This week, we’re talking about what happens when choosing yourself feels like betrayal, especially when you’ve been raised to equate love with loyalty, and loyalty with obedience.

Whether you're trying to navigate guilt, set boundaries, or claim your voice, this episode reminds you: you don’t have to choose between love and self-respect.

And as always, daughters, you don’t have to manage any of this alone.|

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Simple Scripts for Saying Hard Things

What happens when you find out the story your mother told you about your life… wasn’t true?

Today we’re talking to about:

• How gaslighting from a parent distorts a child’s reality

• What betrayal trauma feels like when the gaslighter is your mother

• Why self-trust gets severed after emotional manipulation and medical abuse

• How trauma teaches you not to believe yourself

• The grief, rage, and confusion that surface when you start to see clearly

• Gentle, actionable steps to start rebuilding your sense of self and truth
  

  Whether your mother lied outright, withheld the truth, or used concern as a disguise for control, this episode will help you name what happened and take the first steps toward reclaiming your life.

You’ll learn:

• How to recognize the subtle forms of gaslighting in families

• What it means to anchor in the present when the past feels blurry

• How to begin healing identity confusion and chronic self-doubt

• Questions that gently guide you back to your own knowing

This episode is for you if:

• You were made to feel like you were the problem

• You’re struggling to trust yourself or your memories

• You’re tired of shrinking, performing, or questioning everything you feel

• You want to start healing from emotional abuse, parental control, and betrayal

Resources Mentioned:

• Join the Mayhem Daughters Community : A therapeutic space for daughters of narcissistic and emotionally limited mothers.

• Tuesday & Thursday Support Groups — Live peer support groups with Heather

  Simple Scripts for Saying Hard Things

A hundred conversations. A hundred chances to tell the truth. A hundred reminders that healing is possible—even when it’s messy, slow, and still unfinished.

In this episode, we’re not breaking anything down. We’re building something up. Together.

You’ll hear two powerful stories from daughters who’ve done the hard work of healing, of making peace with who they were, so they could become who they are.

These aren’t just feel-good stories. They’re proof. That the work works. That you're not alone. That your story matters.

Whether you’ve been here since Episode 1 or just found your way in, this one is for you.

For every daughter who’s listened quietly. For every daughter who’s whispered, “me too.” For every daughter building a life by her own design. Thank you.

Here’s to the next hundred.

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