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 221: New Research That May Finally Explain Your Experience: Moral Injury and Domestic Violence with Dr. Summer Rippe
If it feels like no one fully understands what happens at the intersection of domestic violence and the larger systems survivors are forced to navigate, this conversation is for you.So many women we serve are not only healing from coerci...
Ep 220: What Is a Therapist’s Role When Coercive Control Enters the Courtroom?
If they see the safety concerns, why can’t they tell the court?In this episode, I pull back the curtain on the role of a treating therapist in cases involving coercive control, post-separation abuse, and family court. I explain why a chi...
Ep 219: 20 Things Professionals Need to Understand About Coercive Control
What if just one professional truly understood coercive control?What if your therapist, evaluator, attorney, judge, child protection worker, or GAL recognized the patterns that so often go unseen?Would your family's story look dif...
Bonus Coaching Session: My Teen Refuses to Go to the Other Parent's House. What Do I Do?
This week's question comes from a protective mom navigating one of the most heartbreaking and misunderstood situations in family court.Her teenage daughter refuses to go to her dad's house. She's crying, begging not to go, and sometimes ...
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Ep 218: Surviving a Smear Campaign Without Losing Yourself
Back-to-school season often brings more than new teachers, new classmates, and new routines.For many protective parents, it also marks the beginning of a new round of smear campaigns.Whether it's with teachers, other parents, coac...
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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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