• M.E.A.N. Workbook
  • Podcast
  • Healing for Emotional Abusers
  • Quick Lessons
  • Resources
  • More
    • About Me and The Show
    • Contact
    • Newsletter - keep in touch!
    • For Anxiety
    • The Overwhelmed Brain Podcast
  • Cookie Policy (EU)
    • M.E.A.N. Workbook
    • Podcast
    • Healing for Emotional Abusers
    • Quick Lessons
    • Resources
    • More
      • About Me and The Show
      • Contact
      • Newsletter - keep in touch!
      • For Anxiety
      • The Overwhelmed Brain Podcast
    • Cookie Policy (EU)
Love and Abuse - Manipulation and Emotional Abuse in Relationships
Love and Abuse - Manipulation and Emotional Abuse in Relationships
  • M.E.A.N. Workbook
  • Podcast
  • Healing for Emotional Abusers
  • Quick Lessons
  • Resources
  • More
    • About Me and The Show
    • Contact
    • Newsletter - keep in touch!
    • For Anxiety
    • The Overwhelmed Brain Podcast
  • Cookie Policy (EU)
Purchase

Manipulation

Religious Abuse: When they use your beliefs and faith against you

  • March 31, 2023
  • Control, Crazymaking, Emotional Abuse, Manipulation, Podcast Episode, Relationships, Religious Abuse, Shame
Your religious or spiritual beliefs are supposed to help uplift and inspire you, not make you feel oppressed and exhausted. Religious abuse happens when people who claim to love...
Continue Reading

The battles that drain your power

  • December 23, 2022
  • Arguments, Control, Divorce, Emotional Abuse, Gaslighting, Manipulation, Podcast Episode, Relationships
The emotionally abusive relationship can be a battle. In fact, it can be a series of battles that wear you down and eventually wear you out. But at what...
Continue Reading

What will it take to finally get them to stop?

  • December 7, 2022
  • Control, Divorce, Emotional Abuse, Enabling, Manipulation, Podcast Episode, Relationships
The person that hurts the one they love can do the behavior indefinitely unless someone is there to stop it. Usually, that someone has to be you. Stopping it...
Continue Reading

Can depression be used for manipulation?

  • April 20, 2022
  • Codependency, Control, Emotional Abuse, Enabling, Guilt, Manipulation, Podcast Episode, Relationships
There can be some good excuses for hurtful behavior. With some excuses, it can be hard to differentiate between fact and fiction.  When someone uses their condition or illness...
Continue Reading

When your friends and family get convinced that you're the hurtful one

  • December 25, 2021
  • Control, Emotional Abuse, Family, Gaslighting, Manipulation, Narcissism, Podcast Episode, Relationships
It’s hard enough dealing with a hurtful person. You know they are going to show up in a certain way almost every time, so you get used to it....
Continue Reading

Is telling them you're leaving better than just leaving?

  • December 1, 2021
  • Arguments, Divorce, Emotional Abuse, Manipulation, Podcast Episode, Relationships
What’s the best course of action when it comes to leaving the emotional abuser? Should you sit them down and have the “the talk”? Or is talking going to...
Continue Reading

The type of person that doesn't deserve a second chance

  • October 22, 2021
  • Boundaries, Control, Emotional Abuse, Manipulation, Physical Abuse, Podcast Episode, Relationships, self-esteem, self-worth
How bad does it have to get before you’re convinced that the person you’re dealing with is never, ever going to change? And how much more hurtful behavior has...
Continue Reading

Who are you when you're not in a toxic relationship?

  • July 30, 2021
  • Codependency, Emotional Abuse, Guilt, Manipulation, Narcissism, Podcast Episode, Relationships, self-esteem, self-worth
Every wonderful aspect of you can diminish when you are with a toxic person. They find ways to convince you that you are unworthy and unlovable so that you...
Continue Reading

Is there an easy way to help someone understand they are being emotionally abusive?

  • July 11, 2021
  • Boundaries, Control, Emotional Abuse, Manipulation, Podcast Episode, Relationships
If you told a “normal” person they were being emotionally abusive, you’d think they’d back off and re-evaluate their behavior. After all, people who care about you don’t want...
Continue Reading

Some people would rather hurt you than be vulnerable with you

  • July 11, 2021
  • Boundaries, Control, Emotional Abuse, lying, Manipulation, Podcast Episode, Relationships
Some people become highly defensive or offensive when they want to hide something from you, or lie to you, or don’t want to be vulnerable with you, because it’s...
Continue Reading

Posts pagination

Previous 1 2 3 4 … 8 Next
Purchase Workbook
Healed Being Website
Love and Abuse

Click here to return to Love and Abuse

The M.E.A.N. Workbook is brought to you by The Overwhelmed Brain, LLC, copyright 2019-2025. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy - Anti-Spam Policy - Affiliate DisclosureThis site assumes no responsibility for any errors or omissions. The Overwhelmed Brain specifically disclaims any liability resulting from the use or application of the information contained in the blog, podcast, services, books, and products, and the information is not intended to serve as medical, psychological, legal, financial, or other professional advice related to individual situations. Do not use the information found on this site, podcasts, services, books, or products to replace professional medical or psychological services.

Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
  • Manage options
  • Manage services
  • Manage {vendor_count} vendors
  • Read more about these purposes
View preferences
  • {title}
  • {title}
  • {title}