Direct Impact

Season 7 Episode 295 Date: 2/11/2025   Title: Am I Dating My Mom or Dad? Hey Direct Impact Nation!  Take the Intimate Partner Betrayal Course TODAY!! https://www.lightninginabottle.biz/courses     Get your Plan To Recover Journal TODAY! https://www.lightninginabottle.biz/journal     Become a supporter! https://www.patreon.com/DirectImpactPodcast     See Our Affiliates To Support The Show:   https:...

Season 7 Episode 295 Date: 2/11/2025   Title:   Blended, Bonded, and Beyond  Hey Direct Impact Nation!  Take the Intimate Partner Betrayal Course TODAY!! https://www.lightninginabottle.biz/courses     Get your Plan To Recover Journal TODAY! https://www.lightninginabottle.biz/journal     Become a supporter! https://www.patreon.com/DirectImpactPodcast     See Our Affiliates To Support The Show:   ht...

Season 7 Episode 295 Date: 2/11/2025   Title:   Blended, Bonded, and Beyond Hey Direct Impact Nation!      Take the Intimate Partner Betrayal Course TODAY!! https://www.lightninginabottle.biz/courses     Get your Plan To Recover Journal TODAY! https://www.lightninginabottle.biz/journal     Become a supporter! https://www.patreon.com/DirectImpactPodcast     See Our Affiliates To Support The Show:  ...

Season 7 Episode 294 Date: 2/6/2025   Title:   Love Bombing 101 Hey Direct Impact Nation!  Join Andrea and Mary in this Candid Conversation about what we need to know about love bombing. First they explore the difference between bread crumbing and love bombing. Andrea explains how both bread crumbing and love bombing are part of a cycle. They then discuss how different attachment styles will react...

Season 7 Episode 293 Date: 2/4/2025   Title: In To Me You See- An Addict's Fear Of Intimacy Hey Direct Impact Nation!      Take the Intimate Partner Betrayal Course TODAY!! https://www.lightninginabottle.biz/courses     Get your Plan To Recover Journal TODAY! https://www.lightninginabottle.biz/journal     Become a supporter! https://www.patreon.com/DirectImpactPodcast     See Our Affiliates To Sup...

Season 7 Episode 292 Date: 1/30/2025   Title: Weaponized Vulnerability Hey Direct Impact Nation!      Take the Intimate Partner Betrayal Course TODAY!! https://www.lightninginabottle.biz/courses     Get your Plan To Recover Journal TODAY! https://www.lightninginabottle.biz/journal     Become a supporter! https://www.patreon.com/DirectImpactPodcast     See Our Affiliates To Support The Show:   http...

Season 7 Episode 291 Date: 1/28/2025   Title:   Am I Codependent? Hey Direct Impact Nation!      Take the Intimate Partner Betrayal Course TODAY!! https://www.lightninginabottle.biz/courses     Get your Plan To Recover Journal TODAY! https://www.lightninginabottle.biz/journal     Become a supporter! https://www.patreon.com/DirectImpactPodcast     See Our Affiliates To Support The Show:   https://w...

Season 7 Episode 290 Date: 1/23/2025   Title: Embodied Security  Hey Direct Impact Nation!  Take a deep breath. Today we are bringing you a mindful meditation. This meditation is help us focus on the need for safety seeking and establish a sense of security within ourselves. Begin with bringing awareness to your body with starting with box breathes then slowly moving into a body scan. Connect with...

Season 7 Episode 289 Date: 1/21/2025   Title: What Role Does My Safety Seeking Play?  Hey Direct Impact Nation!  Safety seeking can be defined as when we do not feel safe, we will have the tendency to seek out information in the hopes it will help create safety like looking through a partner’s phone or computer. If you have been betrayed, this is your moment to disconnect with your safety seeking...

Season 7 Episode 288 Date: 1/15/2025   Title: Are You Over Or Under Reacting? Hey Direct Impact Nation!    In this episode Andrea explores our response of either over or under reacting. She explores how this is a trauma response and how this response continues to show up in our relationships. Give yourself grace that you may have over or under reacted; this allows you to be able to have the unders...

Season 7 Episode 287 Date: 1/14/2025   Title: Direct Impact w/Dana Diaz Pt2 Hey Direct Impact Nation!    Welcome our guest Dana Diaz! Dana is a returning guest on the Direct Impact Podcast, and she’s here to have a continued conversation with Andrea about growing from narcissistic abuse. In this episode, Andrea and Dana discuss how to identify red flags within a relationship, key characteristics,...

Season 7 Episode 286 Date: 1/9/2025   Title: Crazy Making  Hey Direct Impact Nation!  Join Andrea and Mary as they talk more about crazy making. They explore where the term gaslighting comes from and what this can look like in real life. They explore what actual gaslighting is versus what pop psychology defines as gaslighting.    Check out the episode on name it to tame it: https://www.lightningin...

