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Are you feeling trapped in a relationship where love feels more like pain, inconsistency, and power struggles? Have you ever found yourself questioning your own worth because of a loved one’s manipulative or abusive behavior? In this episode, Dr. Nadine provides you with insight, validation, tools to help you reclaim control, and so much more. ✅ Trauma Bonds are based on an imbalance of power. ✅ The abuse of power is abuse ✅ Parents inherently have more power and resources than children so seduction is not necessary to trap them ✅ Eradicating the shame of staying in an abusive relationship for too long ✅ How substance abuse exacerbates an already abusive/narcissistic personality ✅ Codependency makes the victim think there is something wrong with them they need to fix, rather than looking at what an abuser needs to fix ✅ Starting over ✅ Redefining yourself after abuse ✅ Stopping the marital/divorce pain from destroying your children Dr. Nadine Macaluso, known to her patients as Dr. Nae, is the real-life inspiration behind Naomi Belfort's character in "The Wolf of Wall Street." She survived a turbulent eight-year marriage to Jordan Belfort, marked by abuse, greed, and trauma. Following her experiences, Dr. Macaluso relocated to California. Her journey of trauma and healing inspired her to return to school at age 39, where she earned her Master's in counseling and Ph.D. in somatic psychotherapy. She further specialized with a two-year postdoctoral training in the Neuro-affective Relational Model (NARM). As a therapist, Dr. Macaluso combines her education and personal experiences to help others heal from trauma. Her practice focuses on assisting patients in connecting with their authentic selves, fostering confidence, resilience, and agency. Dr. Macaluso firmly believes in the potential for post-traumatic growth, instilling hope in her patients and guiding them to reach their potential in life and love. Mentioned in the episode: 📌 [Book] Run Like Hell: A Therapist's Guide to Recognizing, Escaping, and Healing from Trauma Bonds by Dr. Nadine Macaluso - https://amzn.to/3C6vnEW 📌 [Book] Women Who Love Psychopaths: Inside the Relationships of inevitable Harm With Psychopaths, Sociopaths & Narcissists by Sandra L. Brown - https://www.amazon.com/Women-Who-Love-Psychopaths-Relationships/dp/0984172807 Connect with Dr. Nadine: 📌 Website: https://drnae.com/ 📌 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therealdrnadine/ 📌 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drnaelmft 📌 Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drnaelmft 📌 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheRealDrNadine 📌 X: https://x.com/therealdrnadine ***** NEW BOOK!!! Adult Survivors of Emotionally Abusive Parents: How to Heal, Cultivate Emotional Resilience, and Build the Life and Love You Deserve - https://amzn.to/3UhURWI ***** Books by Dr. Sherrie Campbell: ⚉ Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut. - https://amzn.to/3L3sMuA ⚉ But It’s Your Family…: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath - https://amzn.to/3tuNQEn ⚉ Your Pocket Therapist: Quick Hacks for Dealing with Toxic People While Empowering Yourself - https://amzn.to/3JBql1R ⚉ Success Equations: A Path to Living an Emotionally Wealthy Life - https://amzn.to/3uobd1u ⚉ Loving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own Person - https://amzn.to/36mlXp5 Connect with Dr. Sherrie Campbell: ⚉ Website: https://drsherriecampbell.com/ ⚉ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SherrieCampbellPhD Check out the Sherapy Master Class: The Toxic Family Sherapy Course designed to help people...

