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Send us Fan Mail Are you being manipulated in your relationship? It’s not always easy to tell when we are being pushed around. Some partners use more subtle tactics than others to get what they want out of their partners, and we end up being the victims. Waking up is the only way we can free ourselves, but that means facing some pretty nasty behaviors that have been targeted to hurt and control us...

Send us Fan Mail The 5 Love Languages. It's a topic that throws relationship aficionados into a loop. What is my love language? What is my partner's love language? People spend hours trying to fine tune what they see as a literal language, and believe that it will save their relationships if they just "get it right".  Here's the truth: Most of us speak and use more than on...

Send us Fan Mail Something that most people don't realize about childhood trauma and  narcissistic abuse is that it totally separates you from your emotions. You're taught to make yourself as small as possible - emotionally, mentally, physically - and in that space you never learn the value of exploring and embracing your cosmic and divinely inspired sense of rage.  In this episode, we e...

Send us Fan Mail Believe it or not, there's a reason why I spend all day talking about childhood trauma and narcissistic  families. Healing ourselves is actually an act of bold revolution. Yep. You heard that right. How can we possibly change the world when we can't even change ourselves? We can't. For our society to reach the next plateau, we have to change from the inside out. In...

Send us Fan Mail The experts and the internet gurus love to talk about the narcissist as a partner. But what about the narcissist as a parent or a sibling? People with NPD don't fall off of a magical tree. They are born and produced in family systems. They are mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters. Narcissistic families exist in many forms, and escaping them requires the power to understa...

Send us Fan Mail What do you think of when you think of your mother? Do you have fond memories? Do you feel safe? Secure? Many think of their mothers as a bastion of safety in an increasingly crazy world. But that's not the case for everyone. For some, the relationship they share with their mother is a complex one - fraught with pain and trauma that leaves them scarred for life. That was cert...

Send us Fan Mail This week, I'm bringing you a very special guest - Tiffany Carter , top business coach and podcast host - as we chat about all things toxic family. We're going to deep-dive into our own toxic childhood experiences and describe what it took to build happy, healthy, and successful lives. From the terrors and horrors of the early days, to escaping out fragmented relationshi...

Send us Fan Mail What It's All About   Trauma dumping is one of the most insidious relationship behaviors that no one likes to talk about. It plagues our friendships, our marriages, and even our closest family relationships. It destroys connections and destroys the sense of safety and support we seek in those we love. To dump your trauma, without permission, is the ultimate show of disrespect...

Send us Fan Mail What It's All About   Childhood trauma encompasses experiences that shape you and change you forever. When you are emotionally, physically, or mentally abused, damaged, or terrorized in childhood it changes the way you see yourself and the cycles you set up for everything from your relationships to then career choices that you make. To understand our childhood trauma we have...

Send us Fan Mail What It's All About   In the world of toxic relationships, there are 10 definite types we should always avoid. From chronic liars, to the enablers who destroy us - facing our patterns and confronting our bad beliefs is key. Unless you want to keep walking into the same old heartbreaks, you have to put your foot down and make some major changes.  This week, it's the big,...

Send us Fan Mail What It's All About   This week we are breaking down enmeshment , and what it means when a family is too close. The fact of the matter is that enmeshment is a tool used by many toxic and abusive families. This behavior allows them to project a close and caring structure, but that's hardly the case behind closed doors. We'll explore that in this week's episode,...

Send us Fan Mail What It's All About   Covert narcissists. They are one of the most toxic and insidious personality type on the planet, but so many of us fail to see them in our own lives. Why?  It's because the covert narcissist is someone who uses pity, emotional manipulation, and disaster in order to control their experiences and the people in their lives. They are the eternal victims...

Send us Fan Mail What It's All About   Bad relationships. We've all had at least one in our lifetime. For some of you, that relationship involved a partner who cheated endlessly; or a partner who disrespected you or ignored you. Others, however, had abusive, terrorizing, and soul-destroying partners who completely changed the way you saw the world and yourself. Recognizing a bad relation...

Send us Fan Mail What It's All About   Are you struggling to find a partner of value and substance? Do dating apps make you uncomfortable? Believe it or not, dating companies and couples alike are taking a different approach to dating and meeting the partners they desire. It's not all about instant sexual gratification anymore. People want to meet partners who are their equal, and partne...

Send us Fan Mail What It's All About   Has your decades-long marriage ended? Gray divorce is on the rise across the US and there are a lot of reasons for it. With the fastest growing group of divorces being in the Over-50 bracket, these silver-splitter breakups are expected to triple by 2030. So why are so many couples calling it quits in the golden age of their lives?  Well, we are entering...

Send us Fan Mail What It's All About   Want to be more attractive ? Curious about what makes you more attractive to others? In this episode, I break down what really goes into that animal magnetism we feel with others. Is it all in the looks? Is it really just face symmetry and a matter of chemical reactions? What is it that pulls us into some people more than others? Turns out, there's...

Send us Fan Mail What It's All About   In this episode, we look at the internet's favorite buzzword: Gaslighting . What is gaslighting? Are you actually a victim of gaslighting - or something else? Building a solid foundation of understanding is key to protecting ourselves against this insidious form of abuse.  Don't fall into trendy internet traps.  In order to ensure we are buildi...

Send us Fan Mail What It's All About In this episode, we peel back the layers on the true narcissist and the many ways in which they derail our lives. It's not all about big personalities and arrogant attitudes. Today's narcissist is an entirely unique creature. Identify the early warning signs of a narcissist, look at how true narcissists manifest in modern relationships, and gain...

Send us Fan Mail Are you ready to laugh, cry, and heal? Author, coach, Master Practitioner NLP, and top Medium.com writer - E.B. Johnson - is going to take you on a journey into the heart of what it means to overcome and triumph in the face of adversity. You'll learn how to:   Confront your toxic relationship patterns  Deal with family estrangement  Address poisonous relationship patterns  It...