Reviews

I really don’t think I have the energy to go too far back at this time. It makes me so sad and angry to look back on our long marriage and identify every micro-aggression my husband used to rip me and my two kids away from my family & my support in Texas. This was 4 years into our marriage and my second child was only 6 months old. We never spoke about moving away. Ever. I resisted moving anywhere for so long until he came home and announced that he had been offered a good job, a General Manager, in Chicago!! I hindsight, I feel so naive & stupid!! We moved to Chicago and I decided to make the best of our life and marriage and accept that I would take care of the kids and let him do what he needed to in his career. We always had joint accounts but we had little in them because the house we sold in Texas to a buyer NEVER made a mortgage payment!! The bank for closed in our house!! From Chicago, we moved to Toronto, & 4 years later and 2 more kids, we went to Kansas City, MO for 5 years. I can’t continue now but fast forward 21 years and he symphoned all our retirement and our house, the childrens life insurance policies from us all for his business. I have forged signatures and all of the fraud he committed up until the time I confronted him in 2016! Not feeling that he owed me anything, he leaves me and divorces me! In the meantime, I was left alone as a basket case unable to function & he took control of the narrative with my grown children and his family!! That was seven years ago and I am alone in a crummy apartment and out of a job again because I never was able to go to school for a degree. I am almost 60 years old & though I have healed significantly over the last few years, I find myself questioning what is the point of living when I don’t know if I’ll be homeless at anytime. I have a deep faith and I wouldn’t be here without God’s grace but I am so tied & lonely. Thank you, Erica, for writing your book!! God Bless you and your family!! I wish I could have had this information when I realized the monster I married!!

It's so incredibly helpful to hear in the victim's own voice. So much clarity hearing such obviously blatant abuse to other women, and how hard they worked and how deeply they loved. It's all so clear when it's happening to someone else.

Thank you. This podcast has been the main player in my ongoing understanding and recovery of toxic narcissism. Listening to the weekly stories has helped me process my pain. Stories can be triggering but ultimately the buried emotions I feel are released and overtime I've become freer of the shame I once felt. Listening each week, I’m reassured I’m not alone. (Would like to add, the British royal brother story has helped play a part in reducing my shame - again I feel I’m not alone. Is toxic narcissism a main cause of the rift between the princes? Is this something that could be explored on your show if you, or any of your professional contributors, agree?) Again, many thanks for your shows.

I appreciate all of you sharing your stories. Thanks Brandon for this show. This is an important podcast and if I had known all this years before I met my abuser I would have known to get away much quicker than I did.

This podcast taught me too much to describe in this review, but the bottom line is that it made me see two Life-changing facts: 1. I’m not crazy or alone, and 2., that I needed to seek professional help. Thank you SO much, Brandon. Thank you.

This podcast has helped me immensely. Hearing people's stories has validated everything i've gone through. A true life saver and I can't thank every guest enough.

This podcast is a gamechanger. You will find yourself not doubting if you made the right decision in your own tale. For survivors sharing theirs here will resonate in a way like none other. This podcast has taught me so so so much in such a little time. I keep it playing and I don’t feel so alone or isolated. It’s real. It’s raw. Unfiltered. Yet professional and personal. Educational and equipping. Bravo, Brandon! Thanks for doing work that matters. Life-changing. This community is that…it’s hardly “just” a podcast. It’s a lifeline. I’m so grateful.

My friend recommended that I listen to this show and it's changed my life. A lot of tears but good ones. I'm grieving, but i'm also healing. One day I hope to be a guest myself. The best.

I think I've listened to every episode twice. I go back to it every time I need to know that I wasn't crazy. These things happened to me too.

Thanks so much for your podcast. It is healing and validating listening to peoples stories. It has given me strength to move on from a toxic relationship. Thank you ❤️❤️❤️

I am so grateful this podcast exists. It was a very important reminder of how bad things can get when I was in an addictive cycle with a toxic relationship. It helped ground me when I felt that confusing disorientation of manipulation, and it helped me get out and stay out even when I felt weak. Thanks for all that you do Chad!

I'm so thankful for this show, the courage of the survivors that share, for Chad's hardwork and dedication and passion to keep this platform available! I have learned so much, ways to identify and understand what I have been through with my mother and how that has led me into abusive relationships. I just cant express how much I have learned and grown, thank you!

