UNBOTHERED MY طيز

Meredith Al-Rekabi
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Women are taught to let things go, keep the peace, stay small. This show is for the ones who are done with that. "Unbothered My طيز" is where we talk about the things women are supposed to swallow quietly. The rage, the exhaustion, the relationships that ask too much. Every episode is unfiltered and built for women who are finally letting themselves be bothered by the things that deserve their anger. Because the women who changed things? They were bothered.

Episodes

  1. 1d ago

    Survival Spillover

    Important note for listeners: This episode discusses psychological concepts and research concerning intimate partner violence and trauma. It is educational and is not intended to diagnose any individual with narcissistic personality disorder, PTSD, or another mental health condition. Terms such as “narcissistic behavior” describe behavior in this discussion and should not be interpreted as a clinical diagnosis. What happens when the behaviors you learned to survive a controlling or abusive partner start showing up in your other relationships? In this episode, we explore coercive control, hypervigilance, identification with the aggressor, and the urge to “outsmart” an abusive partner. We look at how survival strategies can spill over into relationships with friends and family, and why understanding where a behavior came from doesn’t mean ignoring the harm it can cause. Sources World Health Organization. Violence Against Women. WHO describes intimate partner violence as behavior causing physical, sexual, or psychological harm, including psychological abuse and controlling behaviors. Lohmann, S., et al. (2024). The Trauma and Mental Health Impacts of Coercive Control: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse. The review identified 68 eligible studies and found moderate associations between coercive control and PTSD and depression. Lahav, Y., Talmon, A., & Ginzburg, K. (2021; first published online 2019). Knowing the Abuser Inside and Out: The Development and Psychometric Evaluation of the Identification With the Aggressor Scale. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(19–20), 9725–9748. Lahav, Y. (2021). Painful Bonds: Identification With the Aggressor and Distress Among IPV Survivors. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 144, 26–31. doi:10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.09.046. Lahav, Y., Talmon, A., & Ginzburg, K. (2020). Identification With the Aggressor and Inward and Outward Aggression in Abuse Survivors. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. The study examined 306 participants reporting childhood abuse and found associations between dimensions of identification with the aggressor and inward and outward aggression. Kassing, K., et al. (2026). “Slowly, Over Time, You Completely Lose Yourself”: Conceptualizing Coercive Control Trauma in Intimate Partner Relationships. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. The qualitative study examined experiences of women who had survived coercive control and proposed “coercive control trauma” as a framework for understanding its psychological effects.

    Survival Spillover

  2. Aug 18

    The Curse of Comparison

    You've been told comparison is the thief of joy. But nobody told you why you can't stop doing it, or that it was never really your fault to begin with. In this episode, we get into the curse of comparison: why women are socialized from childhood to measure their worth against other women, how the brain's own empathy systems turn listening into a measuring stick, and how a survival instinct built for a world that no longer exists is still running quietly in the background of your everyday life. This isn't about five steps to stop comparing yourself. It's about understanding what's actually happening — so the comparison stops having the final word. Sources Lev-Ari, L., Baumgarten-Katz, I., & Zohar, A.H. (2014). Mirror, mirror on the wall: How women learn body dissatisfaction. Eating Behaviors, 15(3), 397–402. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eatbeh.2014.04.015 Rothers, A., & Cohrs, J.C. (2023). What makes people feel respected? Toward an integrative psychology of social worth. Psychological Review, 130(1), 242–259. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000393 Swencionis, J.K., & Fiske, S.T. (2014). How social neuroscience can inform theories of social comparison. Neuropsychologia, 56, 140–146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.01.009 Hasty, J., Lewis, D.G., & Snipes, M.M. (2022). The power of gender: Patriarchy and matriarchy. In Introduction to Anthropology (Section 12.3). OpenStax. https://openstax.org/books/introduction-anthropology/pages/12-3-the-power-of-gender-patriarchy-and-matriarchy

    The Curse of Comparison

  3. Aug 18

    Being BIGGER to be BETTER

    Nobody teaches women to take up space. They teach us to apologize for existing in it. This episode is about why women shrink themselves to keep the peace, where that habit comes from, what it quietly costs, and what it looks like to finally stop. No fluff. No fixing. Just the truth.

    Being BIGGER to be BETTER
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Women are taught to let things go, keep the peace, stay small. This show is for the ones who are done with that. "Unbothered My طيز" is where we talk about the things women are supposed to swallow quietly. The rage, the exhaustion, the relationships that ask too much. Every episode is unfiltered and built for women who are finally letting themselves be bothered by the things that deserve their anger. Because the women who changed things? They were bothered.

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  • Creator
    Meredith Al-Rekabi
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    3
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Meredith Al-Rekabi
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