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Gwen Ann

My Tales from the Porch

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My Tales from the Porch

Gwen Ann

My Tales from the Porch

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My Tales from the Porch

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Gwen's kids needs are bigger than her checkbook and she struggles with asking for financial help. It's scary to trust after a life with a Cluster B personality disordered spouse. It's scarier to ask Nihm or anyone in his circle for anything. Bu
Gwen reminices about the day she left Nihm....her Independence Day. The day she left for diaper wipes and never came back. What was your independence day like? Or, are you planning your day of freedom? Gwen has all her red, white, and blue deco
Cluster B refers to the category of personality disorder in psychology that contains narcissism, borderline, antisocial, and histrionics. Gwen thinks it should be called Cluster F... because this cluster really causes havoc and trauma drama whe
Gwen shares the latest adventure with trying to keep a family tradition that's important to her. She thinks this will help her daughters make new memories and have fun and bond and all that good stuff. Traveling with teens who are recovering fr
Gwen is fed up with the repetitive nightmare that she has about try to escape from Nihm. She's been having this nightmare for years. Gwen took to Dr. Google to see what she could do about getting this to stop (and find out why she's having this
Gwen shares her reaction to a recent sermon about the Bible story of the healing at the pool of Bethesda (John 5:1-10). A man has been hanging around the porches for 38 YEARS waiting for a healing. Gwen says that she can relate because coparent
There's another showdown at the OK corral (Gwen's way of referring to family court) this time amid the C-19 lockdowns of 2020 so it's being held virtually via Zoom. What happened at the hearing? Well, come on up to Gwen's porch and listen to he
Happy Easter! Join Gwen on her porch and listen to her favorite Easter Sunday Sermon's from Elevation Church. Gwen shares her thoughts and sings a little out of tune about how she lives again after the trauma of marriage to and divorce from a n
Gwen is back, baby! Where has she been? Are her kids okay? What's happened in that really long break she took? And, like, why?Come on up and sit a spell on her porch with your favorite beverage and get all caught up. Of course there's been qui
Gwen is in isolation and quarantine recovering from the 'rona.  She tells the tale of having to deal with Nihm through emails and texts in order to keep telling him NO to his requests.  That's always a harrowing adventure.  And, guess what, sum
Gwen tells the cautionary tale of how anger poisons our bodies and hearts and minds both during and after a relationship with a narcissist, especially if you are having to coparent with one.  She recounts the night she "fell down" and how her b
Gwen is back on her front porch telling tales after several weeks of medically necessary voice rest.  She explains why she thinks COVID19 is very similar to a narcissist; and, why if you have been coparenting with a narcissist or sociopath you
Gwen tells her humorous and encouraging tales of living and surviving in the Wild West, aka family law or divorce and parenting agreements. Tumble weeds, no maps, lawlessness, rounding up varmints, figntin' words, showdowns, and the journeys to
Join Gwen and her friends on her porch for a Galentine's Party! They talk all things narcissism related from their individual takes on what it is to the different people in their lives who are this type.  The fun really kicks up when they launc
Gwen had so many red flags when she started dating Nihm that she could have made a scarf long enough to wrap around her house! She tells the tale of those red flags that Nihm was a scoundrel before their marriage, and how 25 years later, she ha
Triangulation is a manipulative tactic used by toxic people to draw attention, distract, and cover just like a pair of obnoxious Bermuda shorts.  Gwen tells about how she's gotten sucked into this triangle and provides a map of how to get out.
Gwen is in the thick of struggles with self-doubt, perfectionism, and people-pleasing which she's been noticing is highly linked to being divorced from a narcissist.  She tells the tale of still trying to be perfect in the Wild West of coparent
Gwen deals with Nihm coming unhinged in a very short period of time over weekend timesharing.  This usually causes Gwen to come unhinged as well, but after much wisdom and surviving co-parenting with a sociopathic narcissist, she uses humor and
Gwen shares about her breaking heart - and no not for her ex - for her kiddos.  This was a bit of a tough episode because it's just plain heart-breaking what kids of narcissistic sociopathic parents have to deal with post divorce. And tougher i
Gwen discusses why we shouldn't negotiate with a narcissist, yet we are ordered by family courts to do that very thing as part of coparenting.  She shares her tales of incidents and emails from summers past when she had to ask her ex for things
Gwen tells the tale of why you don't want Nihm as your neighbor.  Gwen confesses that lately she's felt like being a "story topper" when at parties, about all the outrageous phone calls she's received from neighbors and the (real) sheriff about
What happens when the narcissistic sociopathic ex-spouse gets a new partner?  Good thing? Bad thing? Enter Trixie.  Join Gwen as she shares her tale of Trixie, the malarky that ensues (get ready to laugh), and sorts out these questions.  
Gwen opens this tale by sharing what happened at the showdown at the Okay Corral with humor and insights woven into a condensed story.  Then, Gwen is joined by the Sheriff! They discuss how to navigate the wild wild west of family court, how to
Gwen tells the tale (in just about real time) of when Nihm's car is on fire in front of her house! Hot off the press! Pun intended. Okay so maybe not big flames, definitely lots of smoke; and where there's smoke there's.... Join Gwen as she sha
Gwen takes listeners through her process of preparing for a "showdown" (aka mediation) with her sociopathic narcissistic ex-spouse.  She shares experiences from the past were the showdowns had some outrageous events and how she copes with the W
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