The Rising Beyond Podcast
Are you ready to thrive as you are coming out of a toxic or abusive relationship? Join Sybil Cummin, a licensed professional counselor who has specialized in working with victims and survivors of domestic violence and narcissistic abuse for over a decade and runs a membership community for women on their healing journey. On this podcast you will finally feel understood and your experience will be validated as you learn tangible strategies to handle family court, coparent with your abuser, improve your connection with your children, and heal from the trauma of narcissistic abuse and domestic violence.
Episodes
120 episodes
Ep 120: Finding Validation After Narcissistic Abuse: Building Friendships That Don’t Keep You Stuck
What happens when you finally find that one or two people who actually get the narcissistic abuse that you have gone through and continue to go through post separation?Oftentimes you might find yourself sharing like water coming out of ...
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Ep 119: The Typical Patterns of Abuse: Why They Continue to Work Post Separation with Nova Gibson
What is a typical pattern or blueprint for the relationship with a narcissist?Love Bombing happens first. Followed by devaluation. And then concludes with the Discard.And this cycle happens over and over again within...
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Ep 118: Behind the Curtain: Exposing the Failings of Family Court for Survivors of Domestic Violence
What is it going to take for there to be real systemic change? The state of our family court system for survivors of domestic violence and narcissistic abuse is horrific for so many families. And recently some of the unethica...
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Ep 117: Reproductive Coercion with Lynn Stroud
How does a narcissistic and abusive partner get you stuck in a relationship?Most of the time it is through love bombing, moving extremely quickly, and coercing you into a larger commitment, like living together, getting engaged or marri...
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Ep 116: Choosing My Battles When Coparenting with My Narcissistic Ex
Is it easy for you to choose what battles to fight and what battles to let go of when you are co-parenting with your abusive and narcissistic ex-partner?Many of the survivors I have worked with struggle to make this decision based on th...
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Ep 115: Understanding Generational Trauma and Its Role in Abusive Relationships
Why did I end up in an abusive relationship?There is no one reason or answer to this question with the exception of…your partner chose to abuse you.And I know that this answer does not satisfy anyone. So we are going to lo...
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Ep 114: Combating Coercive Control: Bringing Education into the Classroom with Lis Hoyte
How can we add a layer of protection for young people so that they can see coercive control in relationships a mile away?What if we brought education about coercive control and teen dating violence into our schools?In this episo...
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Ep 113:Co-Parenting vs. Parallel Parenting with a Narcissistic Ex
What is the difference between co-parenting and parallel parenting?If you have separated from your narcissistic ex-partner and you share children together, it is likely that you will still have to parent your children together in some capac...
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Ep 112: How Women are Framed in the Family Court System with Dr. Cocchiola and Amy Polacko
Our family court system continues to harm families on a daily basis. If you are a survivor of domestic violence, coercive control, or narcissistic abuse and share children with your ex-partner, you are likely experiencing this firsthand.<...
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Ep 111: The Realities of Court Ordered Reunification Therapy
If your children have not had contact or very little contact with your abusive ex-partner then it is likely that a judge will court order reunification therapy.What exactly is reunification therapy? And is it in the best interests...
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Ep 110: Playing the Narcissist’s Game: Is There A Way To Win?
“Playing the game” of family court and co-parenting when your ex partner is a narcissist is so mentally taxing and goes against every fiber of the survivors I work with.This episode is a bit of a rant after the themes of the moving goal...
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Ep 109: Effective Storytelling: How to Share Your Narcissistic Abuse Experience
What do you do with the story of your abuse?Who do you tell? What do you tell them? You will find yourself in many different situations with many different people where you will need to share the same story of your n...
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Episode 109
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Ep 108: The Golden Child and The Scapegoat Child
If you share more than one child with your narcissistic ex, then it is likely that you have seen your children treated differently.Oftentimes a narcissistic parent creates a dynamic where one child is “the golden child” and another is “...
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Episode 108
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Ep 107: High Risk Domestic Violence Team/Law Enforcement with Detective Brandon Wootan
Did you know that there are actually members of law enforcement that understand and want to find solutions to support victims of domestic violence and coercive control?I know for many of you this is hard to believe, and I have found one...
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Ep 106: Trauma Symptom Relief: All About Neurofeedback with Louise Finley, LPC, OMC
What would it be like to get a full night sleep? Or to be able to focus on the task at hand?After experiencing the trauma of domestic violence and narcissistic abuse many survivors find that their daily functioning completely goes...
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Ep 105: Trauma Therapy Options for Abuse Survivors and their Children
If you have experienced relationship abuse, then you have experienced trauma. And even if you do not meet all of the requirements for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) it is likely that some form of trauma therapy will be a helpful part of ...
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Episode 105
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Ep 104: Finding Yourself After Abuse Using the Enneagram with Talya Dash, LCSW
Domestic violence and narcissistic abuse strips away your sense of self and autonomy. One of the most important parts of the healing process is to rediscover who you are and what you value so that you can learn to trust yourself again.
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Episode 104
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Ep 103: Summertime Fun: How Your Abusive Ex Will Try to Ruin Your Summer
Summertime means fun in the sun, getting outdoors, swimming, camping and s'mores. But will your abusive, high conflict co-parent allow you to enjoy the fun? They will try to do everything they can to cause conflict and ruin t...
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Ep 102: Surviving Domestic Abuse: Strategies for Child Protection Involvement
If you are a victim or survivor of domestic violence or narcissistic abuse you will likely come into contact with a lot of our larger systems. One of them being Child Protective Services (CPS).This may bring up your greatest fear, one t...
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Episode 102
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Ep 101: The Protective Parent’s Guide to Parenting with Guest Robyn Gobbel, MSW
If you have ever felt powerless to help your children as they behave in ways that let you know that they are hurting or scared inside, this episode is for you.Parenting is hard even when you are not having to manage all that comes with ...
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Episode 101
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Ep 100: 100 Episodes Strong: Sybil's Story Behind the Mic with Guest Host Lundy Bancroft
It is episode 100 and we are flipping the script and doing something completely different. My good friend, Lundy Bancroft is interviewing ME, so that you can get a behind the scenes look at how I got started doing this work and why...
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Ep 99: What is Narcissistic Abuse Recovery?
What does it mean to recover or heal from domestic violence or narcissistic abuse? I am not sure that there is a universal answer to this question. So my answer…”It depends.”Your healing journey depends on so many different ...
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Ep 98: How to Know If You're Ready to Date Again? with Maggie VanDenBerg and Joanna Banana
How do you know when you are ready to date again after leaving an abusive relationship?It is common that folks find themselves in two camps:I will never date again as long as I liveI jumped into a relationship too fa...
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Episode 98
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Ep 97: Navigating Co-parenting Challenges: Setting Boundaries like a Badass with Jan and Jillian Yuhas
Struggling to keep the peace with a high-conflict ex?Does setting boundaries make you so uncomfortable that you don’t do it? But then you are kicking yourself and are full of resentment because you said yes to something that you a...
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Ep 96: Stomaching the Smear Campaign from your Narcissistic Ex
What is the most damaging lie your narcissistic ex partner has said about you? And who are they saying it to?The smear campaign can be extremely hurtful and can cause a lot of problems with receiving support, maintaining relations...
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Episode 96
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