Kate Hastings Show

In this episode, I open up about abusive relationships and trauma. What they take from you, how they change you, and how you rebuild when survival has been your only language. I talk about growing up in dysfunction, watching addiction, and repeating the patterns that mirrored what I saw. Abuse became my blueprint for love. I confused intensity for connection and chaos for care. For years, I kept abandoning myself just to stay chosen. This episode is about how trauma lives in the body, how the nervous system adapts to danger like it’s home, and how healing starts when you finally stop running from what shaped you. I share what I learned about self-abandonment, trauma bonds, and why peace feels uncomfortable when you’ve spent your life in survival. This isn’t a conversation about pain. It’s about redemption. About taking accountability for the patterns I created, learning to call abuse what it was, and grieving the childhood I never had. It’s about understanding that nothing was ever wrong with me. I was just p