In this episode,  we uncover how toxic family dynamics mirror cult-like control. Drawing on personal experiences and clinical expertise, this thought-provoking conversation with Vanessa Reiser will explore how toxic family environments resemble cults, tactics abusers use to manipulate, and the path toward reclaiming autonomy. ✅ Cult of One - the qualities that make up a psychopathic personality ✅ The power of isolation and confusion toxic relationships have on their victims ✅ Why it’s often more challenging and painful to leave a toxic family than a toxic romantic partnership ✅ Any group can take on characteristics of a cult. ✅ Often don’t know know you’re in a cult-like scenario for quite some time ✅ Families can be run as mini-cults ✅ Emotional Cannibalism ✅ How we replicate toxic patterns of behavior we learned in childhood in our romantic relationships ✅ The impact of toxic relationships and leaving them on our children ✅ Finding the will to leave and stay gone Vanessa Reiser is a mother, author, entrepreneur, 2x Ironman, and psychotherapist licensed in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Florida, specializing in narcissistic and cult abuse. She is also the founder of Tell a Therapist, LLC and is best known for her run across the state of New York (285 miles in 11 days) in a wedding dress to raise awareness for narcissistic abuse. She also subsequently ran across NJ, CT, and MA. Her insights are personal and professional, giving her a unique lens into this insidious form of domestic abuse. Vanessa holds a bachelor's degree in political science and a Master of Social Work (MSW) from the University of Southern California with a focus on community organizing. Vanessa is also a social media influencer, sharing life-changing information that is educational and validating to those impacted by narcissistic abuse. Vanessa has been interviewed by prestigious news and media outlets like People Magazine, The New York Times, Fox News, MSN, and The New York Post. Mentioned in the episode: 📌 [Book] Narcissistic Abuse: A Therapist’s Guide to Identifying, Escaping, and Healing from Toxic and Manipulative People by Vanessa M. Reiser - https://bit.ly/3C6fGgO Connect with Vanessa: 📌 Website: https://tellatherapist.net/ 📌 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vanessareiserlcsw/ 📌 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vanessa.pugliese 📌 Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@vanessareiser ***** NEW BOOK!!! Adult Survivors of Emotionally Abusive Parents: How to Heal, Cultivate Emotional Resilience, and Build the Life and Love You Deserve - https://amzn.to/3UhURWI ***** Books by Dr. Sherrie Campbell: ⚉ Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut. - https://amzn.to/3L3sMuA ⚉ But It’s Your Family…: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath -

Navigating life after enduring the turmoil of a toxic family background can be one of the most challenging journeys. The process of unlearning negative beliefs and building a positive mindset is a profound and ongoing effort. In this episode we will delve into the various aspects of this journey with life coach, Jacqueline Hurst, offering practical advice and encouragement to help you find your way toward a healthier and more fulfilling life. ✅ Mindset to heal negative emotional patterns ✅ The difference between toxic positivity and mindset training ✅ Mindset gives you a choice to feel and do better ✅ Overcoming ingrained mindsets ✅ Going from victim to victor ✅ Any worthy change process requires discipline and commitment to yourself ✅ Go To’s to change your mood and thoughts around to being more lovable ✅ There is nothing wrong with bad days —it how you get through them ✅ The gifts of our painful times along the journey ✅ Boundaries are a mindset practice of self-love and self-respect ✅ Learn to allow your more negative thoughts and emotions become motivational superpowers Jacqueline Hurst is the UK's leading Life Coach. She is also a specialist in Advanced Structured Hypnotherapy and a Master NLP Practitioner. She has over 15 years of experience and has worked with over 5,000 clients. With many tools in her box, she uses a unique, specialized, and highly sophisticated technique to help clients drop their negative thoughts and behaviors, to get past their own limitations, and achieve a life they love. Jacqueline is GQ Magazine's resident therapist and is regularly featured in the media as an expert in her field including The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, Harpers Baazar, The Times, Easy Living Magazine, The Daily Mail, BBC London Radio, Talk Radio, and the Oprah Winfrey Network. She has also worked alongside major brands including Clinique, Eve Lom, Space NK, Sweaty Betty, Lulu Lemon, and Bank of America. She works with clients 1:1 by phone, Skype, or in person at her office in Mayfair in London. She also works with clients who bring her to their home country for a day, 3 days, or 5 days. Mentioned in the episode:📌 [Book] How To Do You: A Life-Changing Art of Mastering Your Thoughts and Taking Control of Your Life by Jacqueline Hurst - https://amzn.to/4dplJLv 📌 [Book] Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert - https://amzn.to/4fyBIIA Connect with Jacqueline:📌 Personal Website: https://www.jacquelinehurst.com/ 📌 Business Website: https://www.thelifeclass.com/ 📌 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Jacqueline_hurst_/ 📌 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jhurstcoaching 📌 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacqueline-hurst-83a35628/ *****NEW BOOK!!! Adult Survivors of Emotionally Abusive Parents: How to Heal, Cultivate Emotional Resilience, and Build the Life and Love You Deserve -

