Episode 178: From Toxic to Free with Heidi Brocke
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Heidi Brocke joins me for a discussion about toxic relationships and healing from them. Heidi is a toxic relationship awareness and healing specialist. After 14 years in an extremely emotionally and narcissistically abusive relationship, she broke the chains and turned her past into her passion. Today it is her mission to provide hope, healing, and freedom to those whose lives have been affected by toxic relationships, emotional abuse, and narcissistic behaviors.
Show Highlights
- Heidi shares what she would say to women afraid to leave a partner for fear of alienation from their children (10:20)
- When we stay "for our kids," we think we are mitigating toxic behavior but in reality, we are condoning it (12:14)
- What the word toxic means in toxic relationships (15:42)
- The importance of shifting the focus on the diagnosis of your partner to focusing on you and what feels good or right for you (29:40)
- The only thing consistent about a toxic person is that they are inconsistent (34:40)
Learn more about Dr. Heidi Brocke:
Dr. Heidi Brocke is a Toxic Relationship Awareness & Healing Specialist. After spending 14 years in an extremely emotionally and narcissistically abusive relationship she broke the chains and turned her past into her passion; She left her 24 years career in healthcare to use her life experience and education to be the person she needed when she herself was trapped in the darkness of an unhealthy relationship to provide hope, healing, and freedom to those whose lives have been affected by toxic relationships, emotional abuse, and narcissistic behaviors.
Through education, she presents the understanding needed to empower others to walk through fear and into their freedom.
Today she has helped hundreds rid and heal their toxic relationships and hosts the popular podcast, It's not Normal, It's Toxic-rid your life of toxic people - with over a million listens worldwide.
She's an international keynote speaker, recipient of Empowering Women in Business of The Year award by Inspiring Lives Magazine, and has been featured in both Forbes and Time Magazines for the dedication given to her clients and for her work in the toxic relationship area.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should you go. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate some of |
| 0:23.3 | the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. I've been to |
| 0:29.1 | hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side of this process |
| 0:35.1 | with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:47.3 | Hey, everyone. Welcome back. So today I have with me Heidi Brockie. |
| 0:55.5 | Heidi is a toxic relationship awareness and healing specialist. |
| 1:01.4 | After 14 years in an extremely emotionally and narcissistically abusive relationship, |
| 1:07.1 | she broke the chains and turned her past into her passion. |
| 1:12.1 | She left her 24-year career in health care to be the person she needed when she herself was trapped in the darkness of an unhealthy relationship to provide hope, healing, and freedom to those whose lives have been affected by toxic relationships, emotional abuse, |
| 1:28.8 | and narcissistic behaviors. |
| 1:31.1 | Kind of like me. |
| 1:33.8 | That's why we get along so well. |
| 1:36.1 | I just want to remind everyone, first of all, before we get into this episode with Dr. Heidi |
| 1:42.8 | Brockie, that I do have a group program starting up in September. |
| 1:49.4 | So I'm super excited about it, you guys. |
| 1:52.3 | If you didn't hear me talk about it on the episode a couple of weeks ago, I kind of went through it a little bit in the intro. |
| 2:00.0 | But instead of taking on as many private |
| 2:04.5 | clients as I've been taking on, which has been really, really depleting for me and also a little |
| 2:11.1 | bit limiting in terms of this number of people that I can really directly impact, I've decided |
| 2:16.9 | to shift my model a little bit, and I'm going to be |
| 2:20.0 | launching an amazing, really in-depth group program so that you can do this work in-community |
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