Relationships eventually get hard, but they don't have to end in divorce or anger! Each Wednesday, join Heather Carter, as she shares her strategies, methodologies, insights, and tips into how to make a relationship thrive, how to cut through the power struggle, and how to find peace and happiness within yourself. Whether you want to save your relationship or leave it, and want some great advice on how to be true to yourself, so the relationship has a chance, or you have an opportunity to move on to a healthy relationship, this is the podcast for you! www.HeatherCatherineCarter.com
Why is finding the love, connection, and life you desire and deserve feel so hard? Let's talk about it. Click here for your free call.
Your abandonment wound creates fears which keep you stuck in a relationship with the Narcissist or someone with severe Narcissistic tendencies. Let's pull apart your abandonment fear NOW!What is your main wound? Mother, Father, or Abandonment. Find out by taking my quiz and learn how to heal it. Click here!
Discover the answer you seek through questions and other things I reveal. Remember, this is not a DSM-5 diagnosis. But it will give you some incredible insight. To understand how you may have ended up here, figuring out if you have the Mother, Father, or Abandonment wound is one of the best places to start. Plus, find out your attachment style and receive a personalized healing assessment. Click here to get started right now!
A toxic person or narcissist doesn't always display red flags. They can sneak in through the yellow! How does this work? Click here to try out The Relationship Sanctuary for $1 for days!
You will know when you have finally seen the light at the end of the tunnel through the darkness when in a relationship with a Toxic Person!There are 12 clear characteristics and patterns in a toxic person. Learn what they are!Join my community, The Relationship Sanctuary, for $1 during November; click here to join now!
How can identifying your triggers, your partner's or spouse's triggers, and the reactions to each other's triggers lead you to healing? Did you receive these 5 As in childhood?Ready to join my membership community, The Relationship Sanctuary? Click here!
What triggers a toxic person or a narcissist more than anything else? Learn more in this episode. Plus, what makes triggers so disturbing?Join my community, The Relationship Sanctuary! October is all about healing Attachment Styles! Click here to learn more and join.
Someone says something to us, and suddenly, we feel a sinking feeling in our stomach. Someone does something to us, and instantly, we become enraged or alarmed. Where does this come from, how do we heal it, and how can it affect our lives?Are you ready to begin to heal your attachment style? The month of October in The Relationship Sanctuary is all about Attachment Styles! Click here to join today!
The mixed messages from childhood phrases manifest and sabotage our relationships today. Did you ever hear this one, "Can't we just have a good time today?" Do you know what that actually meant?Click here to learn more and join my community, The Relationship Sanctuary. It's the only healing community of its kind.
They just don't want you to do anything about it. The fact that you tolerated and excused everything that your ex or your partner is doing was or is not an act of true love-it's the result of undealt trauma, a fear of abandonment, and not believing you have value. Click here to get in line and grab the early bird special; you will be grandfathered in at this price forever. Join the excitement for my community, The Relationship Sanctuary, which opens its doors on Sunday, June 2nd!
I am like you; I have been where you are; I understand you because we are the same. There is beauty in knowing we are not alone. I share what I think about on my darkest days.I also discuss why we stay in an unhealthy or toxic situation, how we can leave and find peace, and what happens if we don't come to healing.Click here to schedule a free initial call. You deserve peace and happiness!
You will not live the life you desire, dream of, and deserve. Ask yourself right now: Does your view of yourself work? If we don't love and respect ourselves, everything disintegrates. Click here to join my newsletter and download some freebies.
Understanding these 6 reasons why it is hard to leave an unhealthy relationship will help you find the strength to leave. Coming Soon! Relationship Warriors: Not Worries is a one-stop relationship community where you will find the answers that have eluded you, possibly for years. You will find help in the different groups: Dating, Relationships/Marriage, Divorce, and Healing.Click here to learn more and get on the waiting list!
One of the first crucial steps to healing codependency/enabling and being The Giver is to stop prioritizing The Taker! How do you do this? Listen now and click here to sign up for Relationship Rescue Weekly: What is your relationship trying to tell you? Don't ignore it. Your subconscious mind is speaking to you.
