Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse

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Narcissist Apocalypse is a Purple Ribbon Award-winning storytelling podcast that amplifies the voices of those who have experienced narcissistic abuse, coercive control, emotional abuse, domestic violence, family relationship abuse, and relationship trauma. Our guests share their stories of abuse survival, providing a source of validation, education, inspiration, and hope for those going through similar experiences. Join us and discover how you, too, can overcome the narcissist apocalypse.

  1. 11H AGO

    Debrief | Control, Dissociation, & Legal Abuse in Erika’s Story

    In this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Brandon breaks down the biggest themes in Erika’s story, including coercive control, early conditioning, financial abuse, sexual coercion, surveillance, dissociation, legal abuse, and post-separation control. Erika’s story shows how abuse can spread into nearly every part of a survivor’s life: money, parenting, privacy, sex, housing, court, identity, and the ability to trust your own reality. This debrief also looks at how fear, obligation, guilt, and shame kept Erika trapped longer, and how learning the language of abuse helped her begin putting the pieces of her life back together. Click if you want to be a guest on our survivor story podcast, please send us an email at narcissistapocalypse@pm.me Click on the title to read about Coercive Control as Care: Signs & Patterns Sign up to our Domestic Violence Newsletter  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    24 min

  2. 11H AGO ·  BONUS

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  3. 1D AGO

    Rerelease | Erika & The Abuser Who Controlled Everything

    In this rerelease episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Brandon talks with Erika about growing up inside religious conditioning that taught her to submit, stay quiet, and see her worth through being a wife and mother. After losing her family and community as a young adult, Erika entered relationships where she kept trying to build safety, stability, and family, even while being worn down by neglect, pressure, and control. Her second marriage became the center of this story. Erika shares how coercive control showed up through financial abuse, sexual coercion, intimidation, weapons, surveillance, isolation, legal abuse, and post-separation abuse. She also talks about dissociation, the shock of realizing how much danger she had been living in, and the crisis center moment that helped her finally name what was happening. It's a story of financial abuse, coercive control, animal abuse, language, religious beliefs, social abuse, intimidation, stalking, post separation abuse, divorce, custody, dissociation, puzzle pieces, self discovery, sexual coercion, weapons, denial, recognizing abuse, isolation, punishments, single moms, lawyers, being homeless, and research. *** CONTENT WARNING - There is discussion of sexual coercion, animal abuse, and extreme physical initimidation in this episode. *** Click if you want to be a guest on our survivor story podcast, please send us an email at narcissistapocalypse@pm.me Click on the title to read about Coercive Control as Care: Signs & Patterns Sign up to our Domestic Violence Newsletter  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    1h 11m

  4. 2D AGO

    Rerelease | The Role of the Scapegoat

    In this release episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Brandon talks with author, journalist, educational writer, coach, and survivor Julie L. Hall about scapegoating in narcissistic and dysfunctional family systems. Julie breaks down how family roles form, including the scapegoat, golden child, hero, mascot, and lost child, and why the scapegoated child often carries the blame, shame, and emotional projections of the narcissistic parent. She explains how scapegoats can be targeted for speaking the truth, questioning the family narrative, protecting others, or simply reflecting something the parent cannot face in themselves. Julie can be reached at https://narcissistfamilyfiles.com/ Click if you want to be a guest on our survivor story podcast, please send us an email at narcissistapocalypse@pm.me Click on the title to read about Coercive Control as Care: Signs & Patterns Sign up to our Domestic Violence Newsletter  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    50 min

  5. 3D AGO

    Debrief | Broken Boundaries & Betrayal in Charly’s Story

    In this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, we debrief Charly’s story and what can happen when someone seeks help after abuse and the person offering that help becomes unsafe too. We break down how healing language can exist without healing behavior, how trust issues can be weaponized against a survivor, how the fixer role can keep someone invested in a harmful relationship, and why unregulated recovery spaces need clear boundaries, ethics, and accountability. It’s a conversation about broken boundaries, false safety, recovery spaces, gaslighting, betrayal, smear campaigns, and learning that being understood is not the same as being safe. Click if you want to be a guest on our survivor story podcast, please send us an email at narcissistapocalypse@pm.me Click on the title to read about Coercive Control as Care: Signs & Patterns Sign up to our Domestic Violence Newsletter  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    22 min

  6. 4D AGO

    Charly & The Abusive Recovery Coach

    In this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Charly shares her story of seeking help after abuse and ending up in a relationship with the recovery practitioner she trusted. After two painful relationships, Charly found someone online who seemed to understand what she had been through. This person spoke the language of abuse recovery, worked with Charly professionally, and felt like someone who finally got it. But the professional relationship slowly crossed into something personal, then romantic. What followed was a relationship filled with broken promises, shifting stories, gaslighting, boundary violations, and the painful realization that the person who knew Charly's wounds could also use them against her. It’s a story about emotional abuse, gaslighting, abuse recovery, trauma bonds, trust issues, betrayal, professional boundaries, boundary violations, blurred boundaries, unregulated recovery spaces, being a fixer, loyalty, guilt, shame, LGBTQ survivor story, lies, broken promises, inconsistency, smear campaigns, false accusations, physical intimidation, and addiction. Content Warning - This episode discusses intimate partner violence, sexual coercion/assault, and animal abuse. Click if you want to be a guest on our survivor story podcast, please send us an email at narcissistapocalypse@pm.me Click on the title to read about Coercive Control as Care: Signs & Patterns Sign up to our Domestic Violence Newsletter  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    44 min

  7. APR 23

    Debrief | Crisis Creation, FOG, & Control in Hans’s Story

    In this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Brandon talks about the patterns underneath Hans’s story. This debrief looks at how crisis creation became a form of control, how fear, obligation, guilt, and shame kept Hans in the relationship longer, and how financial abuse, fatherhood, and constant instability made resistance feel costly. It’s a discussion about being chosen when you’ve spent your life feeling unseen, the slow erasure of self through adaptation, the split between public persona and private abuse, and the way control can continue after separation through custody and the children. Click if you want to be a guest on our survivor story podcast, please send us an email at narcissistapocalypse@pm.me Click on the title to read about Coercive Control as Care: Signs & Patterns Sign up to our Domestic Violence Newsletter  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    25 min

  8. APR 22

    Rerelease | Hans & The Crisis Creating Abuser

    In this rerelease episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Brandon talks with Hans about surviving a marriage with a crisis creating abuser. What looked like one problem after another slowly became a pattern of coercive control, financial abuse, manipulation, public personas, and post-separation abuse. Hans shares how his life became organized around emergencies, pressure, and recovery mode, while his own needs kept disappearing in the process. It's a story of coercive control, verbal abuse, intergenerational trauma, post separation abuse, custody, low self esteem, learning disabilities, enabling, bullying, fake personas, financial abuse, dissociation, manipulation, peopel pleasing, chaos, catastrophizing, and parental alienation. Click if you want to be a guest on our survivor story podcast, please send us an email at narcissistapocalypse@pm.me Click on the title to read about Coercive Control as Care: Signs & Patterns Sign up to our Domestic Violence Newsletter  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Narcissist Apocalypse is a Purple Ribbon Award-winning storytelling podcast that amplifies the voices of those who have experienced narcissistic abuse, coercive control, emotional abuse, domestic violence, family relationship abuse, and relationship trauma. Our guests share their stories of abuse survival, providing a source of validation, education, inspiration, and hope for those going through similar experiences. Join us and discover how you, too, can overcome the narcissist apocalypse.

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