Healing After a Narcissistic Marriage: Infidelity, Trauma & Starting Over | EP201

Send us Fan MailToday, April and Chad sit down with Adrienne Isbell, a yoga and sound healing teacher who spent over a decade inside a narcissistic marriage before her world collapsed and rebuilt itself into something far greater than she ever imagined.Adrienne opens up about the childhood wounds that shaped how she loved, the financial control that left her with no career and no way out, and what it really felt like to discover an affair, stay, and discover it again. She shares the moment a yin yoga class cracked her open after months of emotional numbness and how somatic healing, sound baths, and the courage to stop playing small brought her back to life.What the world calls starting over is usually years of quiet inner work nobody sees until it arrives all at once, changed.In this interview, you'll learn:How to recognize the signs of financial abuse and coercive control inside a marriageHow to understand avoidant attachment and why it quietly damages the love you want mostHow to use somatic healing and yoga to process trauma when talk therapy alone is not enoughHow to trust your body's truth even when your mind is not ready to face itHow to release the word "deserve" and stop measuring your worth by what others took from youHow to rebuild your identity, your body, and your sense of play after leaving a controlling relationshipHow to give yourself permission to leave when every support system is telling you to stay and work it outHow to move from emotional numbness into a life full of creativity, connection, and real loveYou are allowed to choose yourself. You are allowed to stop playing small. The life you are grieving may be the very thing making room for the one you actually belong in.With Love and Safety,Chad & April ❤️What We Discuss: 0:00 — Welcome to Safe to Love | Valentine's Day Special1:41 — Adrienne's Story: 6 Years That Completely Rebuilt Her3:22 — How She Got Trapped: Meeting a Narcissist at Age 218:27 — Financial Control in Marriage: When the Money Was Never Yours15:46 — Childhood Wounds That Made Her the Perfect Target19:19 — Discovering the Affair: "Love, Your Boyfriend"29:07 — The Second Betrayal: Hawaii, Lies, and the Point of No Return34:39 — The Yoga Class That Finally Let Her Breathe Again45:01 — Why Women Stay: When Every Resource Tells You to Work It Out53:55 — Spy Cameras, Stalking Injunction, and the Gift of No Contact1:05:00 — "Deserve Isn't Real": The Bhagavad Gita Moment That Set Her Free1:12:10 — DRIP, Drums, and Reclaiming Her Body Voice and LifeSupport the show🔔 Subscribe for more great content and share this with someone who needs to hear it. Ready to get to work on yourself and your own relationship?❤️ Work With ChadInstagram |  @chadonlove❤️  Work with AprilInstagram |  @aprilbenincosa  Follow or Contact Safe to Love:Email | [email protected] |   safetolove.org YouTube |   @SafetoLoveShow Facebook |  Safe-to-Love Instagram |  @safetoloveshow TikTok | @safetoloveshow