Drawing on insights from breathwork expert, Josh Connolly, we explore the transformative power of truth, the significance of acceptance, and the role of alternative therapies in overcoming the shadows of a toxic upbringing.✅ Understanding our toxic family members, doesn’t change them or heal us ✅ Forgiveness doesn’t change our toxic family members ✅ The belief that “Everyone is good inside” irrelevant. ✅ The value of breath-work and learning to be in your body to heal your pain ✅ Healing comes from adhering to truth ✅ The most important choice you can make is choosing authenticity over attachment ✅ Debunking the cognitive dissonance around the idea that family is everything ✅ Healthy parenting doesn’t imply perfect parenting Josh Connolly stands as a prominent mental health advocate in the United Kingdom, recognised for his impactful presence in the media and a substantial social media following of 250,000. As a certified Breathwork Coach, his mission centre's on guiding individuals to gain deeper insights into their own selves and emotions by fostering a connection with their intuition and body. Josh actively conducts resilience workshops, catering to both local village schools and international corporate giants. Additionally, he serves as a passionate ambassador for Nacoa, a national charity dedicated to providing support to those affected by a parent's alcohol consumption.Mentioned in the episode:📌 [Book] It's Them, Not You: How to Break Free from Toxic Parents and Reclaim Your Story - https://www.joshconnolly.co.uk/its-them-not-you 📌 TEDx Talk Not All Parents Are Good by Dr. Sherrie Campbell - https://youtu.be/deyHwDkG7oc📌 Inner You: A flagship online 6 week programme: www.joshconnolly.co.uk/inner-you 📌 Breathing Space: An online community away from social media - www.joshconnolly.co.uk/breathing-space Connect with Josh:📌 Website: https://www.joshconnolly.co.uk/ 📌 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/josh_ffw/ 📌 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joshffw 📌 Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@josh_ffw 📌 X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/josh_ffw 📌 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/JoshConnolly_FFW 📌 Work with Josh: https://www.joshconnolly.co.uk/contact *****NEW BOOK!!! Adult Survivors of Emotionally Abusive Parents: How to Heal, Cultivate Emotional Resilience, and Build the Life and Love You Deserve - https://amzn.to/3UhURWI *****Books by Dr. Sherrie Campbell:⚉ Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut. - https://amzn.to/3L3sMuA ⚉ But It’s Your Family…: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath - https://amzn.to/3tuNQEn ⚉ Your Pocket Therapist: Quick Hacks for Dealing with Toxic People While Empowering Yourself - https://amzn.to/3JBql1R ⚉ Success Equations: A Path to Living an Emotionally Wealthy Life - https://amzn.to/3uobd1u ⚉ Loving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own Person - https://amzn.to/36mlXp5 Connect with Dr. Sherrie Campbell:⚉ Website: https://drsherriecampbell.com/ ⚉ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SherrieCampbellPhD Check out the Sherapy Master Class: The Toxic Family Sherapy Course designed to help people master toxic family members and turn their life around to one of freedom, peace, and empowerment. Click here https://bit.ly/SherapyMasterclass Get early access to news, insights, and tips straight from your inbox. Subscribe to Dr. Sherrie’s email list, go to https://drsherriecampbell.com/

