Out Here Tryna Survive
Out Here Tryna Survive is a trauma-informed, reflective podcast centering the emotional lives, resilience, and humanity of Black women — especially those of us navigating midlife, healing, motherhood, and healing after survival.
Hosted by Grace Sandra — Mama, storyteller, advocate, and lifelong student of survival — this podcast explores what it feels like to live in a world that constantly demands our strength while offering little protection.
Through personal storytelling, cultural reflection, and nervous-system-aware conversations, each episode holds space for truth, grief, joy, rage, softness, and repair.
This is not a place for perfection or performance. It’s a place for us as Black women to exhale, feel seen, and remember ourselves.
We are braver than we believe ✨
Out Here Tryna Survive
Ep 5: What I Wish I Knew Before Meeting a Narcissist: How to Protect Yourself
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Thanks so much for listening! In today's episode I'm talmbout all the ways we can protect ourselves from getting into a narcissistically abusive or highly toxic relationship by being who we need to be beforehand. Here's just a few of the things I wish I had knew or been about before I met my ex.
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//Age: 46
//I swear a little
//Enneagram 7(6w)
//3 kiddos: 17, 13 & 6 yrs. old
//Heritage: Black American + Italian
//Twice Divorced. Now happily in love myself. 🤎
//Sexual, Verbal, Rape, Narcissistic Domestic Violence SURVIVOR.
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//Depression, Anxiety, PMDD & CPTSD SURVIVOR
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