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
Ep 41: Post Separation Abuse Q&A
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What questions do you have about post separation abuse? I received many many questions before, during, and after a webinar I did for domesticshelters.org and know that many of you have the same questions. In this episode I will be answering five of the questions received.
- If you have not left your abuser yet, how can you prepare for post separation abuse? What should we make sure we do? What should we avoid?
- Do you have some suggestions for safely maintaining boundaries while co-parenting with an abusive ex-partner?
- We often work with a parent with a child who is court-ordered to visit the abuser. The children in these situations often act out and have negative behaviors when they’re supposed to go to the visits, so the protective parent often doesn’t take them-which leads the abuser claiming that the child is being withheld and may file contempt of the court order. Is there anything we can do to support clients in this situation?
- How do we deal with children who are mimicking the behaviors of the abusive parent?
- Do you have any tips on how to help children from blaming the survivor/protective parent and getting the kids to avoid taking sides?
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