In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Charu sits down with licensed psychotherapist, life coach, and wellness influencer Gina Gheller to break down what narcissistic abuse really does to your mind, body, and identity. This is not a highlight reel. It is a straight talk on red flags like love bombing, sudden flashes of anger, gaslighting, smear campaigns, and why so many smart people stay in unsafe relationships.
Gina explains how chronic emotional stress rewires the nervous system,...
In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Charu sits down with licensed psychotherapist, life coach, and wellness influencer Gina Gheller to break down what narcissistic abuse really does to your mind, body, and identity. This is not a highlight reel. It is a straight talk on red flags like love bombing, sudden flashes of anger, gaslighting, smear campaigns, and why so many smart people stay in unsafe relationships.
Gina explains how chronic emotional stress rewires the nervous system, fuels anxiety, panic, and autoimmune issues, and makes it hard to focus or feel safe in your own skin. She shares low effort nervous system regulation tools, the biggest myths that keep survivors stuck, and what thriving actually looks like in real life, not on Instagram. If you are healing from narcissistic abuse, or supporting someone who is, this conversation gives you language, context, and grounded next steps for reclaiming your voice and your future.
About The Guest:
Gina Gheller is a licensed Texas psychotherapist, national life coach, and wellness influencer with a community of over 50,000 followers. For more than 25 years she has worked in the trenches with survivors of narcissistic abuse, trauma, and toxic relationships. She is the author of:
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25 Ways Narcissist Abuse Survival Workbook
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25 Ways Narcissist Abuse Survival Guide
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The Woman's Ultimate Divorce Survival Guide
Through one to one work, groups, online resources, and her writing, Gina helps survivors understand abusive dynamics, regulate their nervous systems, rebuild self trust, and create lives that feel safe, grounded, and self led again.
Key Takeaways:
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Narcissistic abuse often starts subtly. early “cracks” look like unexpected flashes of anger, cutting remarks, and critiques of the very traits they once praised.
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Love bombing is a major red flag. intense flattery, grand gestures, and fast tracked intimacy in the first months are not romance, they are control strategies.
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Survivors stay because of wiring, conditioning, and manipulation. cultural messages, children, financial entanglement, shame, and gaslighting all keep people stuck longer than they ever planned.
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Narcissistic abuse is physiological, not just emotional. long term cortisol spikes and hypervigilance can contribute to anxiety, panic, fatigue, and autoimmune style symptoms.
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Grounding plus boxed breathing is a low effort regulation tool. focus on breath, senses, and present safety to interrupt dissociation and trauma spirals in the moment.
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One of the biggest myths is “they will change if I love them enough or they get help”. romanticizing the past and minimizing the abuse keeps survivors looping back.
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Life after leaving is not instantly free. survivors often face financial fallout, health issues, social isolation, smear campaigns, and a shaken sense of identity.
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Thriving is not perfection. it looks like safety, clarity, smaller but real community, self trust, and building a life where your nervous system is not on constant high alert.
*This episode discusses narcissistic abuse, trauma, nervous system regulation, and recovery in an educational, non graphic, and non hateful way. Some listeners may find these topics emotionally challenging or triggering. Listener discretion is advised. The discussion is intended for awareness and informational purposes only, and is not a substitute for professional mental health, medical, or legal advice. If you are currently in crisis or feel unsafe, please contact a qualified professional or local emergency services in your region immediately.
How To Connect With Gina Gheller:
Listeners can connect with Gina here.
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Website : https://www.narcissistabusesurvivor.com
Learn more about her psychotherapy and coaching work, group support, and resources for survivors of narcissistic abuse.
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Books on Amazon
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25 Ways Narcissist Abuse Survival Workbook . covers 25 key life areas impacted by narcissistic abuse, with journaling prompts and affirmations for career, friendships, health, and more.
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25 Ways Narcissist Abuse Survival Guide
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The Woman's Ultimate Divorce Survival Guide
You can use these with your own therapist or coach as a structured healing framework.
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Instagram : @NarcissistAbuseSurvivalExpert
Ongoing education, micro tools, and community support around narcissistic abuse recovery, trauma healing, and nervous system regulation.
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