Mindset, Money, Success is a Podcast aimed at discovering what it takes to be successful.
I believe that you can’t become successful unless you have the right mindset. What do you think? I will be talking with entrepreneurs to discover their secrets to success. First up, chatting to Single, Sexy, and Successful Women. I also want to raise awareness of experiences of adversity and how these can impact individuals. My story covers the three Ds in relationship endings. Check out my Bio. I’m a self-published author and survivor of hidden emotional abuse that was revealed to me post-separation. If money were not a concern, I would buy a home and run a retreat to help women in recovery from trauma after any of the three Ds in relationship endings.
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Shocking Truths Behind Narcissistic Future Faking: The Soulmate Illusion
Season 2 · Episode 31
Wednesday, December 17, 2025 • Duration 16:15
In this episode, Loraine discusses the five shocking truths behind narcissistic future faking, often referred to as the soulmate illusion. Future faking is the illusion of 'someday,' where a partner paints a vivid, perfect picture of a life together, while their current actions leave you feeling hurt, ignored, and devalued. If this sounds familiar, you have likely encountered this sophisticated manipulation, which serves as a cornerstone of narcissistic abuse. This tactic involves making grand promises about the future solely to gain power and control over you in the present. We uncover the insidious truths that lie behind this behaviour.
Best Moments from the Episode
The narcissist’s promises are a desperate attempt to soothe their own deep psychic pain. Psychologists agree that narcissism is rooted in profound self-hatred and shame, not self-love. By manipulating you into believing their fantasy, they gain a fleeting feeling of power and relief from their own sense of weakness.
Narcissists are master manipulators who use a tactic called narcissistic mirroring. They encourage deep conversations early in the relationship to get you to reveal your most heartfelt desires, hopes, and dreams for the future. They then mimic your dreams back to you, making the connection feel magnetic and uniquely perfect, leading you to believe you have met your soulmate.
Future faking is a powerful tool used throughout the entire abuse cycle, not just during the initial love bombing phase. They may dangle the future you crave only to snatch it away as punishment, perhaps by stating an engagement or vacation is on hold because you "ruined the mood".
The constant mismatch between loving words about the future and harmful actions in the present creates a profound psychological discomfort known as cognitive dissonance.
Personal Example of Future Faking: Loraine recounts a personal experience involving future faking where, after talking about a dream to live in Spain, the partner purchased a property there. However, shortly after the purchase, the partner revealed he had made a "huge mistake," leaving the speaker feeling deflated and upset.
Key Takeaways
Future Faking is a Tool of Control: It is a sophisticated manipulation used to gain power and control over you in the present, fueled by the abuser's own self-hatred and need for fleeting relief.
You Are Trapped by Your Own Hopes: The narcissist uses narcissistic mirroring to sell you a future built exactly upon your own most heartfelt dreams, making the connection feel uniquely perfect. Designed to keep you emotionally invested and trapped.
The Dissonance is Deliberate: The painful paradox of hearing someone plan your future home while they devalue you right now is a tactic designed to keep you disoriented through cognitive dissonance. You are kept busy trying to reconcile their conflicting behaviours rather than seeing the abuse for what it is.
To break free, you must stop focusing on empty promises and start looking at the hard evidence of present-day actions. Your nervous system often registers the danger before your mind can name it, so listen to your body—if you feel tense, unsure, or small in their presence, trust that physical response as honest data.
Narcissistic Abuse, Trauma Bonds, and the Journey to Empath Empowerment
Season 2 · Episode 30
Wednesday, December 10, 2025 • Duration 40:53
Introduction
Welcome to Mindset Money Success. Host Loraine Marshall speaks with Tina Woods, a coach dedicated to helping individuals recover from narcissistic abuse and unlock trapped trauma. Tina recounts her entry into this field after leaving a 24-year advertising career and navigating her own journey through complex trauma (CPTSD), addictions, burnout, and a highly abusive relationship with a covert narcissist. She now works in her purpose of empath empowerment, assisting women to transform lessons learned and move from victim mode into their highest frequency. This episode delves into the deep psychological trap of the trauma bond, the strategic nature of narcissistic abuse, and practical self-help steps for recovery.
3 Best Moments
Understanding the Trauma Bond: Tina explains that the trauma bond is a "serious, serious addiction" and is fundamentally a "spiritual, a physical, a mental, psychological trap" that is extremely difficult to break.
