Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Diana brought up something so helpful when it comes to gossip and false narratives:
Taking your power back doesn’t mean gossip stops hurting. But it does mean the sting doesn’t last as long.
Because once you remember that what they’re saying doesn’t make it true,
you stay grounded. You recover faster. You stop handing your worth over to other people’s projections.
They’re doing them. And you? You get to keep doing you.
Want to watch the rest of today's episode of the Divorced Christian Woman Podcast? Head over to youtu.be/6dVMT4ngMoc
#flyingfreepodcast #emotionalabuse #gossip #boundaries #powerback #spiritualabuse #healingjourney #christianwomen #deconstruction
Diana brought up something so helpful when it comes to gossip and false narratives:
Taking your power back doesn’t mean gossip stops hurting. But it does mean the sting doesn’t last as long.
Because once you remember that what they’re saying doesn’t make it true,
you stay grounded. You recover faster. You stop handing your worth over to other people’s projections.
They’re doing them. And you? You get to keep doing you.
Want to watch the rest of today's episode of the Divorced Christian Woman Podcast? Head over to youtu.be/6dVMT4ngMoc
#flyingfreepodcast #emotionalabuse #gossip #boundaries #powerback #spiritualabuse #healingjourney #christianwomen #deconstruction
![Whats Gaslighting? How to Spot the Subtle Signs Youre Being Manipulated Part One [382]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iIOAThqCzYk/mqdefault.jpg "Whats Gaslighting? How to Spot the Subtle Signs Youre Being Manipulated Part One [382]
Today we’ll talk about one of the most disorienting experiences Christian women in emotionally abusive marriages face: gaslighting.
But we aren’t going to just define what gaslighting is. I’m going to break it down into all the tiny parts and give you some specific stories so you can see exactly what’s going on and WHY.
You’ll learn three specific tactics gaslighters use, why they use them, and what you can do to stay grounded in your own reality when someone is working hard to pull you out of it.
Key Takeaways:
- Why someone can sound completely loving and caring while actually doing something deeply harmful to you
- The hidden reason your concerns keep disappearing from conversations before they ever get resolved
- What a joke has to do with control, and why your bodys reaction is not a character flaw
- The psychological mechanism you share with a slot machine, and what its actually costing you
- The one shift that strips a gaslighting tactic of all its power, without you having to win a single argument
Get Today’s Free Resource:
🧐 Are you wondering what is happening inside your own painful and confusing marriage? I wrote a book just for you called Is It Me? Making Sense of Your Confusing Marriage. Get a free chapter by going to isitmebook.com
I will also send you my weekly Hope Letters for Christian women in emotionally and spiritually abusive marriages.")
![Breaking the Cycle of Fear, Obligation, and Guilt: Gwendoline’s Story [354]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iP8xmt0dHbw/mqdefault.jpg "Breaking the Cycle of Fear, Obligation, and Guilt: Gwendoline’s Story [354]
What if the very things that make you kind, loyal, and generous are the same things that keep you stuck in a destructive marriage?
In this episode, I sit down with Gwendoline, one of our longtime Flying Free and Flying Higher members, to unpack her raw and powerful story of waking up, breaking free, and rebuilding her life from the inside out.
⚡ We’re talking emotional abuse, spiritual gaslighting, the lie that “love is enough,” and how hope can sometimes keep you trapped.
This isn’t just a story. It’s a survival guide for any woman who feels stuck, scared, and soul-tired, but still secretly wonders if she’s crazy.
💥 Key Takeaways:
- Fights that feel like warfare? 🚩 That’s not love.
- FOG = Fear, Obligation, Guilt = The trap that keeps you stuck.
- Your body will tell you the truth, even if your brain is in denial.
- Leaving while still loving him isn’t a contradiction—it’s wisdom.
- You are the rescuer you’ve been waiting for (with God as your co-pilot).
Get a FREE chapter of Is It ME? Making Sense of Your Confusing Marriage, along with the companion workbook for that chapter, by going to flyingfreenow.com. Ill also send you the Freedom Letters. (Also free. 😉 )
Related Resources:
🎙️ Check out related Flying Free Podcast episodes: “Out of the Poisoned Pond: Jennie’s Story” (https://www.flyingfreenow.com/343-2/) and “Military Marriage Abuse: Elizabeth’s Story” (https://www.flyingfreenow.com/336-2/).
📒 Read the full show notes at https://www.flyingfreenow.com/354
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