The Mental Healness Podcast

If you could ask a diagnosed narcissist ANYTHING, what would it be? well you have your chance, join the live and get your questions answered.Book a Coaching Session- https://link.me/mentalhealness

In this Mental Healness Podcast interview, Manda shares her survivor journey from childhood trauma, addiction, abusive relationships, family scapegoating, and parental alienation to healing, faith, and rebuilding her life. She discusses getting sober, escaping coercive control, navigating complex PTSD, reconnecting with her identity, and learning that she was never the problem people told her she was. This conversation explores trauma bonds, emotional abuse, recovery, survival, boundaries, and what it means to choose yourself after years of chaos. Manda’s message is for anyone who feels trapped, forgotten, or convinced they cannot start over: strength can still be there, even wh...

She Had a Baby With a Narcissist Because She Thought It Would Make Him Love Her More and change his ways towards her. Big Big mistake because having babies DO NOT change people. They tend to make things worse. This man thought he was going to be happy with a side chick the side chick didn't even like him lol. Book a Coaching Session: [⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://link.me/mentalhealness⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠]🔥 My Books: [⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://a.co/d/2WNtdKJ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠]🎙 Listen to the Mental Healness Podcast: [⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://youtube.com/@mentalhealnesspodcast?si=AVcJfHa16HZReqHL⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠]

What do you do when you start missing your narcissistic ex, even after everything they put you through? In this video, Lee Hammock explains why it is normal to miss someone who hurt you and why that feeling does not mean you should break no contact. Learn practical ways to process the urge to call, text, check their social media, or pain shop, including writing down the truth, creating a video diary, and using voice notes. Missing them is a feeling not a sign that they deserve another chance. You can miss them and still choose yourself<...

What is narcissistic abuse, and how can you recognize it in a relationship, family, friendship, or workplace? In this video, Lee Hammock explains common patterns associated with narcissistic abuse, including love bombing, gaslighting, manipulation, blame shifting, control, isolation, devaluation, and emotional abuse. You will also learn why this pattern can leave people confused, anxious, disconnected from themselves, and questioning their own reality. Narcissistic abuse is not a formal clinical diagnosis, and not every harmful person has narcissistic personality disorder, but repeated abusive behavior still deserves to be taken seriously. If you recognize these patterns and feel unsafe, prioritize support...

How do you respond to a narcissist or toxic ex when you have to communicate with them? In this video, Lee Hammock explains how to filter hostile emails and text messages, identify important coparenting information, and avoid getting pulled into long emotional arguments. Learn why short, bland, factual responses can protect your peace and reduce opportunities for manipulation. Lee also shares ways to use AI, skimming, or a trusted third party to identify essential details without absorbing every insult. This is for people who must stay in contact because of children, work, business, or other shared responsibilities.<...

In this Mental Healness Podcast interview, Jacqueline shares her survivor story of marrying the same narcissistic husband twice. After enduring cheating, manipulation, emotional abuse, financial control, isolation, and repeated breakups in her first marriage, she spent years away working on herself before he reentered her life. She explains why she believed he had changed, what happened after they remarried, and how her body began recognizing the danger before her mind fully accepted it. Lee Hammock and Jacqueline discuss trauma bonds, hoovering, love bombing, control, healing, trusting your instincts, and preparing to leave a toxic relationship. This conversation is for...

Why do abusive people suddenly break up with you, discard you, or move on as if you never mattered? In this video, Lee Hammock explains how a toxic or narcissistic person may leave when they are losing control, being held accountable, facing consequences, or seeking new validation. The discard can be used to punish you, create confusion, provoke you into chasing them, or make them feel powerful again. Their decision to leave does not erase the abuse or prove you were not enough. Learn how to stop chasing closure from someone who may use the breakup itself as another...

Join Lee Hammock, a clinically diagnosed narcissist known as Mental Healness, for a live open question and answer session about narcissism, toxic relationships, narcissistic abuse, healing, boundaries, cheating, no contact, and recovery. Bring your questions about the behaviors you have experienced or the patterns you are trying to understand. This live is designed to offer insight, validation, and practical perspectives, not to diagnose anyone you know. Please keep the chat respectful and avoid sharing private identifying details. Subscribe and turn on notifications for more conversations about healing from toxic relationships.https://link.me/mentalhealness <...

What happens when an abusive or toxic person realizes you are leaving for good? In this live discussion, Lee Hammock talks about common reactions such as love bombing, guilt trips, promises to change, anger, blame shifting, smear campaigns, threats, and attempts to regain control. Not every person will react in the same way, but changes in behavior and escalation should be taken seriously. If you are planning to leave and feel unsafe, consider creating a safety plan, documenting concerning behavior where safe to do so, and reaching out to trusted local resources. You deserve safety, support, and the freedom...

