EPISODE 170 | Surviving Narcissistic Abuse with Saige Whitney

Sometimes the hardest relationships to leave are the ones that make you question whether you’re allowed to leave at all.For Saige Whitney, what began as a friendship quickly escalated into an engagement marked by manipulation, guilt, instability, and a growing sense that her own needs no longer mattered. Already in a vulnerable place, she found herself increasingly isolated, physically depleted, and struggling to recognize just how much of herself she had surrendered in an attempt to help someone else.In this conversation, Saige joins Human Amplified to talk openly about surviving narcissistic abuse, recognizing emotional manipulation and coercive control, learning to set boundaries, and rebuilding trust in herself after the relationship ended. She also shares the role anger, storytelling, energy work, and cord cutting have played in her healing.Her story is deeply personal. But beneath it is a question many people eventually have to confront: What happens when caring for someone else requires abandoning yourself?