Learn the top tactics that narcissists use to hook you and keep you hooked.Click here to join my 5,000-plus weekly newsletter subscribers and receive help delivered right to your inbox every Sunday.
Narcissism 101: I am telling you everything you want to know about narcissists, including their characteristics, the four main categories, the subtypes, 3 categories you might not have known about, and how a narcissist becomes the way they do.Click here to join the 5,000 strong who receive my weekly newsletter! You don't want to miss my weekly tips, strategies, worksheets, and journal prompts, which I only share with my subscribers!
Do I give different dating advice to women and men?Is dating in your 40s and beyond and after divorce different from dating in your 20s and early 30s?What is the definition of manhood?Are you ready to find the right one and heal the wounds stopping you from living your best life and having the relationship you desire and deserve?Click here to set up your free call to see if I can help you.
Are you a priority to your partner? How do you know if someone is a student of themselves? Learn how to discern if someone is willing to do things differently.Click here to join my newsletter!Join The Movement To Live Your Highest Potential Today!
Do the childhoods I describe in this podcast sound like yours?Today, we will deep dive into different types of childhoods and what they meant for the person growing up in the home. How did that particular childhood impact and sabotage their adult life?Click here and join my newsletter for healing, love, support, and some of the best tools I use!
Who are these adult children from dysfunction, chaos, and/or abuse? What do they look like? What are their symptoms?I describe in detail what we look like, how we might act, and our symptoms. You don't want to miss this one.I'm on a fearless journey to help as many people as possible live the life they're meant to live, up to their highest potential, and have the relationships they desire and deserve. Click here and sign up for my newsletter, and let the gifts of success, love, connection, and abundance start rolling in.
After a fantastic summer, taking some much-needed personal time, my daughter got married, and I had some extensive work commitments and mini vacays; it is good to be back. Welcome to Fall 2023: Preparing for 2024. How can you create a new future with healthy, thriving relationships and a career or business that inspires you?You are about to learn!Click here to sign up for the Relationship Rescue weekly newsletter with tips, advice, and free PDFs to help you live up to your highest potential.
The twisted belief we come to as children that grow up in dysfunctional, chaotic, and abusive homes is the only way we get our needs met is through being a victim. How does this play out in relationships and the Drama Triangle?What is pause for the cause?Identify your triggers. There are nine categories of triggers. Click here to download your workbook to find out your triggers now.
If you want to understand yourself and every unhealthy relationship you have had, you must identify your role in the Drama Triangle.Everyone who participates in the Drama Triangle has the limiting belief, "No matter what I do, nothing will change. My condition or situation is hopeless, and I cannot change it." It is time to find out your attachment style. Click here to download the PDF to tell you if you are avoidant, anxious, fearful, or secure! This will make all the difference in the world regarding your relationship.
Three things must happen for a narcissist to change. In this episode, we will explore toxic shame and what must happen for a narcissist or anyone to heal and change. www.HeatherCatherineCarter.com
What is the difference between intimacy and desire?Sex is essential; intimacy doesn't always mean a great sex life. What are the two things needed in a relationship for intimacy and desire to thrive?Ready to begin healing yourself and your relationship?Click here to learn more and sign up for Healing Through Journaling!
No more ignoring your needs, accepting intolerable behavior, forgiving the same transgressions repeatedly, and no more being a participant in emotional blackmail.If you need help, click here and set up your free clarity call!
What do narcissistic supply, injury, and rage mean?You will learn all about it in this podcast.Ready to Heal from a narcissist and your wounding?Click here to learn more and register for Heal Your Attachment Style & Life! It's time to go from hopeless to thriving relationships!
What is the relationship giving you? Why are you staying? If you feel good enough, worthy, loved, confident, have self-love, and have the means to leave the relationship, you do not stay in abuse. It's that time of year, again, time for my group course... Living Your Highest Potential, Heal Your Attachment Style & Life! From Hopeless Relationships To Thriving Partnerships!Click here to learn more and sign up. And don't forget the early bird discount code: EB20Remember, Every Relationship Begins With You!
