Heartbreak to Wholeness: Untangling the Mindf*ck of Narcissistic Relationships

*Trigger warning 🚨! This episode contains information around miscarriage and abuse that may be hard to hear. If this is sensitive for you, please skip past minutes 16-19.How do you meet your past self with compassion as you begin to realize what was really happening in your relationship? How do you stop the narratives that your ex used to say about you from becoming your truth and truly heal?Kate Nelson is a Mental Health Professional and Certified Yoga Instructor and true freaking survivor. She courageously shares with us not only about her journey through miscarriage, abuse, and a total loss of self, but how she is now thriving in her life in ways that she never imagined she would. We talk about the shame she felt as a mental health professional who was knee deep in an abusive relationship and the passion she now has to help other women save themselves.Listen for:✨ The red flags she saw but didn’t allow herself to “see”✨ The final abusive experience and miscarriage that opened her eyes and helped her save herself (This is where that trigger warning applies, minutes 16-19)✨ The shame she felt that kept her in the relationship and quiet afterwards and how she overcame the gaslighting she was doing to herself✨ How she finally forgave herself for staying in the relationship for as long as she did and began to really heal her mind and heart✨ How to share your painful past with a new partnerREACH OUT:On IG: @‌kateliz18Email: [email protected] FOR YOUR HEALING:🌻 ⁠Schedule your free Intro Session: https://tinyurl.com/freeintroseshpod❤️ For more resources on healing from the mindf*ck of confusing relationships so you can securely attach + experience healthy love: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.brewolta.com⁠⁠⁠⁠🫶🏻 Trust Yourself More Than His Potential (3 Simple Practices To Guarantee You Don't Go Back): https://tinyurl.com/trustyourselfmore-pod 🫶🏻 Get the free 3 WAYS TO RECOGNIZE LOVE BOMBING GUIDE to spot love bombing and walk away from the red flags early: https://tinyurl.com/lovebombguide-htwshownotes🫶🏻 ⁠Get the free RELATIONSHIP RESET GUIDE⁠: https://tinyurl.com/rrg-htwshownotesLearn how to communicate your feelings (without feeling guilty)Navigate triggering moments without shutting downFeel secure on your own so you aren’t jumping into the wrong relationshipExpand your capacity to hold next-level love while remaining true to you🫶🏻 FIND YOURSELF AGAIN Self-guided course to help you rediscover your needs and identity after years of focusing on others firsthttps://tinyurl.com/fya-htwshownotes (Use PODCAST10 at checkout for 10% off)In this gripping podcast, listeners explore the complex dynamics of toxic relationships, unpacking themes like narcissistic abuse, gaslighting, cognitive dissonance, and emotional manipulation, while delving into how empathy, attachment styles, and people pleasing behaviors contribute to codependency, trauma bonding, and emotional abuse. The host and guests share real stories of betrayal, guilt, and heartbreak—all while guiding survivors through letting go of an ex, identifying red flags, reclaiming self worth and confidence, establishing boundaries, and rebuilding emotional safety after love bombing, manipulation, self doubt, and deep-rooted trauma.

How can you get your partner to agree to go to couples therapy? Is it possible to come back from betrayal? Are there any reasons couples work wouldn’t be a good option?Jason and I share tips for women who are navigating couples therapy (especially with a resistant partner) so you can feel empowered and lean into the third party support that can help you set boundaries and move from ambivalence to certainty.This episode will answer many of your frustrating questions and help you see that you, in fact, are not responsible for 100% of the problems in your relationship (and how to take accountability for the ones that you are a part of), and how you can use compassionate curiosity towards yourself and your relationship to change the game.Listen for:✨Why both partners need a balance of healthy masculine and feminine energy for a relationship to thrive✨ How to increase your emotional maturity✨ What to do if your partner is resistant to therapy✨ Our thoughts on why finding yourself again in your own individual coaching is as important as couples work✨ How to know when you’ve tried everything and should call it✨ What 3 preconditions you need in order for couples work to be effectiveMENTIONED:The Psychology of a Narcissist with Narcissism Expert, James Marrugo episodeFind Yourself Again self-guided courseJason’s podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0RKDDic8HINARsfvr16jCw?si=394b27d41b0042f5Jason’s coaching: http://Coloradorelationshiprecovery.comRESOURCES FOR YOUR HEALING:🌻 ⁠Schedule your free Intro Session: https://tinyurl.com/freeintroseshpod❤️ For more resources on healing from the mindf*ck of confusing relationships so you can securely attach + experience healthy love: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.brewolta.com⁠⁠⁠⁠🫶🏻 Trust Yourself More Than His Potential (3 Simple Practices To Guarantee You Don't Go Back): https://tinyurl.com/trustyourselfmore-pod 🫶🏻 Get the free 3 WAYS TO RECOGNIZE LOVE BOMBING GUIDE to spot love bombing and walk away from the red flags early: https://tinyurl.com/lovebombguide-htwshownotes🫶🏻 ⁠Get the free RELATIONSHIP RESET GUIDE⁠: https://tinyurl.com/rrg-htwshownotesLearn how to communicate your feelings (without feeling guilty)Navigate triggering moments without shutting downFeel secure on your own so you aren’t jumping into the wrong relationshipExpand your capacity to hold next-level love while remaining true to you🫶🏻 FIND YOURSELF AGAIN Self-guided course to help you rediscover your needs and identity after years of focusing on others firsthttps://tinyurl.com/fya-htwshownotes (Use PODCAST10 at checkout for 10% off)In this gripping podcast, listeners explore the complex dynamics of toxic relationships, unpacking themes like narcissistic abuse, gaslighting, cognitive dissonance, and emotional manipulation, while delving into how empathy, attachment styles, and people pleasing behaviors contribute to codependency, trauma bonding, and emotional abuse. The host and guests share real stories of betrayal, guilt, and heartbreak—all while guiding survivors through letting go of an ex, identifying red flags, reclaiming self worth and confidence, establishing boundaries, and rebuilding emotional safety after love bombing, manipulation, self doubt, and deep-rooted trauma.

