Choose Your Family: Healing By Creating The Community You Needed with Catalina Popoveniuc

Choose Your Family: Healing By Creating The Community You Needed with Catalina Popoveniuc

December 31, 2025 · 25 min · Season 3 · Episode 17

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Maria and Catalina discuss healing from toxic relationships and the importance of building a supportive community.

Send us Fan Mail What if the “normal” you were taught to accept was actually the harm you had to heal? Maria sits down with Catalina, a psychotherapist and survivor of narcissistic abuse, for a candid conversation about recognizing toxic patterns, choosing safety, and building the kind of community that helps people move from surviving to truly living. Catalina grew up under the weight of control and projection and later found herself repeating those dynamics in friendships, work, and love. T...

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