Surviving Toxic Relationships Podcast with The Matadoras
Surviving Toxic Relationships is a faith based podcast for women who are ready to break free from toxic, emotionally abusive, or narcissistic relationships and step into healing, clarity, and truth.
Deana and Lizzie are two women whose lives unexpectedly crossed when they were married to the SAME manipulative, cheating, financially abusive partner.
Their combined passion is to provide women with the tools to avoid, escape, or heal from toxic, harmful, or confusing relationships.
If you’ve been searching for faith based wisdom that goes deeper than surface-level advice, this show is for you. We talk honestly about trauma, emotional wounds, spiritual confusion, and the process of rebuilding your identity through faith.
Our esteemed guests consist of Therapists, Authors, Doctors, and Survivors. Together, we explore topics that include self-discovery and healing, narcissistic abuse, boundaries, discernment, and learning to hear God’s voice clearly in relationships.
Whether you’re trying to avoid early red flags, are in the middle of a toxic relationship, or recovering from one, this emotional and spiritual healing podcast offers real conversations, practical insight, and biblical encouragement to help you move forward into hope, restoration, self worth, and renewal.
Remember beautiful friends: You are not alone, You are not crazy, and You are deeply, deeply loved.
Deana & Lizzie
Surviving Toxic Relationships Podcast with The Matadoras
Latest Episodes
Episode #117: What Comes After Survival? Healing, Starting Over & Finding Yourself Again
What happens when you're no longer just trying to survive?For years, your questions may have centered around the relationship: Why am I so confused? Am I the problem? Should I stay? Should I leave?Then, somewhere in the healing pr...
Episode #116: Why Women Stay Silent in Unhealthy Relationships with Marcelle LeBlanc
What happens when you know something is wrong in your relationship, but you keep convincing yourself that everything is fine?In this episode of Surviving Toxic Relationships, Deana sits down with Marcelle LeBlanc, known as the Conversati...
Episode #115: Leaving a Toxic Marriage: How to Prepare for Divorce and Protect Yourself with Diana Romanov
Leaving a toxic relationship is hard enough. Add divorce, finances, children, custody, and the legal system, and it can quickly become overwhelming.In this episode of Surviving Toxic Relationships with The Matadoras, we sit down...
Episode #114: The Hidden Grief of Loving Someone with Addiction Faith, Loss & Hope with S.E. Tschritter
What happens when the person you trust most is secretly battling addiction?In this deeply moving episode of Surviving Toxic Relationships, Deana and Lizzie sit down with bestselling author S.E. Tschritter to discuss her heartbreaking yet...
Episode #113: Who Were You Before Him? Rediscovering Your Identity After a Toxic Relationship
Who were you before the relationship changed you?In this honest conversation, Lizzie, Deana, and special guest Jennifer discuss what happens when years of people-pleasing, survival, and emotional abuse slowly erase your sense of identity...