What happens when manipulation becomes a management style?

In this powerful listener-submitted story, we expose the hidden epidemic of psychological abuse and gaslighting in the workplace. From shifting goalposts to manufactured chaos and control, this episode unpacks the chilling tactics used by abusers— and the devastating toll it takes on victims’ mental and physical health.

We confront how organisations protect perpetrators, silence whistleblowers, and enable a culture of coercive control. Together, we explore why education, empathy, and resistance are vital to building psychologically safe workplaces and reclaiming our collective humanity.

🎙️ A must-listen for anyone who’s ever doubted their own reality at work.

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The Gaslit Brain Series: When Empathy Wins

This week, empathy won.

With Catherine Connolly elected as Ireland’s new president, we’ve witnessed what it looks like when leadership is grounded in courage, clarity, and compassion — not control.

In this powerful episode of The Gaslit Brain on The FEMCAST, host Anita Whyte Moran and bestselling author Dr Jen Fraser — author of The Gaslit Brain — explore how empathy can rewire our brains, rebuild our workplaces, and reshape our societies.

They break down the neuroscience of empathy and gaslighting — from how domestic violence traps victims through “learned helplessness,” to how workplace abuse and political manipulation mirror the same patterns of psychological control.

Together, they ask: what happens when empathy disappears from leadership, and what kind of healing begins when it returns?

This episode dives deep into:
🧠 The neuroscience of empathy and control
💔 How gaslighting shows up in relationships, workplaces, and politics
🔥 Why domestic violence is the microcosm of wider social violence
🌍 How empathy-driven leadership can change everything

As Ireland embraces a new president who leads with empathy, we’re reminded that this isn’t softness — it’s strength.

Because when empathy vanishes, people break. But when it leads, humanity heals.

🎙️ The Gaslit Brain — a FEMCAST original series hosted by Anita Whyte Moran and Dr Jen Fraser.

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In this episode of The FEMCAST, we dive deep into the brains of gaslighters and abusers — and what science can teach us about empathy, manipulation, and the cycle of abuse.

With Dr. Jen Fraser, we explore how neglect and trauma in childhood can damage the brain’s empathy networks and shape the manipulative behaviours we see in adulthood.

This is not about excusing abuse, it’s about understanding it, so we can stop it.

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Because when we raise children in homes grounded in empathy, safety, and love — we change everything.

This episode dives deep into:

🧩 What’s happening inside the brain of a gaslighter
💔 How early trauma shapes emotional disconnection
🌱 Why empathy education is essential for breaking cycles of abuse
⚡ How workplaces and homes can be redesigned for psychological safety

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