Spending a good chunk of her life avoiding feelings and actively numbing with alcohol and chaos, Amanda vulnerably shares how she’s finally found comfort in her emotions and has built trust with herself so she doesn’t have to run and hide anymore.We chat about her memoir, Trust Yourself to Be All In: Safe to Love and Let Go and how the principles she outlines there have allowed her to not only find meaning in her suffering, but to create an inseverable love for herself. How…? Hint: By welcoming all of her emotions with patience and self-compassion.If this lands for you, please send it to your friends and leave us a review on the top of our podcast page (it helps other women find it organically) 🙏🏻.Listen for:✨ Why we sometimes create chaos so we don’t have to be with our feelings✨ People pleasing in order to show others she was a good person (so that she could then believe it too)✨ How she continually chooses self-love over self-hate today✨ The reason sitting with whatever comes up is a superpower and how it will transform you as a partner, mother and overall woman✨ Why self-worth is the foundation for grieving healthfullyMENTIONED:Follow Amanda on IG: https://www.instagram.com/amandamckoyflanagan/Buy her book 📖 - Trust Yourself to Be All in: Safe to Love and Let GoRESOURCES FOR YOUR HEALING:🌻 ⁠Schedule your free Intro Session: https://tinyurl.com/freeintroseshpod❤️ For more resources on healing from the mindf*ck of confusing relationships so you can securely attach + experience healthy love: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.brewolta.com⁠⁠⁠⁠🫶🏻 Trust Yourself More Than His Potential (3 Simple Practices To Guarantee You Don't Go Back): https://tinyurl.com/trustyourselfmore-pod 🫶🏻 Get the free 3 WAYS TO RECOGNIZE LOVE BOMBING GUIDE to spot love bombing and walk away from the red flags early: https://tinyurl.com/lovebombguide-htwshownotes🫶🏻 ⁠Get the free RELATIONSHIP RESET GUIDE⁠: https://tinyurl.com/rrg-htwshownotesLearn how to communicate your feelings (without feeling guilty)Navigate triggering moments without shutting downFeel secure on your own so you aren’t jumping into the wrong relationshipExpand your capacity to hold next-level love while remaining true to you🫶🏻 FIND YOURSELF AGAIN Self-guided course to help you rediscover your needs and identity after years of focusing on others firsthttps://tinyurl.com/fya-htwshownotes (Use PODCAST10 at checkout for 10% off)In this gripping podcast, listeners explore the complex dynamics of toxic relationships, unpacking themes like narcissistic abuse, gaslighting, cognitive dissonance, and emotional manipulation, while delving into how empathy, attachment styles, and people pleasing behaviors contribute to codependency, trauma bonding, and emotional abuse. The host and guests share real stories of betrayal, guilt, and heartbreak—all while guiding survivors through letting go of an ex, identifying red flags, reclaiming self worth and confidence, establishing boundaries, and rebuilding emotional safety after love bombing, manipulation, self doubt, and deep-rooted trauma.

Toxic relationships come in all forms, and whether you NEED abs in order to feel worthy, or you NEED your partner to be happy so you feel okay, or you NEED the bottle of wine to decompress every night, dependence on the external thing can cause toxicity to seep through and through.Sydney shares with us her journey navigating recovery from an eating disorder, substances and codependency. She shares her fears of perfection and how they led her to drastically alter her body and spirit to become someone she was never meant to be, and how finding the self that she was deep within her gave her more freedom (professionally, physically, personally and romantically) than she could have ever imagined.Listen for:✨ The ways that addictions and eating disorders become the solution (albeit maladaptive) when you’ve grown up in chaos✨ The moment she knew that she needed help with the way she was eating and exercising✨ How she’s moved beyond believing that resting is “bad” and dropped the obsession to become the society’s idealized woman in order to be chosen ✨ What it is like to outgrow a partner and leave an engagement despite feeling like, “the train has already left the station”✨ How she silenced her intuition because she didn’t have the tools necessary to cope with the truth in her relationshipMENTIONED:Follow Sydney on IG: https://www.instagram.com/greenehealth/On the web: https://www.sydneygreenehealth.com/🔑 NOW ENROLLING for Becoming, my group coaching program (for only a few more days!): Only 4 spaces Ready? Submit your interest form here: https://www.brewolta.com/becomingRESOURCES FOR YOUR HEALING:🌻 ⁠Schedule your free Intro Session: https://tinyurl.com/freeintroseshpod❤️ For more resources on healing from the mindf*ck of confusing relationships so you can securely attach + experience healthy love: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.brewolta.com⁠⁠⁠⁠🫶🏻 Trust Yourself More Than His Potential (3 Simple Practices To Guarantee You Don't Go Back): https://tinyurl.com/trustyourselfmore-pod 🫶🏻 Get the free 3 WAYS TO RECOGNIZE LOVE BOMBING GUIDE to spot love bombing and walk away from the red flags early: https://tinyurl.com/lovebombguide-htwshownotes🫶🏻 ⁠Get the free RELATIONSHIP RESET GUIDE⁠: https://tinyurl.com/rrg-htwshownotesLearn how to communicate your feelings (without feeling guilty)Navigate triggering moments without shutting downFeel secure on your own so you aren’t jumping into the wrong relationshipExpand your capacity to hold next-level love while remaining true to you🫶🏻 FIND YOURSELF AGAIN Self-guided course to help you rediscover your needs and identity after years of focusing on others firsthttps://tinyurl.com/fya-htwshownotes (Use PODCAST10 at checkout for 10% off)In this gripping podcast, listeners explore the complex dynamics of toxic relationships, unpacking themes like narcissistic abuse, gaslighting, cognitive dissonance, and emotional manipulation, while delving into how empathy, attachment styles, and people pleasing behaviors contribute to codependency, trauma bonding, and emotional abuse. The host and guests share real stories of betrayal, guilt, and heartbreak—all while guiding survivors through letting go of an ex, identifying red flags, reclaiming self worth and confidence, establishing boundaries, and rebuilding emotional safety after love bombing, manipulation, self doubt, and deep-rooted trauma.

