Marriage Rehab: Exposing Narcissistic & Emotional Abuse

Dr. Hawkins and Jonathan Glover are back with producer Katie Buckley, for another season of Dr. Hawkins Reacts! a series in which they respond and react to stories of toxic relationships posted by real people on various forums like Quora and Reddit.  We are starting this season off with something a little different by having Dr. Hawkins and Jonathan go head to head with AI!  Join us for a fun hour...

Welcome back to Season 2 of Mad. In. Love. I'm thrilled to be joined today by Ernest Hart, our Intervention Specialist at The Marriage Recovery Center.  We are talking today about one of my favorite topics - interventions!  Find out what an intervention is in the context of relationships, and why it is one of the most powerful tools we use to bring about transformative change in the most difficult...

Dr. David Hawkins, Jonathan Glover, and their producer, Katie Buckley are back to discuss various stories shared on the internet from a therapist's point of view.  Founded by Dr. David Hawkins, the Marriage Recovery Center is the leading authority on the treatment of narcissistic and emotional abuse. To schedule your in-person or video session, call our team at (206) 219-0145 or email info@marriag...

Dr. John Hudson joins Dr. David Hawkins to discuss the NEAI, an assessment they created together to be used as a tool in evualating behavorial patterns within relationships. If you would like to try the NEAI, you can click here .  Founded by Dr. David Hawkins, the Marriage Recovery Center is the leading authority on the treatment of narcissistic and emotional abuse. To schedule your in-person or v...

Dr. David Hawkins, Jonathan Glover, and their producer, Katie Buckley are back to discuss various stories shared on the internet from a therapist's point of view.  Founded by Dr. David Hawkins, the Marriage Recovery Center is the leading authority on the treatment of narcissistic and emotional abuse. To schedule your in-person or video session, call our team at (206) 219-0145 or email info@marriag...

Welcome to Mad. In. Love! If you are new here, I’m Dr. David Hawkins from the Marriage Recovery Center! Today we are talking about Narcissism and Child Development. I’m excited to introduce Leigh Ann Fernandez, one of our newer clinicians at the Marriage Recovery Center who specializes in trauma therapy and EMDR. Founded by Dr. David Hawkins, the Marriage Recovery Center is the leading authority o...

Welcome to Mad. In. Love! We have a very special episode this week where we’ll be talking about the effects of emotional abuse and trauma on our physical body. To help facilitate this conversation today, Dr. David Hawkins is joined by his esteemed colleagues, whom you’ve seen before on Mad. In. Love, Sharmen Kimbrough and Dr. Lenne’ Hunt. To add to this topic, we also have a VERY special guest, Dr...

Join Dr. David Hawkins and Jonathan Glover of the Marriage Recovery Center as they react to stories on the internet regarding relationships presented by their producer, Katie Buckley. You'll hear them share their reactions and insight from a therapeutic perspective as they break down different scenerios presented to them. This week they'll be focusing on the topic of creating healthy boundaries. ...

Welcome to Mad. In. Love! Today we have a very special panel including some special guest speakers to help us talk about the topic of narcissism within relationships.  Founded by Dr. David Hawkins, the Marriage Recovery Center is the leading authority on the treatment of narcissistic and emotional abuse. To schedule your in-person or video session, call our team at (206) 219-0145 or email info@mar...

Welcome to Mad. In. Love! If you are new here, I’m Dr. David Hawkins from the Marriage Recovery Center! I am back in the hot seat for our fun little series, Dr. Hawkins’ Reacts! with my colleague, Jonathan Glover.  To learn more about Jonathan Glover , please visit his page on our website. Founded by Dr. David Hawkins, the Marriage Recovery Center is the leading authority on the treatment of narci...

Welcome to Mad. In. Love! If you are new here, I’m Dr. David Hawkins from the Marriage Recovery Center! Today we have a special guest speaker on our podcast, Dr. David Clarke! If you haven’t already heard of him, he is a Christian psychologist of over 35 years and I’ve recently read his book, Enough is Enough! I am excited to discuss this book and your work! Welcome, Dr. Clarke!  If you would like...

