The Relationship Recovery Podcast

What To Do About The Anxious Preoccupied Attachment Style? You’re at a big advantage when you know about the 4 different attachment styles. You can navigate relationships with more clarity, you can move to a more secure place and you can turn negative behaviors into positive ones. Naturally, this doesn’t happen overnight. But with some intentional work you can make progress more quickly than you m...

Discover The Characteristics Of The Dismissive-Avoidant Attachment Style Attachment styles mean so much. So, we’re giving you an in-depth look at each of the 4 different styles. This week the focus is on the Dismissive-Avoidant Style. What’s in it for you? How can knowing these different styles help? You’ll be much better at opening – and closing – relationship doors when you know your own attachm...

Which One Of These Attachment Styles Is Yours? Here’s Why These 4 Attachment Styles Are So Helpful To Know Have you ever thought about how you relate to other people? Have you considered the ways you either trust or hold back trust, and how ingrained patterns of behavior set the tone for your relationships? If so, one of the big pieces of how this takes place is your attachment style. We all have...

High conflict relationships come in all shapes and sizes.  Many of them involve a divorce, either a divorce that’s underway or one that you’ve recently gone through. The tactics and tools we’re sharing with you to use during a divorce can be used in any high-conflict relationship. Divorcing somebody with a personality disorder is one of the toughest things you’ll ever go through.   It can spin out...

How To Leave Limbo Behind And Stop Being Stuck  It feels so bad being stuck, when we’re in limbo and lack the confidence to take even a small step to move forward. We’ve been through this.  When we look back, one thing we can’t forget is how terrible this felt.  It’s as if the bad choices we once made kept haunting us and even paralyzing us.  It also seemed as if bad choices from long ago kept us...

The Big Mistakes To Avoid When You Blend A Family: How To Make A Complicated Process Go More Smoothly  After you make it through the trauma and turmoil of an abusive relationship and enter a healthy new relationship, you might find yourself facing the work of blending two families. Please don’t underestimate the difficulty of this.   And it really is work… blending different families takes insight...

This pain drains away from our energy.  We can’t bounce back from an abusive or toxic relationship simply by breaking up.  It feels strange because we’ve just taken a big step.  We’ve decided to get out of a relationship, taking action. But we start the healing process in a tough spot.   Because it feels like our energy has evaporated, we cannot do much of anything.  Many of us have a difficult ti...

Unless you’re a professional, you can’t clinically diagnose a narcissistic personality disorder. It’s confusing and complex. But there’s nothing confusing or ambiguous about the pain somebody with a narcissistic personality disorder, or someone with narcissistic traits for that matter, can cause.  They are masters of cruel manipulation. If you suspect you’re in a relationship with a narcissist, th...

Here’s how to start making sound decisions about the future of your relationship.  In this special podcast, you’ll discover…   -The 4 steps to take to know if you should stay or if you should go. -Why it’s vital to know your boundaries and safeguard them. -Why keeping a journal can be so helpful.  -How to get back the power you’ve lost to make decisions.  -So set aside a few minutes, find a quiet...

We all do it.  We sabotage ourselves in all kinds of different ways and for all kinds of different reasons. Including when we are dealing with a toxic partner or ex-partner.  Will this ever stop?  Are there practices we can follow to make self-sabotage less of a habit? Yes. It might seem like an unreasonable goal to expect we can make every last bit of self-sabotage disappear (because we actually...

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could size up relationships and evaluate them before we discover we’ve made a terrible mistake? None of us have crystal balls. But all of us can fine-tune our intuition and awareness so we see the red flags instead of ignoring them. This week’s podcast gives you ways to notice these red flags, put them in context and decide what actions to take. Kierstyn and Tiffany share...

One of the most common questions we get around gaslighting is, does someone know they are gaslighting? This is a great debate. In the traditional sense, gaslighting is not about love. It’s about power and control.  A Gaslighter is someone who needs to feel superior and who manipulates people to further their own agendas - when it's intentional.  When gaslighting, the person finds a way to mak...

“How do you know if you are being Love-Bombed?” is one of the most common dating questions we receive.   Love bombing is a common tactic used by a narcissistic abuser. They shower you with gifts, words, affection until they feel like they have you hooked. Once you are hooked, they change their tone and become highly critical of you until they discard you altogether.  Being on the receiving end of...

Have you tried to leave your relationship and can’t? Do you leave only to return back to the situation that you know is not good for you? In this episode, we will be covering “Trauma Bonds” in detail. We will educate you on what they are but more importantly, we will give you some tools to help you begin to break that bond that holds you tightly in a toxic abusive relationship. It’s not unusual fo...

Welcome to the Relationship Recovery Podcast! We’re so happy you’re here. If you are navigating complicated relationships right now, you are in the right place. In this episode, we will be talking about who The Relationship Recovery is, how it all started, and who we serve. We will also answer the most popular question we get… “If you could give one piece of advice to someone that is just starting...