In a society that often downplays or dismisses men's emotional struggles, Dave's willingness to share his story and engage in open dialogue is a powerful testament to the importance of breaking the silence. In this episode, Dave shares how he navigated growing up with a narcissistic mother, married a narcissistic woman, found healing and reclaimed his life. ✅ All things toxic family ✅ The Value of No Contact when nothing else works ✅ Breaking destructive generational patterns of poor parenting ✅ Repeating patterns of abuse with romantic partners ✅ Starting Fresh ✅Healing childhood and marital wounding ✅ Establishing a strong sense of self through the setting of healthy boundaries Dave, founder of @healing.after.a.narcissist on Instagram, is dedicated to raising awareness and providing education on narcissism and narcissistic abuse. Through his platform, he validates people's experiences and offers valuable tips on healing after encountering narcissistic individuals in all aspects of life. His mission is to empower others to navigate the aftermath of such toxic relationships and find healing and resilience. Mentioned in the episode: 📌 [Book] The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté MD - https://bit.ly/3QMhCPY 📌 TEDx Talk Not All Parents Are Good by Dr. Sherrie Campbell - https://youtu.be/deyHwDkG7oc 📌 [Podcast] How to Effectively Co-Parent with a Narcissist on Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari - https://bit.ly/3QNHZVP Connect with Dave: 📌 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/healing.after.a.narcissist/ *****NEW BOOK!!! Adult Survivors of Emotionally Abusive Parents: How to Heal, Cultivate Emotional Resilience, and Build the Life and Love You Deserve - https://amzn.to/3UhURWI ***** Books by Dr. Sherrie Campbell: ⚉ Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut. - https://amzn.to/3L3sMuA ⚉ But It’s Your Family…: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath - https://amzn.to/3tuNQEn ⚉ Your Pocket Therapist: Quick Hacks for Dealing with Toxic People While Empowering Yourself - https://amzn.to/3JBql1R ⚉ Success Equations: A Path to Living an Emotionally Wealthy Life - https://amzn.to/3uobd1u ⚉ Loving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own Person - https://amzn.to/36mlXp5  Connect with Dr. Sherrie Campbell: ⚉ Website: https://drsherriecampbell.com/ ⚉ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SherrieCampbellPhD Check out the Sherapy Master Class: The Toxic Family

Join me in a powerful conversation with Laura K. Connell as she talks about her experiences growing up in a dysfunctional and emotionally abusive family, where she was subjected to a narcissistic mother and an emotionally neglectful father. And how she battled with alcoholism while addressing the deep-seated trauma she endured. ✅ How and why survivors turn to various addictions (alcohol, substance abuse, eating disorders, etc) to cope ✅ Feelings of relief from our emotional pain addictions initially bring. ✅ Ah-ha moments that awaken the need to change ✅ What triggers help us turn our lives around ✅ Both the growth and the grieving of toxic family dynamics are round/whole rather than linear ✅ It’s Not Your Fault -realizing your parents are character-disordered ✅ Going No Contact ✅ Stay the course, life gets better after definitive boundaries have been set on our toxic family members Laura K. Connell is a trauma-informed author and coach who helps professional women discover the subconscious reasons they self-sabotage and how to finally have the fulfilling life they deserve and desire. She writes about the impact of dysfunctional family dynamics on her website, laurakconnell.com. Her guest articles have reached millions through personal development websites Life Hack, Pick the Brain, Dumb Little Man, Highly Sensitive Refuge, the anthology Chicken Soup for the Soul, and national newspapers The Globe and Mail and Toronto Star. She has helped thousands heal from dysfunctional family trauma through her popular online retreats. Her book It's Not Your Fault: The Subconscious Reasons We Self-Sabotage and How to Stop is available now at the Simon & Schuster website.Mentioned in the episode:📌 (Book) It's Not Your Fault: The Subconscious Reasons We Self-Sabotage and How to Stop - https://amzn.to/48Xpi8A 📌 TEDx Talk Not All Parents Are Good by Dr. Sherrie Campbell - https://youtu.be/deyHwDkG7oc 📌 (Book) Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life - 📌 (Book) A Million Little Pieces - Connect with Laura K. Connell:📌 Website: https://www.laurakconnell.com/ 📌 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/soulminimalist 📌 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurak.connell/ *****NEW BOOK!!! Adult Survivors of Emotionally Abusive Parents: How to Heal, Cultivate Emotional Resilience, and Build the Life and Love You Deserve - https://amzn.to/3UhURWI *****Books by Dr. Sherrie Campbell:⚉ Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut. - https://amzn.to/3L3sMuA ⚉ But It’s Your Family…: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath - https://amzn.to/3tuNQEn ⚉ Your Pocket Therapist: Quick Hacks for Dealing with Toxic People While Empowering Yourself -

