Love, Lies, and Leaving Alive

On this episode of She Wolf Alchemy, hosts Ress interviews co-host Gabi about surviving two domestic violence relationships in her mid-twenties despite having education, family support, and a career helping others in crisis. Gabi describes meeting the first partner while struggling after graduation, moving in quickly, experiencing manipulation and neglect that kept escalating, and then meeting a second partner who initially love-bombed her before becoming controlling and violent, isolating her from friends, choking her in public, and pressuring her into a reality that she never wanted for herself . Gabi shares recovery through therapy, support, learning boundaries, intuition, and self-trust as safety.*Trigger Warning: This episode includes discussion of abuse, which may be distressing for some listeners.*