Abuse Starts with Love Bombing: It is crucial to understand that the manipulation and abuse cycle begins not with the devaluation or discard, but with the love bomb phase. Narcissists are highly strategic; they plot their victims and look for supply by weighing up their wounds, such as isolation or self-love issues, making the love bombing the beginning of the abuse.
Harnessing Anger for Healing: Tina advocates for releasing anger, describing it as her "kill Bill stage," rather than repressing or suppressing it, which can cause sickness. Techniques she used for release included joining kickboxing and self-defence, as well as bouncing on a mini trampoline, shaking, and dancing.
4 Key Takeaways
Embrace Deep Honesty and the 'Ik-List': To begin breaking the trauma bond, the first step is to come into deep, painful honesty about both the abuser's behaviours and your own attachment patterns. Tina suggests creating an 'ik-list' (a tip she borrowed from Dr Ramani) detailing all the awful things the abuser said and did, so you can clearly see the truth when they attempt to 'hoover' you back in.
Financial Myths and Investing Blueprint for Women Starting Over at 40+
Season 2 · Episode 29
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 • Duration 22:44
In this week's episode, Loraine Marshall aims to challenge and completely dismantle conventional financial advice that often leaves people feeling stuck. Our guide on this journey is Rob Moore, a self-made millionaire, property investor, and host of the Disruptors podcast, known for building his fortune on contrarian thinking. Loraine extracts some of Rob Moore's valuable insights, offering a blueprint for building wealth by exploring the money lies that keep you poor, and revealing the hidden rules of the financial game.
4 Key Takeaways
1. Lie number one suggests that saving your money in the bank is responsible, but Rob Moore argues this is a dangerous myth. Due to inflation—which he calls the biggest legal money scam—leaving your money in the bank is not saving it; it is eroding and degrading its value, resulting in a guaranteed loss of purchasing power over time.
2. Inflation is a quiet theft of your money and a systematic feature of the modern financial system. The only effective defence is to own assets that rise in value as currency devalues, such as property, stocks, businesses, and precious metals (like gold and silver coins), which store value better than cash.
3. The wealthy understand a critical distinction: bad debt (borrowing for depreciating consumer items like a new car or designer clothes) keeps people on a treadmill, while good debt can make you richer. Good debt involves strategically borrowing money, like using a mortgage on a rental property, to acquire an asset where the financial return is higher than the debt's cost.
4. The supposedly secure job is one of the riskiest financial strategies because your entire income stream depends on one employer, meaning you are not in control. Since even saving money is a risk due to inflation, true financial security comes from taking calculated, educated investment risks to build assets that you control.
4 Best Moments
1. Ex-financial advisor Chris Roll provided a brilliant analogy, explaining that the Monopoly game rules state that if the bank runs out of money, it can simply write some more on a piece of paper and use that. This perfectly illustrates how the modern financial system and central banks create currency out of thin air.
Funding Your Dream Business Startup.
Season 2 · Episode 28
Wednesday, November 26, 2025 • Duration 15:20
In this episode, Loraine explores opportunities for finding and securing funding for your Dream Business Startup.
Best Moments
1. The discussion highlights the systemic challenges in traditional venture capital, noting that while almost 40% of startup owners in Europe are women, companies founded by women receive only 2.4% of total venture capital funding. However, this statistic is reframed as "permission to stop playing a game that wasn’t designed for you".
2. We examine the internal hurdle of a "scarcity mindset" the deeply ingrained belief that there isn't enough opportunity or support. This paralysing mindset leads to risk aversion and accepting limitations. The powerful counterpoint is introduced: "poverty loves foot dragging," while speed, decision, and action are the habits of abundance.
3. Listeners are encouraged to shift from passive worrying to an active, opportunity-focused state of doing. The principle "money loves speed" is explained as a law where acting on an idea as fast as humanly possible creates an energy that helps attract more money, echoing the concept that "the universe loves speed".
4. Grants are highlighted as the best kind of funding because they are a primary source of debt-free money—meaning founders don't give up equity and do not have to pay the money back. Corporate partners like Poker Power, BOTOX® Cosmetic, Visa, and Caress have created major grant programs through IFundWomen (IFW).
5. The most efficient strategic move a founder can make is to fill out the IFundWomen Universal Funding and Grant Application. This single action places the founder in a central database, which IFW uses to match founders with opportunities when they partner with brands.
Key Takeaways
• Mindset is your most powerful asset: Acknowledge that the funding gap is real, but recognize that shifting your mindset from scarcity to abundance is the critical foundation for success.
