Healing For Love
Healing for Love
A podcast for anyone who wants to stop shrinking, start healing, and grow into their most grounded, authentic self in love & life.
Hosted by Dr Gemma Gladstone — relationship coach, former clinical psychologist (25+ years), and expert in schema healing — this podcast offers thoughtful, insight-rich episodes to help you understand your patterns, heal from past emotional wounds, and gently rewrite your relationship template.
Here, you’ll learn how to reconnect with your worth, trust your inner voice, and build relationships that support who you truly are.
This is for the woman who’s ready to feel more secure, more whole, and more herself — in love and in life.
Healing For Love
133. My Top 5 Dark Red Flags In Dating (Part 1)
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Not all red flags are equal.
Some signal incompatibility.
Others signal something much darker.
In this episode, I’m breaking down the first three of my Top Five Dark Red Flags in Early Dating - the traits that, in my clinical experience, rarely improve with time and often predict controlling or deeply problematic relationship dynamics.
If you’ve ever found yourself:
- Ignoring your gut
- Giving someone “the benefit of the doubt”
- Talking yourself out of discomfort
- Wanting to be the easygoing, understanding one
This episode is for you.
I explore:
- Why people-pleasing schemas can keep you in situations you already know aren’t right
- How subtle pushiness can signal future control
- Why arrogance is one of the most dangerous personality traits to overlook
- The difference between confidence and entitlement
- How love bombing can be used strategically
- What “future mirroring” is and why it hooks so many intelligent women
I also explain why what you feel in your body matters - and how to recognise when someone is testing your compliance rather than building real connection.
This is not about demonising people.
It’s about helping you see clearly.
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