Have you ever found yourself in a genuinely dangerous situation, only for your first thought to be: “Am I just overreacting?”

In today’s episode, I share a terrifying incident that happened to me just yesterday at a local laundromat. A situation that should have been an immediate call to 000, but instead left me hesitating, doubting my own instincts, and calling a non-emergency line because I was too ashamed to "make a scene."

After spending the last 24 hours processing the intense guilt and shame of that moment, I hit a massive realisation: I didn’t trust my internal alarm system because I was conditioned from childhood to disable it.

Today, we’re diving deep into the reality of maternal gaslighting, how growing up around abusive dynamics rewires our brains to mistake red flags for green ones, and the moment of relief  ...