Crowds, fake people, violence on TV — would you be surprised to learn they all can relate to being an EMPATH? This episode of the Dr. Denise Show tackles the difference of having empathy and being an EMPATH. You’ll learn how to use the power of the moment of now to be in tune with the emotions, feelings and actions that can be overwhelming for people who have a heightened understanding of others’ energy. This podcast is packed with tips for the workplace, raising empaths and intimate relationships. How to use your time, mind and schedule to thrive as an EMPATH. Plus, we talk intuition and Bumbles the Bunny gives us a lesson on boundaries!
Authentic Dating Strategist and Image Expert Kimmy Seltzer is back for a deep dive discussion on boundaries, flirting, & communication in the chaos of the modern day world.
Breadcrumbing, gaslighting, hard balling, “the chase” & the phases of dating are covered (courtship, dating, relationship) in this episode!
Kimmy Seltzer is a Confidence Therapist, Authentic Dating Strategist and Image Expert. With a vat of knowledge and experience as a therapist, certified style coach, dating coach, and matchmaker, she has helped people find lasting love and connection, attract success and build valuable relationships using her unique “confidence makeover” process. Using an outside-in approach, Kimmy implements targeted style, emotional and social intelligence in people’s lives using her signature formula, “The Charisma Quotient,” working on body language, first impressions, image/wardrobe and flirting and how it impacts attraction. This Los Angeles-based expert travels the country helping people discover confidence, charisma and connection as a speaker at National Matchmaking Conferences, eHarmony, Neutrogena, The Guild at Universal, UCLA and iDate. Kimmy is also a regular contributor to the Huffington Post with appearances in Cosmopolitan, Oprah Magazine, Redbook, Reader’s Digest, AskMen, Fox News Magazine, Yahoo and the Washington Examiner, among a myriad of other publications. Kimmy has been the leading love expert on the traveling live dating show The Great Love Debate, a show on Amazon Live with SwayTv, Kimmy’s Love Hub and the cable reality series, The Romance. You can also listen to her on her podcast, The Charisma Quotient.
“14 million senior sociopaths live in America, and they never stop exploiting the rest of US.” Donna Andersen
It is an honor to have author and founder of Lovefraud.com Donna Andersen back on the show to discuss her new book “Senior Sociopaths, How to Recognize and Escape Lifelong Abusers.”
Are you ready for myth busters about age and sociopathy?
Listen here:
Donna Andersen is creator of Lovefraud.com, a website that teaches people to recognize and recover from sociopaths. She is the author of eight books, including Senior Sociopaths — How to recognize and escape lifelong abusers (May 2022), Red Flags of Love Fraud—10 signs you’re dating a sociopath, the Red Flags of Love Fraud Workbook and the four-part Best of the Lovefraud Blog series. She learned about sociopaths the hard way, by marrying one, and tells the whole outrageous story in her first book, Love Fraud.
Donna founded Lovefraud Education and Recovery, a nonprofit that offers webinars to help survivors and professionals identify, escape and recover from sociopaths, including narcissists, psychopaths and other manipulators. She is co-author of two scientific papers and has presented research to the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy.
Donna has appeared on Investigation Discovery TV shows including Love, Honor, Betray; Deadly Women and Who the Bleep Did I Marry? She also appeared on Insightin Australia, ABC News 20/20, My Life is a Lifetime Movie, Handsome Devils and The Ricki Lake Show. She has been interviewed for multiple radio shows, print articles and online articles. She graduated from Syracuse University with degrees in psychology and journalism. Donna is happily remarried, proving that recovery from betrayal is possible.
Season 2 of Rocking A Betrayal is kicked off with Author of “Love Fraud: How marriage to a sociopath fulfilled my spiritual plan” & Founder of Lovefraud.com!
Donna says “Sociopaths hijack the human bonding system.”
Three steps of a sociopath hunt:
1)Upon meeting their victims they assess “do they have anything they want?”
2)What are their victims vulnerabilities?
3)Then they target the vulnerabilities.
***Extroversion, Investment in Relationships, & Cooperativeness are top 3 traits women who are conned have that attract the sociopath.
Donna and Dr. Denise do a Deep Dive on their experiences with sociopaths personally and professionally.
This episode is packed with tips, tools and more:
Donna Andersen is creator of Lovefraud.com, a website that teaches people to recognize and recover from sociopaths. She is the author of eight books, including Senior Sociopaths — How to recognize and escape lifelong abusers (May 2022), Red Flags of Love Fraud—10 signs you’re dating a sociopath, the Red Flags of Love Fraud Workbook and the four-part Best of the Lovefraud Blog series. She learned about sociopaths the hard way, by marrying one, and tells the whole outrageous story in her first book, Love Fraud.
Donna founded Lovefraud Education and Recovery, a nonprofit that offers webinars to help survivors and professionals identify, escape and recover from sociopaths, including narcissists, psychopaths and other manipulators. She is co-author of two scientific papers and has presented research to the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy.
Donna has appeared on Investigation Discovery TV shows including Love, Honor, Betray; Deadly Women and Who the Bleep Did I Marry? She also appeared on Insightin Australia, ABC News 20/20, My Life is a Lifetime Movie, Handsome Devils and The Ricki Lake Show. She has been interviewed for multiple radio shows, print articles and online articles. She graduated from Syracuse University with degrees in psychology and journalism. Donna is happily remarried, proving that recovery from betrayal is possible.
“Finding a healthy, fulfilling love relationship is only possible once you love yourself! You’ve heard it all before, but did you know that deep self awareness is key to achieving true self love?
This week, I interview Dr. Denise McDermott, a board-certified, practicing psychiatrist who joins the show for a conversation on how self awareness can unlock the best version of you when it comes to love.
Becoming more self aware means being brutally honest with yourself, your beliefs, values & biases & being willing to honestly express your truth to others.
It’s not always easy, but as Dr. Denise & I talk about, it’s essential to finding a partner or love relationship that is right for you. You’ll hear about how awareness is the foundation for Dr. Denise’s paradigm for creating happiness & much more.
Listen in to hear an amazing tip on how to actively encourage change in your life when you’re ready for something new.
When you actively choose to become aware of who you truly are, you will be able to access a deep self love that will open you up to new opportunities for love.
From too many tow trucks to a late-night email from school, we can all have a “day!” Or, by Friday the over-scheduled work days can leave us saying, “What a week!” So how do you stay sane when you’re overwhelmed, angry or sad? The “On Staying Sane” crew has a reverent discussion about coping with what life throws at you! Dr. Denise and Cathleen O’Toole talk about how fun, good things can also be stressors. Topics covered: “Strategic Mindful Profanity,” Catastrophic Thinking and Negative Self-Talk. You’ll learn how to identify a situation, allow yourself to feel, call out the emotion and use the energy to get more done. Tapping into your higher power, mind medicine and setting boundaries — we’re turning your week around!
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