I’m your host Elizabeth Author of Finding Lily and The A to Z of Emotional Abuse. I am here to remind you that Love should be UNCONDITIONAL Divorcing Emotionally LIFE CHANGING and that you have a DUTY OF CARE for yourself it it should be your MANTRA! Each week I will discuss some of the terms you may hear along this journey and I will help you INNER-STAND and process what is happening INSIDE YOU! I will help you DISCOVER THE BEST TOOLS | PUT IN PLACE THE BEST RITUALS as you start to take back the control over your own life and learn the tools to heal on a deeper level becoming THE BEST VERSION OF YOURSELF.
Last week a caterpillar landed on me and refused to let go, no matter how gently I tried to move it. It stayed with me for days afterwards, because it reminded me so much of the healing process itself — the breakdown before the rebuild, the shamanic idea of being taken apart before being put back together. This week I talk about that process: the caterpillar's journey through the chrysalis, the "honest conversations" techniqu...
I posted a short video a week or so ago on TikTok and wasn't expecting the response I got. This week I want to talk about why it landed the way it did — the loneliness of spending years editing yourself, minimising yourself, softening the truth of who you are, just to feel safe. I talk about why we protect abusive relationships the same way abusers isolate us within them, why finally being "seen" can feel so powerful that we ...
"Who do you think you are?"
For many of us, those words weren't asked with curiosity.
They were used to make us question ourselves. To keep us small. To remind us of the place we were expected to stay in.
But what if we asked the same question for a completely different reason?
In this episode, I explore what happens when the labels we've been given become the identity we believe. From chi...
A follow-up to the Five Pillars series.
Before we believed we weren't enough, before we believed love had to be earned, before we became the strong one, the people pleaser, or the scapegoat — someone handed us those beliefs.
This week I explore how labels quietly become part of our identity, why we aren't born believing we're "not enough," and the connection between childhood, survival, and emotional wounding.
I discuss how t...
The final episode in the five pillars series.
This week I cover financial abuse — often the most overlooked pillar, yet one of the fastest ways an abuser controls a partner and stops them from leaving.
I break down how financial abuse fits within coercive control (UK law since 2015), the tactics abu...
Week 4 of the five pillars series.
This episode is about the mental impact of emotional abuse — how chronic manipulation and unpredictability physically change the brain.
I break down what happens to the amygdala, hippocampus, and prefrontal cortex under sustained psychological stress, why survivors experience brain fog, memory gaps, and chronic self-doubt, and how the three core wounds — abandonment, betrayal, and sh...
Over the last few weeks I've been exploring the Five Pillars of Abuse and how emotional abuse, coercive control and manipulation affect every area of our lives.
This week we're exploring the Physical Pillar.
Trauma doesn't just live in your memories.
It lives in your body.
The nightmares. The hypervigilance. The exhaustion. The adrenal fatigue. The feeling that you're never truly safe.
In this episode I explore:
• Why emotional abu...
Over the last few episodes I've been exploring the Five Pillars of Abuse.
The different areas of our lives that are targeted, weakened and often systematically dismantled through emotional abuse, coercive control and manipulation.
This week we're exploring the Emotional Pillar.
Emotional abuse rarely begins with obvious cruelty. It o...
Over the last few months, I've been sharing the Path of Sovereign Integration and the journey back to yourself after emotional abuse, trauma and survival.
This week we're exploring the first of the Five Pillars of Healing: the Spiritual Pillar.
When people hear the word spiritual, they often think of religion or faith. But for me, this pillar is about something much deeper.
It's about your moral compass.
Your beliefs.
Your values.
...
Over the last few months, we’ve walked through the Path of Sovereign Integration.
We’ve explored grounding, recognising patterns, rebuilding intuition, healing emotional wounds, calming the nervous system, and learning to trust ourselves again.
This episode is an opportunity to let some of that work settle into the body.
This guided meditation focuses on the three core wounds I believe sit beneath so much emotional pain...
In this episode, we bring together the journey of The Path of Sovereign Integration and step into what happens next.
Not the healing. Not the awareness. But the part where you actually begin to live it.
Over the last few weeks, we’ve explored grounding, recognising patterns, rebuilding intuition, and unpicking the beliefs that were never yours. We’ve looked at how emotional abuse and coercive control impact every part o...
In this episode of The Mindfuckery Podcast, we move into the next stage of the Path of Sovereign Integration — where everything you’ve been working on begins to feel natural.
This is the point where you’re no longer trying to change.
You’re responding differently. You’re thinking differently. And something inside you is starting to feel… quieter.
But it can also feel unfamiliar.
You might notice...
In this episode we continue The Path of Sovereign Integration and move into a stage that so many people misunderstand.
You’ve done the work. You’ve had the insights. You’ve started to feel different.
And then… something happens.
It feels like you’ve made progress — and then like you’ve taken five steps backwards.
T...
In this episode, we continue The Path of Sovereign Integration and move into a stage where something shifts in a very real and visible way.
You’re no longer trying to change.
You just aren’t the same.
After grounding, recognising patterns, questioning what you were told, rebuilding intuition and clearing the emotional weight… your healing begins to show up in how you live.
This is Empowered Emergence.
It’s ...
In this episode of The Mindfuckery Podcast, we continue The Path of Sovereign Integration and arrive at a stage many people don’t expect.
We’ve talked about grounding, recognising survival patterns, questioning what you were told to believe, rebuilding intuition, clearing emotional wounds, and ending the loops that keep repeating.
But what happens when those patterns stop running your life?
Something shifts.
You may fee...
In this episode of The Mindfuckery Podcast, we move into the next stage of The Path of Sovereign Integration — completion.
Many of the struggles we experience in relationships, family dynamics and life patterns aren’t random. Trauma can forge unspoken contracts — roles we take on, burdens we carry and responsibilities that were never truly ours. These patterns often begin in childhood and quietly repeat throughout...
Sometimes when healing begins to take hold, something unexpected happens. Emotions begin to rise again. Old memories surface. You might feel tired, unsettled, or wonder if you’ve somehow gone backwards.
You haven’t.
This is often the point where the nervous system finally feels safe enough to begin releasing what it has been holding — the emotional wounds of abandonment, shame and betrayal stored in the body.
In t...
There was a time when you trusted your body.
Before you were told you were too sensitive. Before you were told you were overthinking. Before you learned that listening to yourself might cost you connection.
In this episode, I’m speaking into The Code of Inner-standing — the stage in The Path of Sovereign Integration where intuition returns.
This is not about analysing the past. It’s about recognising how your inne...
So much of what we believe about ourselves was never consciously chosen.
It was learned early. Repeated often. And absorbed in moments where safety, belonging, or love felt uncertain.
In this episode of The Mindfuckery Podcast, I guide you through Stage Three of the Freedom Beyond Trauma – Soul Journey: The Portal of Untruths.
This is the place of radical honesty — not the kind that attacks or exposes, but the kind that...
So many women have done the therapy. The workshops. The practices.
And yet still feel as though they are living slightly outside themselves — watching life rather than fully inhabiting it.
In this episode of The Mindfuckery Podcast, Elizabeth speaks to the root of embodiment — the first condition for healing to truly land.
This isn’t about learning another technique or doing more work. It’s about understandi...
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