All about healing from traumatic marriages and divorces
My baby Marley passed away this week so I will be taking a temporary break from making podcast episodes while I process this. I am not sure as yet when episodes will resume. Thank you for your understanding.Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
In this episode, I make an embarrassing confession that hopefully helps others avoid the path towards destructive relationships. I wanted to put a link to the video referenced in this episode, but I couldn't find it again :(Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
In this episode, we're talking toxic bosses and toxic political figures and how to handle them so you don't lose your mind.Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
This episode goes into the 2 different types of apologies and which situations are appropriate for each. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
This episode details what worked well for me in helping me move on from my abusive marriage. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
This episode contains the key to avoiding indecision and moving forward towards what you want in life. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
In this episode I talk about the relationship fears I experience after being in a toxic relationship as well as how I manage it. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
This episode is about dealing with emotions in a healthy, emotionally mature way.Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
We can have habits of the brain like any other habit. This episode gives two steps to breaking brain habits for good.Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
I share a practice that has helped me reduce my stress and be more present in times of rest. Email me at gerdungmelinda@gmail.comFor more on this topic: Rest is ResistanceFind out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
The world feels chaotic right now. Here is how I am maintaining my peace amidst the chaos. My email: gerdungmelinda@gmail.comFind out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
In this episode, I give a hack to dramatically reduce the effort required in mind management. If you want to learn even more about this topic, this book is a great resource: Willpower Doesn't Work by Benjamin HardyFind out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
Trust can be a complicated thing for survivors of abuse. In this episode, I describe how I personally have navigated this issue and how I've found it possible to trust people, including a romantic partner. Link to rat study: https://news.uchicago.edu/story/helping-your-fellow-rat-rodents-show-empathy-driven-behaviorFind out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
We all end up facing things we didn't want. This episode is all about staying in your power when that happens. Option B by Sheryl SandbergFind out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
In this episode I address why you can't have a true relationship with a narcissist. I also give a technique I use when I have to deal with people with narcissistic tendencies and am not able to completely avoid them. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
A real life example/template for dealing with your own shit. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
We don't always choose the circumstances we find ourselves in, but in this episode we talk about how to avoid heaping suffering on top of bad situations. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
An honest conversation about mental health and the things that I have found helpful in dealing with chronic anxiety. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
Outsourcing the validation of your experiences to other people can fuck you up. This episode talks about how to give yourself the validation you crave. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
Why focusing on yourself is not only not selfish, but also benefits everyone around you. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
This episode dives into a thinking trap that gets people stuck and prevents them from healing and how you can avoid this trap. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
This episode talks about what a relationship post-mortem is and how to successfully conduct one that will leave you better. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
This episode talks about the neuroscience behind getting triggered and covers a technique to break yourself out of a triggered state. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
This episode talks about the most important work you can do to feel better after leaving a toxic relationship. What we all discover upon leaving is that you don't bounce back to being a happy person again. It takes work to get to that place again. This episode will give you a starting place for doing this work and feeling better. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
This episode talks about regret free decision making and moving past fear based decisions. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
Some reminders about the nature of the ups and downs in life. This book called Peaks & Valleys has really helped me to whether the storms of life. I hope it will help you as well. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
The way your ex treated you had nothing to do with you. It was all a reflection of their own internal shit. This episode dives into this. Rejection Proof by Jia JiangFind out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
This episode contains the reminder that I have to keep giving to myself in my own healing journey. May it also help you in yours. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
I don't like condensing something as complex as healing into something trite like a "Top 3 Steps", but if you had to focus your efforts on something, these are the top 3 things I would recommend for healing from a toxic relationship. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
A couple of techniques to try when you feel haunted by the past. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
When I got out of my marriage, I thought I was broken. I was wrong. And this is why. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
A tip in order to maintain your sanity if you have to co-parent with a toxic ex. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
The key to no longer having your own mood or well-being influenced by other people's. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
The key to eliminating unnecessary suffering in your life. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
Why learning to communicate in a direct manner will protect you from being in toxic relationships. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
A personal story about the importance of holding consequences for toxic behavior. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
This episode is a caution towards easy ways to slip into being abusive to yourself without even realizing it. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
TW: rapeThis episode will help you to stand up for yourself no matter what. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
Self-blame keeps you a hostage of the past. This episode shares a personal story about breaking the blame that keeps you stuck. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
Judging the way you feel is like heaping misery on top of whatever else you got going on. This episode breaks it down in a way to help you release the judgment. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
Letting go of what could have been and should have been is one of the hardest struggles coming out of a toxic or abusive relationship. This episode walks through some of my own experience doing this. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
Abuse survivors have a tendency to blame themselves for a lot of the things that their abusers do or say. This episode talks about breaking the mental habit of accepting the blame that isn't yours. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
This episode is a follow up to the process taught in the episode 1,000 lb. sisters. It teaches the final steps of what I call the stop feeling like a crazy person process. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
This episode addresses a sneaky little habit many abuse survivors do that hinders their ability to re-build their self-esteem. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
If you've ever found yourself engaging in behaviors that you didn't want to whether it's- eating more than you wanted to- drinking more than you wanted to- spending more $ than you wanted to- texting your ex every time you get lonely, etc.This episode will give you a technique to disrupt that and stop those unwanted behaviors. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
A helpful spring board to get you designing your future instead of leaving it to chance. The Gap And The Gain by Dan SullivanTiny Habits by BJ FoggFind out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
This episode dives into owning your own story and how that can help you not care about the negative opinions of others. TW: violenceFind out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
This episode gives a highly effective template for doing your own inner child healing work. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
Breaking free from the effects of abuse includes breaking free from the cultures that promote it. This episode explores the cultural grooming for abuse that happens in certain areas of our society.Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
Spilling the tea on how to get exactly what you want out of life. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
This episode describes the cycle of violence and how it can be broken. Find out more about my work: www.melindagerdungcoaching.comBook a session with me: https://calendly.com/gerdungmelinda/coaching-session---Beat Provided By https://freebeats.ioProduced By White Hot---
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