The Narcissist's Worst Nightmare
For every woman who’s been love-bombed, gaslit, and manipulated — this is where you’re called to rise.
Hosted by Abuse Recovery Coach Meaghan Webster, this show is where truth meets transformation.
No fluff. No fear. Just raw honesty, real stories, and relentless hope.
You’ll get the tools, strategy, and soul work to learn how to set yourself free, break the trauma bond, rebuild a life you love, and become the version of you a narcissist could never touch.
It’s not just about leaving — it’s about becoming the woman who never goes back.
Tune in for tough love, deep healing, community, and a comeback story worth telling.
Episodes
51 episodes
Why Being Supported Feels Exposing After Narcissistic Abuse
After narcissistic abuse, support does not register as relief. It registers as risk. In this episode, Meaghan Webster explains why kindness can feel suspicious, why independence became a survival adaptation instead of a value, and w...
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Episode 48
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11:01
Why Being “Understood” Is Not the Same as Being Desired
Being emotionally understood can feel intimate, but it is not the same as being desired. In this episode, we break down why empathy does not equal attraction, how constant emotional processing neutralizes polarity, and why so many women conf...
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Episode 47
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10:08
Why You Miss Them Even When You Don’t Want Them Back
Missing someone after abuse does not mean you want the relationship again. It means your nervous system is still releasing attachment residue from a trauma bond that paired connection with distress and relief. Longing can surface without rom...
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Episode 46
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14:52
Why You Don’t Tell New Partners About Your Trauma
Trauma disclosure is not intimacy. It’s information. And information creates leverage. In this episode, Meaghan breaks down why sharing your trauma too early in dating isn’t honesty or healing - it’s a nervous system bid for safety that quietly...
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Episode 45
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15:52
When You Finally Speak About Emotional Abuse & No One Believes You
This episode breaks down why emotional abuse being dismissed hurts so deeply and why it can feel more destabilizing than the abuse itself. Meaghan shares about self-doubt, nervous system fallout, and why it’s not your job ...
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Episode 44
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14:49
Dating and Love is Easy with the Right Person & Here’s Why You Don’t Have That Yet
Love is not hard because you are complicated or asking for too much. It feels hard because you are dating from a nervous system that equates effort with value and chaos with depth. This episode breaks down why ease feels s...
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Episode 43
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14:42
The Shame of Still Being Affected After Abuse
Feeling ashamed that abuse still affects you does not mean you’re weak. It means your nervous system was trained under control. This episode explains why shame shows up after safety, how abuse distorts emotional timelines,...
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Episode 42
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13:53
How to Stop Falling for Potential, and Start Watching What He Repeats
Falling for potential isn’t romantic...It’s fantasy replacing evidence. This episode breaks down why words feel intoxicating, why consistency can feel uncomfortable at first, and how real attraction forms through repetition, no...
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Episode 41
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12:25
Why Decisions Feel So Heavy After Abuse
Making decisions after abuse can feel overwhelming, even when the choices are small. This episode explains why control and coercion disrupt decisiveness long after the relationship ends.Learn how abuse trains self doubt, why ne...
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Episode 40
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14:51
5 Truths No One Warned You About Dating After Abuse
Dating after abuse doesn’t feel confusing because you forgot your worth…It feels confusing because trauma trained your nervous system to mistake familiarity for safety. In this episode, Meaghan breaks down the five truths w...
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Episode 39
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15:35
The Guilt No One Talks About After You Leave Abuse
Leaving didn’t erase guilt - it exposed it…In this episode, Meaghan breaks down why pain, shame, guilt, and regret intensify after abuse ends, how responsibility conditioning keeps running long after the threat is gone, and why these em...
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Episode 38
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14:24
Why you Keep Calling Your Trauma Pattern, “Chemistry”
You keep feeling pulled toward the same kind of man and calling it chemistry, even when it keeps ending the same way. I break down how attraction is conditioned inside threat, why your body recognizes familiarity before yo...
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Episode 37
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13:59
Why Leaving Abuse Didn't Make You Feel Free (And What Actually Does)
Leaving an abusive relationship removes the immediate threat but it does not instantly restore your nervous system. In this episode, we unpack why so many women expect relief after leaving, only to feel anxious, numb, hyper-vigilan...
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Episode 36
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16:20
Why You’re Not Excited About Dating Anymore (And Why That’s Power)
You’re not bored with dating because you’re broken. You’re bored because your nervous system is no longer wired for chaos, urgency, or proving your worth through connection. In this episode, we break down why healed women often lose interest...
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Episode 35
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23:34
How Narcissists Train You to Doubt Yourself
Before narcissistic abuse looks like chaos, it looks like you doubting yourself. This episode breaks down how narcissists condition women to mistrust their instincts, memories, and bodies through subtle erosion, gaslightin...
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Episode 34
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15:43
Men Don’t “Abandon” Women, Here’s Why
Women don’t lose men - they lose themselves first. This episode breaks open the truth you’ve always felt but never named: the body knew, the intuition screamed, but the conditioning taught you to override it. We go deep in...
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Episode 33
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18:46
Coparenting with a Narcissist? Strategies for Sanity and Safety
Co-parenting with a narcissist isn’t parenting, it’s emotional endurance while protecting your child from instability they didn’t create.In this episode, I break down why co-parenting is impossible with an unregulated partner, how pa...
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Episode 32
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17:34
How to be Soft Without Feeling Stupid: The Dark Feminine Balance
This episode strips the fantasy out of dating and brings you back into your body with discernment, self-respect, dark feminine intuition, and the standards that stop you from spiraling back into men who drain you. You’re going t...
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Episode 31
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19:26
Holiday Hell
The holidays don’t calm a narcissist… they supercharge their manipulation. In this episode, I break down why December becomes emotional warfare for women living with or leaving narcissistic partners.You’ll learn how they...
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Episode 30
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14:30
Self Trust and Trust Issues Dating After Abuse
Self-trust is the hinge that determines who you date, what you tolerate, and whether you abandon yourself or honor yourself.This episode walks you through rebuilding the internal compass that trauma shattered.The ...
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Episode 29
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13:45
What 5 Years of Sobriety Taught Me About Trauma, Love, and Rising From Hell
This special edition episode unpacks the five lessons that rebuilt my entire life after addiction, narcissistic abuse, childhood trauma, and the nervous-system patterns that kept me repeating the same relationships. I'm sharing piec...
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Episode 29
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21:23
Excuses That Keep You Stuck: The Lies You Tell Yourself to Stay
This episode is a full-on reality check for the woman still in it, leaving it, or clawing her way out of an abusive relationship. I’m breaking down the excuses that keep you trapped… “I can’t leave because of the ki...
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Episode 28
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13:23
You don’t owe them shit: Stop Turning Casual Dating Into Emotional Labour
Dating after abuse hits different…Your nervous system wants to overgive, over-explain, and emotionally carry men who haven’t earned a single inch of access. This episode exposes the real reason you slip into wife energy ...
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Episode 27
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13:24
Grieving the Illusion: Mourning the Relationship That Never Existed
You’re not grieving a breakup.You’re grieving the abuse.You’re grieving the illusion you attached to, and the version of them that never existed.In this episode, Meaghan Webster breaks down why the grief hits hardest af...
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Episode 26
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8:59
The Black Cat Dating Code: 18 Red Flags That Don’t Look Like Red Flags
You think it’s chemistry when it’s actually your nervous system screaming…In this episode, Meaghan Webster exposes the 18 red flags that don’t wave, they whisper.The ones that feel like connection, safety, “soulmate energy” b...
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Episode 25
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17:18