Healing Your Heart and Rewiring Your Mindset for Success
Season 2 · Episode 27
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 • Duration 33:33
Welcome to another episode of Mindset Money Success! Host Loraine Marshall introduces guest Carolyn Ann Wood, a mindset mentor and hypnotherapist. Carolyn specialises in an "amazing modality called heart healing," which literally heals the heart. She shares her journey of becoming a certified heart healer and quitting her day job to pursue her successful business, currently travelling and living out of two suitcases. Her personal purpose is focused on freedom, love, and connection.
Loraine and Carolyn discuss the profound power of the mind and how unconscious beliefs, often formed in early childhood, can silently drive reality. Lorraine recalls her own experience growing a property management business based on a simple written goal: "double the income in the first three months, double the income in the next three months". The conversation also touches upon Lorraine's challenging experience navigating years of overlapping litigations, from an ex-partner, and the importance of managing anger and rebuilding self-worth while tackling external pressures.
Carolyn emphasizes that true transformation is not a "one and done" event but requires a holistic approach involving mind, body, heart, and soul work, along with dedicated nervous system regulation.
Best Moments
On the Nature of Heart Healing: "The crazy thing is, the beliefs aren't about the experiences themselves. They are about the other people who were involved in the experiences". Heart healing targets the root belief formed in childhood, often related to the primary caregiver, to address the feeling of "not enoughness".
Affirmations vs. Deep Beliefs: If you are repeating affirmations like "I'm a millionaire" but not seeing results, it is likely because an underlying, unconscious belief is running silently in the background, saying, "no, you’re not a millionaire". To fast-track success, you must get to the root of these negative beliefs.
Self-Love as the Key: Unconditional self-love and self-acceptance are the key to joy, happiness, success, and wealth. When you love yourself, you have the confidence to make decisions that suit you, and if things don't go as planned, it doesn't "knock you back"
Finding Balance with Mindset, Strategy, and Belief with guest Marie Daynes
Season 2 · Episode 26
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 • Duration 30:01
Host Loraine speaks with Marie, owner of Vesta Hypnotherapy, based in the UK. Marie’s business is centred on creating alignment throughout oneself rather than focusing solely on working harder, stressing the need for balance between strategy, mindset, spirituality, and belief in yourself. Loraine and Marie explore how different elements govern different areas of life —from managing emotions (Water) to cultivating passion and purpose (Fire) —and how understanding these energies is key to personal success and money alignment.
4 Best Moments
1. Marie explains that the order of the four elements (starting with Fire, moving to Earth, Air, then Water, and cycling again) represents a clear development cycle. Living in tune with these elements means living in tune with the cycles of life, birth, rebirth, and death. The elements are the basis of everything.
2. The conversation highlights that two elements are masculine (Fire and Earth) and two are feminine (Air and Water). Entrepreneurial women, particularly those with strong business backgrounds, may find themselves operating heavily in the male energy, making it crucial to focus on balancing the feminine aspects for overall alignment
3. Loraine and Marie agree that for deep-seated wounds, simple affirmations often act as a "band-aid" or cover, not completely removing the root of the issue. Hypnotherapy, however, is a well-proven modality that claims to go directly to the point and change the subconscious mind.
4. Emotion is the Language of the Subconscious: Marie notes that the main way to change the subconscious is through emotion. Strong, overwhelming emotions (like fear) lodge patterns and beliefs into the subconscious. Reprogramming requires creating a more powerful, positive emotion connected to that same belief. Coaches like Tony Robbins successfully use massive energy shifts (moving, music) to immediately raise emotional energy from a low vibration (like fear and uncertainty) to a higher one.
Nadia on Supporting Female Entrepreneurs. Scale Your Business - From Kitchen Table to CEO.
Season 2 · Episode 25
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 • Duration 33:57
In this episode of Mindset, Money, Success podcast, host Loraine speaks with virtual business manager (VBM), Nadia, based in Melbourne. Nadia, who started her business seven years ago, just three months after her baby was born, shares her journey from feeling "terrified" to achieving sustainable growth. She explains how she provides administrative, marketing, and operational support to growth-ready women in business, helping them transition from the kitchen table to success. Nadia sought to create a venture that allowed her the freedom and flexibility to progress her career while remaining a present mother.
Best Moments
Overcoming the Fear: Nadia reveals that she was "literally terrified" when she first launched her business. She started, creating her website on a laptop while sitting on her couch, unsure if she would secure her first client. Attending her first networking event was scary, as she had to tell the world about the business she had created.
