What happens when the abuse is over, but the trauma is still shaping the way you think, cope, and move through the world?
In this episode of Through the Eyes of a Survivor, we sit down with Holly Corish, a domestic violence survivor, trauma and addiction recovery advocate, and creator of the “Switching Cycles: From Trauma to Healing” recovery model.
Holly joins us for an important conversation about the patterns trauma can create, the connection between trauma and addiction, and what it can look like to move from survival into healing.
We also explore the concept of “the predator seeking prey” — how abusive individuals may identify and exploit vulnerabilities, test boundaries, create dependency, and use manipulation to gain control. Most importantly, we discuss this without placing responsibility on survivors. Vulnerability does not cause abuse; the responsibility always belongs to the person who chooses to exploit it.
In this episode, we discuss:
Holly also shares insight from her work mentoring people in addiction recovery and providing peer support to domestic violence survivors.
Healing is not always linear, and leaving an abusive relationship does not automatically erase what happened. But understanding the patterns trauma leaves behind can be a powerful part of learning how to break them.
You survived the cycle. Now the conversation becomes: how do you begin building something different?
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