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Fraudulationship to Freedom
by Meg South
This podcast is for women survivors of narcissistic and sociopathic abuse (although men will find this info useful too). If you're sick and tired of feeling like a victim, want to heal from the hell these diabolical predators inflicted, and take back your life, this podcast is for you. The focus is on healing and moving forward, and making sure you'll never be conned again. If you're ready to learn skills to help you heal or know someone who is, please subscribe and share! Check out the Fraudulationship FB page and connect with me @fraudulationship on IG or FB.
Episodes
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Episode 54: Rebuilding Your Life From the Ground Up After Narcissistic & Sociopathic Abuse
Welcome to the Fraudulationship to Freedom Podcast. I’m your host, Meg South, and this is episode 54, Rebuilding Your Life From the Ground Up After Narcissistic and Sociopathic Abuse. Your life is in shambles thanks to the fact that you were targeted by a narcissist or sociopath. It feels pretty...
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Episode 53: Self-Abandonment and Self-Love During and After Sociopathic Abuse
I’ve been thinking about the idea of self-abandonment. How do we recognize it? And more, how do we keep from abandoning ourselves ever again. Because if we can’t count on ourselves to stay present, to have our own backs, to act in our own best interests, then we are in big trouble. New Podcast…
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Episode 52: What is Logotherapy and How Can It Help Me Heal?
Welcome to the Fraudulationship to Freedom podcast. I’m your host, Meg South. This is Episode 52: What’s Logotherapy and How Can It Help Me Heal? When I was in high school, I read the book, Man’s Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankl. This book had a huge impact on my life. Victor Frankl was a...
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Episode 51: Mindfulness of Current Thoughts
Welcome to the Fraudulationship to Freedom Podcast. I’m your host, Meg South. This is episode 51. Today’s topic is Mindfulness of Current Thoughts. Mindfulness of Current thoughts is the last DBT distress tolerance skill and the last episode in the DBT skills series I’ve been working through with...
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Episode 50: Use Your Body to Shift Your Emotions DBT Half-Smile and Willing Hands
Welcome to the Fraudulationship to Freedom podcast. I’m your host, Meg South. This is episode #50. Today I’m going to talk about the DBT distress tolerance skills of Half-Smile and Willing Hands. Specifically, I’ll cover why practice the half-smile and willing hands skills, how to practice them…
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Episode 49: How to Turn Your Mind and Shift Your Thinking - Turbo-Charge Your Healing
Welcome to the Fraudulationship to Freedom podcast. I’m your host, Meg South. This is episode #49. Today I’m going to talk about the DBT distress tolerance skills of Turning the Mind and Willingness. Specifically, I’ll talk about the concept of turning the mind and how to shift your thinking, the...
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Episode 48: In a Holding Pattern? Radical Acceptance Can Help
Welcome to the Fraudulationship to Freedom podcast. I’m your host, Meg South. This is episode #48. Today’s episode is about reality acceptance skills. Reality acceptance skills are another set of DBT distress tolerance skills. When we’ve been conned by a sociopath, it’s extremely difficult to...
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Episode 47: Replace Negative Events with Positives Using DBT Improve the Moment DBT Skill
In this episode, I'm going to talk about the DBT skill of Improving the Moment. IMPROVE is used as an acronym to help you remember how you can practice the skill. Improving the moment is replacing immediate negative events with more positive ones by making the moment more positive and easier to...
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Episode 46: It's Just TOO MUCH! Self-Soothing When Life Gets Overwhelming
A lot of trauma survivors struggle with feeling emotionally overwhelmed -- at least sometimes. And, unfortunately, we don't always know how to help ourselves feel better. We might even feel guilty for taking time for ourselves. In this episode, I talk about the skill of self-soothing. And it is a...
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Episode 45: Using Wise Mind ACCEPTS to Distract From Distressing Emotions After Sociopathic Abuse
Wise Mind ACCEPTS is a distress tolerance skill that uses distraction in a variety of ways when you can’t immediately address distressing feelings. ACCEPTS is an acronym that stands for Activities, Contributing, Comparisons, Emotions, Pushing Away, Thoughts, Sensations. In this episode, I discuss...
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Episode 44: Using TIPP to Change Your Body Chemistry When Rumination or Anxiety Hits
Rumination, anxiety or other kinds of emotional overwhelm is pretty common following narcissistic and sociopathic abuse. In this episode, I talk about the TIPP skills which reduce emotional arousal almost instantly. TIPP stands for Temperature, Intense exercise, Paced breathing and Paired muscle...
