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 120: Finding Validation After Narcissistic Abuse: Building Friendships That Don’t Keep You Stuck
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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 a fire hose. The validation and head nods when you are sharing your experiences just increase the amount you are sharing. And this is solidified when they are able to finish your sentences before you do.
And while these experiences can be extremely helpful as you heal, the constant conversations around the abuse can create a relationship that is extremely limited. And you (and your new found friend) are more than the abuse you have endured.
So how can you maintain this level of support while also creating relationships where you do not feel burn out and can move beyond the labels of being “survivors.”
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