Dreams After Coercive Control: Reclaiming Self-Trust with Gerette Buglion
About this episode
Katherine Bell and Gerette Buglion discuss the impact of coercive control on dreams and the journey to reclaim self-trust.
Dreams after coercive control can be confusing, intense, and surprisingly healing. In this episode of The Dream Journal, host Katherine Bell speaks with Gerette Buglion about reclaiming self-trust after cultic relationships, narcissistic abuse, manipulation, and other forms of coercive control. Gerette shares how dream images can become vulnerable places where autonomy is either undermined or restored. Together, Katherine and Gerette explore nightmares, dreams of former abusers or leaders, violent or disturbing imagery, and the tender process of learning to trust your own inner authority again. The conversation includes a listener dream about two babies, a communal bathroom, and the struggle to release what no longer belongs inside. Through the lens of Katherine’s Experiential Dreamwork and Gerette’s Writing to Reckon practice, the episode looks at privacy, shame, boundaries, inner development, memory rescripting, dream rescripting, and the possibility of asking: “Is there more for me?” In this episode • Why the dreamer is the final authority on their own dream • How dreams can be used either to manipulate or to restore autonomy • Dreams after cultic abuse, religious…
People in this episode
Host: Katherine Bell
Guest: Gerette Buglion
Topics covered
- coercive control
- self-trust
- dream analysis
- narcissistic abuse
- cultic relationships
- healing through dreams
Keywords
- dreams
- coercive control
- self-trust
- narcissistic abuse
- cultic relationships
- dream imagery
- healing
- memory rescripting
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