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Episode 43: Using the STOP Skill to Cope with the Urge to Lash Out at the Narcissist
This episode explains the STOP skill, a distress tolerance skill that is designed to help you resist the urge to act impulsively, possibly making the situation worse, and then giving you some space to employ emotion regulation or interpersonal skills. This skill can come in handy in many...
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Episode 42: Using Distress Tolerance Skills to Manage Life's Crises After Sociopathic Abuse
Today I'm introducing the topic of distress tolerance skills, specifically what they are, when to use them and how to know if you're in a crisis. Believe it or not, a crisis has some very specific criteria. A crisis, by definition, is short-term, has a feeling of urgency to get it resolved, a...
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Episode 41: Rebuild Your Self-Confidence After Narcissistic Abuse with the Build Mastery and Cope Ahead Skills
Narcissists and sociopaths often go out of their way to undermine our self-confidence and self-worth. That's why it's so important to take back our power and actively work on rebuilding this. We can regain a sense of competence by practicing the DBT Building Mastery Skill. We can also use the…
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Episode 40: Taking Care of Yourself After Narcissistic Abuse Using the PLEASE Skill
As we start the new year and are thinking about changes we want to make, I thought it would be helpful to talk about the PLEASE skill. The PLEASE skill is an acronym to help us remember how to take care of our physical bodies to reduce our vulnerability to Emotion Mind and to increase our…
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Episode 39: When Your Emotional Response Isn't the Issue - 7 Steps to Problem-Solving
Today's episode is on problem-solving when your emotional response is justified, understandable, and fits the facts of the situation. Knowing the exact steps to solving a problem is key to greater emotion regulation and feeling better. 7 Steps to Problem-Solving Observe and describe the problem...
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Episode 38: Cut the Emotional Tether to the Sociopath Using the Opposite Action Skill
Today I want to talk about the emotion regulation skill of Opposite Action. This skill comes in handy when our emotions do not fit the facts of a situation, or do not lead to effective behavior. For example, if we are constantly thinking about making contact with the narcissist or sociopathic...
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Episode 37: Emotion Regulation Skill 1 - Check The Facts to Reduce Emotional Suffering
Checking the Facts is a skill we can use to make sure that our interpretation of events isn't skewing our emotional response and, in turn, creating more emotional suffering. Inner Talk Subliminal Recordings - Overcome Narcissistic Control - https://bit.ly/fraudulationship1 If you’ve been…
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Episode 36: 7 Facts About Emotions You Need to Know to Start Healing After Narcissistic Abuse
Continuing on with the topic of emotion regulation, today I want to talk about a particular way to think about emotions, a framework if you will and how you can reduce your vulnerability to emotions, change how you feel and ultimately feel better. Let’s begin with some facts about emotions. 1....
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Episode 35: It's Not Your Fault - Regulating Your Emotions After Sociopathic Abuse
Today I want to continue with the topic of emotion regulation. Emotions can be challenging to manage without the added layers of abuse from a narcissist or sociopath, but emotions do serve a purpose. In this episode, I'll talk about the purpose of different emotions and what gets in the way of us...
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Episode 34: How to Decrease Your Emotional Suffering After Narcissistic Abuse
Healing after trauma isn’t a straight line. One moment you’ll feel ok, the next minute find yourself angry or in tears. It can be an emotional rollercoaster and just being on the emotional rollercoaster can be exhausting. Stay on the rollercoaster long enough and there’s a good chance you’ll get...
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Episode 33: Safeguarding Self-Respect When Communicating With High-Conflict People
In the last 3 episodes I've been talking about how you can be more strategic when you have to communicate with a narcissist, sociopath or other toxic person. Today's episode is all about how you can make sure you keep your self-respect in-tact while still attempting to achieve the point of the...
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Episode 32: Communicating Strategically with the Narcissist Using the DEARMAN Skill
Knowing what you want before you interact with the narcissist or sociopath is key. You have to be strategic in your communication and you can do that by remember the acronym DEARMAN. In this episode, I explain exactly what this means so you can reduce your stress level when you have to…
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Episode 31: How to Get What You Want from a Narcissist
In this episode I talk about the 3 possible goals of an interpersonal interaction, why it's important to know what you want out of an interaction and how you can figure out what's most important to you --- all this so you can act in a way that is most effective and increase the likelihood of...
