When Love Hurts Your Health: Healing from Toxic Relationships, Reclaiming Your Power and Health

Podcast

Dec 3

Toxic relationships don’t just break hearts and stretch our souls - they break down the body. They deplete nutrients, activate autoimmunity and ignite chronic infections like Epstein Barr and Shingles.

In this episode, Elizabeth talks with Kristina, coach, speaker, and author of Rise Up and Thrive: How to Break Cycles of Toxic and Traumatic Relationships to Create Healthy Love. Together they explore how emotional trauma and relational stress manifest physically - from anxiety and insomnia to autoimmune symptoms and hormonal imbalance - and how true healing starts when we rewire the brain for safety and self-worth, and get the body to a safe environment.

Kristina shares her personal journey through toxic relationships, the emotional and biological cost of staying in survival mode, and how her R.I.S.E. framework (Recognize, Information Gathering, Self-Discovery, Embodiment) helps women transform pain into power.

If you’ve ever wondered why your body feels stuck in fight-or-flight — even after the relationship ends - or you know your health has never been the same since that toxic relationship - this conversation offers hope, perspective, and the first steps toward emotional and physical freedom.

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