Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now.com, and you're listening to the

Flying Free Podcast, a support resource for Women of faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden

emotional and spiritual abuse.

Welcome to episode 9 of the Flying Free Podcast. Today Rachel and I actually did a

Facebook live video and we are going to share that with you on today's podcast. Our topic today was

strategies for dealing with or living with emotional abuse. Let's get started.

So Rachel is going to start us off

by telling us some of the strategies that she used.

And Rachel, by the way, she's divorced,

she's currently divorced.

You can, maybe you can just give a little bit of a history

just very slightly.

You don't have to go into too many details.

And then tell us some of the things that you

did to kind of you know survive. So I was married for 14 years and in most of that time being married was what I wanted I wanted I

wanted to have a family I had dreamed of it it was you know I come from a

unhealthy sort of stable

unstable background and so I'd always just dreamed of having a partner in life

and being a one big family unit and

so I was living in a state of denial for most of the period of my marriage

although I knew that it was for something very wrong it was always that I came back to, I have to do better.

This is coming back on me.

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