The Rising Beyond Podcast
If you're trying to protect your children while navigating an abusive ex, this podcast is for you. Because leaving the relationship didn't end the abuse, and no one prepared you for what came next.
The Rising Beyond Podcast is for protective mothers navigating the overwhelming reality of sharing children with someone who continues patterns of manipulation, coercive control, or emotional abuse after separation. Join Sybil Cummin, licensed professional counselor, who has spent the last decade helping survivors and their children navigate this incredibly difficult chapter. Every week, we share trauma-informed education, nervous system insights, protective parenting strategies, and honest conversations about family court, post-separation abuse, and healing, so you can feel more confident, more grounded, and better equipped to protect both your children and yourself.
Whether you're in the middle of family court, struggling with parenting alongside someone who continues patterns of control, or simply trying to become the parent you want to be after everything you've survived, you'll find validation, practical guidance, and hope here.
The Rising Beyond Podcast
Ep 11: Your Nervous System is Shot: Strategies to Move Out of Fight, Flight, and Freeze
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Are you always on edge? Constantly looking over your shoulder?
Abusive relationships condition our brains to always be on the lookout for danger, keeping our cortisol levels high and exhausting our nervous systems.
In this episode, we will look at the basics of our nervous system and how it has been affected by domestic violence and narcissistic abuse. Using polyvagal theory, you will learn ways to move out of the fight, flight, and freeze states and into a more safe, secure, and connected state of being.
Check out these links for a deeper understanding of your nervous system and the polyvagal theory.
https://www.risingbeyondpc.com/safeandsound.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3108032
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec3AUMDjtKQ
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