarded and can't stop thinking about what you did wrong, this episode is a good reminder of everything you were doing right.