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My Inner Torch — 306 episodes

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1

Why I STAY

2

The Cluster B Non-Resolution Pact

3

Cluster B Weaponized Compliments

4

Cluster B Supply-What are WE supplying?

5

The life YOU keep postponing....

6

What's wrong with ME?

7

Living within the Cluster B Narrative

8

Boundaries? Can you...will you?

9

The Cluster B Invitation

10

My Independence Day Reflection and Message

11

The Shroud of Confusion

12

300th Podcast! My Journey with the Flame

13

Refusing the TRUTH!

14

Life After the Cluster B

15

Stop Feeding the Cluster B!

16

AFTER you stop trying!

17

When you finally stop trying!

18

Why are chosen by the Cluster B?

19

You can't FORCE love!

20

The Illusion of Progress with the Cluster B

21

Why the Cluster B does NOT like you!

22

The Careful Art of Cluster B Manipulation

23

Holding yourself Hostage....

24

Hidden Scars of Cluster B Abuse

25

Understanding CPTSD and Hidden Wounds with the Cluster B

26

Cluster B Reality Check

27

Living in the Cluster B MOMENT

28

WHY do WE love?

29

Seeking Revenge!

30

Am "I" to blame?

31

Grieving the Mask of the Cluster B

32

CPTSD...are you suffering from it?

33

Pathological Love: When Love Still Hurts!

34

REVEALED! What's really behind Cluster B LOVE?

35

You CAN'T change a Cluster B's Spots

36

Pathological Love with a Cluster B

37

When LOVE isn't ENOUGH!

38

Emotional Sandcastles-Revisited NEW for 2025

39

How does a Cluster B LOVE you?

40

Dissecting OUR love for the Cluster B

41

A Cluster B Holiday Survival Guide

42

BONUS PODCAST-The Clownfish Survivor and the Cluster B Anemone

43

The Misunderstandings of Cluster B LOVE!

44

Living Under The Cluster B "Spell"

45

The TERMINAL Cluster B

46

WHY the Cluster B will not love!

47

It's OK to love your Cluster B!

48

More reasons why a Cluster B cannot love you...

49

Staying/Healing!

50

Why the Cluster B CANNOT Love US!

51

Are you GUILTY of Reactive Abuse?

52

The Cluster B Ponzi Scheme

53

Why do WE love our Cluster B?

54

Did THEY ever love us?

55

Letting Go.....

56

Forgive Yourself!

57

Sleeping with the enemy.

58

The Great Pretender

59

Saving Yourself!

60

Recognizing The False Self

61

The Cluster B Manifesto

62

Do THEY Care?

63

Hidden Abuse of the Cluster B

64

The Cluster B Con Game

65

NEW PODCAST: "I'm not OK!"

66

"You can't fix what you didn't break"-A revisit from January 2022

67

It's Okay to Hurt!

68

The Emotional Con Game-A 2022 Podcast

69

Look Back Listen-January '24 "Living in the Shadow of a Disordered Mind"

70

Intimacy Interrupted

71

My Secret Fantasy

72

Leaving?

73

Cognitive Dissonance and your Cluster B. A tragic mix.

74

Look Back Listen: What to Expect from your Cluster B Part 2

75

What to Expect from your Cluster B Part 1

76

The Cluster B Titantic

77

Stop feeding the monster!

78

How much?$?$?$?

79

Your Cluster B Valentine

80

The Cluster B Con

81

Your Cluster B Loves you...or do they?

82

What to expect from your Cluster B....

83

Finding Peace

84

It's NOT Possible!

85

New Year...New Hope!

86

13 Challenges of a Cluster B

87

Holiday Challenges-A Cluster B Checklist.

88

Welcome to the Danger Zone!

89

A Survivor's Harsh Reality Check

90

Finding YOUR right...

91

Look Back Listen: January '24 "Living in the Shadow of a Disordered Mind."

92

Cluster B = Love?

