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Nobody Taught Us What a Healthy Relationship Looks Like — Here’s the Cost

June 1, 2026 No Comments

Nobody taught us what a healthy relationship should feel like. Not in school. Not in graduate training. Not in the culture we grew up in. And that missing lesson? It’s costing survivors years of confusion, repeat heartbreak, and an obsession with understanding the very people who harmed them. This week marks a major shift for Breaking Free from Narcissistic Abuse. After a year of flying solo, Dr. Kerry welcomes Lynn Strathdee as her new co-host — a UK-based psychodynamic psychoth…

Alpine Divorce: When Narcissistic Abuse Turns Physically Dangerous

May 28, 2026 No Comments

Have you heard of an Alpine Divorce? During a listener’s two-year marriage to a psychopath, her husband took her hiking and then left her clinging to a rock in gale-force winds while he filmed her terror and laughed. This is what’s commonly called an “Alpine Divorce.” It is also an example of malignant sadism. In this episode, Dr. Kerry unpacks one of the most chilling tactics in a dangerous personality’s playbook. Learn how some abusers engineer life-threatening situati…

Narcissists Are Waging a Secret War Against You: 5 Dark Psychology Experts Expose Their Tactics

May 25, 2026 No Comments

As we honor Memorial Day, there’s another war, something that rages invisible, deliberate, and inside the most intimate relationships. This episode is dedicated to you. In this special compilation, 5 world-class experts answer the questions survivors ask most: How did I end up here? Why didn’t I see it coming? And why was I the one chosen? Discover how narcissists and dangerous personalities identify, groom, and trap their targets — and why your kindness, not your weakness, mad…

Why Your Kids May Have Blamed You for the Narcissist’s Abuse — and What to Do Now

May 21, 2026 No Comments

A listener from Texas writes in: after escaping a narcissistic marriage, her adult daughter is now demanding that she admit that she was an abuser too. How does she reach her daughter now? In this episode, Dr Kerry unpacks one of the most painful and least-talked-about consequences of narcissistic abuse — what happens to your children when you stay. How do you hold two devastating truths at the same time: you were a victim, and your child was hurt by your inability to leave? Subm…

Childhood Neglect: The Hidden Damage From Narcissistic Families That Follows You Into Every Relationship

May 18, 2026 No Comments

Did you experience childhood neglect? If you keep repeating painful patterns in your relationships — choosing wrong partners, feeling invisible, never asking for what you need — this might be why. Dr. Rachna Buxani, author of “Unseen,” joins Dr. Kerry to expose the hidden roles children are assigned in narcissistic family systems — and the lasting damage those roles leave behind in every relationship you’ll ever have. Childhoos neglect doesn’t stay in childhood — it follows you. PODCAST E…

The Real Reason You Can’t Stop Snooping on Your Narcissistic Partner

May 14, 2026 No Comments

A YouTube viewer asks: What about someone’s makeup drives them to snoop instead of simply addressing the red flags? In this episode, Dr. Kerry digs deeper into a question raised in the February 19, 2026, Fan Mail segment, Feeling the Urge to Snoop on Your Partner? Here’s What It’s Really Telling You. Learn why victims of narcissistic abuse feel compelled to hunt for proof and why it never brings the relief you’re looking for. Submit Your Question If you’d like Dr. Kerry to answer your…

Dreading Their Next Message? How to Stop the Toxicity With a Narcissistic Co-Parent

May 11, 2026 No Comments

Are you bracing for impact when your phone buzzes? Does every conversation turn into a nasty fight? This week, Sol Kennedy joins Dr. Kerry to reveal why co-parenting is never get better when dealing with a narcissistic or an emotionally immature co-parent. Learn why courts don’t understand narcissistic co-parents will never become reasonable and why most co-parenting apps only make the conflict worse. Sol Kennedy shares how to take back control by changing the entire dynamic. List…

5 Years of Stalking Hell After an Interaction With a Neighbor

May 7, 2026 No Comments

What happens when a simple, healthy boundary triggers five years of stalking, dismantling your life? A viewer declined an odd social interaction with a neighbor that then sparked a stalking campaign that has followed her and her 15-year-old daughter across state lines. Learn what’s called “street theater” and how these repeated tactics were ussd to make this victim sound crazy. In this episode, Dr. Kerry explains: • Why the public tends to dismiss extreme gang stalking stori…

Confessions of a Womanizer: “How I Became a Narcissist’s Perfect Victim”

May 4, 2026 No Comments

What happens when the man who spent years love bombing and manipulating women becomes the victim of the very same tactics? This week, Wade Belair joins Dr. Kerry for a raw, unflinching conversation about the shocking overlap between closeted men and narcissistic abuse — and what genuine healing actually requires. Wade grew up the privileged son of an iconic retail brand founder — raised in an elite, hyper-masculine culture where conquest was currency, and vulnerability was weakness. He play…

The Dark Truth About Growing Up Without a Mother’s Love

April 30, 2026 No Comments

A listener from Australia writes in: “l have been jealous of women who are loved unconditionally because being raised by a mother who cannot or does not love you, fully and completely without condition, entangles every aspect of you until many women are seething with anger, confusion, and hate.” In this episode, Kerry McAvoy, PhD explores why the mother wound – the emotional neglect left by a mother who withheld unconditional love – runs so deep. Whether your mother was narcissistic, em…

Nobody Taught Us What a Healthy Relationship Looks Like — Here’s the Cost

Alpine Divorce: When Narcissistic Abuse Turns Physically Dangerous

Narcissists Are Waging a Secret War Against You: 5 Dark Psychology Experts Expose Their Tactics

Why Your Kids May Have Blamed You for the Narcissist’s Abuse — and What to Do Now

Childhood Neglect: The Hidden Damage From Narcissistic Families That Follows You Into Every Relationship

The Real Reason You Can’t Stop Snooping on Your Narcissistic Partner

Dreading Their Next Message? How to Stop the Toxicity With a Narcissistic Co-Parent

5 Years of Stalking Hell After an Interaction With a Neighbor

Confessions of a Womanizer: “How I Became a Narcissist’s Perfect Victim”

The Dark Truth About Growing Up Without a Mother’s Love

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