Why do narcissists struggle to compliment the people closest to them? In this video, Lee Hammock explains how withholding praise, affection, and validation can become part of a toxic relationship dynamic. A narcissistic person may minimize your accomplishments, criticize you after a compliment, praise strangers while ignoring you, or make you feel like you must earn basic kindness. Learn why their lack of affirmation is not proof that you are unattractive, unsuccessful, or unworthy. Recognizing this pattern can help you stop chasing validation from someone committed to withholding it.Book a Coaching Session: [⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://link.me/mentalhealness⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠]🔥 <...

Why does a narcissist claim they do not remember the things they said or did to hurt you? In this video, Lee Hammock explains how narcissistic people may use selective memory, denial, minimization, blame shifting, and revisionist history to avoid accountability. This is not always genuine forgetfulness it can be part of a larger pattern that makes you doubt your own memories and feelings. Learn why arguing for an admission often keeps you stuck and how to focus on the pattern instead of chasing validation. Their refusal to acknowledge the harm does not erase what happened to you.<...

Why do narcissists need you to depend on them? In this video, Lee Hammock explains how a narcissistic or controlling person may fear being replaceable and try to create emotional, financial, sexual, or practical dependence. Learn why withholding affection, delaying support, rushing commitment, controlling choices, and creating obstacles can make someone feel powerful or needed. This pattern is not love or partnership. It is often about control, validation, and making it harder for you to walk away. Understanding the pattern can help you rebuild independence and protect your peace.

Can everyone in a family be a narcissist or deeply toxic? In this video, Lee Hammock explains how harmful family systems can operate through loyalty, secrecy, isolation, enmeshment, blame, and pressure to protect the family’s image. Learn why someone who marries into the family may slowly be pulled into its rules, why relatives may turn against you after a breakup, and why leaving can feel like divorcing an entire system. This discussion also covers toxic family enablers, family scapegoating, and the importance of recognizing patterns before they destroy your peace. Healing may require boundaries with more than one pe...

Why do some people keep choosing toxic, narcissistic, or emotionally unavailable partners? In this video, Lee Hammock explains how childhood patterns, trauma bonds, familiar dysfunction, love bombing, low self trust, and the hope of finally being chosen can shape relationship choices. You may not be attracted to pain itself, but you might be drawn to a dynamic that feels familiar or that promises validation. Learn how to recognize these patterns, rebuild your standards, and choose relationships that feel safe instead of chaotic. Healing is not about blaming yourself for the past; it is about giving yourself better options moving...

Why do abusive people hurt you on purpose, then blame you for the pain they caused? In this video, Lee Hammock explains how control, punishment, shame, resentment, emotional immaturity, and the need to feel powerful can drive intentional cruelty in toxic relationships. Learn why an abuser may target your insecurities, dismiss your feelings, provoke reactions, or hurt you right when you need support. Their behavior is not proof that you are unlovable or that you caused the abuse. Understanding the pattern can help you stop internalizing their choices and protect your peace.Book a...

What happens when you go no contact with a narcissist or toxic ex? In this video, Lee Hammock explains why no contact is a boundary for healing rather than a way to punish someone. Learn about common reactions including denial, anger, accusations, love bombing, hoovering, and panic when they realize they no longer have access to you. Lee also explains why breaking no contact can restart the cycle and make it harder to heal. If unwanted contact escalates into stalking, harassment, or threats, prioritize your safety and seek local support.Book a Coaching Session: [⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://link.me/mentalhealness⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

In this powerful episode of The Mental Healness Podcast, domestic violence survivor and advocate Jennie Gage shares how she escaped a 24-year abusive marriage and rebuilt her life from the ground up. Jennie discusses financial abuse, post-separation violence, religious trauma, a hidden double life, infidelity, trauma bonds, and the difficult reality of starting over with children after divorce. She also explains how therapy, education, community, and small acts of independence helped her move from survival mode to a safer and more fulfilling life. This conversation includes discussion of domestic violence, infidelity, and coercive control. <...

Hayden Panettiere’s story has renewed difficult conversations about domestic abuse, toxic relationship cycles, family estrangement, and the complicated reasons people stay connected to harmful people. In this video, Lee Hammock discusses documented reports about Panettiere’s on-and-off relationship with Brian Hickerson, who pleaded no contest in 2021 to two felony counts involving corporal injury to a spouse or cohabitant, as well as the public estrangement between Panettiere and her mother, Lesley Vogel. This is not a claim that either person caused Panettiere’s death, which remains under investigation. Instead, it is a conversation about recognizing toxic patterns, protecting yourself, and ex...

Why do people break no contact with a narcissist or toxic ex? In this live call-in conversation, five survivors of narcissistic abuse share the real reasons they went back, including love, hope, trauma bonds, co-parenting, guilt, promises of change, stalking, and the need for validation. Lee Hammock responds to each story with practical insight on no contact, hoovering, smear campaigns, safety, and protecting your peace. If you have broken no contact before, this conversation is a reminder that healing is not linear and you are not alone. If someone is threatening, stalking, or escalating their behavior...