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. ✅ The holidays are a time we all want to feel love, safety and warmth, and not the nightmare of our psychologically abusive family members and all their attention-seeking antics.✅ Holiday hoovering puts a fearful twist and gut-wrenching anxiety into our holiday season.✅ Their hoovering is not occurring because they genuinely miss us. Nothing our family does is motivated by love. They are motivated by their own needs and feelings.✅ Our family views the holidays as the “season of second chances.”✅ Our abusers need us, transactionally, to uphold the image of “family” they desire to project into the world.✅ Our family intentionally preys on our guilt during the holidays because guilt (and our natural sentimentality) are the easiest emotions for them to manipulate.✅ Tactics of Holiday Hoovering✅ How To’s and Boundaries to SetBooks by Dr. Sherrie Campbell: ⚉ Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut. - https://amzn.to/3L3sMuA ⚉ But It’s Your Family…: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath - https://amzn.to/3tuNQEn ⚉ Your Pocket Therapist: Quick Hacks for Dealing with Toxic People While Empowering Yourself - https://amzn.to/3JBql1R ⚉ Success Equations: A Path to Living an Emotionally Wealthy Life - https://amzn.to/3uobd1u ⚉ Loving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own Person - https://amzn.to/36mlXp5 Connect with Dr. Sherrie Campbell: ⚉ Website: https://drsherriecampbell.com/ ⚉ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SherrieCampbellPhD Check out the Sherapy Master Class: The Toxic Family Sherapy Course designed to help people master toxic family members and turn their life around to one of freedom, peace, and empowerment. Click here https://bit.ly/SherapyMasterclass Get early access to news, insights, and tips straight from your inbox. Subscribe to Dr. Sherrie’s email list, go to https://drsherriecampbell.com/

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. ✅ How to find your voice and set boundaries on all family members who choose to stay in the denial. ✅ How to liberate yourself and reclaim your voice and your body. ✅ The power of journal writing as an avenue to finding your voice. ✅ Coping with the multiple layers of betrayal trauma and feelings of abandonment. ✅ Breaking the cycle of generational  trauma. ✅ Family members who don’t heal simply learn to abuse in different ways. ✅ Finding love and learning to thrive. Kimberly Shannon Murphy is an Award-Winning Stuntwoman and the Author of Glimmer, A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing.Kimberly is Hollywood's Go-To Stuntwoman for Premier Silver Screen actresses. Her resume is loaded with top box office films such as Top Gun Maverick, Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, Knight and Day, The Lone Ranger, Jack Reacher, Hunger Games, Savages, Men in Black 3, and the list goes on. Mentioned in the episode:📌 (Book) Glimmer, A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing by Kimberly Shannon Murphy - https://amzn.to/3r431Ge Connect with Kimberly Shannon Murphy: 📌 Instagram: @kimberlyshannonmurphystunts📌 Facebook: @TheGlimmerSpace📌 X (Twitter): @KSMstuntwoman📌 Youtube: @StuntwomanKimberlyShannonConnect with Dr. Sherrie Campbell:📌 Website: https://drsherriecampbell.com/ 📌 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SherrieCampbellPhD Books by Dr. Sherrie Campbell:📌 Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut. - https://amzn.to/3L3sMuA 📌 But It’s Your Family…: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath - https://amzn.to/3tuNQEn 📌 Your Pocket Therapist: Quick Hacks for Dealing with Toxic People While Empowering Yourself - https://amzn.to/3JBql1R 📌 Success Equations: A Path to Living an Emotionally Wealthy Life - https://amzn.to/3uobd1u 📌 Loving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own Person - https://amzn.to/36mlXp5 Check out the Sherapy Master Class: The Toxic Family Sherapy Course designed to help...

