In this episode of The Internal Shift Show, Debbie Longo speaks with Carine Van Hee about toxic relationships, emotional abuse, healing from manipulation, self-awareness, and the internal shifts that helped her understand lifelong relationship patterns and rebuild her life.

Carine shares how she grew up believing she came from a loving family, never realizing many of the relationship dynamics she witnessed as a child were emotionally unhealthy and controlling. Although she believed she would never stay in an abusive relationship, she later found herself trapped in toxic emotional patterns without fully understanding what was happening.

A major turning point came while sitting beside her mother’s deathbed, when Carine realized for the first time that her mother had spent more than 65 years in a toxic relationship. That realization forc ...