If you’ve felt yourself slipping away into a version of yourself that you no longer recognize (or even like), but you are scared sh*tless of who you would be without the man you’re with, please listen to Silvana’s story.Silvana is a client of mine who vulnerably shares the strength it has taken her to leave a narcissistic relationship, shift her looping narrative of, “I’m no one without him,” and feel peace around the woman that she is becoming (with or without a man). We also talk about what it is like to date again despite the fears that creep in and how she tends to her anxieties in real time so they don’t send her spiraling away.Share this with that girlfriend of yours who needs to know she’s not alone 🫶🏻. And if this lands for you, I invite you to help other women find this information by following the podcast and leaving a 5-star reviewListen for:✨ Why it makes sense that women stay in relationships that are painful✨ Why she was convinced she was the narcissist/toxic one✨ How the rules for conscious uncoupling don’t apply to every relationship✨The reason it took her many attempts to leave, and how she finally did it✨ The top ways she stays “awake” while dating✨ The best advice for dating to ensure you don’t get into bed with another narcissist (or, at least stay there 😉)MENTIONED:Follow Silvana on IG: https://www.instagram.com/silvanadargel/🔑 NOW ENROLLING for Becoming, my group coaching program: Only 4 spaces are openReady? Submit your interest form here: https://www.brewolta.com/becomingRESOURCES FOR YOUR HEALING:🌻 ⁠Schedule your free Intro Session: https://tinyurl.com/freeintroseshpod❤️ For more resources on healing from the mindf*ck of confusing relationships so you can securely attach + experience healthy love: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.brewolta.com⁠⁠⁠⁠🫶🏻 Trust Yourself More Than His Potential (3 Simple Practices To Guarantee You Don't Go Back): https://tinyurl.com/trustyourselfmore-pod 🫶🏻 Get the free 3 WAYS TO RECOGNIZE LOVE BOMBING GUIDE to spot love bombing and walk away from the red flags early: https://tinyurl.com/lovebombguide-htwshownotes🫶🏻 ⁠Get the free RELATIONSHIP RESET GUIDE⁠: https://tinyurl.com/rrg-htwshownotesLearn how to communicate your feelings (without feeling guilty)Navigate triggering moments without shutting downFeel secure on your own so you aren’t jumping into the wrong relationshipExpand your capacity to hold next-level love while remaining true to you🫶🏻 FIND YOURSELF AGAIN Self-guided course to help you rediscover your needs and identity after years of focusing on others firsthttps://tinyurl.com/fya-htwshownotes (Use PODCAST10 at checkout for 10% off)In this gripping podcast, listeners explore the complex dynamics of toxic relationships, unpacking themes like narcissistic abuse, gaslighting, cognitive dissonance, and emotional manipulation, while delving into how empathy, attachment styles, and people pleasing behaviors contribute to codependency, trauma bonding, and emotional abuse. The host and guests share real stories of betrayal, guilt, and heartbreak—all while guiding survivors through letting go of an ex, identifying red flags, reclaiming self worth and confidence, establishing boundaries, and rebuilding emotional safety after love bombing, manipulation, self doubt, and deep-rooted trauma.

To me, a woman who leaves an abusive relationship despite her fear of being alone forever, despite her confidence being below level 0 because of the manipulation and gaslighting, despite society’s label that you are a “failure” if you end a relationship…is f*cking strong. Period.It is my hope that this episode can help you redefine strength. Jamie Madsen is an Online Business Coach who not only found the courage to take herself and her daughter out of a harmful relationship, but has actualized her soul’s desire of becoming a successful entrepreneur all while shifting the generational patterns passed to her so that her daughters can have a different story.Share this with that girlfriend of yours who needs to know she’s not alone 🫶🏻. And if this lands for you, I invite you to help other women find this information by following the podcast and leaving a 5-star review 🙏🏻Listen for:✨ The importance of breaking generational trauma for our sons + daughters✨ Why we tend to pick men who resemble our mother or father✨ How she finally broke free of the relationship that made her feel so trapped✨ How to change the belief that taking care of yourself is selfish✨ What parenting is like when you’ve done your own workMENTIONED:Follow Jamie on IG: @‌jamiemadsenofficial🔑 NOW ENROLLING for Becoming, my group coaching program: Only 4 spaces are open Ready? Submit your interest form here: https://www.brewolta.com/becomingRESOURCES FOR YOUR HEALING:🌻 ⁠Schedule your free Intro Session: https://tinyurl.com/freeintroseshpod❤️ For more resources on healing from the mindf*ck of confusing relationships so you can securely attach + experience healthy love: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.brewolta.com⁠⁠⁠⁠🫶🏻 Trust Yourself More Than His Potential (3 Simple Practices To Guarantee You Don't Go Back): https://tinyurl.com/trustyourselfmore-pod 🫶🏻 Get the free 3 WAYS TO RECOGNIZE LOVE BOMBING GUIDE to spot love bombing and walk away from the red flags early: https://tinyurl.com/lovebombguide-htwshownotes🫶🏻 ⁠Get the free RELATIONSHIP RESET GUIDE⁠: https://tinyurl.com/rrg-htwshownotesLearn how to communicate your feelings (without feeling guilty)Navigate triggering moments without shutting downFeel secure on your own so you aren’t jumping into the wrong relationshipExpand your capacity to hold next-level love while remaining true to you🫶🏻 FIND YOURSELF AGAIN Self-guided course to help you rediscover your needs and identity after years of focusing on others firsthttps://tinyurl.com/fya-htwshownotes (Use PODCAST10 at checkout for 10% off)In this gripping podcast, listeners explore the complex dynamics of toxic relationships, unpacking themes like narcissistic abuse, gaslighting, cognitive dissonance, and emotional manipulation, while delving into how empathy, attachment styles, and people pleasing behaviors contribute to codependency, trauma bonding, and emotional abuse. The host and guests share real stories of betrayal, guilt, and heartbreak—all while guiding survivors through letting go of an ex, identifying red flags, reclaiming self worth and confidence, establishing boundaries, and rebuilding emotional safety after love bombing, manipulation, self doubt, and deep-rooted trauma.

