Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 4 hours 20 minutes
While the holiday season is often associated with warmth, love, and familial bonds, for survivors of toxic family systems this is not the case. Toxic family members gift wrap holiday nightmares packaged as love. They ruin holidays for sport.
In this episode, you'll learn
✅ The time period between Halloween and Valentine's Day is the time when survivors of family abuse are subject to the most intense “hoovering” from their family...
Join Dr. Sherrie in a candid conversation with Kimberly Shannon Murphy as Kimberly tells her story of survival from sexual abuse perpetrated by her family, as told in her book, Glimmer.
In this episode, you'll discover:
✅ The pain of being an unprotected child.
✅ Why family members tend to take the side of the perpetrator.
✅ Why self harm is so often involved as a way to cope in victims of sexual abuse...
Understanding the differences between the silent treatment and no contact can help you navigate your relationships with toxic family members.
Let's explore these topics:
✅ It is natural to have many moments of questioning ourselves around no contact because we never want to be like our toxic family members.
✅ The difference between the silent treatment and no contact comes down to intent.
✅ Signposts to when silence is being deployed for abuse...
Our family members are famous for their pristine ability to play the victim.
Playing the victim can manifest in a variety of contexts.
In this episode, we are going to unpack:
✅ Our psychologically abusive family members get thrills off any opportunity they can create that affords them the opportunity to take the stage to put on their Oscar-worthy winning performance of the victim...
In this bonus episode, we will explore one of the most deadly emotional games that our toxic family members play — the emotional game of gossip.
Key Takeaways:
✅ Not all gossip is created equally.
✅ Our emotionally abusive family members use gossip to avoid looking at their part in any negative interaction.
✅ Signs you’re being gossiped about...
In this bonus episode, we are discussing a controversial topic - toxic grandparents.
✅ Toxicity in a family doesn’t leave anyone out regardless of a person's title or role in your life, and this can include grandparents.
✅ As a culture, we place importance on having an extended family, with grandparents being a big part of that. When grandparents are healthy, this makes sense. When grandparents are abusive, it does not make sense...
Another free, bonus episode!
In this episode, the silent epidemic of cutting off with family will be covered along with the common reasons why people make this choice.
✅ The silent epidemic of family estrangement.
✅ The reason we know so little about the lives of those who have been forced to cut off from family is because cutting off is not accepted in the larger culture...
Another free, bonus episode!
In this episode, the silent epidemic of cutting off with family will be covered along with the common reasons why people make this choice.
✅ The silent epidemic of family estrangement.
✅ The reason we know so little about the lives of those who have been forced to cut off from family is because cutting off is not accepted in the larger culture...
Facts are there are many many families that are just so toxic that they set out to destroy our lives.
In today’s bonus podcast episode, you will learn:
Facts are there are many many families that are just so toxic that they set out to destroy our lives.
In today’s bonus podcast episode, you will learn: