『S1:E42 – Parental Alienation & Narcissistic Abuse Recovery: Co-Parenting Coach Maria Natapov on High Conflict Co-Parenting, Blended Family & Healing After Divorce』のカバーアート

S1:E42 – Parental Alienation & Narcissistic Abuse Recovery: Co-Parenting Coach Maria Natapov on High Conflict Co-Parenting, Blended Family & Healing After Divorce

S1:E42 – Parental Alienation & Narcissistic Abuse Recovery: Co-Parenting Coach Maria Natapov on High Conflict Co-Parenting, Blended Family & Healing After Divorce

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They say the hardest part of divorce is the divorce. But what if the paperwork was the easy part? What if the conflict waiting for you on the other side — bedtimes, birthdays, and boundaries with a co-parent who refuses to cooperate — is the battle nobody prepared you for? And what if the way you have been fighting it is the very thing keeping your children caught in the middle? Becky Sampson sits down with Maria Natapov — BH2O certified co-parenting and stepparenting coach, founder of Synergetic Stepparenting, and vice chair of the Sparrow Collective — for one of the most emotionally honest and practically grounded conversations in the Divorcing Strong series about what happens to families when the papers are signed, and the real work begins. A trusted adviser to divorce professionals, financial advisers, and parenting coaches across the country, Maria has spent years developing the rapid resolution sessions and communication tools that help caregivers shift from emotional reactivity to grounded leadership — transforming high-conflict co-parenting situations into homes where children can finally breathe. But what makes Maria's perspective uniquely credible for this audience is not her certifications. It is the fact that every single layer of her methodology was forged in lived experience. She is a child of a contentious divorce. An immigrant from Moscow who grew up in a cultural framework where obedience — not autonomy — was the expectation for girls. A survivor of a 16-year emotionally and physically abusive marriage who didn't have the language to describe what she had lived through until years after she left. A stepparent who actively tried to dissuade her now-husband from pursuing her — convinced she didn't have what it took — and who then spent five years fighting to protect the stepdaughter she came to love from abuse and neglect in her biological home. Everything Maria teaches, she has lived first. If you are exhausted by the conflict, overwhelmed by the blended family tension, and searching for a way to lead your family through this without losing yourself — this conversation is specifically for you. 🎯 In This Episode, You'll Learn: Becky opens with a heavy heart — a call from a woman in tears, voice trembling, in the absolute thick of a divorce she can barely hold; Becky's message to her — and to every listener who has felt that specific, isolating overwhelm — that you are not alone, that connecting the dots takes time, that feeling confused or ashamed of not seeing it sooner is not stupidity but the signature of a relationship designed to keep you from seeing clearlyMaria's story — from Moscow to a 16-year abusive marriage — how growing up in a culturally rigid framework that prioritized obedience over autonomy set Maria up for a first relationship that began when she was a young teenager and became emotionally and physically abusive over 16 years; the gradual erosion of boundaries she never saw coming, the web of control and gaslighting that made the situation invisible from the inside, and the counselor who assigned her homework — "look for signs of this and report back next week" — before Maria could even recognize what she was living in"I said it was mutual" — the most raw disclosure in the episode: when Maria finally left, she didn't have the language to explain why, and felt such profound shame and self-blame that when anyone asked, she said only "it was mutual" — the years it took, including finding another survivor who gave her the vocabulary for what she had lived, before she could name it for herself; and the message she sends to anyone who is still waiting for that language: trust the instinct, it is your wisdom, not your weaknessBecoming a stepparent against her own advice — how Maria actively tried to dissuade her now-husband from dating her, making a very strong case that she was not "mom material" and that his daughter deserved someone better; how his response — that the very things Maria identified as her deficits were precisely the empathy and attentiveness the role required — unlocked something in her healing; and the make-or-break first meeting with his daughter that changed the entire direction of her lifeThe stepdaughter revelation — the episode's most emotionally searing moment: eighteen months of sensing something deeply wrong in the academic realm, theories Maria ran through obsessively while "driving her husband absolutely crazy" — and then the worst nightmare and the biggest relief arriving simultaneously when her then-stepdaughter revealed she had been physically abused, emotionally abused, and sexually groomed in her biological home; how having answers finally meant knowing what kind of help to get, and why awareness is always the first stepGaps in the legal system when children are at risk — what Maria hears constantly from the attorneys she advises: it is always about what you can prove, judges are working ...
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