On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, we talk with an abuse survivor named Catherine,

and Catherine was in a relationship with a cruel physical abuser.

It's a story of intergenerational trauma, abuse of authority, fear, destabilization, and post-separation, abuse.

Well, Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone. I am Brandon Chadwick, and with me today, we have Catherine. How are you?

And how are you?

I am doing well.

Thank you for asking and thank you for being here.

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episode and all future episodes. And you can find that as well at Narcissistapocalypse.com.

And we do have a content warning for today as we do graphically discuss physical abuse in

this survivor story.

So that is your content warning for today.

And today you're going to hear Catherine's story.

And Catherine went through quite a bit when she was younger.

She got her life back on track after going through abuse and recovering from addiction.

Only for a fellow addiction counselor to push her into a relationship with that

person's son. And that abuser was vouched for. And the love bombing here was strong.

There was a very quick attachment. Everything was quick at this point. And then the abuse started and just kept coming and

Catherine was in survival mode from there on out and her story hits many things on the

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