Welcome back, you guys. Welcome to Heal Survive and Thrive. There are a lot of people that have absolutely no idea about emotional abuse and I was one of them. I was taught that if there's no bruising, make sure no one puts their hands on you, you know, make sure someone's not an alcoholic, they're not doing drugs. I mean, it was just kind of a general topic when no one really spoke of this type of abuse because I think a lot of people use emotional abuse are emotionally abusive and they they don't acknowledge it.

And so it just seems like the norm when you're unhealthy and in dysfunctional relationships

to do some of these things.

And it's unfortunately sad, but we don't really learn about it until we've been in one

relationship ourselves.

And we start to see the signs.

And then of course that opens the floodgates for everything for all the signs and then of course we

dive into our own self emotional abuse is silent and it's subtle and it can be completely

I mean not can it will be completely damaging to your sense of self without you even realizing that it's happening.

So maybe you've been through it.

Maybe you're still in it.

Maybe you're just now starting to realize that something feels off maybe in your relationship.

So we're going to discuss it all.

Today's episode is for you.

We're going to be talking about what is emotional abuse.

What does it look like?

Why so many people honestly don't even see it until their knee deep in it.

The red flags to watch out for and how to handle it, especially when leaving isn't easy.

It's not something that you can just do tomorrow, but you are starting

to see the signs and why you may find yourself even tolerating it longer than you should.

So this is a big one. So grab your coffee, grab your tea, get out the notepad,

and let's go for a walk together and let's learn about this so I can educate you and

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