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 209: Why Coparenting Feels Like a Trap (And What to Do Instead)
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What if “coparenting” isn’t failing because you are doing it wrong?
And instead, it is not working because the map you were given on how to do it is not meant for “coparenting” with someone abusive.
The way that our system is designed sets a huge trap for protective parents who want to do everything they can to protect their children and allows for someone who uses coercive control to maneuver in ways that continue to abuse.
While there are many traps that happen within this larger system, three of the ones that seem to impact protective parents the most are:
- Attempting to be the perfect parent
- Attempting to convince your child of the truth about the other parent
- Parenting from a reactionary stance and survival mode.
And all of these traps do not allow you to show up as the parent you want to be.
In this episode, I share the reasons for these traps and a starting point for maneuvering around them so that you can parent from a values-based perspective rather than from fear.
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