I feel like a bad person for being abusive back

About this episode

The episode discusses the complexities of healing from emotional abuse and the emotions that surface for victims.

Sometimes emotionally abusive people heal and change. Sometimes they just... change. Either way, when the victim of their behavior gets a "break", they might discover a lot of buried emotions that are just itching to come out.

People in this episode

Host: Paul Colaianni

Topics covered

• emotional abuse
• healing
• victim behavior
• buried emotions
• relationship dynamics

Keywords

• emotional abuse
• healing
• victim
• buried emotions
• relationship

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