How you respond to a BPD is the difference between living in a hurricane and living in a storm. When you are with a BPD, there are very few times when it is calm. You have a job: to become trained in de-escalating a situation. The longer you keep doing the same thing, the longer you stay stuck. And we know the definition of insanity. Click here to set up a free initial 45-minute call.
What's the difference between BPD and NPD? Which one does your partner have? This is a series; you do not want to miss one episode. Click here to watch the workshop "How To Stop People-Pleasing & Honor Yourself." You will learn the two best personal development tools I teach (boundaries and assertiveness)my clients to manage, have the strength to make a decision, and possibly heal the relationship with the BPD.
The final episode of self-abandoning. There are 14 core issues, I discuss the 8 I see most often in my clients or their partner/spouse. This can be a life-changing episode; it's up to you! Do not miss it. To watch my workshop "How To Stop People Pleasing & Honor Yourself," for FREE click here.To find out what triggers you, click here and download for free, now.
How can you avoid life's victim traps without resorting to victimizing behavior yourself?You are in trouble when you can only be happy when someone else is doing exactly as you want. Emerson said in Self-Reliance, "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."Ready to start healing? Or maybe you're in a healing program, or you're in maintenance...click here to learn more and register for Healing Through Journaling and start today!
How can you stop self-abandoning in your relationships? What are the fears and limiting beliefs that cause you to self-abandon? Self-abandoning is the cause of all unhealthy and toxic relationships. Healing Through Journaling is a 21-day challenge and healing journey that will uplevel your life. Click here to learn more, register, and begin today!
Should I stay or should I go? This episode discusses some of the most important things to ask yourself when you're in relationship ambivalence. If you need help finding clarity and are ready to get to work to, please click here and schedule your free clarity call.
What is self-love? What is it really about? How do you know if you love yourself? What is the difference between what many think is self-love and self-care?What truly happens to your life when you start loving yourself?If you are ready to begin healing, are on a healing journey, or are in maintenance...Click here to sign up and start your Healing Through Journaling TODAY!Use the discount code: RRP20 to receive 20% off.
Do you make extensive daily lists of things you should do but can't seem to get done? Do you nag yourself and your partner? Are you in a relationship with someone who procrastinates or constantly tells you what to do and when to do it? Or do you do that to yourself, procrastinate, and command another?If you answered yes to even one of those questions, there is a good chance you were raised with an overly coercive parent/s. Overcoercion is the most common pathogenic parental archetype. And it wreaks havoc on the inner child of the past. If you are ready to stop people-pleasing and honor yourself, click here to sign up for my on-demand workshop and learn how!
So many people ask me how a narcissist becomes a narcissist. Today I deep dive into the neglected inner child. You do not want to miss this!If you are ready to stop people-pleasing and honor yourself, click here and watch my workshop on how to not only stop people-pleasing and honor yourself but also how to implement boundaries the right way, be assertive, and determine if someone is speaking from their inner child, adult, or parent!
You do not want to miss this episode! The "why's" are answered. Why we stay stuck in unhealthy relationships, what transference is, and why we react the way we do when we are in certain situations. I will give many examples and break it all down for you.Click here to set up your free initial clarity call.
Is your relationship causing you extreme pain? Are the messages becoming louder and louder to make a change? But you don't because when you try, you feel out of control? If you answered yes to even one of these questions, you do not want to miss this episode!I highly recommend ordering the book I referenced in the episode, Deadly Emotions by Don Colbert, MD. It is available in hardcover or paperback.
When the inner child is in control, your life is out of control. One of the things that keep your inner child stuck is people-pleasing. It is time to leave people-pleasing in 2022 and begin to Honor Yourself in 2023.Click here to sign up for my live 2-hour workshop, teaching you exactly how to stop people-pleasing and learn how to set boundaries, how to be assertive, and honor yourself. You want to attend; it is life-changing.
How does a couple start out in love, connection, and happiness and end up disconnected, lonely, sad, and angry?I deep dive into the abyss of relationship rumination. If you are ready to heal your relationship or gain clarity on what to do, click here to set up a free clarity call!
