The 515 Podcast with Raven Elizabeth
The 515 Podcast is where survivors of abuse learn to alchemize chaos into clarity and start taking themselves back. Through honest stories and grounded tools, we focus on abuse recovery, self‑reclamation, and turning what tried to break you into the gold you build your life with next.
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Some of the foundational sources for this podcast include the following authors and professionals who have helped me on my journey and who align with The 515 mission:
* Daniel Ryan Cotler
* Jordan B Peterson
* Jennie Young
* Drs John and Julie Gottman
* Peter Crone
* Alan Watts
* Carl Jung
*Gabor Mate
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I take my research seriously, and reputable sources are necessary to support the work I do here. In addition to the works of the authors and professionals listed above, I use platforms specifically for scholarly research, including bibliographic databases such as PubMed and JSTOR.
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Episodes
15 episodes
Coercive Control: The Shrinking of a Life
In this episode of The 515 Podcast, I share the personal story behind my recent TikTok series: how a relationship that began with intensity, promises, and a future I believed in became shaped by emotional invalidation, financial ambiguity, invi...
You Can Be Hurt and Still Be Angry: Ivy Pochoda and Female Rage
Ivy Pochoda’s women are not here to be easy to forgive, easy to understand, or easy to root for—and that is exactly the point.During tornado power outages, I found myself reading through These Women, Sing Her Down, and ...
Harry Potter, Healing, and the Hero’s Journey
After a much-needed pause for mental health, I’m finally back with a new episode — and I’m coming back to a story that’s been grounding me in more ways than one. In this episode, I revisit the Harry Potter series through a deeper psychological ...
Paper Cuts: When the System Rewrites You
In this short solo episode of 515, I sit down after a brutal morning in divorce court and talk about what happens when the systems that are supposed to protect you… rewrite your story instead.No kids, no house to fight over, no request f...
Fairways & Battlefields: Veterans, Mission 22, and the War Within
Today’s episode of 515 takes you out onto the golf course for a charity outing with Mission 22, an organization created to confront the heartbreaking reality that veterans are dying by suicide at alarming rates, even as overall numbers have beg...
Surface Tension with Jason: Men, Intuition, and “Not All Men”
In the first-ever Surface Tension session, Raven sits down with Jason (aka Chad from Episode 9) for a late‑night, red‑envelope conversation that goes wherever the questions take them.They start with music...
From Gothic Romance to Red Flag: Wuthering Heights, My Ex-Boyfriend, and My Nervous System
In this episode, I talk about how watching the latest Wuthering Heights adaptation wrecked me in the best and worst ways—and why it felt less like a classic and more like watching my past with “Chad” on screen. I break down the difference be...
From Emotional Crutch to Consequences: Six Years with Fragile Men –PART 2
If you are ready to burn the “good girl” and “cool girl” roles to the ground, this episode will meet you there. If you are not ready, but your body leans in anyway, you are still welcome here. You get to listen at your own pace, pause when your...
An Open Letter to My Ex-Husband's Next Victim
An Open Letter to My Ex-Husband’s Next Victim” is a raw, explicit warning written for the woman who comes after me and has no idea what she is walking into. Using my own notes, timelines, and recorded calls, I spell out how my ex-husband twists...
An Open Letter to My Ex-Husband
This episode is exactly what it sounds like: an open letter to my ex‑husband. I’m talking directly to him about the invisible chains, the fantasy I never actually agreed to, and the moment I finally chose to walk. If you’v...
The Science of Gratitude and Everyday Alchemy
This episode focuses on gratitude as a mental health tool, grounded in data and lived experience. Raven explains what studies report about gratitude, anxiety, and depression, how repeated gratitude practices shape brain function over time, and ...
Dark Tetrad, Cluster B, and Patriarchy: A Data‑Driven Reality Check
In this episode, Raven pauses the “everyone is a narc” trend and walks through what the research actually shows. Raven defines Cluster B disorders and the dark tetrad, looks at how common these traits are in the general population, and highligh...
Small Acts, Big Shift: First Steps of Self-Reclamation
In this short episode, I step out of the “infrastructure” role I talked about in Episode 2 and speak directly to the first fragile moments of leaving abuse and coming back to yourself. I walk through simple, real‑life acts of spiritual alchemy ...
From Emotional Crutch to Consequences: Six Years with Fragile Men
In this episode of The 515 Podcast, Raven reads a raw reflection on six years of back‑to‑back relationships that were sold as love but operated as entrapment and objectification. She breaks down how entitled, emotionally underdeveloped men used...
Welcome to The 515 Podcast: Self-Reclamation After Abuse
In this intro, Raven shares how she went from trauma‑informed and self aware to trapped in an abusive marriage that distorted her reality, and how 515 became her symbol of alchemy, turning chaos and shame into clarity, boundaries, and self trus...