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Every The Reflection Method episode, newest first — 21 in total. Each entry shows the release date, runtime, how many listeners have played it and a short description, and links through to the podcast to listen.

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  1. Episode 17 · September 29, 2026 · 9 min

    Dating dynamics through the lens of healing

    Dating after harm is not a test you pass or fail. This episode looks at the early dynamics of a new relationship through a healing lens: what calm feels like when your nervous system has been trained on chaos, how to tell a green flag from a familiar hook, pacing that protects you without hiding you, and what to do with the fear that you will miss the signs again.

  2. Episode 21 · September 28, 2026 · 5 min

    The journey of balance and the art of perpetual healing

    Healing is not a finish line. How to treat setbacks as part of the path, balance care for yourself and others, and build small daily anchors that keep you steady.

  3. Episode 20 · September 25, 2026 · 6 min

    Fostering green flags

    Green flags are not only found — they are grown. How to make honesty cheap, practise repair, protect steady habits, and treat boundaries as an invitation.

  4. Episode 16 · September 22, 2026 · 14 min

    Boundaries with a narcissistic parent

    You did not choose this relationship and there is no version of yourself that existed before it. This episode is about building a workable arrangement with a parent who is not going to change: boundaries stated as what you will do, adjusting one wire at a time, surviving the escalation that follows, grieving the parent you needed, and protecting your own children without a confrontation.

  5. Episode 19 · September 17, 2026 · 8 min

    The art of the mask

    Common dating pitfalls after recovery, how polished emotional language can imitate safety, and how to recognize patterns without abandoning your own judgment.

  6. Episode 18 · September 16, 2026 · 7 min

    A rewritten broken heart

    Every broken heart arrives with a story attached, and the first draft is almost always the cruelest one. This episode is about rewriting it — not into a flattering story, but an accurate one: why self-blame feels like control, how to restore the conditions the first draft deleted, what the body is doing underneath the storytelling, and how to end the story facing forward.

  7. Episode 15 · September 15, 2026 · 14 min

    Co-parenting with a narcissist

    When you share a child, no contact is not available — the relationship keeps going in the form of handovers, school emails and schedule changes. This episode builds a structure that works without the other parent's cooperation: businesslike communication, a boring paper trail, fewer negotiable gaps, and protecting your child from being the jury or the courier.

  8. Episode 14 · September 8, 2026 · 14 min

    Rediscovering love after narcissistic abuse

    After a narcissistic relationship, the word love itself gets contaminated — intensity reads as love and calm reads as nothing. This episode recalibrates your signals: getting your own life back online first, vetting with time and small tests instead of interrogation, opening up in doses, and what love actually looks like from the other side.

  9. Episode 13 · September 2, 2026 · 11 min

    Rebuilding self-trust after gaslighting

    Gaslighting does not erase your memory — it removes your permission to act on it. This episode maps the self-doubt loop and gives you the practices that rebuild working judgment: logging your reads, separating observation from interpretation, thirty-second decisions, and repair without collapse.

  10. Episode 12 · September 2, 2026 · 17 min

    Riding the waves of grief: how to navigate it

    An in-depth guide to grief after a difficult relationship — why it moves in waves instead of stages, the anatomy of each wave, what to do while one is on you, how to use the calm gaps, and how to tell ordinary grief from the kind that needs help.

  11. Episode 11 · September 2, 2026 · 14 min

    The smear campaign: when the story about you travels without you

    How a managed story about your character gets distributed before you know it exists, why reasonable people believe it, who carries it and why, and the small set of responses that actually work.

  12. Episode 10 · September 1, 2026 · 15 min

    Post-discard: rebuilding identity, redefining reality, reclaiming self

    The recovery side of the pattern — what the discard actually removes, why your reality needs rebuilding before anything else, how identity gets reclaimed in layers, and what coming back to yourself actually looks like.

  13. Episode 9 · September 1, 2026 · 15 min

    Narcissistic behavior as a predatory pattern: targeting, testing, extraction

    Why 'predatory' is the right word — how a target gets chosen for what they have to give, how boundaries get probed cheaply and early, and how the relationship gets run at a one-way draw.

  14. Episode 8 · September 1, 2026 · 19 min

    Pre-discard: when the story gets rewritten before you're gone

    The quiet run-up before a betrayal or discard — how shared history gets rewritten, how you get isolated from support, and how the audience gets pre-briefed to hear your pain as proof.

  15. Episode 7 · August 29, 2026 · 22 min

    Flying monkeys and enablers: the people in the middle

    Why a controlling person recruits friends and family to gather information, carry messages, and apply pressure — and how to respond without briefing against yourself.

  16. Episode 6 · August 28, 2026 · 21 min

    Intermittent reinforcement: hot, then cold, then hot again

    Why unpredictable warmth grips harder than steady kindness, what hot-cold cycles look like in an ordinary week, and what you can actually do while you are still in one.

  17. Episode 5 · August 27, 2026 · 21 min

    Trauma bonding: the pull you can't explain

    Why you can know a relationship is harming you and still feel pulled back, what intermittent reinforcement actually does to attachment, and how the bond loosens over time.

  18. Episode 4 · August 25, 2026 · 49 min

    Grief that doesn't look like grief

    Why losing a difficult relationship can hurt more than losing a good one, what the first months actually feel like, and how to tell ordinary grief from the kind that needs help.

  19. Episode 3 · August 18, 2026 · 52 min

    The week after the discard

    What the first seven days after being discarded tend to look like, why hoovering arrives right on schedule, and how to survive the quiet.

  20. Episode 2 · August 11, 2026 · 44 min

    What gaslighting actually sounds like

    A phrase-by-phrase walk through the sentences that make you doubt your own memory, and what to write down instead of arguing.

  21. Episode 1 · August 4, 2026 · 38 min

    Green flags are boring on purpose

    Why the healthiest relationship signs feel unremarkable, and how to tell a real green flag from its convincing counterfeit.

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