Hey guys. Welcome to Heal Survive and Thrive. We are all about emotional abuse today. This is like such important stuff. Why are we not taught this in school? I have absolutely no idea. My son is learning right now about like the different stages of like puberty, right? Like the boys are learning about developmental thing with the boys. The girls are having their little health session or whatever,

and I came from like the little overview of what he was going to be learning about and like

what was going to be on the video. I was like, if you have any questions, come home. I'm going to

talk to you anyways, regardless when you come home about it. He's like, nope, I won't have any questions.

I'm like, okay. But why are we not taught about this stuff in high school?

I feel like these kids are learning about like sex and like all these important things, you know, STDs and drugs and and that's so, so important.

Why are we also not talking about emotional abuse? So today I want to kind of like shine a light on it. I want to go into

every little sneaky area of emotional abuse because, you know, it's not physical abuse.

It is something different and it's a little bit more complicated because it isn't something black

and white like physical abuse. So I want you guys to understand this because I did not know

this and I wish I did growing up. So let's start with like the basics. What's emotional abuse?

Emotional abuse. It's not like, you know, someone punching you where you can see it. It's

someone basically messing with your mind, trying to control you. And this doesn't mean that they're consciously doing it. It's someone basically messing with your mind, trying to control you,

and this doesn't mean that they're consciously doing it. It could just be a tactic that they do,

a defense mechanism that they have when they feel out of control or are not getting their way.

So when we hear about abuse, we usually think of physical abuse.

We don't really, or even if we hear the word emotional abuse, we don't really understand

the mind games that are played.

And again, this isn't something that I think people are doing consciously.

I think it just becomes a part of their own coping mechanism for them feeling

uncomfortable. So abuse, whether it's, you know, hitting or messing with your mind, basically,

and psychological manipulation, it is really about control. It's about, you know, physical abuse

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