Episode 295: Adult Bullies with Bill Eddy (Your Vote, Your Choice)
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Bill Eddy is back on the show to dive into a critical topic: adult bullies. With election season upon us, the presence of bullies—whether in politics, the workplace, relationships, or even parenting—can feel more intense than ever. Bill, Chief Innovation Officer of the High Conflict Institute and author of Our New World of Adult Bullies: How to Spot Them – How to Stop Them, explains how today's media-driven culture fuels the rise of adult bullies, encouraging aggression and disregarding rules.
We explore how bullies create crises out of thin air, positioning themselves as heroes of their made-up stories. Plus, Bill shares concrete examples of adult bullying in the world today, how it impacts children when parents are the bullies, and why it's crucial to stand together against bullies to take them down.
Listen and learn how to protect yourself and your loved ones from the emotional manipulation bullies use to gain power.
Featured topics:
- What defines an adult bully and the key traits to look out for (4:30)
- The secret weapon of bullies: emotional manipulation and the "crisis-villain-hero" narrative (8:04)
- How media and social media fuel the growth of adult bullies (15:27)
- How parents can inadvertently turn their children away from a co-parent (24:09)
- The importance of empathy: addressing bullying without becoming bullies ourselves (34:56)
- The future of adult bullies: what to expect and how to stand against them (49:27)
Learn more about Bill Eddy:
Bill Eddy is the author of Our New World of Adult Bullies: How to Spot Them – How to Stop Them and the Chief Innovation Officer of the High Conflict Institute based in San Diego, California. He trains lawyers, judges, mediators, and therapists throughout the United States and a dozen other countries in managing high-conflict family, workplace, and legal disputes. He is the author of over 20 books and manuals and has a popular blog on PsychologyToday.com.
Resources & Links:
Focused Strategy Sessions with Kate
Phoenix Rising: A Divorce Empowerment Collective
Bill's book "Our New World of Adult Bullies: How to Spot Them, How to Stop Them"
The High Conflict Institute on Facebook
The High Conflict Institute on Instagram
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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 |
| 0:22.8 | some of the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. |
| 0:28.5 | I've been to hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other |
| 0:33.9 | side of this process with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:44.0 | Hey everyone, welcome back. So today I have with me on the podcast, Bill Eddie. Bill is back, |
| 0:53.6 | and he is back to talk about a really important topic |
| 0:58.4 | that's, I feel like, sweeping the nation, and that is adult bullies. And yes, with elections |
| 1:06.9 | season coming up, I feel like the presence of bullies is ever more present. |
| 1:13.6 | But I also feel that it is an issue that is taken over more than just our political |
| 1:22.6 | landscape. So that's our conversation today. Today we're going to talk about how bullies create crises out of thin air and then position themselves as the heroes in their made-up crisis story. And Bill is going to share some concrete examples of adult bullying in the world today, how it impacts children when parents are |
| 1:44.8 | the bullies, and why it's crucial to stand together against bullies in order to take them down. |
| 1:53.2 | Really important big stuff today. So that's coming up in just a second. And before we get to our episode, I just want to |
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