Wearing All the Hats to CEO: Nadia emphasises the struggle entrepreneurs face juggling life, family, and business while wearing multiple hats (marketing manager, bookkeeper, customer service officer). Her service is designed to handle "all the chaos behind the scenes", enabling clients—service providers, creatives, and coaches—to move from wearing all the hats to focusing solely on the CEO role.
Global Confidence: After beginning her business journey, Nadia gained confidence as she started working with clients internationally, including those in the U.S. and Germany. This exposure and continuous learning helped her develop her business over seven years, supporting clients with streamlining their admin, marketing, and operations.
AI as a Tool for Busy Mothers: Nadia shares how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a valuable tool for efficiency, helping her get things done quicker. Specifically, she uses tools like (ChatGPT) to help plan her week and create a schedule that allows her to work around school drop-offs and pick-ups for her two boys. AI acts as a starting point, particularly when feeling stuck or lacking creativity.
Healing from Narcissistic Abuse: Rewiring the Mind and Body with Laura
Season 2 · Episode 24
Wednesday, October 29, 2025 • Duration 28:01
Loraine welcomes Laura, a Somatic Trauma Informed Coach and Narcissistic Abuse Specialist, to Mindset, Money, Success. Laura is helping women who have escaped narcissistic abusive relationships by guiding them out of anxious thought patterns and back into their bodies to process feelings, regaining control, confidence, and calmness. The episode explores the role of somatic healing in trauma recovery, the emotional energy spiral, and tools for processing difficult emotions like anger and grief. Both the host and guest share their commitment to supporting women who often lack resources after leaving abusive situations.
Laura explains that if the body has been in survival mode for extended periods, it learns to remain in a stressful state (stiff posture, shallow breathing). Healing involves telling yourself a new story (mindset) while also giving the brain safe experiences in the body (somatic work), such as slowing down shallow breathing, to rewire the brain's patterns and signal safety.
A discussion of how anger is a natural part of the grieving process when recovering from abuse. Laura provides a practical somatic exercise: pushing your hands together or pushing against a wall to release anger, allowing the body to move back into balance rather than suppressing the emotion.
Healing from narcissistic abuse is different from healing from a standard breakup. Survivors must process the deep grief of realising that the life and person they believed in were almost entirely fake. The realisation that they were in an abusive relationship often helps survivors define and process their experiences.
Laura notes that she was inspired to become a specialist because she personally lacked support when she was going through her own experience, leading to a strong urge to help other women in the same situation. Loraine echoed this sentiment, expressing awe at the support Laura provides, which she did not have when she was left in 2020.
The True Cost of Coercive Control – When Legal Systems Fuel Financial Ruin. (DVAM 2025)
Season 2 · Episode 23
Wednesday, October 22, 2025 • Duration 31:40
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and we're dedicating this episode to a critical, yet often unseen, aspect of abuse: coercive control and its devastating financial aftermath.
While the UK and Spain have introduced progressive laws—the UK's Controlling or Coercive Behaviour offence (Serious Crime Act 2015) and Spain's pioneering gender violence legislation (Law 1/2004)—recognising psychological manipulation as a severe form of abuse, the gap between the law's intent and practical use is huge.
In this episode, your host shares her five-year survivor's ordeal navigating legal intimidation and litigation abuse within the Spanish system. Exposes how an abuser's financial power and flawed judicial ruling can lead to re-victimisation and poverty, as civil property laws often override the safety and welfare mandated by gender violence legislation.
Key Takeaways
Coercive Control is a Pattern, Not an Incident: Effective prosecution requires proving a "course of conduct"—a sustained pattern of psychological and financial abuse. When the justice system reduces a long-term pattern of control to a single, minor offence, it allows the severe abuse to escape proper classification.
Financial Power Weaponises the Law: Abusers use litigation abuse (legal bullying) in civil courts to continue control post-separation. Financially powerful perpetrators can overwhelm survivors, forcing them into resource-intensive legal battles where courts prioritise property rights over the underlying context of gender violence.
The Systemic Failure to Implement Law: Both the UK and Spanish legal systems struggle with low conviction rates. This stems from a lack of in-depth professional training for police, prosecutors, and judges on coercive control theory. This failure grants abusers impunity while leaving survivors broken and often destitute.
The Necessity of Documentation: Since perpetrators often leave no physical evidence, gathering comprehensive evidence is crucial. The survivor documented their journey using emails, texts, and diary entries to highlight the gaps and failures in the system.
