Trusting What You Know is True When Others Gaslight You - High Functioning Women Series Part Three [376]

About this episode

This episode discusses the challenges faced by high-functioning Christian women in destructive marriages and how to trust one's own judgment amidst gaslighting.

This is Part Three of our series on high-functioning Christian women in destructive marriages. You are the woman people call when something complicated needs solving. You read rooms, spot patterns, and get it right. And yet in this one area of your life, you have been told that your judgment, specifically, cannot be trusted. Key Takeaways: Why the very perceptiveness that makes you exceptional everywhere else has been deliberately turned off in your marriage What is actually happening when religious systems tell you to wait, and who is really benefiting from your patience How to tell the difference between genuine knowing and fear, and which one you have most likely been carrying all these years What "blind adherence" has to do with faith, and why the real version of faith might look completely different than what you have been taught The one question that changes everything when someone tells you to wait a little longer Get Today’s Free Resource: 🎁 I want to give you a free gift. It’s the audio version of my book, All the Scary Little Gods . It’s a spiritual memoir about healing from religious trauma and toxic programming. You can listen to it FREE by going to…

People in this episode

Host: Natalie Hoffman

Topics covered

• high-functioning women
• gaslighting
• Christianity
• destructive marriages
• faith
• religious trauma

Keywords

• trust
• perceptiveness
• religious systems
• blind adherence
• emotional abuse

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: All the Scary Little Gods

More episodes of Flying Free

• The Pastor's Wife Nobody Saw: Jessica's Story [378] · June 9, 2026 · 1h 19m
• Finding Your Freedom, Autonomy, and Independence - High Functioning Women Series Part Four [377] · May 26, 2026 · 28 min
• Why Your Empathy is a Superpower (and a TARGET!) - High Functioning Women Series Part Two [375] · April 28, 2026 · 29 min
• The Loneliness of the "Perfect" High Functioning Woman - High Functioning Women Series Part One [374] · April 7, 2026 · 23 min
• From Deconstructing to Reconstructing: Finding Wonder Again [373] · March 31, 2026 · 1h 3m
• Why Do Your Friends Believe the Person Who Abused You? [372] · March 24, 2026 · 22 min