Should you stay or should you go?If your partner has cheated on you or had a long-term affair, you do not want to miss this episode. There are 14 questions to ask yourself when deciding if you should try to reconcile the marriage/relationship. Click here if you are ready to find self-love, confidence, and happiness while working through or leaving a toxic relationship.My DIY course, Tackling Toxic Relationships: The Road To Self-Love, Confidence, and Happiness, is $99 through November. Use code TTR50 to begin the course today with the discount!
There are 4 words I tell my clients when they're the cheater and are trying to reconcile their relationship: DO NO MORE HARM!If you are a cheater or have been cheated on, you do not want to miss this.If you have been cheated on, you must find self-love and confidence to move through this and make a healthy decision. Click here to learn more & begin my DIY course, Tackling Toxic Relationships: The Road to Self-Love, Confidence, and Happiness!Use code TTR50 to get the course for $99 through November.
Most people in unhealthy relationships/marriages act loving only after they receive the love they desire. And that love is short-lived!In this episode, I will unpack how and why this never works. It is attainable but not sustainable. It's time to find self-love, confidence, and happiness within yourself. Until you do, you will stay stuck in this cycle. Click here to begin my DIY course, Tackling Toxic Relationships: The Road To Self-Love, Confidence, and Happiness, for $99!I am offering the course for November for $99 because I am grateful to you!Use code TTR50 to receive the $99 offer.
Intimate relationships bring about the most pain and pleasure. How and if you work through the pain will determine if you find long-lasting pleasure.Download the free workbook, Unlock Your Secret To Love, I spoke of in the podcast by clicking here now!
In an unhealthy relationship, you will feel ineffective, sad, angry, and mostly frustrated and resentful. And if you stay, you will never fully heal.This episode touches on the question I receive repeatedly, "Should I stay or should I go?"I talk about habits, thoughts, familiarity, maladaptive neuroplasticity, why 80% of people who recover from depression and/or anxiety relapse, and how this is directly correlated to the health of your relationship.If you're ready to get off the crazy train and see if your relationship can be fixed, click here to set up your free initial call.
The 5 A's are needs that most of us were not given as children. To live a full, healthy, happy, and loving life, you must give them to yourself first, and then you can accept them and give them to others! If you're ready to change your life, https://calendly.com/heather-carter3/45min (click here to book your free 45-minute clarity call! )
When we are ignored, devalued, minimized, neglected, and dismissed in childhood, often covertly, it changes our ability to handle emotions, stress, and life. And it creates a lifelong pattern of self-abandonment and anxiety. How do you think this plays out in our relationships and the workplace? Find out by listening now. If you are ready to stop the cycle of self-abandonment and instead bring in self-love, https://calendly.com/heather-carter3/45min (click here and set up your initial free 45-minute consult call. )
Heather takes a deep dive at what happens once a pattern of withholding, withdrawing, and projecting has been established between the partners in an unhealthy relationship. https://www.heathercatherinecarter.com/unlockattachment (Click here to learn more and register )for the fall session of Heather's groundbreaking healing program, Living Your Highest Potential: Heal Yourself, Life, & Relationships! And don't forget to use the code EB50 to receive 50% off the course plus many other bonuses. This code is good for podcast listeners only! It will expire once it hits 10 uses.
Take a raw and in-depth look into codependency. Heather breaks it down for you in layman's terms. Codependency circles the drain around 3 concepts. Learn what they are. Fall registration is open for Living Your Highest Potential: Heal yourself, life, & Relationships. https://www.heathercatherinecarter.com/unlockattachment (Click here to learn more and register. ) Don't forget; podcast listeners get 50% off, limited to 10 people. Use the code: EB50 at checkout.
Out of your feelings come many addictions and faulty reactions. In this episode Heather will explore how false beliefs control your life. Enrollment is now open for the fall session of Living Your Highest Potential: Heal Yourself, Relationships, & Life! https://www.heathercatherinecarter.com/unlockattachment (Click here to learn more and register now. ) All podcast listeners will receive an early bird discount of 50% off! The code is EB50. Plus, you will receive a plethora of bonuses. There is a limited amount of 50% off coupons!