Change Your Energy - Change Your Life: Discover The Three Minute Energy Hacks Exercises.
Season 2 · Episode 22
Tuesday, October 14, 2025 • Duration 37:51
Welcome to another episode of Mindset Money Success. Host Loraine welcomes Dr. Cornelia Kawann, an electrical engineer turned Personal Energy Strategist.
Cornelia works to show busy women how to manage their energy—their most precious asset—instead of merely focusing on time management. They discuss the power of energy hacks, the challenges of writing a book quickly, and why addressing energetic blocks is essential for long-term success. Cornelia explains that by managing their energy, women can ensure they have the vitality needed to follow their goals, make an impact, and live the life they truly desire.
Best Moments
Science of Personal Energy: Cornelia, a scientist by background, explains she found many similarities between electric energy principles, like Ohm’s law and resistance, and personal energy, leading her to experiment and develop her energy strategies.
Rapid Writing Process: After figuring out it made sense to compile her developed exercises into one place, Cornelia completed the first draft of her book in just 16 weeks. However, she found that the editing, formatting, and publishing process took just as long, if not longer.
Overcoming Blockades: The guest highlights that long writing processes often result from "energy blockades" and limiting beliefs (like shame or fear of failure) holding authors back. She stresses the importance of looking into and removing these internal blocks to allow flow.
Heart-Brain Exercise: Cornelia shares a practical, easy energy hack for achieving an optimal state of efficiency: place your left hand on your heart and your right hand on your forehead, and state, "I bring my heart and brain into coherence now." This exercise helps synchronise the heart and brain cycles to "calibrate the system".
Healing Trauma Without Reliving It: Cornelia notes that her energy work is particularly effective for people with traumas because the method focuses on removing problematic frequencies and stored emotions without requiring the client to re-enter the difficult situation, thus avoiding re-traumatisation.
De-centre the Abuser and Reclaim Self-Love: Recovery requires understanding your codependency and recognising that seeking validation from a toxic person reflects a lack of self-love and self-worth. You must de-centre the narcissist and the relationship story to go on a deep journey of reclamation, which often involves reviewing childhood patterns and behaviours.
Implement the 360 Approach for Complex Trauma: When dealing with complex trauma (CPTSD), a self-help strategy should address the mind, body, and soul. For the soul, focus on raising your frequency through faith, prayer, cord cutting, or walking in nature. For the body, prioritise nervous system safety through somatic exercises, yoga, breathwork, and nourishing food.
Listen to Your Intuition: Your intuition is activated when you start spotting the abuser's patterns of behaviour. When you find yourself having the same conversation multiple times or noticing flare-ups around certain times, this may lead to the realisation: "maybe it's not all me," which is a powerful starting point for moving forward.
2. In a rant about modern consumer culture, Rob Moore highlighted the absurdity of spending £55 on a trendy water bottle when the same money could purchase a one-ounce silver coin, which is a real, tangible asset that stores value. This powerfully symbolises society's broken financial priorities.
3. This insight captures the power shift when dealing with high-level finance and leverage: "If you borrow a million pounds from the bank, you have a problem. If you borrow 100 million from the bank, they have the problem".
4. Blueprint for Your First £10,000. Rob Moore provides a simple, diversified plan for asset growth: 40% into the stock market (e.g., Vanguard Life Strategy Fund), 30% in physical gold, 20% in physical silver, and 10% in calculated high-risk crypto (e.g., 80% Bitcoin, 20% Ethereum). This strategy hedges against economic uncertainty while investing in long-term growth.
• Embrace Immediate Action: Apply the principle that "money loves speed" by taking immediate, decisive action on your ideas instead of waiting for the "perfect" moment.
• Tap into the Diverse Ecosystem: Don't focus solely on VC; instead, tap into the rich ecosystem of grants and supportive organisations like IFundWomen, Female Founders Rise, Ladies Who Launch, and the Tory Burch Foundation.
• Take One Concrete Step Today: The only wrong choice is inaction. Your homework is to take immediate action, such as filling out the IFundWomen Universal Application or exploring the Tory Burch Funding Finder to give your dream the momentum it deserves.
Mindset Requires Clearing Blocks: While repetition of education and motivational content (like Jim Rohn's tapes) is helpful, true, rapid transformation requires clearing the deep, unconscious beliefs that prevent affirmations from becoming reality.
