Rise Up and Heal: Healing from Narcissistic Relationships
Jul 20, 2026 · 47 min · 9 segments
**Healing begins the moment you choose yourself.** In this episode of Rise Up and Heal, I sit down with Frank Clayton, licensed mental health therapist, speaker, creator of the Happiness 101 course…
Frank ClaytonGuestAnnieHostYeah.
Wow.

So positive psychology, well, psychology and positive psychology really, really has helped me because we only have very limited control in this world.

And focusing on the things that we can control and our beliefs is one of those things.

So no matter what anybody else has to say about it, it can only cut through if you endorse it.
Yeah.

If you say if I say, oh, you're such a loser and you start feeling that awfulness, but you can either sign that and say, oh, yeah, you're right.

Even if you're in a Nazi concentration camp, you can still, you still have the freedom to decide who you are.

And so that would be one message that I would love to tell people is like, you get to decide that.
Yeah.
Yeah.

So I do want to, if I could, for a moment, because here, at least in the States, there's a lot going on.
Yeah.
Wow.

So positive psychology, well, psychology and positive psychology really, really has helped me because we only have very limited control in this world.

And focusing on the things that we can control and our beliefs is one of those things.

So no matter what anybody else has to say about it, it can only cut through if you endorse it.
Yeah.

If you say if I say, oh, you're such a loser and you start feeling that awfulness, but you can either sign that and say, oh, yeah, you're right.

Even if you're in a Nazi concentration camp, you can still, you still have the freedom to decide who you are.

And so that would be one message that I would love to tell people is like, you get to decide that.
Yeah.
Yeah.

So I do want to, if I could, for a moment, because here, at least in the States, there's a lot going on.
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