Breaking Free: Raven's Story of Surviving a Meddling Abuser and Finding Healing - Domestic Violence, Narcissist Abuse

Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse

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🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Raven is a survivor who lived through an 18-year abusive relationship. From her childhood in a dysfunctional home to her struggle with toxic relationships, Raven paints a vivid picture of her journey, offering deep insights into how her abusive partner disrupted her work, led her into financial abuse, and how her own people-pleasing tendencies played a role in her prolonged stay in a destructive relationship. Raven's courage shines through as she shares the tactics she used to protect herself emotionally while navigating the turbulent waters of an abusive relationship. With raw honesty, she details her battle to set boundaries, the importance of not getting emotionally hooked into her abuser, and her eventual escape. Raven's story is not just about survival but resilience, as it took her four attempts to finally break free. *** CONTENT WARNING - Narcissist Apocalypse does not share the same views or recommend the use of experimental psychedelic therapies. *** If you want to be a guest on our survivor story podcast, please click here or send us an email at narcissistapocalypse@gmail.com To listen to the groundbreaking investigative true crime podcast about Munchausen by Proxy, NOBODY SHOULD BELIEVE ME, click here. Thank you to our sponsor BETTERHELP. If you need online counseling from anywhere in the world, please do go to https://www.betterhelp.com/nap Get started today and enjoy 10% off your first month. If you or someone you know are experiencing abuse, you are not alone. DomesticShelters.org offers an extensive library of articles and resources that can help you make sense of what you're experiencing, connect you with local resources and find ways to heal and move forward. Visit www.domesticshelters.org to access this free resource. If you need help moving due to domestic violence, Shelter Movers may be able to help you. They operate by referral. Clients may be referred by any person of authority (social worker, doctor, police, crisis counselor, teacher, etc.) or public agency (shelter, hospital, school, workplace, place of worship, sexual assault centre, etc.). To reach them, click here. Join our new Community Social Network at https://community.narcissistapocalypse.com/ Join our Instagram Channel at https://www.instagram.com/narcissistapocalypse Join our Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpTIgjTqVJa4caNWMIAJllA

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0:00.0	On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, we talk with an abuse survivor named Raven,
0:07.3	and Raven was in an 18-year abusive relationship with a victim-playing abuser.
0:13.0	It's a story of achieving, future faking, meddling, Mr. Wright, deprivation, and leaving for good.
0:50.8	Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone. I am Brandon Chadwick, and with me today, we have Raven. How are you?
0:54.6	I'm great, Brandon. How you doing? I am doing well. And if you want to be a guest like Raven is today, please do go to our website
1:01.5	at Narcissistapocalypse.com. Top of the page, there's a button that says guest form. When you
1:06.6	click on that button, it takes you to our guest form page. There, you can read all of our instructions
1:10.5	and either send us an email at Narcissist Apocalypse at gmail.com or fill out our guest form and
1:15.7	press the submit button and please do send it in the format that we ask for. And today you're going to
1:21.0	hear Raven's story and a quick content warning on this story. Not all of the views that are expressed by Raven in this episode
1:31.4	are necessarily the views of the show when it comes to the healing process. This is Raven's
1:37.8	healing process and it's not something that is, it's experimental, so it's not something that
1:43.8	we are recommending ourselves.
1:46.5	And that is the content warning for this episode.
1:50.8	So now I'm going to get out of my way and your way.
1:53.9	Raven, the floor is now yours.
1:58.1	Thank you so much, Brandon.
2:00.0	I'm so glad to be here. So I'm going to kind of begin at the
2:04.2	beginning. I grew up in a dysfunctional and emotionally abusive home and I got very specific
2:10.7	messages, especially from my mom messages like you'll have to compromise more than you want to in a relationship, and it's very
2:19.6	important to have a relationship. And she would tell me that you're lucky to have a relationship
2:24.4	because many people end up alone or go through their lives alone. And there was a constant message
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