Holistic Work for Lifestyle Change: Mindset work is a lifestyle choice; it is not achieved through a single session. It involves working with your mind, body, and heart (and soul) simultaneously, much like losing weight requires diet, exercise, and mental pre-planning.
Nervous System Regulation is Core: Nervous system regulation is "absolutely core for everyone". Carolyn recommends breathwork and EFT tapping to intentionally regulate the nervous system, especially since dysregulation sends internal signals of instability and unsafety.
Achieving success by shifting your mindset is like being a skilled gardener: affirmations are the seeds you plant every day, but unless you consistently clear the deep, unconscious weeds (the negative beliefs and unregulated nervous system), those seeds struggle to fully blossom.
1. Success does not come from focusing on a single modality (like pure business strategy or just spiritual manifesting). Money, success, and personal development are closely linked and require a balanced approach across all elements.
2. Not everyone is out of balance in the same place. People tend to over-give in one element and ignore another they dislike; focusing on that neglected element can make a massive difference to overall alignment.
3. If you lack belief in what you are doing, you won't succeed. Belief in yourself, self-worth, and passion provide the energy and motivation needed to create something meaningful, which is represented by the Fire element.
4. Marie is releasing four micro-journeys (10-minute hypnotherapy sessions) targeted at specific element imbalances.
Fire: Deals with imposter syndrome and self-confidence.
Earth: Addresses overwhelm and procrastination.
Air: Focuses on opening to clarity and putting oneself out there.
Mindset and Belief are Key: Having a strong, positive mindset and believing in yourself and your vision are essential to overcoming fears and achieving goals. Nadia noted that her passion and strong urge for freedom needed to be stronger than her fear.
Positive Network: It is crucial to surround yourself with positive people who encourage you and share similar goals. If you aim for a six-figure business, you need to surround yourself with six-figure business owners. Negative people can drag you down and make the task seem impossible. Networking is a huge step when starting out.
Sustainable Growth: Entrepreneurial women often get stuck at a certain level because they are too involved in the day-to-day running of the business and have not learned to delegate. Outsourcing processes, such as hiring a VBM, simplifies operations, reduces overwhelm, and provides the necessary time to focus on marketing and growth.
Monetisation Block: The transition from employee (who expects money at the end of the week) to entrepreneur (who must work long periods before income is generated) is challenging. Many women face a block regarding sales and monetising their services, sometimes opting for free coaching sessions instead. Reading books on mindset can help address these blocks.
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For recovery, it is essential to focus on both the mind (therapy, education, journaling) and the body (somatic work, breath-work ). Somatic coaching teaches skills to regulate emotions that can be applied to future life challenges.
Narcissistic abuse erodes self-esteem, impacts the emotional vibration, potentially leading to the "no will to live" stage. Tools to release anger, learning new skills, truth-telling, or engaging in free activities like singing, dancing, or listening to music can help.
Abuse often involves gaslighting and silent treatment that are hard to spot until after the fact. Abuse often results in isolation, loss of community and family connections, and financial devastation due to the abuser's entrapping and sabotaging the victim's opportunities.
Various physical activities can aid healing, weights to rebuild strength, or simply moving your body by dancing to loud music. For deep emotional processing, survivors can practice mindfulness (e.g., while brushing teeth).
Connect for Support: Finding other people in various healing stages and sharing stories is incredibly validating and helps survivors realise they are not alone and that their situation won't define them moving forward.
"The UK law was introduced to fill a *gap in the legal system**. Campaigners... argued that [traditional laws] failed to capture the insidious, sustained pattern of non-physical abuse that defines coercive control."
"My experience highlights the gap between the law’s intent and its real-world impact. While the law itself was a huge step, its practical implementation has faced significant challenges."
"The legal system (particularly the civil courts) often defaults to traditional interpretations of property rights and financial contracts over the survivor’s welfare and safety mandated by the 2004 law."
"For the survivor, the process itself... becomes a devastating act of state-sanctioned re-victimisation."
Energy Management: If you feel miserable, focusing solely on time management is ineffective. Energy is your most precious asset, and managing it ensures you have the power to live the life you want.
Root Cause: Affirmations and positive beliefs can raise frequency, but they often act as a "band aid" over underlying limiting beliefs. For a sustainable shift, it is necessary to identify the root cause of the problem—which manifests as a low frequency—and remove it from your energy system.
Internal Blockages: If things are not working out as expected in life or business (such as publishing delays), it's important to look inward and address internal fears or energies that may be preventing progress.
