Stories from a Survivor: Recent Episodes
Diana Nicorici
Walking through life and making the shift from surviving to thriving. All things included! From single parenting to covert intimate partner violence and everything in between.
We further explore questions Margarita has for me, regarding cultural ostracizing vs acceptance with such a non-traditional resolution (called divorce 💀) in a super traditional and conservative context (called the church 🫣).
We continue our journey on Margarita’s front porch, as we speak about her unique role in the US military, breaking free and reinventing her perception of self-love, and the journey back to the best version of herself.
The Slavik/Romanian vs American cultural norms are hard to grasp, if you’ve never lived in them. We’re on Margarita’s front porch and digging deep into cultural norm’s, childhood trauma’s, and what it means to shift from surviving to thriving!
In an entirely new perspective, Frank recalls what it was like to be a child when his mother decided to flee to a DV women’s shelter in Bellingham, WA and the positive impact it had on him and his career, family life, and relationship with his father.
Did you know that narcissists will choose STRONG partners, contrary to most beliefs? Megan is the co-founder of the non-profit The Blind Investment and shares a sneak peak of what her journey back to self looked like. the struggles she endured, and some surprising facts most don’t know about what it means to be a “victim.”
The 12 stages of burnout 🔥🆘🫣 let’s talk about how our journey may look and how to better take care of ourselves and avoid the harmful health habits we tend to create in order to cope with our demanding lives.
Suppressing emotions can cause physiological damage to your body, especially if interest is your nervous system, which connects your entire body to everything imaginable. The body keeps score.
In this episode we talk about the detox retreat I went to in March 2022, Healing Waters. If you’re looking to find out how to heal your body in a holistically healthy way, give this a listen and learn all of the your lymphatic system, digestive system, and why they are ESSENTIAL to your mental and overall health!
The journey leaving and institution that I cared so much about, while trying to protect the ones I love most from the impacts a divorce can have on children.
What happened when I realized things were truly not going to get better and what was necessary for a new beginning.
Learning how to survive as independently as possible and working like I had never worked before.
After a lifetime of believing the lies that I was simply not good enough, I am ready to share my story and hope to inspire all chasms of people to explore true acceptance, unconditional love, and be a safe place for those you love most. Make sure you are on that list, yourself ♥️
Learn how to identify emotionally safe people. “You’ll look inside, you, yourself, and see how you can become emotionally safe for others.”
“Many children are raised in homes where they are expected to perform, achieve, and compete to provide self worth to a parent. Then we wonder why we have a society of anxious adults.”
“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, ‘You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise you will threaten the man.’ Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support. But why do we teach to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors — not for jobs or for accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are. Feminist: the person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.”
“You’ve got to resurrect the deep pain within you and give it a place to live that’s not within your body. Let it live in art, let it live in writing, let it live in music. Let it be devoured by building brighter connections. Your body is not a coffin for pain to be buried in. Put it somewhere else.”