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You've been told you aren't enough. You've been blamed, gaslit, and left feeling like you are "broken beyond repair." But the truth is, you aren't broken—you've simply been surviving in a broken environment.Join psychotherapist and bestselling author Chelsey Brooke Cole for a…
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The Childhood Wound Narcissists Can Exploit with Jessica Anne Pressler (opens the original)
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Why do so many survivors know something is wrong and still abandon their own needs, intuition, and boundaries? Jessica Anne Pressler is a therapist, a hospice social worker, and the creator of the Traitor Within Framework. She calls that part of you "the traitor within." It's the part that learned in childhood that keeping the peace, avoiding rejection, and earning love was the safest way to live. In this conversation, Jessica explains: how those childhood coping patterns follow us into adult re
Why 95% of Abuse Survivors Wonder If They're the Problem with Grace Stuart (opens the original)
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People in abusive relationships rarely say, "I'm being abused." They say it's a rough patch, a hard season, or a compatibility problem, and that language can keep them stuck for years. Domestic violence advocate, coach, and Why She Stayed podcast host Grace Stuart joins Chelsey to share how it took years to recognize her own relationship as abuse. Grace explains why whoever controls the language controls reality. She describes how coercive control makes isolation feel like your own choice and ho
Narcissistic Abuse Makes You Lose Yourself—Here's How to Find Your Way Back (opens the original)
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Narcissistic abuse is an invisible war. You're hypervigilant, exhausted, and constantly bracing for the next blow, but nobody around you can see the battlefield. So how do you walk off a war you can't even see? Chelsey is joined by Anne Jolles, author, TEDx speaker, and founder of Grace Trail. When her son was deployed to Afghanistan, Anne turned to walking in nature to cope, and out of that came five simple questions that became Grace Trail, now a network of self-guided walking trails across th
Stop Waiting for the Narcissist to Say Sorry (Do This Instead) (opens the original)
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If you've been told that forgiving a narcissist means letting them back in, dropping your anger, or acting like what they did wasn't that bad — that isn't forgiveness, and believing it is what keeps most survivors stuck. In part two of this series on forgiveness and narcissistic abuse, Chelsey answers the question underneath all of it: what does forgiveness actually mean, and is it even necessary for healing? The reframe: the narcissist genuinely does owe you. The lying, the manipulation, the ye
The Narcissist's Favorite Weapon: "You Need to Forgive Me" (opens the original)
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"You need to forgive me. I said I was sorry. What more do you want?" If you've heard some version of that — from a narcissist, a family member, or someone who has no idea what you actually lived through — this episode is for you. In part one of a two-part series, Chelsey Brooke Cole unpacks what's really happening when a narcissist demands your forgiveness. Spoiler: they aren't asking for forgiveness. They're asking for access back into your life, erasure of the consequences, and your silence. A
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