Season 7 Episode 285 Date: 1/7/2025   Title: I'm Not Crazy You're Crazy (Gaslighting)  Hey Direct Impact Nation!  Today, we’re talking about crazy making. Gaslighting has been used in all current media, but the meaning of gaslighting is a way to manipulate people to allow addictive behaviors to continue. Addicts use this to defend and protect the acting out behavior. This crazy making is part of t...

Season 7 Episode 284 Date: 1/2/2025 Title: Tired Of New Year New Me Hey Direct Impact Nation!    Take the Intimate Partner Betrayal Course TODAY!! https://www.lightninginabottle.biz/courses     Get your Plan To Recover Journal TODAY! https://www.lightninginabottle.biz/journal     Become a supporter! https://www.patreon.com/DirectImpactPodcast     See Our Affiliates To Support The Show:   https://w...

Season 7 Episode 283 Date: 1/1/2025 Title: Taking It At Your Own Pace (Why Timing Is Everything) Hey Direct Impact Nation!    Take the Intimate Partner Betrayal Course TODAY!! https://www.lightninginabottle.biz/courses     Get your Plan To Recover Journal TODAY! https://www.lightninginabottle.biz/journal     Become a supporter! https://www.patreon.com/DirectImpactPodcast     See Our Affiliates To...

Season 7 Episode 282 Date: 12/31/2024   Title : Why Does My Addict Behave Like A Narcissist? Hey Direct Impact Nation!    Take the Intimate Partner Betrayal Course TODAY!! https://www.lightninginabottle.biz/courses     Get your Plan To Recover Journal TODAY! https://www.lightninginabottle.biz/journal     Become a supporter! https://www.patreon.com/DirectImpactPodcast     See Our Affiliates To Supp...

Season 7 Episode 281 Date: 12/26/2024   Title: Recuperate From The “Holiday” Hey Direct Impact Nation!  Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas from the Direct Impact Podcast!  The holiday season may have been difficult for some of us. So today take this opportunity to focus on SELF- mind, body, spirit, thoughts, and words. Take a deep breath and relax. Now shake all that tension wherever you’re holdin...

Season 7 Episode 280 Date: 12/25/2024   Title: You’re Not Fooling Anybody  Hey Direct Impact Nation!  Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas from the Direct Impact Podcast!  Today enjoy this present of a Candid Conversation with Andrea and Mary as they talk about the concerns with post discovery and how denial is a main factor. Andrea and Mary explore how shame affects how partners may approach the si...

Season 7 Episode 279 Date: 12/24/2024   Title: Why Set Boundaries With An Addict?   Hey Direct Impact Nation!  The betrayed partner set these rules to help control when they will become betrayed and deceived, but there’s more to you than this. These are attempts to manage betrayal and anxiety. Why do we set boundaries with an addict? The answer is to protect ourselves. We do not set boundaries to...

Season 7 Episode 278 Date: 12/17/2024   Title: Betrayal Begets Betrayal  Hey Direct Impact Nation!  Why does the cycle of betrayal continue to happen to us? This may be a question that you are asking yourself. Why does this keep happening to me?  Pause for a moment and remind yourself that this is not your fault. Exposure to the same type of trauma makes us more susceptible to experiencing the sam...

Season 7 Episode 277 Date: 12/12/2024   Title: What is Healthy Intimacy?  Hey Direct Impact Nation!  Intimacy; Into Me You See  Join Andrea and Mary as they talk about the importance of healthy intimacy. They first talk about the main pillars of creating healthy intimacy which are trust, sex, and emotional. They continue to discuss what dating looks like in regards to healthy intimacy like asking...

Season 7 Episode 276 Date: 12/10/2024   Title: Knowing Your Position Hey Direct Impact Nation!  Today, Andrea is talking about the Karpman Triangle. Imagine in your mind’s eye a triangle with a label in each corner of the Enabler, Persecutor, and Victim. These are the roles that we may take on. We do not stay in these roles. As Andrea explains, when big emotions occur, each individual will shift t...

Season 7 Episode 275 Date: 12/5/2024   Title: What Is Narcissism NOT Hey Direct Impact Nation!  It’s a Candid Conversation with Andrea and Mary! Today they’re talking about narcissism specifically what isn’t considered to be narcissism. Andrea focuses on the development of the narcissistic personality and considering the insecurities a person has and how that can be projected to others. She also e...

Season 7 Episode 274 Date: 12/3/2024   Title: Who or What is DARVO? Hey Direct Impact Nation!  What’s a DARVO? Is this a new slang term? Maybe it’s what the kids are saying and talking about?  Not exactly… DARVO is a cycle that helps us understand how the active addict continues to act out their disease while trying to deceive you. DARVO stands for Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim Offender. DARVO...

Season 7 Episode 273 Date: 11/28/2024   Title: Faking It For The Holidays  Hey Direct Impact Nation!  Happy Thanksgiving!  Join Andrea and Mary for a Candid Conversation today! In this conversation, they share the difficulties surrounding the holidays and how this can be difficult especially when faced with family of origin. Andrea ensures that we understand the meaning of No and showing up as our...