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Episode 30: Why Your State of Mind Matters & How to Change It
Do your emotions override your logical, rational mind or does your logic override your emotions? Either extreme will hinder your healing and make your life more difficult. In this episode I explain States of Mind from a Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) perspective, offer an alternative to...
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Episode 29: How to Deal Effectively With the Narcissist by Coping Ahead
I apologize for the unclickable links. The Anchor editor is acting buggy this morning. Coping ahead is a DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) skill that will help you manage anxiety and worry around a future event. You can download the free pdf at https://bit.ly/copeaheadworksheet Research study...
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Episode 28: How Long Will It Take to Heal Following Narcissistic Abuse?
How long will it take to heal after narcissistic abuse? This is the most commonly searched question that survivors have after exiting a fraudulationship with a narcissist or sociopath. Here's the answer. You can connect with me on Instagram @fraudulationship or on Facebook @fraudulationship or...
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Episode 27: Avital Miller on Using Movement to Get Unstuck After Abuse
Avital Miller joins me today to talk about her experiences and using movement to get unstuck after abuse. Avital's website is Healing Happens and you can connect with her on Facebook or Instagram @avital.love. Check out her free workshop at UnlockUnlimitedEnergy.com You can connect with me on...
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Episode 26 Feel Better By Adding Positive Events to Your Life
Adding positive events to your life can make you feel better. Download the list of Positive Events Checklist and the Positive Events Diary zip file. Be sure to listen to my How to Spot a Military Phony & Avoid Being Targeted podcast. You can connect with me on Instagram @fraudulationship or on...
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Episode 25 Overcoming Life's Challenges with Dionne Sanchez
Dionne Sanchez joins me today to talk about her experience growing up from a young child who couldn't talk or hear to a pivotal experience in junior high school that changed her life. While not directly related to narcissistic or sociopathic abuse, the lessons she learned and how she grew from…
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Bonus Episode: Cultivating a Feeling of Agency After Trauma Guided Meditation
This mindfulness exercise is designed to help you overcome feelings of helplessness and hopelessness following a traumatic experience by increasing your sense of agency. Agency is just another word for your ability to make things happen. Developing a sense of agency will help you move from fear…
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Bonus Episode: Mindfulness of Breath Guided Meditation
Use your breath to calm your mind in this guided meditation. You can connect with me on Instagram @fraudulationship or on Facebook @fraudulationship or MegSouth.Fraudulationship. I’d love to hear from you! If you find this episode helpful, please subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google…
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Episode 24: How Mindfulness Can Help You Feel Less Stressed and Help You Heal After Abuse
Mindfulness can help you feel less stressed and improve your sleep, which will help you heal after abuse. You can download the Mindfulness Scale here. You can connect with me on Instagram @fraudulationship or on Facebook @fraudulationship or MegSouth.Fraudulationship. I’d love to hear from you!…
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Episode 23: How to Handle the Urge to Retaliate After Narcissistic Abuse
Take Aways: 1. Your feelings are normal. 2. It is normal to want to blame and/or retaliate against the abuser. 3. He broke the relationship. He did not irreversibly damage you. 4. You can learn to channel the urge to blame/retaliate into thoughts and behavior that benefit you. 5. Tracking your...
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Episode 22: How To Know I'm Not the Narcissist
The Take Aways: It's common for the narcissist, sociopath or psychopath to say that YOU are the narcissist. It's common for the abused person to pick up narcissistic "fleas" or behave reactively. It's likely that you AREN'T the toxic person. Download the free behavior log pdf at...
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Episode 21: How to Create a Healing Identity Mindset in 5 Steps
TakeAways Victim identity mindset focuses on the pain and unfairness of the abuse. It keeps us powerless. Healing identity mindset focuses on growth. It is empowering. An identity is made up of what we think of ourselves, our behaviors and our social roles. An identity organizes our experiences…
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Episode 20: How to Set & Hold Boundaries with a Toxic Person
TakeAways: 1. If the average person bumps into your boundaries, they are likely to apologize, back up and try not to do it again. 2. If a predator, emotionally unstable or narcissist bumps into your boundaries, they are likely to create drama, blameshift, gaslight or create chaos. They won’t...
