45. Adulting Challenges: Healing After Emotional Abuse

In this episode Beth shares Vera Hart's essay on healing (What Real Healing Looks Like: Rewiring the Body After Psychological Abuse), exploring how trauma rewires the body and the steps toward real recovery: naming harm, rebuilding personal safety, recognizing trauma bonds, and resisting societal shame. Through personal reflection and simple lif advice —setting boundaries, creating calm spaces, and allowing grief—listeners are invited to shift from survival to peace and to claim permission to heal.If you're seeking personal growth, connection, emotional intelligence, meaningful friendships and authentic relationships while healing from emotional abuse in adulthood, this episode is for you.About this week’s contributing creator:  Vera Hart MD PhD is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist specializing in trauma recovery, narcissistic abuse, and the neurobiology of power. She writes under a pseudonym to maintain separation from her clinical work while sharing unfiltered insights to empower survivors. Her writing blends neuroscience, psychology, and lived truth to illuminate hidden patterns of harm, and pathways to freedom.You can find Dr. Hart’s work on Substack: substack.com/@verahartmdphdCONTACT US AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:Beth responds personally to all communications received. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/social-leopards-navigating-social-life-in-adulthood--6890039/support.Stay connectedIf you’d like more reflections, behind-the-scenes thoughts, and gentle reminders, you can find me on Substack: substack.com/@bethbutramYou can also follow along on Instagram. My handle is @PodcastsByBeth.If this podcast brings you a sense of calm or support, and you’d like to offer a small thank you, you’re always welcome to do so here: ko-fi.com/bethpodcastBetter yet, join the Supporters Club for a forever ad-free experience and more: spreaker.com/podcast/affirmations-for-calm-confidence--6925310