When I say, “You are not alone.” I mean it. My passion for this work comes from being there, in the confusion and pain just like you, unsure how I was ever going to find the absolute knowing that leaving my now ex was the right choice, no less find a new man who could redefine what love meant in every way. Through my healing I’ve become the confident, self-assured woman that I’ve always dreamed of being, and on this side I’m able to experience a relationship that the old me would have rolled her eyes at in disbelief. Which is why I KNOW it is possible for you too.This is my story. If this resonates for you, leave a comment and share. I want to hear from you ❤️.Listen For:✨ How the euphoric beginning with my ex slowly turned into me shutting up and shutting down✨ Why I started feeling crazy and questioned my intelligence✨ How I bargained with myself and justified the red flags (aka how long I stayed in Potential Land) waiting for him to live up to who I thought he could be✨ How I knew for certain when it was time to leave✨ The behind the scenes of my dating process after I healed✨ What it feels like to now be in a safe and loving relationship built on respect, interdependence and support (and how you can have it too)MENTIONED:Previous episodes that explain EFT tapping:- https://open.spotify.com/episode/0uRuam5bdckrY0bNKdPuyP?si=7221464f5aa84750- https://open.spotify.com/episode/5ldy5z1gl9UoH4P8Vq6fhz?si=8f57dbb0ecbf4a5f- https://open.spotify.com/episode/2h0OlyQlqm5qmjsUUseWkl?si=201c59356e2c41fe✨ NOW ENROLLING ✨ for Becoming, my group coaching program(Only 4 spaces are open)Ready? Submit your interest form here: https://www.brewolta.com/becomingRESOURCES FOR YOUR HEALING:🌻 ⁠Schedule your free Intro Session: https://tinyurl.com/freeintroseshpod❤️ For more resources on healing from the mindf*ck of confusing relationships so you can securely attach + experience healthy love: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.brewolta.com⁠⁠⁠⁠🫶🏻 Trust Yourself More Than His Potential (3 Simple Practices To Guarantee You Don't Go Back): https://tinyurl.com/trustyourselfmore-pod 🫶🏻 Get the free 3 WAYS TO RECOGNIZE LOVE BOMBING GUIDE to spot love bombing and walk away from the red flags early: https://tinyurl.com/lovebombguide-htwshownotes🫶🏻 ⁠Get the free RELATIONSHIP RESET GUIDE⁠: https://tinyurl.com/rrg-htwshownotesLearn how to communicate your feelings (without feeling guilty)Navigate triggering moments without shutting downFeel secure on your own so you aren’t jumping into the wrong relationshipExpand your capacity to hold next-level love while remaining true to you🫶🏻 FIND YOURSELF AGAIN Self-guided course to help you rediscover your needs and identity after years of focusing on others firsthttps://tinyurl.com/fya-htwshownotes (Use PODCAST10 at checkout for 10% off)In this gripping podcast, listeners explore the complex dynamics of toxic relationships, unpacking themes like narcissistic abuse, gaslighting, cognitive dissonance, and emotional manipulation, while delving into how empathy, attachment styles, and people pleasing behaviors contribute to codependency, trauma bonding, and emotional abuse. The host and guests share real stories of betrayal, guilt, and heartbreak—all while guiding survivors through letting go of an ex, identifying red flags, reclaiming self worth and confidence, establishing boundaries, and rebuilding emotional safety after love bombing, manipulation, self doubt, and deep-rooted trauma.

If dating has you throwing up your hands like, “I’m f*ckin' done” this episode may just breathe a little life back into you. Marisa Kowalski is a yoga teacher and lover of deep conversations and today she takes us through her depths.She shares how losing her father reframed how important it was to not waste her finite time on people who don’t align, what it is like to date as a millennial (and how Abercrombie screwed us), why yoga is not just rainbows and Lululemon, and what it feels like to turn toward grief instead of numbing it away.Enjoy this episode and share with your girlfriends who need it. If this lands for you, I invite you to help other women find this information too by leaving a 5-star review 🌟 (cool rhyme, right?!)!Listen For:✨ How to turn towards grief instead of numbing out✨ Yoga as a mirror to show us who we really are (for better or worse)✨ Why finding your “diamond in the donkey shit” will help you heal from painful relationships✨ How Disney and Abercrombie have f*cked up the milliennial’s experience of dating✨ How dopamine plays into dating, and how to keep your mind clear when choosing a partnerDECEMBER HOLIDAY PROMO 🎁 (LAST WEEK!!!):$200 off my private coaching program, ⁠Awakening⁠🎁 Schedule your free session (as the first step) here: ⁠⁠https://freeyourselffromtoxicrelationships.youcanbook.me⁠⁠RESOURCES FOR YOUR HEALING:🌻 ⁠Schedule your free Intro Session: https://tinyurl.com/freeintroseshpod❤️ For more resources on healing from the mindf*ck of confusing relationships so you can securely attach + experience healthy love: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.brewolta.com⁠⁠⁠⁠🫶🏻 Trust Yourself More Than His Potential (3 Simple Practices To Guarantee You Don't Go Back): https://tinyurl.com/trustyourselfmore-pod 🫶🏻 Get the free 3 WAYS TO RECOGNIZE LOVE BOMBING GUIDE to spot love bombing and walk away from the red flags early: https://tinyurl.com/lovebombguide-htwshownotes🫶🏻 ⁠Get the free RELATIONSHIP RESET GUIDE⁠: https://tinyurl.com/rrg-htwshownotesLearn how to communicate your feelings (without feeling guilty)Navigate triggering moments without shutting downFeel secure on your own so you aren’t jumping into the wrong relationshipExpand your capacity to hold next-level love while remaining true to you🫶🏻 FIND YOURSELF AGAIN Self-guided course to help you rediscover your needs and identity after years of focusing on others firsthttps://tinyurl.com/fya-htwshownotes (Use PODCAST10 at checkout for 10% off)In this gripping podcast, listeners explore the complex dynamics of toxic relationships, unpacking themes like narcissistic abuse, gaslighting, cognitive dissonance, and emotional manipulation, while delving into how empathy, attachment styles, and people pleasing behaviors contribute to codependency, trauma bonding, and emotional abuse. The host and guests share real stories of betrayal, guilt, and heartbreak—all while guiding survivors through letting go of an ex, identifying red flags, reclaiming self worth and confidence, establishing boundaries, and rebuilding emotional safety after love bombing, manipulation, self doubt, and deep-rooted trauma.

