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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
Bonus Coaching Session: How to Support Your Child’s Relationship with an Abusive Co-Parent (Without Gaslighting Them)
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In this week’s Friday Coaching Corner, I respond to a mom’s heartfelt question that so many survivors share:
“How do I support my children’s relationship with their dad—because the court says I have to—while knowing he is emotionally and psychologically abusing them every week?”
This episode dives deep into one of the hardest balancing acts for protective parents: offering emotional honesty and safety without crossing into parental alienation.
You’ll hear strategies and validation around:
- How to build felt safety for your children when the other home is unsafe.
- Why it’s vital not to gaslight your kids—and what to say instead.
- How to reflect what you see (“Your body looks like it needs to move after visits”) instead of judging or rescuing.
- Using simple rituals and routines to help kids regulate after contact with the abusive parent.
- How to teach emotional intelligence and discernment so your kids can identify safe people and unsafe behaviors.
- Ways to contrast your safe home environment with the other parent’s behavior—without speaking negatively about them.
- The truth that children need one consistent, unconditional, loving caregiver to build resilience—and that person can be you.
This episode is a compassionate guide for every survivor-parent navigating the impossible tension between protecting your children and being forced to “support” a relationship that hurts them.
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