Welcome to Mad. In. Love! If you are new here, I’m Dr. David Hawkins from the Marriage Recovery Center! I am back in the hot seat for our fun little series, Dr. Hawkins’ Reacts! with my colleague, Jonathan Glover.   Founded by Dr. David Hawkins, the Marriage Recovery Center is the leading authority on the treatment of narcissistic and emotional abuse. To schedule your in-person or video session, c...

Welcome to Mad. In. Love! Today we will be discussing what narcissists misunderstand about love and joining me for this conversation is Dr. Les Carter, a therapist who specializes in anger management and narcissistic personality disorder, and host of the Surviving Narcissism podcast. Join us as we dive into the topic of narcissists and love – is it even possible for these two things to coincide? I...

Do you recognize these personality traits in your spouse: being controlling, defensive, thin-skinned, entitled, superior, emotionally immature, and easily offended or affronted? You may not realize that this is in fact emotional abuse and is a form of trauma to your spirit and extremely damaging to your sense of self.  Welcome to another episode of Mad.in. Love. I’m your host Dr. David Hawkins, a...

Is a chauvinist a narcissist and vice versa? Is a narcissist a chauvinist and a misogynist? There are blurred lines between all these personality disorders and character issues. Join me as I talk with Dr. John Hudson, head of the core men’s program at the Marriage Recovery Center, about these and other characterological traits that all have emotional abuse at their core.  Dr. Hudson brings a wealt...

Are you living in a relationship where rage or silence cause you to return that behavior toward the person treating you that way? Have you been pushed so far, so many times, that you explode with anger toward the person pushing you? This is what we call reactive abuse. And its effects can transform you into someone you don’t recognize-someone you don’t want to be.  In this episode, I’m speaking ab...

Has your spouse ever cut off your access to a bank account or credit card? Have you felt nervous, trapped, or truly frightened because of your spouse or significant other’s actions surrounding your finances?  There is help available.  I’m Dr. David Hawkins, a Licensed Clinical Psychologist specializing in couple’s crisis counseling and narcissistic and emotional abuse at the Marriage Resource Cent...

I’m joined today by Sharmen Kimbrough, MA who works primarily with women and couples who are struggling with emotional and spiritual abuse and helps them take steps to heal. Her personal experience with trauma including emotional abuse, divorce, and single parenting has been a catalyst and drive for her work to bring hope and wisdom to others struggling to make sense of the pain and chaos in their...

Welcome to the inaugural episode of Mad.in. Love! I’m your host Dr. David Hawkins, a LicensedClinical Psychologist specializing in couples crisis counseling and narcissistic and emotionalabuse at the Marriage Recovery Center (MRC). Has your spouse beengiven every opportunity to heal and change, perhaps even in counseling,and still refusing to acknowledge any wrong doing or personal responsibility?...

Dr. Hawkins is joined by licensed therapist and colleague Jonathan Glover in another segment of Dr. Hawkins Reacts! where they read and react to stories of toxic and dysfunctional relationships posted on public forums like Reddit and Quora. In this segment, they react to 3 different posts on Reddit, one from a woman whose husband over-reacts to everything due to his history of childhood trauma, an...

Today I'm joined by Sharmen Kimbrough and Dr. Lenne' Hunt as we discuss why this idea of becoming invisible so aptly describes how victims of emotional abuse feel. We discuss what it means to be invisible in a relationship, the result of what happens when you are not heard, not given room to think or speak for yourself, and are constantly shut down with criticism and made to question you own true...

Dr. Hawkins is joined by fellow MRC therapist Jonathan Glover, in the first of a new series where they will read posts found on platforms like Reddit and Quora, and get Dr. Hawkins' thoughts on matters pertaining to dysfunctional relationships, poor boundaries, emotional abuse and narcissism. Today’s post is from a man whose ex (a woman) was constantly provoking, taunting, threatening, belittling,...

Have you ever tried to confide in a trusted friend, family member, counselor or pastor about the abuse within your marriage, only to get a trite response that dismissed, trivialized and invalidated your story?  Unfortunately, this is an all too common scenario that plays out for victims of emotional abuse and that's what we're discussing in this episode. Today we’re speaking with Annette Oltmans,...