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Helping you identify toxic communication, emotional abuse, manipulation, and other forms of bad behavior in relationships. Full of tips and advice for your friendships, family, love life, an...
There's got to be a reason someone becomes abusive, right? All abusers abused as children... is that it? Maybe it's a mental health issue. M...
They've changed! They've really seemed to change. They seem like a new person so you take them back. Then you find out they were just playin...
Sometimes both people in the relationship are hurtful, controlling and manipulative. When that's the case, it's going to take more than one...
A unique episode about the superiority complex that drives mysogny in abusive relationships, why abusive people target those they perceive a...
You can't fix what's unwilling to be fixed. And when someone would rather you and the relationship suffer and crumble than work on improving...
If you feel trapped in a maze of emotional manipulation, hoping for a change that never comes, you might realize you've signed up for someth...
Some people seem to care but then do awful things. When they do, it's hard not to question if they love you at all.
Sometimes emotionally abusive people heal and change. Sometimes they just... change. Either way, when the victim of their behavior gets a "b...
I've seen emotionally abusive people heal and become completely different people. You wouldn't even recognize them! And when you no longer r...
When you've decided to leave the emotionally abusive relationship, when is the best time to bring it up? During the storm or the calm?
Some behaviors are unacceptable. Some people are unacceptable. Just what should you accept and what should you do when you can't? Emotional...
Some relationships end but continue leaving destruction in their wake. Some don't end and you suffer through the daily drip-feeding of emoti...
Calling a duck a duck makes sense. But this logic works against you in the emotionally abusive relationship. Calling out an abusive person f...
Every relationship should have stopping points when you feel yourself slipping away. Emotional abuse operates as a slow drip-feeding of toxi...
The endless monologue of some emotionally abusive people is a tactic that keeps you silent and submissive. It's designed to wear you down un...
Some emotionally abusive people do heal. And once they do, they might feel the relationship will be great from that point on. What they don'...
The emotionally abusive relationship is confusing and draining. If you don't get a grip on what's going on, you may start to believe perhaps...
If you've ever questioned how to forgive yourself for choosing your own well-being over an abusive partner, you're not alone. If you're feel...
If you find yourself obsessively attached to someone who hurts you, is it a sign of a trauma bond? I'll tackle this challenging subject, she...
Some people will deflect blame and make you feel like the problem. In this episode, I dive into this subject by examining a heart-wrenching...
The emotionally abusive relationship can sometimes be hard to define. How long must abusive behavior go on before actually admit that what's...
How do you know when it's time to instigate a split? If your partner's behavior leaves you feeling oppressed and defeated, and they refuse t...
Breadcrumbing can be a manipulative way to keep someone in your mind so that you can't fully move forward, keeping you as a pawn in another...
The way someone talks about their relationship reveals a lot. Abuse victims and perpetrators each have their own language patterns. Knowing...
In abusive relationships it might be difficult or even impossible to discern which parts of yourself are truly you and which are shaped by t...
You walk into an emotionally abusive relationship as one person, but where do you go after you're in one for a while? Is the person you're w...
Love can feel like a double-edged sword, cutting deep despite the tender moments. Or is that really love? Caring and kindness mixed with tox...
They did the worst thing imaginable and now want you to stay in their life. Is it possible they can change? Should you give them a chance?
What does it take for an abusive person to change? A whole lot (if they even want to change), but this one component of healing is often one...
The one-off difficulties in relationships are perfectly normal for everyone. They're not welcome, necessarily, but normal. But what happens...
When they threaten to leave or take something away from you, but they never follow through, expect them to repeat that behavior indefinitely...
You'd think it'd be easy to figure out: The hurtful one is the abusive one. But what happens when the victim gets convinced they are the abu...
"Everything's great with me," they say, as you sit there staring, confused, wondering what the hell you're missing because you're having a c...
When you get into an emotionally abusive relationship, you have no idea what you're walking into. When you figure it out, you might have to...
Some people just won't stop being hurtful. Why won't they stop? Are they just terrible people we have to accept and move on? Power and contr...
Hurt people hurt people, so we should have compassion when they hurt us, right? You know the answer and I know the answer. How does the pers...
The person you were before the difficult relationship almost always looks and feels different than the person you became while in the diffic...
When someone keeps hurting you, you might blame yourself and think if you were only better, they'd stop. But as their hurtful behavior conti...
What is the cause of mistreatment in a relationship? Do you think it's possible you are reason someone is hurting you or trying to change yo...
What do you do when someone shatters something that brought you joy? In this episode, I talk about understanding your limits in relationship...
Is there a path out of being stuck in the whirlwind of a toxic relationship? Maybe taking a step back and out of the situation a while will...
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...
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 rel...
The victim of abusive behavior will eventually reach their breaking point. In that moment, they finally feel like they can take their life b...
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...
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 anyth...
When the emotional abuser apologizes and tries to make amends with their ex-partner after they've done a lot of personal growth and developm...
You give, you adapt, and you change who you are almost to your very core... to what end? When you are overly compassionate to others, you mi...
Victims of emotional abuse can experience physical pain from all the trauma, potentially leading to increased tolerance and resilience of ha...
Some emotionally abusive people don't change, no matter how much the victim of their hurtful behavior changes for them. Is there ever a poin...