This podcast has helped me more than therapy!

Lemon’s story was utterly heartbreaking and I’m so glad she now sees the gaslighting. Thank you for sharing your story, Lemon. You’re an inspiration to me

Been listening to this show and participating in the group for a couple years now. It’s a great community, but the show itself is just so solid. I love the interviewer’s thoughtful questions and the variety in stories. Very healing. Not blown up and pathologizing of abusers or victims, just feels real.

I have listened to several podcasts about narcissism, as I try to learn about it and while I have learned a lot from several of them out there- this one is the best, in my opinion. I appreciate the stories that the guests share, as I always learn something, despite how sad it is to hear the terrible things people go through when dealing with a narcissist. The show is really valuable and I appreciate the time and energy that is put into it.

I’m super obsessed with this podcast! Brandon your an excellent interviewer. Listening to this podcast has helped me heal from my narc husband more than you’ll ever know. Thank you for doing what you do! Please don’t ever stop podcasting!

I’ve been struggling to understand why I’ve always felt so upset and traumatized by the narc in my life. When I try to tell people about the situation, it doesn’t make much sense. I feel like I’ve found my people! As I listen to this podcast, I feel myself nodding and agreeing, or swearing right out loud! I cringe sometimes as I can sense what’s going to happen next. I really love this show and have been binge listening to it. This show reminds me not to get sucked in again by the “good times”.

Listening to the story told by Meredith. It feels like a fabrication. Other than this, I am so thankful you are creating a platform for survivors to share their stories and designing community-based support systems :)

Brandon provides a marvellous platform on this essential topic. Thank you to the guests for their integrity and courage. It is validating and 100% healing.

Very excited you have this show based on coming to terms with my own situation. Thanks so much <3 In 1st Heard Depp podcast, was disappointed that there were no concrete takeaways except fo to the website. You were clear on importance of minimizing bias, but your guest doesn’t seem to see the forest through the trees. 10k foot view is good but 10 ft view can be just as illuminating. Mostly, I felt very insulted during that episode based on huge, unsupported assumptions. Many concluded Depp is the victim, but anger at Heard stems from a number of lies and perpetrating harm similar to patterns exhibited in her other close relationships. Everyone has right to own opinion, but it was offensive to describe those disagreeing as simple minded “fans,” who don’t do any research, succumb to any insuation on the most toxic social media sites, and then waste valuable time viciously attacking Heard for her abhorrent behavior. Many of us are professionals, with 4 yr and graduate degrees, or are thoughtful and critically minded, drawing from our own and our peers’ experiences of abuse. I constantly hear from others that they spent time watching the entire trial, reviewing court documents, seeking out legal, psychology, & DEI expert input and read about resources and scientific publications (in high impact journals…where you can learn the actual stats) vs. a community expert with narrow POV offering vague, elusive, and repetitive responses like we need to learn the dynamics of DV without ever defining or exemplifying what she means by dynamics to which we are all ignorant. Most of us are not mindless lemmings and have never opened a tik-tok or twitter acct because we get that these are not forums for education and empowerment. The idea that people are so easily manipulated by social media is based on anecdotes and rhetoric-even latest report was very light qualitative analysis highly prone to bias. I would like to think we learn from our situations, developing confidence and resilience that attunes us to signals of untrustworthiness. We are NOT moronic or lazy, and as your audience for this episode, would appreciate treating listeners and the host with more respect, especially in terms of what YOU think we are able to understand and what we are capable of handling.

i found your videos on tik tok, i have to say i really enjoy what you have to say. you’ve definitely opened my eyes on a lot i wasn’t aware of. thank you, i’ve learned a lot about my self, my environment and the things i have control over.

This is my favorite podcast on this topic. And I listen to many!! Chad is an amazing host. He gives people a platform to tell their personal experience with narcissistic abuse. It is very real and not scripted like other shows. Listening to other people’s stories has helped me tremendously.

If you have been traumatized by a negative experience with police, I highly suggest SKIPPING the episode on 6/2/2022 as the guest explicitly states that victims that call police on their abusers should “just comply” with the responding cop. Wish she could have understood that that is backhanded victim blaming.