If you’ve considered an Ayahuasca experience and are thinking, “Ummm…that seems terrifying,” you aren’t alone. Adriana Balentine is a Licensed Psychotherapist, Space Holder and Owner of Wise Warrior Retreats, and in this episode she takes us on the wild ride that led her to this potent medicine that has changed her life. From suddenly going mostly blind in one eye, to having her life flipped upside down and narrowed from Lyme disease, Adriana shares all the moments that gently invited her to surrender and learn to become her own ally.Towards the end of this episode, we share about Wise Warrior Retreats upcoming Accelerated Awakening Plant Medicine Retreat (that I am also a part of), so don’t miss out on all the details on how to join us this Feb. 9-15th, 2024 in Costa Rica!Listen For:✨ What surrendering even means and how to do it in life (and in a Ayahuasca ceremony)✨ How to know if you are feeling “the call” to plant medicine✨ The ways that loneliness can shift from working with Ayahuasca✨ Why you may feel stuck in talk therapy✨ Determining if plant medicine is for you despite your ego being freaked the f*ck out✨ How normal it is to want control and how to start to release your white-knuckle gripMENTIONED IN EPISODE:Wise Warrior Retreats: https://www.wisewarriorretreats.comApplication for Plant Medicine Retreat (Feb. 9-15, 2024 in Costa Rica): https://www.wisewarriorretreats.com/retreat-costa-ricaWWR Insta: https://www.instagram.com/wisewarriorretreats/DECEMBER HOLIDAY PROMO 🎁:$200 off my private coaching program, ⁠Awakening⁠🎁 Schedule your free session (as the first step) here: ⁠⁠https://freeyourselffromtoxicrelationships.youcanbook.me⁠⁠RESOURCES FOR YOUR HEALING:🌻 ⁠Schedule your free Intro Session: https://tinyurl.com/freeintroseshpod❤️ For more resources on healing from the mindf*ck of confusing relationships so you can securely attach + experience healthy love: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.brewolta.com⁠⁠⁠⁠🫶🏻 Trust Yourself More Than His Potential (3 Simple Practices To Guarantee You Don't Go Back): https://tinyurl.com/trustyourselfmore-pod 🫶🏻 Get the free 3 WAYS TO RECOGNIZE LOVE BOMBING GUIDE to spot love bombing and walk away from the red flags early: https://tinyurl.com/lovebombguide-htwshownotes🫶🏻 ⁠Get the free RELATIONSHIP RESET GUIDE⁠: https://tinyurl.com/rrg-htwshownotesLearn how to communicate your feelings (without feeling guilty)Navigate triggering moments without shutting downFeel secure on your own so you aren’t jumping into the wrong relationshipExpand your capacity to hold next-level love while remaining true to you🫶🏻 FIND YOURSELF AGAIN Self-guided course to help you rediscover your needs and identity after years of focusing on others firsthttps://tinyurl.com/fya-htwshownotes (Use PODCAST10 at checkout for 10% off)In this gripping podcast, listeners explore the complex dynamics of toxic relationships, unpacking themes like narcissistic abuse, gaslighting, cognitive dissonance, and emotional manipulation, while delving into how empathy, attachment styles, and people pleasing behaviors contribute to codependency, trauma bonding, and emotional abuse. The host and guests share real stories of betrayal, guilt, and heartbreak—all while guiding survivors through letting go of an ex, identifying red flags, reclaiming self worth and confidence, establishing boundaries, and rebuilding emotional safety after love bombing, manipulation, self doubt, and deep-rooted trauma.

It can be so frustrating to find yourself people-pleasing to make sure everyone else is okay, and abandoning yourself by doing whatever it takes to not have a relationship end. I know... I’ve been there too. And in this episode, my past client and dear friend Amy Jenkins shares her experience of learning how to choose herself even when that meant leaving a 18 year marriage. She shares how breathwork has been a tool to help her trust herself again and how mindful she is in her now partnership to not fall back into old familiar patterns.Enjoy this episode and share with your girlfriends who are also seeking the inspiration to live + love awake 🫶🏻. If this lands for you, I invite you to help other women find this information too by leaving a 5-star review (cool rhyme, right?!)!Listen For:✨ How people-pleasing and abandonment fears can be rooted in childhood✨ Why you aren’t responsible for someone else's happiness✨ How we grieve relationships before we even leave them✨ What it feels like to KNOW for certain that it is time to leave a relationship✨ How breathwork helps you trust yourself again✨ A simple breathing exercise you can do when you are stressed the f*ck outMENTIONED IN EPISODE:📚 The Heroine’s Journey (book)🌱 Accelerated Awakening Plant Medicine Retreat: 🫶🏻 Amy’s website🫶🏻 Amy’s YouTubeDECEMBER HOLIDAY PROMO 🎁:$200 off my private coaching program, Awakening🎁 Schedule your free session (as the first step) here: ⁠https://freeyourselffromtoxicrelationships.youcanbook.me⁠RESOURCES FOR YOUR HEALING:🌻 ⁠Schedule your free Intro Session: https://tinyurl.com/freeintroseshpod❤️ For more resources on healing from the mindf*ck of confusing relationships so you can securely attach + experience healthy love: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.brewolta.com⁠⁠⁠⁠🫶🏻 Trust Yourself More Than His Potential (3 Simple Practices To Guarantee You Don't Go Back): https://tinyurl.com/trustyourselfmore-pod 🫶🏻 Get the free 3 WAYS TO RECOGNIZE LOVE BOMBING GUIDE to spot love bombing and walk away from the red flags early: https://tinyurl.com/lovebombguide-htwshownotes🫶🏻 ⁠Get the free RELATIONSHIP RESET GUIDE⁠: https://tinyurl.com/rrg-htwshownotesLearn how to communicate your feelings (without feeling guilty)Navigate triggering moments without shutting downFeel secure on your own so you aren’t jumping into the wrong relationshipExpand your capacity to hold next-level love while remaining true to you🫶🏻 FIND YOURSELF AGAIN Self-guided course to help you rediscover your needs and identity after years of focusing on others firsthttps://tinyurl.com/fya-htwshownotes (Use PODCAST10 at checkout for 10% off)In this gripping podcast, listeners explore the complex dynamics of toxic relationships, unpacking themes like narcissistic abuse, gaslighting, cognitive dissonance, and emotional manipulation, while delving into how empathy, attachment styles, and people pleasing behaviors contribute to codependency, trauma bonding, and emotional abuse. The host and guests share real stories of betrayal, guilt, and heartbreak—all while guiding survivors through letting go of an ex, identifying red flags, reclaiming self worth and confidence, establishing boundaries, and rebuilding emotional safety after love bombing, manipulation, self doubt, and deep-rooted trauma.