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Episode 19: Stuck in Chronic Resentment? How to Break Free
I’ve been thinking about the topic of “feeling better” lately. In other words, what does ‘healing’ look like and feel like? A lot of women report that even years after the fraudulationship ended, they realize that they are still stuck. Sometimes this realization hits like the proverbial “ton of...
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Episode 18: The 13 Rules for Dealing with the Sociopath in Everyday Life
In this episode I discuss Dr. Martha Stout's 13 Rules for Dealing with the Sociopath in Everyday Life. If you find this episode helpful, please subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music or your favorite podcast app, and please share with a friend. Connect with me on social media IG...
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Episode 17 Sociopaths Don't Have a Mark on Their Forehead So How Can We Tell Who They Are?
So how do we recognize sociopaths, the people without a conscience? What does research show is the thread running through all of them? The answer to that is in this episode. I hope you found this episode helpful. If you did, please subscribe on your favorite podcast app, listen at Spotify or…
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Change in Release Schedule
Hi Everybody. The Tuesday and Thursday release days for new episodes was getting to be a bit challenging to meet. So, I'm changing the release of new episodes from Tuesday and Thursdays to Tuesdays and Fridays. There will be a new episode coming out tomorrow. Thanks for listening. Meg Follow me…
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Episode 16: How Conditioning Makes Us Vulnerable to Predatory Personality Types
I've been thinking about this for a while now. Are there societal factors that set us up and make us vulnerable to narcissists and sociopaths? In this episode, I read another short excerpt from The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout Ph.D., that helps peel back the layers on this topic and what…
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Episode 15: Who is The Sociopath Next Door & How They Use Our Humanity Against Us
Excerpts from The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout, PhD, answers the question about how common sociopathy is (VERY!), and helps us understand why those of us with consciences (most of us) can't wrap our heads around being without a conscience, as well as how the sociopath uses the very things...
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Episode 14: Leticia Francis Moving from Survivor to Thriver
Today we welcome Leticia Francis of Blaque Rose Coaching. Leticia is a certified mindset coach and business foundation specialist. She overcame a traumatic childhood, several abusive relationships and moved from being a survivor to thriver. She provides "support to professional women who feel…
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Episode 13: Going Low Contact When No Contact Isn't An Option
Sometimes going no contact just isn't possible. Maybe you have kids together with your toxic ex or have to tie up loose ends after you've split up. In this episode, I give some tips on how to go low contact without losing your mind. If you find this episode helpful, please subscribe and pass it…
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Episode 12: How to Do No Contact Like a Boss
No contact is foundational for breaking that trauma bond with the narcissist or sociopath. In this episode I give you 10 tips for going no contact like a boss. If you find this episode helpful, please subscribe and share. Connect with me on social media: Instagram @fraudulationship Facebook Meg...
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Episode 11: Relax and Strengthen Your Boundaries and Self-Love Guided Meditation Hypnosis
Relax in this guided meditation up a mountain, discover what your subconscious mind wants to tell you, then strengthen your boundaries, resolve and self-love in this guided meditation hypnosis. Please do not listen while driving or operating machinery. This is not a substitute for mental health...
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Fraudulationship to Freedom Trailer
Welcome to the Fraudulationship to Freedom Podcast. I found myself in a fraudulationship, a relationship I thought was based on love and trust but was really based on lies and manipulation. I didn’t intend to marry a sociopath, but I did. When I found out my husband was a con man masquerading as…
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Episode 10: Using Your Feelings to Fuel Healing
You aren't responsible in any way for the abuse that was done to you. You are responsible for cleaning up the mess it made in your life, however unfair that (justifiably) feels. In this episode I talk about how to harness your resistance and anger to fuel your healing rather than let it bog you...
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Episode 9: Antisocial Personality Disorder (AKA Sociopathy) IRL!
In this episode I talk about the criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder, what "antisocial" really means and what this personality disorder looks like in real life. If you found this episode helpful, please subscribe and share. I'm always looking for people who have survived and are now...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
This podcast is for women survivors of narcissistic and sociopathic abuse (although men will find this info useful too). If you're sick and tired of feeling like a victim, want to heal from the hell these diabolical predators inflicted, and take back your life, this podcast is for you. The focus is on healing and moving forward, and making sure you'll never be conned again. If you're ready to learn skills to help you heal or know someone who is, please subscribe and share! Check out the Fraudulationship FB page and connect with me @fraudulationship on IG or FB.
HOSTED BY
Meg South
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