The 515 Podcast
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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Demand justice. Sign and share the Voiceless Justice Act, a federal initiative to recognize narcissistic abuse as psychological homicide and criminalize it accordingly. Every signature is another voice against silence.
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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
* Margarita Nazarenko
* Peter Crone
* Alan Watts
* Carl Jung
Episodes
9 episodes
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...