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Loving Your Life Again | Toxic Relationship Recovery & Nervous System Healing For Women Ready to Heal
Loving Your Life Again is a warm, honest, and deeply grounded podcast for women who are still inside a toxic, emotionally abusive, or addiction-affected relationship — or who have just found their way out — and are finally ready to stop surviving and start healing for real. Hosted by Christina Sommers, trauma-informed breathwork facilitator and somatic coach, this show offers clarity, nervous system tools, and the kind of real talk that actually meets you where you are — so you can find your way back to yourself, your faith, and the life you were always meant to love.
If you're exhausted from carrying everything and everyone, if you feel stuck but can't quite name why, or if you've tried the five-step resets and nothing has actually stuck — this podcast was made for you. Whether you're walking on eggshells around his moods, quietly enabling an addiction you never signed up for, or holding a marriage together while slowly disappearing inside it — you are not alone, and you are not crazy. With story-first teaching, embodied healing tools, and conversations rooted in faith, each episode is designed to help you feel less alone, more grounded in your own body, and one breath closer to real peace.
Christina has walked her own journey through toxic relationship, addiction, and survival mode — all the way to wholeness — and she brings that lived experience into every single episode, alongside twenty years of grounded, practical wisdom.
What you'll hear:
- Real conversations about toxic relationships, narcissistic abuse, emotional abuse, and loving an addicted spouse
- Nervous system healing, breathwork, and somatic tools you can actually use
- Faith-rooted healing for the woman who's been wrestling with God in the middle of her pain
If you're asking any of these questions, you're in the right place:
- Is this even abuse if he doesn't hit me?
- Is it okay to leave if my husband is an addict — what does God say about that?
- Why do I feel so crazy — and why can't I trust myself anymore?
- Will I ever feel like myself again?
This is the podcast for when you're done performing peace and ready to find the real thing. Tune in — and take the next breath back to loving your life. 🤍
Loving Your Life Again | Toxic Relationship Recovery & Nervous System Healing For Women Ready to Heal
Loving an Addict: When Enabling Feels Like Devotion
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Loving an Addict: When Enabling Feels Like Devotion
In this deeply personal episode, I open up about what it actually means to love someone with an addiction — and the quiet, gradual way that love can cause you to disappear. I break down the difference between devotion and self-abandonment, explain enabling and codependency without shame or clinical labels, and share some raw moments from my own story I haven't told this directly before.
This one's for the woman who has given everything trying to love someone back to life — and is finally ready to turn some of that love back toward herself.
What You'll Hear
🌿 Why enabling almost never feels like enabling while you're in it
🌿 The real difference between devotion and self-abandonment
🌿 What codependency actually is — without the shame or the clinical language
🌿 One small, somatic way to start choosing yourself again
Timestamped Show Notes
- 0:00 – Introduction — the theme of the episode: what happens when deep love slowly makes you disappear
- 2:21 – What Is Enabling? — why it doesn't look like weakness from the inside, it looks like love
- 6:00 – My Story — covering, managing two versions of reality, and the moment I realized how deep in it I actually was
- 15:02 – Understanding Codependency — what it really means, how it develops, and why it doesn't end when the relationship does
- 18:51 – Gaslighting & Self-Abandonment — how not pushing back on an untrue version of events was also enabling, and why that was survival, not weakness
- 21:16 – Why the Patterns Don't Stop — the grooved pathways in your nervous system that persist after the relationship ends, and why that's something to get curious about, not ashamed of
- 22:45 – Turning Love Back Toward Yourself — practical, grounded ways to begin redirecting love inward
- 26:45 – Breathwork & Grounding Practice — a guided moment to come back into your body
- 29:14 – Closing
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If something in this episode is still sitting with you — stay there a moment. You don't have to rush to the next thing. And when you're ready, I'm here.
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Until next time — one day, one moment, one breath at a time back to loving your life. 🤍