93

The Cluster B 3 Ring Circus

94

YOU deserve credit!

95

You have a choice!

96

The Way It Should Be?

97

The Bitter Pill...

98

Is this NORMAL....??

99

Four years along....where I am now?

100

Looking beyond the pain.

101

Getting past LOVE.....

102

Toxic Markers

103

State of Delusion

104

Trauma!

105

Understanding the WHY

106

The Long Goodbye with a Cluster B

107

The Emotional Hamster Wheel

108

200th Podcast: Owning their PAIN.

109

A Future Without....

110

What is NORMAL?

111

How do you feel?

112

What are you sorry about?

113

Survivor or Victim of a Cluster B relationship? Blurred Lines.

114

What do you think of YOU?

115

Not Unhearing "The Said"

116

You will NEVER trust!

117

Cold Hard Truths

118

Look Back Listen 2020: Emotional Intelligence

119

Why we REMAIN.....

120

"Shock and Sell" Have you fallen prey to this?

121

End of the Line? Where to now?

122

Look Back Listen to 2020 "Emotional Sandcastles"

123

Coat of many colors.

124

A look back on Chutes and Ladders.

125

Unmasking Narcissism: Exploring Types and Behaviors

126

What does it say about us?

127

The Kangaroo Court of the Cluster B

128

Distorted Realities of the Cluster B

129

Emotional Tidal Pools of the Cluster B

130

How Many Times?

131

It's Not Okay!

132

Green Flags...and why we are emotionally color blind to them.

133

Theatre of the Cluster B

134

Can you identify covert put downs from your Cluster B?

135

The Gig Is Up!

136

Strong words from Anthony Hopkins about your Cluster B

137

Living in the shadow of a disordered mind.

138

The pain behind the mirror.

139

Do we expect too much from our Cluster B?

140

Spotting a covert narcissist.

141

Can you walk away a winner?

142

Happy Holidays with your Cluster B?

143

Free lunch with a Cluster B? I don't think so!

144

Living in a fog of denial

145

It's okay to hurt!

146

Take it or leave it?!

147

Taking inventory with your Cluster B

148

Confessions of a Cluster B

149

The Hurt Locker

150

Do you feel safe?

151

How long do you do?

152

Identifying Hidden Abuse

153

It's the little things!

154

Do you bite the hook of "baiting" from your Cluster B?

155

State of Denial....

156

Cluster B's Warning Label

157

My theory on vulnerability and the Cluster B

158

Never Losing Hope

159

Living in a world of hurt.

160

Are you being honest?

161

Is Self Love possible with a Cluster B?

162

The Cluster B Gauntlet

163

I'm Sorry....

164

Why???

165

What it is...and what it isn't....

166

What to expect from your Cluster B Part 2

167

What to expect from your Cluster B Part 1

168

Bonds and Chains with a Cluster B

169

Bad Relationship Magnet?

170

What's love got to do with it?

171

Love Addicted?

172

Are you being abused in your Cluster B relationship?

173

They are who they are....not who you thought they are.

174

The Unsinkable Cluster B

175

WHY?

176

Terms and Conditions of the Cluster B

177

Is your relationship Terminal?

178

Recasting your Cluster B

179

Are you seeking validation?

180

Finding my inner voice....

181

I owe you an apology!

182

The Cluster B Discard Pile

183

Emotional Intelligence of the Cluster B revisited.

184

Knights of the Cluster B Table

185

Put up or Shut Up!

186

The Cluster B Trojan Horse

187

The Gravitational Pull of a Cluster B

188

A question with a question.....??????

189

They Won't Become What They Aren't....

190

Writing the final chapters with your Cluster B.

191

Is your Cluster B good enough for you?

192

Being "Bullet Proof" to your cluster B

193

Don't go to war with your cluster B!

194

Confessions of a Cluster B

195

Minefields and Thought Grenades!

196

Black Swans on a pond

197

Living under the thumb of a Cluster B

198

What they do is not for you!

