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 158: Felt Safety After Trauma: Why You Can’t Heal Without It
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What happens when the world tells you that you need “safety” to heal from trauma, but your life after leaving abuse still feels anything but safe?
We’re talking about felt safety—what it is, why it matters, and how to begin creating moments of it even when post-separation abuse is ongoing.
Sybil talks about:
- The difference between actual safety and felt safety
- Why most trauma therapies rely on safety as a starting point, and what to do when that’s not your reality
- How felt safety helps your nervous system shift out of survival mode, even in tiny doses
- Tools for creating micro-moments of safety in your body, relationships, and environment
- Why your child’s behavior may be linked to their sense of safety—and how to foster it, even when co-parenting with someone who is harmful
Drawing on the work of trauma and attachment expert Robyn Gobbel, we explore how felt safety unlocks the door to healing, and how you can offer that gift to yourself and your children starting today.
Whether you're in the thick of court battles, navigating scary transitions, or just feeling stuck in survival mode—this episode is here to remind you: you don’t have to wait to be “safe” to start healing.
Link to - Episode 101: The Protective Parent’s Guide to Parenting with Guest Robyn Gobbel, MSW.
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