Afraid to set a boundary for fear of hurting the other person? Or have you tried to set boundaries and people just walk all over them?This episode will help to demystify what boundaries are, and show you exactly how to set them (with real life examples) so you don’t feel defeated. You’ll also leave this episode with an understanding of the skill of EFT tapping and how to use it to regulate your nervous system, in real time, when you are freaking the f*ck out and don’t know how to calm your emotions.Enjoy this episode and don’t forget to leave a review and share with your girlfriends who are also seeking the inspiration to live + love awake 🫶🏻.Listen For:✨ The misconceptions about boundaries + how they are screwing with you✨ Why boundaries are the kindest thing you can have in a relationships✨ The resentment killer✨ The trick to set a boundary even though you may upset someone✨ Examples of what boundaries that work look like✨ How vital it is to regulate the nervous system in order to set healthy boundaries (and how to do it)✨ Why EFT tapping is the sh*t and takes you from feeling triggered to feeling calm more easefully✨ A tutorial on how to use EFT tapping in your day to day life when you’re stressed the f*ck out or feeling distressing emotionsMENTIONED IN EPISODE:Ep: 004 How to Have a Healthy Relationship After a Toxic One:https://open.spotify.com/episode/2h0OlyQlqm5qmjsUUseWkl?si=72a9c9ba17384edeSelf-Guided Course: Find Yourself Again: https://brewolta.mykajabi.com/find-yourself-againDECEMBER HOLIDAY PROMO 🎁:$200 off my private coaching program, Awakening: ⁠https://www.brewolta.com/awakening⁠Schedule your free session (as the first step) here: ⁠https://freeyourselffromtoxicrelationships.youcanbook.me⁠RESOURCES FOR YOUR HEALING:🌻 ⁠Schedule your free Intro Session: https://tinyurl.com/freeintroseshpod❤️ For more resources on healing from the mindf*ck of confusing relationships so you can securely attach + experience healthy love: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.brewolta.com⁠⁠⁠⁠🫶🏻 Trust Yourself More Than His Potential (3 Simple Practices To Guarantee You Don't Go Back): https://tinyurl.com/trustyourselfmore-pod 🫶🏻 Get the free 3 WAYS TO RECOGNIZE LOVE BOMBING GUIDE to spot love bombing and walk away from the red flags early: https://tinyurl.com/lovebombguide-htwshownotes🫶🏻 ⁠Get the free RELATIONSHIP RESET GUIDE⁠: https://tinyurl.com/rrg-htwshownotesLearn how to communicate your feelings (without feeling guilty)Navigate triggering moments without shutting downFeel secure on your own so you aren’t jumping into the wrong relationshipExpand your capacity to hold next-level love while remaining true to you🫶🏻 FIND YOURSELF AGAIN Self-guided course to help you rediscover your needs and identity after years of focusing on others firsthttps://tinyurl.com/fya-htwshownotes (Use PODCAST10 at checkout for 10% off)In this gripping podcast, listeners explore the complex dynamics of toxic relationships, unpacking themes like narcissistic abuse, gaslighting, cognitive dissonance, and emotional manipulation, while delving into how empathy, attachment styles, and people pleasing behaviors contribute to codependency, trauma bonding, and emotional abuse. The host and guests share real stories of betrayal, guilt, and heartbreak—all while guiding survivors through letting go of an ex, identifying red flags, reclaiming self worth and confidence, establishing boundaries, and rebuilding emotional safety after love bombing, manipulation, self doubt, and deep-rooted trauma.

Feeling disconnected from your intuition? Do you have no idea what people are saying when they tell you to, “Be more in your body?” In this episode, Sacha Bryce one of my beautiful teachers (and the woman who trained me in EFT tapping) shares how she finally trusted to her intuition for guidance as she decided to leave a relationship and ultimately took the actions to find her soul’s purpose. She also explains EFT tapping, and how it is one of the most accessible tools that can help you reconnect your knowing to your heart, and step outside of ego fear.Enjoy this episode and don’t forget to leave a review and share with your girlfriends who are also seeking the inspiration to live + love awake 🫶🏻. You are not alone.Listen for:✨ How Sacha conquered her fear of using her voice with EFT tapping✨ How a journey across the world while studying yoga and holistic medicine energy techniques led her back home to find her soul’s purpose✨ Identifying intuition vs. ego fear✨ Inspiration on how to lean into blind faith (and actually trust the universe) when you need to make a life change✨ How she left a partner who wasn’t aligned with the woman she wanted to be✨ What it was like to find a partner who was in his healthy masculine energy✨ Ways to practice being in your body so that you can evolve in ways you can’t while stuck in the analytical mind✨ Why we default to negativity + how to shift itMENTIONED IN EPISODE:Learn more about Sacha’s EFT Core Clarity Certification Course:https://www.coresoulwork.comFollow her on IG: @‌sachabryce.eft🎁 LIMITED TIME - DECEMBER HOLIDAY PROMO 🎁:$200 off my private coaching program, Awakening: ⁠https://www.brewolta.com/awakening⁠Schedule your free session (as the first step) here: ⁠https://freeyourselffromtoxicrelationships.youcanbook.me⁠RESOURCES FOR YOUR HEALING:🌻 ⁠Schedule your free Intro Session: https://tinyurl.com/freeintroseshpod❤️ For more resources on healing from the mindf*ck of confusing relationships so you can securely attach + experience healthy love: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.brewolta.com⁠⁠⁠⁠🫶🏻 Trust Yourself More Than His Potential (3 Simple Practices To Guarantee You Don't Go Back): https://tinyurl.com/trustyourselfmore-pod 🫶🏻 Get the free 3 WAYS TO RECOGNIZE LOVE BOMBING GUIDE to spot love bombing and walk away from the red flags early: https://tinyurl.com/lovebombguide-htwshownotes🫶🏻 ⁠Get the free RELATIONSHIP RESET GUIDE⁠: https://tinyurl.com/rrg-htwshownotesLearn how to communicate your feelings (without feeling guilty)Navigate triggering moments without shutting downFeel secure on your own so you aren’t jumping into the wrong relationshipExpand your capacity to hold next-level love while remaining true to you🫶🏻 FIND YOURSELF AGAIN Self-guided course to help you rediscover your needs and identity after years of focusing on others firsthttps://tinyurl.com/fya-htwshownotes (Use PODCAST10 at checkout for 10% off)In this gripping podcast, listeners explore the complex dynamics of toxic relationships, unpacking themes like narcissistic abuse, gaslighting, cognitive dissonance, and emotional manipulation, while delving into how empathy, attachment styles, and people pleasing behaviors contribute to codependency, trauma bonding, and emotional abuse. The host and guests share real stories of betrayal, guilt, and heartbreak—all while guiding survivors through letting go of an ex, identifying red flags, reclaiming self worth and confidence, establishing boundaries, and rebuilding emotional safety after love bombing, manipulation, self doubt, and deep-rooted trauma.

