The Transformation Network™
Nectar and Teeth: Red flags & Toxic Love
Why do we stay with the person who is destroying us? Dr. Stephen Paul Edwards had built the life he taught other people to create: the mansion, the Rolls-Royce, twenty years on stage. Then a woman told him her favourite flower was the Venus Fly Trap. He bought her roses. His memoir, The Venus Fly Trap: Sex, Lies & Repercussions, is a true story of red flags, obsession, sex, chaos and a relationship he knew was dangerous — and kept returning to anyway. Gwenm takes him past the woman to the man underneath: the boy from Blackpool, the psychiatric ward at seventeen, his father, the need to rescue, the need to control, and the difference between love, intensity and addiction. They talk about what a red flag feels like in the body when you’ve already decided to ignore it, whether surrender is really surrender when drugs and alcohol are involved, and who actually holds the power in a relationship built around dominance and submission. A raw conversation about desire, control, shame, self-deception and toxic love. Skin and Soul™: Beyond the Pale. Full transcript at gwenmcarsley.com/skin-and-soul-podcast. Stephen's free opening chapters for our listeners: bit.ly/4ycwWJ4
