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20 | Rebuilding Self-Trust After Manipulation & Abuse
If you've ever walked away from a controlling or abusive relationship and found yourself completely frozen over the smallest decisions — what to wear, whether to text someone back, what to order for lunch — this episode is for you.
It's not just that you stop trusting them after manipulation, control, or abuse. You stop trusting yourself.
And that's the part nobody really talks about. Your internal compass gets scrambled. Not because you're broken, but because you were trained to override it. Over time, the loudest voice in your head stops being yours. It becomes theirs. And once you…
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