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
145 episodes
Ep 145: How Abusers Weaponize Words and How Survivors Can Take Them Back
Language shapes how we see ourselves, our experiences, and our healing journey. In this episode of The Rising Beyond Podcast, we’re diving into why words matter for survivors of domestic violence—how they can be used to manipulate and harm, and...
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Ep 144: Share Your Story of Coercive Control with Credibility so You Will Not Be Dismissed
Being able to share your experiences of coercive control and domestic violence in a way that is credible is imperative if you are dealing with any larger systems or trying to get support from friends and family.And this is something sur...
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Ep 143: Silenced No More: How Loraine Marshall Beat a Defamation Case and Found Her Voice
How often have you felt voice-less and silenced as a survivor of coercive control and domestic violence?Survivors are voice-less when living in the relationship with their abuser. They also often do not get a chance to speak their...
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Ep 142: Inside the Broken System of Supervised and Therapeutic Visitation
Supervised visitation and therapeutic visitation are meant to provide safety and structure for children and families navigating complex custody dynamics. But what happens when there are no regulations, inconsistent oversight, and a severe lack ...
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Ep 141: The Shame Was Never Yours: Healing from Vicarious Shame After Abuse
Even though you’ve left the relationship, do you still feel embarrassed when you remember the way your ex treated others? Do you find yourself cringing at memories of their public outbursts, apologizing for their past behavior, or worrying that...
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Ep 140: Acceptance and Agency: How to Find Your Power in the Midst of Coercive Control with Karen McMahon
What if the key to your post-separation freedom wasn’t fighting for control, but letting go of what’s beyond it?Imagine reclaiming your energy by focusing only on what you can control, even in the face of narcissistic abuse or c...
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Ep 139: When Abuse Follows You: Recognizing Coercive Control Outside of Romantic Relationships
You are likely listening to The Rising Beyond Podcast because of coercive control and abuse within a romantic relationship. Unfortunately coercive control often shows up in other relationships as well and can have long term impacts on you...
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Ep 138: Going Pro Se in Family Court: How to Represent Yourself and Protect Your Kids with Casey Brinkman
If you are a survivor in the battle ground of family court, would you say that your attorney is representing you well?Do you feel heard? Or maybe you do not have the financial means to even hire an attorney.And so ...
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Ep 137: Reclaiming Your Life: How to Heal When the Abuse Isn’t Over
Have you ever felt like your entire life is consumed by the chaos of post-separation abuse? What if I told you that there’s a part of you—a healing self—that can exist outside of the constant stress and conflict? And what if you could nurture t...
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Ep 136: A TikTok Revelation: Mita Begum’s Journey to Healing from Narcissistic Abuse
When you finally realize that you are being abused in your relationship and that your partner is a narcissist, it can hit you like a ton of bricks.In this episode, I have a conversation with Mita Begum on her experience of realizing that...
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Ep 135: The Power of Creative Expression in Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
Explore the transformative power of creativity as a tool for processing emotions and reclaiming your identity after abuse. Learn how engaging in creative expression can help rewire your brain, improve your mood, and reconnect you to your true s...
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Ep 134: Triggers 101: What They Are and How to Navigate Them as a Survivor of Narcissistic Abuse
We’re diving deep into the world of triggers. A common and often overwhelming experience for survivors of trauma and abuse. We’ll explore what triggers are, why they happen, and how they can actually become opportunities for healing and growth....
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Ep 133: You Can’t Think Your Way to Healing: Full Bodied Healing for Survivors of Narcissistic Abuse with Erica Bonham, LPC
Why is it that we can understand the abuse we suffered, understand why we are hypervigilant, and yet not see the progress we are hoping for on the healing front?The trauma of an abusive, narcissistic and coercively controlling relations...
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Ep 132: New Year Survival Guide: Creating Goals When Co-Parenting with an Abuser
If you’re a survivor navigating family court, co-parenting with an abusive ex, and just trying to make it through another day, goal-setting might feel like an impossible task. Even though it is a new year, you are expecting the same old BS from...
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Ep 131: How Pursuing Your Dreams Can Jumpstart Healing from Abuse with Lola Reid Allin
One of the most devastating consequences of coercive control and domestic abuse is the stripping away of the victim’s identity and sense of self.The emotional and psychological abuse leads victims to feel incapable of doing even small t...
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Ep 130: Survivor Struggles, Legislative Wins, and Family Court Failures
What can we learn from all that happened in 2024?In this episode, I share some of the top themes that I have seen throughout the year based on the most listened to podcast episodes, my communications with the other advocates fighting fo...
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Ep 129: AImee One Year Later: Fighting Loneliness and Saving Time for Survivors of Abuse with Anne Wintemute
Post separation abuse resources are still scarce even though it is no longer a secret that abuse continues after a victim leaves the relationship.Feeling like you are on your own as you read and respond to your co-parent’s messages in y...
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Ep 128: When Hope Feels Out of Reach for Domestic Violence Survivors
Navigating the family court system with an abusive ex can feel like an endless, uphill battle. And with our current system broken and the current state of our world, the idea of “finding hope” and positivity may not feel possible.<...
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Ep 127: Stuck in Your Head? The Role of Emotions as You Heal from Abuse with Bre Wolta
Do you ever feel like you are stuck in your head?It may mean that you need to get out of your thoughts and into your body and emotions.On this week’s episode we do a deep dive with Bre Wolta, a relationship coach and certified E...
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Ep 126: Can Narcissists Change? What Family Court and Survivors Need to Know
What does the family court system and other systems need to know about the realistic time it will take someone with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) or those who are high on the continuum of narcissism to actually change?That is ...
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Ep 125: Shining a Light on Family Court Failures with Rachel Pickrel-Hawkins and Erin Siegal
Transparency is a requirement for any meaningful change in our family court system for survivors of domestic violence and narcissistic abuse. This is extremely apparent when you hear the horror stories of survivors day after day of their ...
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Ep 124: Leveraging Your Expertise for Better Custody Outcomes in Family Court with Julie Nabors
Coercive control and dv thrive in secrecy and so for many reasons victims lose their voices in the process of these relationships. Once a victim has left they have to make the decision of what parts of their story to share and wit...
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Ep 123: No Accountability for Abusers: Is There Anything a Survivor of Domestic Violence Can Do to Change This?
Are awareness and education the best option for decreasing the rates of domestic violence and coercive control?While it is important, we have been bringing awareness to the public since 1987 and it doesn’t feel like a lot has changed.
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Ep 122: The Hidden Damage of Isolation: Restoring Brain Health After Domestic Abuse with Social Connections
Isolation as a tactic of narcissistic abuse and domestic violence is fairly well understood, however are there larger consequences to continued isolation post separation?Similar to the scores from the Adverse Childhood Experiences Scale...
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Ep 121: Abigail’s Story: Exposing the Hidden Truth of Officer Involved Domestic Violence
What is Officer Involved Domestic Violence? This is an area of advocacy where we have known to be a problem for years and it is unspoken; a “dirty little secret.” Bruce Bieber agreed to share his story as a way to move this is...
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