Healing After a Narcissistic Marriage: Infidelity, Trauma & Starting Over | Adrienne Isbell | EP201

Today, April and Chad sit down with Adrienne Isbell, a yoga and sound healing teacher who spent over a decade inside a narcissistic marriage before her world collapsed and rebuilt itself into something far greater than she ever imagined. Adrienne opens up about the childhood wounds that shaped how she loved, the financial control that left her with no career and no way out, and what it really felt like to discover an affair, stay, and discover it again. She shares the moment a yin yoga class cracked her open after months of emotional numbness and how somatic healing, sound baths, and the courage to stop playing small brought her back to life. What the world calls starting over is usually years of quiet inner work nobody sees until it arrives all at once, changed. In this interview, you'll learn: How to recognize the signs of financial abuse and coercive control inside a marriage How to understand avoidant attachment and why it quietly damages the love you want most How to use somatic healing and yoga to process trauma when talk therapy alone is not enough How to trust your body's truth even when your mind is not ready to face it How to release the word "deserve" and stop measuring your worth by what others took from you How to rebuild your identity, your body, and your sense of play after leaving a controlling relationship How to give yourself permission to leave when every support system is telling you to stay and work it out How to move from emotional numbness into a life full of creativity, connection, and real love You are allowed to choose yourself. You are allowed to stop playing small. The life you are grieving may be the very thing making room for the one you actually belong in. With Love and Safety, Chad & April ❤️ What We Discuss: 0:00 — Welcome to Safe to Love | Valentine's Day Special 1:41 — Adrienne's Story: 6 Years That Completely Rebuilt Her 3:22 — How She Got Trapped: Meeting a Narcissist at Age 21 8:27 — Financial Control in Marriage: When the Money Was Never Yours 15:46 — Childhood Wounds That Made Her the Perfect Target 19:19 — Discovering the Affair: "Love, Your Boyfriend" 29:07 — The Second Betrayal: Hawaii, Lies, and the Point of No Return 34:39 — The Yoga Class That Finally Let Her Breathe Again 45:01 — Why Women Stay: When Every Resource Tells You to Work It Out 53:55 — Spy Cameras, Stalking Injunction, and the Gift of No Contact 1:05:00 — "Deserve Isn't Real": The Bhagavad Gita Moment That Set Her Free 1:12:10 — DRIP, Drums, and Reclaiming Her Body Voice and Life If you're serious about ... ❤️ Work With Chad Instagram |   / chadonlove   ❤️ Work with April Instagram |   / aprilbenincosa   This is The Safe to Love Show. 🔔 Subscribe for more great content and share this with someone who needs to hear it.    / @safetoloveshow   Instagram |   / safetoloveshow   Safety. Courage. Love. #SafeToLoveShow #SafeToLove #RealLoveStory #RomanceResuscitated #Intimacy101 #SafeToLoveAndBeLovedFully #LoveAgain #CourageToLove #AprilAndChad #SafeToLovePodcast Episode Resources: Website | https:///www.safetolove.org YouTube |    / @safetoloveshow   Facebook |   / 61585729502802   Instagram |   / safetoloveshow   TikTok |   / safetoloveshow