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The Healing Lounge with Marcia

The Healing Lounge with Marcia

De: Marcia Williams LPC | Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Coach
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Welcome to The Healing Lounge — the podcast where survivors of narcissistic abuse can finally exhale.


Hosted by licensed therapist, author and survivor Marcia Williams, this show offers raw honesty, expert insights, and heartfelt stories to guide you from surviving to thriving. Whether you’re still in the relationship, freshly out, or rebuilding your life afterward, you’ll find the clarity, tools, and community you need here.


Each week, Marcia blends her 22 years of clinical experience with the wisdom of her own 30-year marriage to a narcissist. Expect a mix of real talk, taboo conversations (yes, even the ones no one else will touch), practical strategies for healing, and inspiring guest interviews — from survivors, coaches, and loved ones impacted by abuse.


The Healing Lounge is more than a podcast. It’s your safe space to reclaim your voice, rebuild your confidence, and protect your peace.


Honest conversations. Expert insights. Survivor strength.

© 2025 The Healing Lounge with Marcia
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Episodios
  • What You're Really Addicted To and It's Not the Narcissist: Live in The Healing Room
    Dec 17 2025

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    Marcia Williams, licensed therapist and narcissistic abuse recovery coach, drops another truth bomb in the Healing Room, a weekly live session on TikTok and Instagram where she pushes survivors beyond survival mode. In this episode, Marcia breaks down what survivors are actually addicted to in toxic relationships, and spoiler alert, it's not the person.

    In this recovery session, we explore the real addictions: solving unsolvable puzzles, familiar pain, being the fixer, drama, and the rumination loops that keep your brain hostage at 3 AM. This is about moving from victim to victor by looking inward instead of staying focused on the narcissist's behavior.

    Key Topics:

    • Why your brain won't stop ruminating and how to interrupt the pattern
    • The five things you're actually addicted to in a narcissistic relationship
    • What you're really avoiding: your own healing, grief, and responsibility for staying
    • The trauma bond chemistry and why just stop thinking about them doesn't work
    • How peace becomes terrifying after years of chaos
    • The mirror effect: how the narcissist shows you your own wounds
    • Practical exercises to break the addiction through brutal self-honesty

    This session is for survivors ready to go deeper than surface-level boundary work. If you're tired of focusing on what they did and ready to examine your own choices with compassion and truth, this episode will challenge you in the best possible way.

    Resources mentioned: P2P Essentials seven-week program, Women's H.O.P.E. Coaching Group for those still in relationships, one-on-one coaching, and the 30-minute Peace Pocket survival toolkit at thepassagetopeace.com

    Join Marcia live in The Healing Room every Monday Night on TikTok and Instagram.

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    29 m
  • Two Sides of the Same Coin: The Uncomfortable Truth About Narcissists & Empaths
    Dec 10 2025

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    In this week’s episode of The Healing Room, Marcia takes you into one of the most challenging—and liberating—conversations of your healing journey. We’ve all heard the familiar narrative: the narcissist is the villain, and the empath is the victim. But what happens when you look beneath the labels? What happens when you hold up the mirror?

    Marcia breaks down the uncomfortable truth that narcissists and empaths are not opposites at all—they’re two sides of the same wounded coin. One inflates to survive, the other deflates. One hides behind superiority, the other hides behind selflessness. Both are masking the same core fear: “If you see who I really am, you’ll leave.”

    This episode walks you through:

    • Why empaths are magnetically drawn to narcissists—and why narcissists seek them out
    • How both roles develop from the same childhood wounds
    • The ways empaths use caretaking, self-sacrifice, and “being needed” as a mask
    • Why awareness—not blame—is the key to breaking the cycle
    • The liberation that comes when you stop performing and start honoring your own boundaries
    • How to reclaim your worth so you no longer attract relationships built on wounds

    With raw honesty and deep compassion, Marcia shares her own story of staying in a 30–year narcissistic marriage, the role she played without realizing it, and the moment she understood the truth that set her free.

    If you’re ready to step out of old patterns, stop performing for love, and finally see what’s been hiding beneath your own mask—this episode is the doorway.

    And remember:
    You are not the narcissist.
    But to heal, you must understand the mirror.

    Join Marcia live every Monday at 7 PM EST on TikTok and IG for more real talk, more breakthroughs, and more freedom on the other side of your truth.

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    32 m
  • From Burnout to Breakthrough: Dr. Tomi Mitchell’s Holistic Approach
    Dec 8 2025

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    In this powerful episode, Marcia sits down with Dr. Tomi Mitchell — board-certified family physician, wellness and performance coach, TEDx speaker, and mental health advocate — for a raw, insightful conversation about healing from narcissistic abuse, burnout, and the patterns we inherit without even realizing it.

    Dr. Tomi brings her lived experience, her medical expertise, and her holistic framework to help us understand why our bodies react the way they do, why we normalize pain, and why so many survivors stay in harmful relationships far longer than they intended. Together, Marcia and Dr. Tomi pull back the curtain on the three critical relationships that shape our entire lives:

    1. The relationship we have with ourselves
    2. The relationships we have with our closest people
    3. The relationship we have with work and society

    When those “three legs of the stool” weaken, everything in our lives starts to wobble — our health, our peace, our identity, and our ability to function. Dr. Tomi explains how this imbalance often mimics ADHD, anxiety, depression, or burnout, and why so many survivors are misdiagnosed when the real issue is untreated trauma.

    You’ll hear both women share their own experiences with narcissistic abuse, identity loss, chronic stress, and the long road back to clarity. Dr. Tomi offers a compassionate but direct roadmap for reconnecting with yourself, rewriting your vision, and rebuilding your nervous system after years of survival mode.

    This episode is a must-listen if you’ve ever:
    • Felt confused, foggy, or overwhelmed and didn’t know why
    • Stayed in a relationship that hurt you because the unknown felt scarier
    • Lost your identity to people-pleasing or perfectionism
    • Experienced chronic headaches, burnout, or body symptoms you couldn’t explain
    • Wondered if your ADHD symptoms were actually trauma responses
    • Tried to heal yourself while still living in a toxic environment

    Dr. Tomi reminds us that healing is possible — but it begins with truth, vision, and the courage to face ourselves. And as Marcia shares, once we do that work, we don’t just survive… we rise, and then we go out and help others rise too.

    This conversation will leave you seen, understood, and empowered.

    If you want to learn more from Dr. Tomi or follow her work, you can find her here:

    The Mental Health & Wellness Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1754964

    Holistic Wellness Strategies: https://www.holisticwellnessstrategies.com/about

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrMitchellHWS

    IG: https://www.instagram.com/drtomimitchell/

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drtomimitchell/

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    44 m
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