Afraid to bring your old patterns into your new relationship? Not sure what a healthy relationship is supposed to feel like? I got you. In this episode we are going to cover the vital elements you need in order to show up as your best damn self with your new (or future) healthy partner. And don’t worry, I love practical tools and examples so there are plenty in here to guide you.Listen for:✨ The 5 vital elements you need to show up healthfully and not fall back into old patterns✨ Practical ways to set + hold healthy boundaries (👉🏻 with examples)✨ The key to not self-sabotage✨ What your partner’s role is in your healing✨ Tools to communicate healthfully (👉🏻with examples) so resentment doesn’t growMENTIONED IN THE SHOW:Find Yourself Again - Self-Guided Course: https://brewolta.mykajabi.com/find-yourself-againFree session: https://freeyourselffromtoxicrelationships.youcanbook.me EFT Tapping Tutorial: https://youtu.be/lYD0c19ttgo RESOURCES FOR YOUR HEALING:🌻 ⁠Schedule your free Intro Session: https://tinyurl.com/freeintroseshpod❤️ For more resources on healing from the mindf*ck of confusing relationships so you can securely attach + experience healthy love: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.brewolta.com⁠⁠⁠⁠🫶🏻 Trust Yourself More Than His Potential (3 Simple Practices To Guarantee You Don't Go Back): https://tinyurl.com/trustyourselfmore-pod 🫶🏻 Get the free 3 WAYS TO RECOGNIZE LOVE BOMBING GUIDE to spot love bombing and walk away from the red flags early: https://tinyurl.com/lovebombguide-htwshownotes🫶🏻 ⁠Get the free RELATIONSHIP RESET GUIDE⁠: https://tinyurl.com/rrg-htwshownotesLearn how to communicate your feelings (without feeling guilty)Navigate triggering moments without shutting downFeel secure on your own so you aren’t jumping into the wrong relationshipExpand your capacity to hold next-level love while remaining true to you🫶🏻 FIND YOURSELF AGAIN Self-guided course to help you rediscover your needs and identity after years of focusing on others firsthttps://tinyurl.com/fya-htwshownotes (Use PODCAST10 at checkout for 10% off)In this gripping podcast, listeners explore the complex dynamics of toxic relationships, unpacking themes like narcissistic abuse, gaslighting, cognitive dissonance, and emotional manipulation, while delving into how empathy, attachment styles, and people pleasing behaviors contribute to codependency, trauma bonding, and emotional abuse. The host and guests share real stories of betrayal, guilt, and heartbreak—all while guiding survivors through letting go of an ex, identifying red flags, reclaiming self worth and confidence, establishing boundaries, and rebuilding emotional safety after love bombing, manipulation, self doubt, and deep-rooted trauma.

If you’ve ever been with someone who is narcissistic, you know it feels like a mindf*ck of an experience. Therapist and Narcissism Expert, James Marrugo gives us a look inside the narcissistic mind to help better make sense of everything from love bombing to gaslighting. He shares the vital information that you will want to hear if you think you may be (or have been) in relationship with someone who has narcissistic traits, and tips on how to never fall for someone like that again.Listen for:✨ Signs 🚩 to look for in someone who is narcissistic✨ How and why narcissistic people gaslight and manipulate their partners (and how to know if it is happening to you 🚩)✨ How to tell if you've been love bombed 🚩✨ Why narcissists love empaths✨ Why setting boundaries or trying to be understood by a narcissist feels so hard✨ How to leave a narcissist - grey-rocking vs. no contact✨ How to trust your instincts while dating so you don’t fall back into a relationship with a narcissistic person✨ The various types of narcissism + how they outwardly present differently✨ Narcissism vs. Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)✨ If you can truly be in a happy relationship with someone on the narcissism spectrumYou can find more from James at www.morningcoffeecounseling.com and on his podcast, Mental Health Without the Bulls****RESOURCES FOR YOUR HEALING:🌻 ⁠Schedule your free Intro Session: https://tinyurl.com/freeintroseshpod❤️ For more resources on healing from the mindf*ck of confusing relationships so you can securely attach + experience healthy love: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.brewolta.com⁠⁠⁠⁠🫶🏻 Trust Yourself More Than His Potential (3 Simple Practices To Guarantee You Don't Go Back): https://tinyurl.com/trustyourselfmore-pod 🫶🏻 Get the free 3 WAYS TO RECOGNIZE LOVE BOMBING GUIDE to spot love bombing and walk away from the red flags early: https://tinyurl.com/lovebombguide-htwshownotes🫶🏻 ⁠Get the free RELATIONSHIP RESET GUIDE⁠: https://tinyurl.com/rrg-htwshownotesLearn how to communicate your feelings (without feeling guilty)Navigate triggering moments without shutting downFeel secure on your own so you aren’t jumping into the wrong relationshipExpand your capacity to hold next-level love while remaining true to you🫶🏻 FIND YOURSELF AGAIN Self-guided course to help you rediscover your needs and identity after years of focusing on others firsthttps://tinyurl.com/fya-htwshownotes (Use PODCAST10 at checkout for 10% off)In this gripping podcast, listeners explore the complex dynamics of toxic relationships, unpacking themes like narcissistic abuse, gaslighting, cognitive dissonance, and emotional manipulation, while delving into how empathy, attachment styles, and people pleasing behaviors contribute to codependency, trauma bonding, and emotional abuse. The host and guests share real stories of betrayal, guilt, and heartbreak—all while guiding survivors through letting go of an ex, identifying red flags, reclaiming self worth and confidence, establishing boundaries, and rebuilding emotional safety after love bombing, manipulation, self doubt, and deep-rooted trauma.

