Rerelease | Erika & The Abuser Who Controlled Everything
About this episode
Erika shares her experiences of coercive control and abuse in her relationships after growing up in a religious environment.
In this rerelease episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Brandon talks with Erika about growing up inside religious conditioning that taught her to submit, stay quiet, and see her worth through being a wife and mother. After losing her family and community as a young adult, Erika entered relationships where she kept trying to build safety, stability, and family, even while being worn down by neglect, pressure, and control. Her second marriage became the center of this story. Erika shares how coercive control showed up through financial abuse, sexual coercion, intimidation, weapons, surveillance, isolation, legal abuse, and post-separation abuse. She also talks about dissociation, the shock of realizing how much danger she had been living in, and the crisis center moment that helped her finally name what was happening.
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