Elizabeth Jane and Deana Lynn
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Surviving Toxic Relationships is a Christian podcast for women who are ready to break free from toxic, emotionally abusive, or narcissistic relationships and step into healing, clarity, and truth. Deana and Lizzie are two women whose lives unexpectedly crossed when they were married to the SAME manipulative, cheating, financially abusive partner. Their combined passion is to provide women with the tools to avoid, escape, or heal from toxic, harmful, or confusing relationships. If you’ve been searching for faith based wisdom that goes deeper than surface-level advice, this show is for you. We talk honestly about trauma, emotional wounds, spiritual confu...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Lizzie and Dina pair survivor testimony with Christian encouragement and practical conversations about boundaries, self-trust, and recovery from controlling relationships.
Lizzie and Dina turn a remarkable shared history, marriages to the same manipulative partner, into candid guest conversations about recognizing harm and recovering self-trust.
Lizzie and Dina married the same man; 'he's so nice' may not settle your doubts.
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A plainspoken look at moral injury in toxic relationships, where faith, betrayal, and restoration meet.
This episode looks at moral injury in toxic relationships, treating it as the damage that can come when values, faith, or identity are violated. Dr.
A wreck opens into a story of abuse, silence, and the choice to stop living as a victim.
A terrible car wreck sets the story in motion: a 16-year-old boy acts quickly, only to realize the mangled man he saved is someone from his past.
A calm, practical listen about divorce, clarity, and the cost of letting emotion drive decisions.
This episode treats divorce less as a legal process than as a test of judgment and composure. Lizzie and Dina talk with mediator Elizabeth Merrill about high-conflict separations, how fear can be used to intimidate people, and how emotion can become the costliest part of a…
A faith-filled publishing conversation for anyone ready to turn a hard season into a book.
Terry Whalen joins Lizzie and Dina for a conversation about writing through heartbreak, divorce, and the long road toward healing and purpose.
A faith-forward look at how bullying, abuse, and limiting beliefs shape adulthood.
Brooke DeBoer's story follows how bullying and emotional abuse can keep echoing long after childhood, shaping confidence, relationships, faith, and self-worth.
A faith-centered look at toxic relationships, family denial, and healing for children.
The episode centers on the pain of loving someone who slowly chips away at a sense of self, while also holding to the choice to answer trauma with love and kindness. It shows how denial can let families stand behind an abuser, leaving children caught in confusion and pain.
A clear guide to spotting fear-based power before it narrows you.
This episode treats fear-based leadership plainly: a boss can charm people on the way up and turn cruel on the way down, and everyone around them ends up bracing for the next mood shift.
A grounded listen on double lives, digital deceit, and how to read the clues.
This conversation lands in the uneasy space between instinct, betrayal, and proof. Lizzie and Dina bring on Los Angeles private investigator Ken Childs to talk through double lives, digital deceit, and the kind of harm that can leave a woman doubting her own judgment.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
The host, Lizzie, delivers a heartfelt solo episode exploring the complex emotions and identity shifts that accompany the holiday season after experiencing major life changes like divorce, children leaving home, or the loss of a loved one.
Roseanne Forte, creator of the Choose Freedom program and author of Transformed by His Promises, explains how faith and neuroscience shaped her recovery from addiction and a toxic marriage.
Johnny Woods, a certified life coach and founder of Journey Coaching in Ann Arbor, Michigan, describes how her ex-husband's death in August 2020 led to a custody fight with his family over her children.
Elizabeth Jane, author of Free and First, Unlocking Your Ultimate Life, describes how a sudden end to a 25-year marriage with four children pushed her into shock, grief, and a long search for steadier tools.
Surviving Toxic Relationships Podcast with The Matadoras uses Episode #92 to contrast Christian boundaries with walls and to explain why “boundaries come from faith, walls come from fear.” Dina and Lizzie connect the idea to their books, including Love With Eyes Wide Open, Teaching Our Daughters To Recognize Red Flags, and God's Voice In Relationships, and they describe boundaries as protection for peace, values, emotional health, and safety.
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Lizzie and Dina sit down with Dr.
Love with Eyes Wide Open frames Chapter 1 around a single claim from the hosts: “discernment is protection,” not simply being nice.
Debra Weed traces her self-worth work back to childhood sensitivity, a corporate career at Citibank, and a three-year stretch of debilitating pain that she says left her bedridden.
Tracy DiTomasi, CEO of Callisto, explains how callistovault.org lets people with a .edu email use encrypted matching to find other survivors of the same perpetrator without public disclosure.
Episode #94 of Surviving Toxic Relationships Podcast with The Matadoras focuses on what happens when Bible verses about marriage, submission, and divorce are quoted without context and women feel pressure instead of peace.
Lizzie and Dina explore whether listeners might be contributing to toxicity in their relationships, distinguishing between toxic behaviors and being a toxic person.
Host Lizzie shares her deeply personal journey through two toxic marriages marked by religious control, emotional and spiritual abuse, and eventual escape.
Lizzie and Dina frame codependency as a pattern where someone sacrifices personal needs, minimizes toxic behavior, and loses self-esteem while trying to keep a relationship stable.
The show welcomes Dr.
Lizzie and Dina sit down with divorce mediator Elizabeth Merrill.
Dina and Lizzie sit down with CEO coach and author Kate Lowry to talk about fear based leaders.
The hosts sit down with fibromyalgia coach Tammy Stackelhaus.
Lizzie and Dina welcome author Skye Bellarmine for a conversation about surviving narcissistic abuse after 20 years.
Lizzie and Dina welcome Terry Whalen for a conversation about turning pain into purpose through publishing.
Nikki Allen brings heartbreak into the room.
The danger looked nice.
Lizzie and Dina sit with Jonathan Aslay as he traces the road from loss to self-love.
Have those voices followed you?
Your gut may already know.
Steve Eichenblatt shares a story that starts with a terrible car wreck.
Lizzie opens by speaking straight to listeners who suspect there is a book inside them.
A Christian podcast offering holiday self-care advice for women healing from toxic relationships.
Two women discuss the challenges of leaving a narcissistic partner and offer faith-based guidance for staying free.
Hosts Lizzie and Dina interview Avonlea Lightstone about her autobiography 'Strength of Scars' and her journey from tragedy to triumph through faith.
The hosts discuss the importance of thought work for overall wellness, sharing personal experiences and practical advice on becoming the best version of yourself.
Two women discuss the signs, causes, and solutions for burnout, drawing from personal experience with toxic relationships.