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. ✅ When we go silent we do so to  stay silent. We have no want, need, or desire to hurt our toxic family members by toying with them in any way. ✅ How do we know we’re not the bad guy (toxic person) our family accuses us of being? ✅ What is going on when our family members call us the toxic ones for going no contact?✅ How To’s and Boundaries to Set—Get my latest book!  — Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut. Get it here:  https://amzn.to/3L3sMuA —Connect with Dr. Sherrie Campbell:Website: https://drsherriecampbell.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SherrieCampbellPhD Books by Dr. Sherrie Campbell:But It’s Your Family…: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath - https://amzn.to/3tuNQEn Your Pocket Therapist: Quick Hacks for Dealing with Toxic People While Empowering Yourself - https://amzn.to/3JBql1R Success Equations: A Path to Living an Emotionally Wealthy Life - https://amzn.to/3uobd1u Loving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own Person - https://amzn.to/36mlXp5 Check out the Sherapy Master Class: The Toxic Family Sherapy Course designed to help people master toxic family members and turn their life around to one of freedom, peace, and empowerment. Click here https://bit.ly/SherapyMasterclass Get early access to news, insights, and tips straight from your inbox. Subscribe to Dr. Sherrie’s email list, go to https://drsherriecampbell.com/

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.✅ They use this victim role to gain pity or sympathy, and to evoke compassion as a path to getting their way.  ✅ They play this role publicly and privately to evade accountability by smoke-screening their abuse of you. ✅ The basic story your toxic family members tell of themselves is that they are the“good,” “caring,” “moral, “selfless,” person in the relationship, and you are the “bad,” “abusive,” “cruel,” “immoral,” “selfish,” “toxic,” one.✅ Conversations with your family members that play the victim can never be about your feelings. It must be all about them.✅ Family members who play the victim grossly embellish the untruths they tell about your “monstrous” behavior to create a more powerful narrative about how profoundly you have victimized them. ✅ Goals and payoffs of playing the victim✅ Impacts of this emotional game on the targets✅ How to’s and boundaries to setGet my newly released book!  — Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut. Get it here:  https://amzn.to/3L3sMuA Connect with Dr. Sherrie Campbell:Website: https://drsherriecampbell.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SherrieCampbellPhD Books by Dr. Sherrie Campbell:But It’s Your Family…: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath - https://amzn.to/3tuNQEn Your Pocket Therapist: Quick Hacks for Dealing with Toxic People While Empowering Yourself - https://amzn.to/3JBql1R Success Equations: A Path to Living an Emotionally Wealthy Life - https://amzn.to/3uobd1u Loving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own Person - https://amzn.to/36mlXp5 Check out the Sherapy Master Class: The Toxic Family Sherapy Course designed to help people master toxic family members and turn their life around to one of freedom, peace, and empowerment. Click here https://bit.ly/SherapyMasterclass Get early access to news, insights, and tips straight from your inbox. Subscribe to Dr. Sherrie’s email list, go to https://drsherriecampbell.com/

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 psychologically abusive families, gossip is used primarily to expend negative energy where talking poorly about you or others brings your family members feelings of power and satisfaction.✅ Psychologically Abusive family members who gossip about you feel totally empowered when trashing you.✅ Psychologically Abusive family members love creating negative triangles between you and others. Get my newly released book!  — Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut. Get it here:  https://amzn.to/3L3sMuA Connect with Dr. Sherrie Campbell:Website: https://drsherriecampbell.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SherrieCampbellPhD Books by Dr. Sherrie Campbell:But It’s Your Family…: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath - https://amzn.to/3tuNQEn Your Pocket Therapist: Quick Hacks for Dealing with Toxic People While Empowering Yourself - https://amzn.to/3JBql1R Success Equations: A Path to Living an Emotionally Wealthy Life - https://amzn.to/3uobd1u Loving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own Person - https://amzn.to/36mlXp5 Check out the Sherapy Master Class: The Toxic Family Sherapy Course designed to help people master toxic family members and turn their life around to one of freedom, peace, and empowerment. Click here https://bit.ly/SherapyMasterclass Get early access to news, insights, and tips straight from your inbox. Subscribe to Dr. Sherrie’s email list, go to https://drsherriecampbell.com/ 