199

Bullet Proof!

200

Love Addicted

201

Thoughtless!

202

Wash...Rinse...Repeat...

203

Where I was, where I am now....

204

Keys to the Castle

205

The invisible man...

206

100th Podcast of My Inner Torch!

207

Paralytic Relationships with a Cluster B

208

Deal Breakers...what are they in a Cluster B relationship?

209

The Emotional Con Game

210

No Fault Cluster B

211

Moments

212

Cluster B Miranda Rights

213

Breaking the Spell!

214

Gunpowder Language

215

Living in La La Land

216

Thermo Nuclear Relationships

217

The Walking Dead

218

Are you always wrong when you are right?

219

Death Grip!

220

What do you do?

221

It's the little things you do...

222

Labels....labels...labels....

223

Why do we hurt?

224

Why don't you give up on your Cluster B already?

225

Identity Theft

226

Reframing

227

Pointed Question

228

Silent Scream

229

Addicted and looking for a high?

230

The Narcissist's Prayer Redefined and applicable to all Cluster B's

231

Red Flags in the wind

232

Ready to move?

233

Blank Space...Is Taylor Swift singing about a BPD relationship?

234

Trigger Happy Borderlines!

235

What are YOU waiting for?

236

Are you "waiting to die?"

237

Witness to a split.

238

Are you a Gazelle?

239

You can't fix what you didn't break!

240

From the outside looking in.

241

Peeling back the layers of a BPD or NPD onion.

242

Sandbagging? Have you been sandbagged by your Cluster B?

243

Those who stay and those who go...

244

I see a mirage!

245

Do you belong?

246

Just the facts Ma'am...

247

It's not you...it's the situation!

248

Soul Suckers....

249

Shoulda....Woulda...Coulda...

250

Seven Stages of coping with Cluster B

251

Excuses...Excuses...Excuses...

252

Bait and Switch!

253

Back to the Future!

254

Are you ready to "Cry Uncle"?

255

Crazymaking!

256

Are you starving?

257

Old Movies and Memories

258

The seven degrees of Kevin Bacon?

259

No Deposit....No Return...

260

Looking for that RESET button?

261

An Empty Hole

262

You are a Saint!

263

My Emotional Sandcastle Experience Related

264

Breadcrumbing...it is a thing.

265

Why do WE bother....?

266

New beginnings!

267

I have a major announcement!

268

How long can a Borderline "Mirror" you?

269

How do you love a person with BPD?

270

Building a Better Mousetrap with your borderline?

271

Trauma Bond: An important checklist.

272

Reality Check....can we do it?

273

Relational BPD...how do you deal with it?

274

Gaslighting and BPD...an explosive mix!

275

Is the grass greener on another pasture?

276

What to expect with from your borderline on a daily basis.

277

"Hoovering"...what is it...and will it happen to you?

278

Moment of Reckoning

279

Marriage and BPD-A volatile mix.

280

Cluster B Personality Disorders...Where does BPD fit in?

281

Testing....Testing...1-2-3....

282

Let's Talk about ME!

283

Do you have a "Trauma Bond" with your borderline?

284

F.O.G....what does it mean? Are you in one?

285

Man in the mirror

286

Are you a Lion Tamer?

287

Push...Pull....repeat!

288

Splitting...how does it feel and why the borderline does it.

289

Those who say....and those who do!

290

Are you a Terminator?

291

Grey Rock...what it is and does it work with a borderline?

292

Emotional Intelligence Revisited

293

Keep the Dragon at bay!

294

Do they EVER remember?

295

The Elephant in the Room

296

To Thine Own Self Be True

297

Emotional Self Worth

298

Normal Expectations

299

A Four Letter Word....

300

A Thousand Words.....

301

Chutes and Ladders!

302

Emotional Weathervane

303

Gun Toting Lunatics!

304

Emotional Intelligence

305

Emotional Sandcastles

306

Inaugural Podcast