Brandi Babin is a Habit & Productivity Strategist and Author of Reclaim: A Journey To Self Discovery, and a strong ass woman who knows all too well the effects of narcissistic and post-separation abuse. She vulnerably shares her experience within the narcissism cycle, why the love bombing felt too euphoric to leave, how gaslighting felt believable, why she kept going back, and finally how she grieved not only her ex, but released and found peace with the woman she was.Listen for:✨ Love bombing vs. falling in love (how to tell the difference)✨ Signs of being gaslit and why it makes you feel so crazy✨ Why she went back to him several times when she knew she shouldn't✨ Why we give narcissists the benefit of the doubt✨ How we confuse manipulation for vulnerability with a narcissist✨ How to know when you are ready to leave ✨ Post-separation abuse and how she navigated leaving with children✨ The nuances in grieving a toxic relationship✨ How to feel feelings + take action steps to heal (you can too!)✨ Her #1 way to get to know yourself again Mentioned Resources:✨ Brandi's Reclaim Journal/Guide: https://www.thereclaimstrategy.com/✨ Brandi's Podcast: Shattered to Unbreakable✨ My Find Yourself Again Self-Led Course: https://brewolta.mykajabi.com/find-yourself-againRESOURCES FOR YOUR HEALING:🌻 ⁠Schedule your free Intro Session: https://tinyurl.com/freeintroseshpod❤️ For more resources on healing from the mindf*ck of confusing relationships so you can securely attach + experience healthy love: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.brewolta.com⁠⁠⁠⁠🫶🏻 Trust Yourself More Than His Potential (3 Simple Practices To Guarantee You Don't Go Back): https://tinyurl.com/trustyourselfmore-pod 🫶🏻 Get the free 3 WAYS TO RECOGNIZE LOVE BOMBING GUIDE to spot love bombing and walk away from the red flags early: https://tinyurl.com/lovebombguide-htwshownotes🫶🏻 ⁠Get the free RELATIONSHIP RESET GUIDE⁠: https://tinyurl.com/rrg-htwshownotesLearn how to communicate your feelings (without feeling guilty)Navigate triggering moments without shutting downFeel secure on your own so you aren’t jumping into the wrong relationshipExpand your capacity to hold next-level love while remaining true to you🫶🏻 FIND YOURSELF AGAIN Self-guided course to help you rediscover your needs and identity after years of focusing on others firsthttps://tinyurl.com/fya-htwshownotes (Use PODCAST10 at checkout for 10% off)In this gripping podcast, listeners explore the complex dynamics of toxic relationships, unpacking themes like narcissistic abuse, gaslighting, cognitive dissonance, and emotional manipulation, while delving into how empathy, attachment styles, and people pleasing behaviors contribute to codependency, trauma bonding, and emotional abuse. The host and guests share real stories of betrayal, guilt, and heartbreak—all while guiding survivors through letting go of an ex, identifying red flags, reclaiming self worth and confidence, establishing boundaries, and rebuilding emotional safety after love bombing, manipulation, self doubt, and deep-rooted trauma.

Stacey Embers is a lightworker who found recovery from drugs, alcohol, sex + love, and codependency addictions, and now experiences living as her most authentic self. Hear how she moved through years of self-abandonment and shame in unhealthy relationships and has now learned how to reconnect to her intuition, build trust back with herself, feel feelings instead of analyzing them, and go inward despite the discomforting process of self-work. Oh, yeah and how being playful keeps her sane.Listen for:✨ How to become discerning so you don't self-abandon✨ Parts work + building trust with your parts✨ Finding your people and the importance of taking them off pedestals✨ How she found recovery from drug, alcohol, sex + love, and codependency addictions✨ What being sober vs. being in recovery means✨ Meditation + spirituality tips✨ How to sit in discomfort so you don't slip into victim mentalityListen to Stacey's podcast here:⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/3zGdcAgExbDcNDMCe7lvl0?si=e25fc7369c2144f9⁠RESOURCES FOR YOUR HEALING:🌻 ⁠Schedule your free Intro Session: https://tinyurl.com/freeintroseshpod❤️ For more resources on healing from the mindf*ck of confusing relationships so you can securely attach + experience healthy love: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.brewolta.com⁠⁠⁠⁠🫶🏻 Trust Yourself More Than His Potential (3 Simple Practices To Guarantee You Don't Go Back): https://tinyurl.com/trustyourselfmore-pod 🫶🏻 Get the free 3 WAYS TO RECOGNIZE LOVE BOMBING GUIDE to spot love bombing and walk away from the red flags early: https://tinyurl.com/lovebombguide-htwshownotes🫶🏻 ⁠Get the free RELATIONSHIP RESET GUIDE⁠: https://tinyurl.com/rrg-htwshownotesLearn how to communicate your feelings (without feeling guilty)Navigate triggering moments without shutting downFeel secure on your own so you aren’t jumping into the wrong relationshipExpand your capacity to hold next-level love while remaining true to you🫶🏻 FIND YOURSELF AGAIN Self-guided course to help you rediscover your needs and identity after years of focusing on others firsthttps://tinyurl.com/fya-htwshownotes (Use PODCAST10 at checkout for 10% off)In this gripping podcast, listeners explore the complex dynamics of toxic relationships, unpacking themes like narcissistic abuse, gaslighting, cognitive dissonance, and emotional manipulation, while delving into how empathy, attachment styles, and people pleasing behaviors contribute to codependency, trauma bonding, and emotional abuse. The host and guests share real stories of betrayal, guilt, and heartbreak—all while guiding survivors through letting go of an ex, identifying red flags, reclaiming self worth and confidence, establishing boundaries, and rebuilding emotional safety after love bombing, manipulation, self doubt, and deep-rooted trauma.