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.✅ When you cut off from your parents this will often include protecting your children from the negative influence of their grandparents.✅ Not all grandparents are created equal and too often grandparents are perceived as harmless elderly folks who love to spoil their grandkids.✅ How To’s and Boundaries to SetNOTE: If you are on the other side of this issue, please listen to Episode 19 on Toxic Adult Children. My social media pages and podcast episodes are not open to a host of non-productive commentary around topics that you may not agree with. Please share your thoughts on your own social media pages, and be respectful and kind to the people who are trying to deal with the issue the current episode is addressing. Thank you If you want to go deeper on the topic of toxic grandparents, I cover it in more detail in these books:But It’s Your Family…: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath - https://amzn.to/3tuNQEn Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut on Amazon. Get it here:  https://amzn.to/3L3sMuA Connect with Dr. Sherrie Campbell:Website: https://drsherriecampbell.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SherrieCampbellPhD Books by Dr. Sherrie Campbell:Your Pocket Therapist: Quick Hacks for Dealing with Toxic People While Empowering Yourself - https://amzn.to/3JBql1R Success Equations: A Path to Living an Emotionally Wealthy Life - https://amzn.to/3uobd1u Loving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own Person - https://amzn.to/36mlXp5 Check out the Sherapy Master Class: The Toxic Family Sherapy Course designed to help people master toxic family members and turn their life around to one of freedom, peace, and empowerment. Click here https://bit.ly/SherapyMasterclass Get early access to news, insights, and tips straight from your inbox. Subscribe to Dr. Sherrie’s email list, go to https://drsherriecampbell.com/ 

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. ✅ Because family estrangement is seldom talked about, due to its taboo nature, it is also widely misunderstood. ✅ Statistics on family estrangement.✅ Common Toxic and Situations which lead us to cut off from our toxic family members. ✅ You don’t owe anyone an explanation for cutting off. You are doing it to save your sanity and your mental health. ✅ “How To’s” and Boundaries to set Get my newly released book!  — Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut on Amazon.Get it here:  https://amzn.to/3L3sMuA Connect with Dr. Sherrie Campbell:Website: https://drsherriecampbell.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SherrieCampbellPhD Books by Dr. Sherrie Campbell:Your Pocket Therapist: Quick Hacks for Dealing with Toxic People While Empowering Yourself - https://amzn.to/3JBql1R But It’s Your Family…: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath - https://amzn.to/3tuNQEn Success Equations: A Path to Living an Emotionally Wealthy Life - https://amzn.to/3uobd1u Loving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own Person - https://amzn.to/36mlXp5 Check out the Sherapy Master Class: The Toxic Family Sherapy Course designed to help people master toxic family members and turn their life around to one of freedom, peace, and empowerment. Click here https://bit.ly/SherapyMasterclass Get early access to news, insights, and tips straight from your inbox. Subscribe to Dr. Sherrie’s email list, go to https://drsherriecampbell.com/ 

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: Our toxic family members insist that they love us. But if they are unhealthy, then whatever they believe about love must be unhealthy too. The difference between flawed and toxicThe first place to start when trying to determine if what we have is healthy love is to look at how we feel around someone the majority of the time we are with him or her. What is healthy love? Connect with Dr. Sherrie Campbell:Website: https://drsherriecampbell.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SherrieCampbellPhD Books by Dr. Sherrie Campbell:Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been CutYour Pocket Therapist: Quick Hacks for Dealing with Toxic People While Empowering YourselfBut It’s Your Family…: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the AftermathSuccess Equations: A Path to Living an Emotionally Wealthy LifeLoving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own PersonCheck out the Sherapy Master Class: The Toxic Family Sherapy Course designed to help people master toxic family members and turn their life around to one of freedom, peace, and empowerment.Get early access to news, insights, and tips straight from your inbox. Subscribe to Dr. Sherrie’s email list, go to https://drsherriecampbell.com/ 

In this podcast, you will learn solutions, strategies, and deeper understandings in dealing with your toxic family members.In each Sherapy Session, you will be educated and validated, which will help you have more control over your choices and have a more meaningful life beyond your toxic family. Take this journey with Dr. Sherrie Campbell, a worldwide recognized psychologist, a best-selling author, a media darling, and the leading expert in the nation on the topic of cutting ties with toxic family. But most of all, she is a survivor of a toxic family.See you inside, Bravehearts!