The Rising Beyond Podcast
If you're trying to protect your children while navigating an abusive ex, this podcast is for you. Because leaving the relationship didn't end the abuse, and no one prepared you for what came next.
The Rising Beyond Podcast is for protective mothers navigating the overwhelming reality of sharing children with someone who continues patterns of manipulation, coercive control, or emotional abuse after separation. Join Sybil Cummin, licensed professional counselor, who has spent the last decade helping survivors and their children navigate this incredibly difficult chapter. Every week, we share trauma-informed education, nervous system insights, protective parenting strategies, and honest conversations about family court, post-separation abuse, and healing, so you can feel more confident, more grounded, and better equipped to protect both your children and yourself.
Whether you're in the middle of family court, struggling with parenting alongside someone who continues patterns of control, or simply trying to become the parent you want to be after everything you've survived, you'll find validation, practical guidance, and hope here.
The Rising Beyond Podcast
Latest Episodes
Ep 212: When Couples Therapy Causes Harm | Understanding Coercive Control in the Therapy Room with Frances Russell, LMFT
What if the therapy that was supposed to help actually made things worse?For many survivors of coercive control, couples therapy doesn't bring clarity, it deepens confusion, self-doubt, and shame.In this episode, I'm joined by lic...
Ep 211: Attachment Styles, Dating After Abuse, and Why This Isn't Your Fault
Attachment theory has become one of the most talked-about topics in the dating and relationship world.You have probably heard terms like anxious attachment, avoidant attachment, secure attachment, and disorganized attachment. Maybe you'v...
Ep 210: Healing from Domestic Abuse: Rethinking Our Relationship with Our Bodies with Karianne Gwinn
What if your body isn’t betraying you… but trying to protect you?In this episode, we’re rethinking the relationship survivors often have with their bodies after trauma. I’m joined by Karianne Gwinn to talk about the very real physical im...
Bonus Coaching Session: My Child Stopped Fighting Parenting Time. Should I Be Relieved?
Your child stopped fighting parenting time… but something still feels off. In this FCC episode, we unpack what may be happening when a young child goes from visible distress to emotional shutdown during transitions, how to think about attachmen...
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Ep 209: Why Coparenting Feels Like a Trap (And What to Do Instead)
What if “coparenting” isn’t failing because you are doing it wrong?And instead, it is not working because the map you were given on how to do it is not meant for “coparenting” with someone abusive.The way that our system is design...
Fan Mail
Helpful knowing others are going thru similar and what I’d assumed unimaginable situations. My family is enduring this kind of nightmare- It's so important to have strength in numbers and educate the public. Below is a petition I started to bring awareness of situation. Pls read and share if you can. Thank you for your work and understanding.
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