Podcast by Here's the Thing Productions
20 May 2026
Ok so, let's talk about the boyfriend experience...
After months of chaos, disappearing realities, and emotional whiplash, Jesse reaches the point where the relationship stops feeling confusing and starts feeling impossible.
In this episode, Jesse and Keeks unpack the final unraveling. The manipulation, the coercive control, the obsessive accusations, the emotional performances, and the slow erosion of Jesse’s identity beneath it all.
As Danni’s world becomes increasingly unstable, Jesse finds herself trapped in a cycle of fear, responsibility, and psychological survival. What once felt like love now feels more like crisis management, preventing spirals, absorbing blame, and trying to hold together a reality that keeps shifting underneath her.
This episode explores the devastating physical toll chronic psychological stress can take on the body and mind, and contains discussions of coercive control, emotional abuse, suicidal threats, psychological manipulation, and trauma responses.
If you are impacted by any of the themes discussed in this episode, help is available:
Lifeline Australia 13 11 14 – 24/7 crisis support & suicide prevention.
1800RESPECT 1800 737 732 – Free, 24/7 counselling for people impacted by domestic, family or sexual violence.
Suicide Call Back Service 1300 659 467 – Free professional 24/7 telephone, online and video counselling for people at risk of suicide, or those bereaved or concerned.
Beyond Blue 1300 22 4636 – Support for anxiety, depression, and suicide prevention.
If someone’s life is in immediate danger or you believe there is imminent risk call 000.
Beyond Curious shares lived experiences of coercive control, emotional abuse, and professional misconduct. All events discussed are drawn from documented evidence, contemporaneous messages, or firsthand accounts. Identifying details have been changed or withheld to protect privacy and safety.
All references to documents, images, or communications are based on material that was voluntarily shared with the host at the time of the events. Any opinions expressed are clearly identified as personal reflections, and care has been taken to avoid publishing private medical or identifying information.
The aim of this podcast is to raise awareness, promote understanding, and support recovery, not to defame or harm. Every statement has been made in good faith and supported by credible material.
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01:38:56
20 April 2026
Ok so, let's talk about attachment...
This episode picks up the moment everything should have ended. After a night of interrogation, degradation, and fear, the relationship was over.
But it didn’t end. Over the next 37 days, more than 12,000 messages were sent. Calls. Pleas. Apologies. Declarations of love. Threats. Confusion. Chaos.
And slowly, almost imperceptibly… the door reopened.
In this episode, Jesse walks through the month after leaving, where distance should have brought clarity, but instead became a battleground of emotion, pressure, and psychological pull.
We unpack what it actually feels like to leave an abusive relationship, and why it’s rarely a clean break. Why logic doesn’t hold. Why empathy overrides instinct. And why sometimes you find yourself going back to the very thing that broke you.
Because when the harm isn’t physical, it’s harder to name. Harder to prove. And oftentimes much, much harder to leave.
If you are impacted by any of the themes discussed in this episode, help is available:
Lifeline Australia 13 11 14 – 24/7 crisis support & suicide prevention.
1800RESPECT 1800 737 732 – Free, 24/7 counselling for people impacted by domestic, family or sexual violence.
Suicide Call Back Service 1300 659 467 – Free professional 24/7 telephone, online and video counselling for people at risk of suicide, or those bereaved or concerned.
Beyond Blue 1300 22 4636 – Support for anxiety, depression, and suicide prevention.
If someone’s life is in immediate danger or you believe there is imminent risk call 000.
Beyond Curious shares lived experiences of coercive control, emotional abuse, and professional misconduct. All events discussed are drawn from documented evidence, contemporaneous messages, or firsthand accounts. Identifying details have been changed or withheld to protect privacy and safety.
All references to documents, images, or communications are based on material that was voluntarily shared with the host at the time of the events. Any opinions expressed are clearly identified as personal reflections, and care has been taken to avoid publishing private medical or identifying information.
The aim of this podcast is to raise awareness, promote understanding, and support recovery, not to defame or harm. Every statement has been made in good faith and supported by credible material.
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01:48:37
23 February 2026
Ok so, let's talk about choices...
While Jesse is on the other side of the world, the chaos doesn’t quiet, it escalates. A 4:30am text. A boundary pushed. A relationship “ended”… and then pulled back into the cycle again.
This episode explores how manipulation reframes responsibility, how guilt becomes leverage, and how quickly empowerment can unravel under pressure.
We also flip the lens, what does it feel like to stand beside someone you love while they’re drowning and you can’t pull them out?
At its core, this is about choices. Who makes them. Who carries them. And what it takes to finally choose yourself.
If you are impacted by any of the themes discussed in this episode, help is available:
Lifeline Australia 13 11 14 – 24/7 crisis support & suicide prevention.
1800RESPECT 1800 737 732 – Free, 24/7 counselling for people impacted by domestic, family or sexual violence.
Suicide Call Back Service 1300 659 467 – Free professional 24/7 telephone, online and video counselling for people at risk of suicide, or those bereaved or concerned.
Beyond Blue 1300 22 4636 – Support for anxiety, depression, and suicide prevention.
If someone’s life is in immediate danger or you believe there is imminent risk call 000.
Beyond Curious shares lived experiences of coercive control, emotional abuse, and professional misconduct. All events discussed are drawn from documented evidence, contemporaneous messages, or firsthand accounts. Identifying details have been changed or withheld to protect privacy and safety.
All references to documents, images, or communications are based on material that was voluntarily shared with the host at the time of the events. Any opinions expressed are clearly identified as personal reflections, and care has been taken to avoid publishing private medical or identifying information.
The aim of this podcast is to raise awareness, promote understanding, and support recovery, not to defame or harm. Every statement has been made in good faith and supported by credible material.
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01:44:52
21 December 2025
Before Episode 6, we take a moment to reflect on what's unfolded so far.
We're taking a breath excited to return in the new year.
Have a safe holiday break, and please be kind to one another.
Thank you to all who have listened.
Find us on Instagram @beyondcuriousshow
If you're feeling alone or need support, help is available:
Lifeline Australia 13 11 14 – 24/7 crisis support & suicide prevention.
1800RESPECT 1800 737 732 – Free, 24/7 counselling for people impacted by domestic, family or sexual violence.
Suicide Call Back Service 1300 659 467 – Free professional 24/7 telephone, online and video counselling for people at risk of suicide, or those bereaved or concerned.
Beyond Blue 1300 22 4636 – Support for anxiety, depression, and suicide prevention.
If someone’s life is in immediate danger or you believe there is imminent risk call 000.
Beyond Curious shares lived experiences of coercive control, emotional abuse, and professional misconduct. All events discussed are drawn from documented evidence, contemporaneous messages, or firsthand accounts. Identifying details have been changed or withheld to protect privacy and safety.
All references to documents, images, or communications are based on material that was voluntarily shared with the host at the time of the events. Any opinions expressed are clearly identified as personal reflections, and care has been taken to avoid publishing private medical or identifying information.
The aim of this podcast is to raise awareness, promote understanding, and support recovery, not to defame or harm. Every statement has been made in good faith and supported by credible material.
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28:11
17 November 2025
Ok so, let's talk about humanity...
For seven months, Jesse lived inside a relationship that swung between deep connection and growing unease. There were tender moments, shared plans and the beginnings of a life that felt real. But beneath the ordinary beat of a new relationship, something darker was taking shape. A cycle that kept tightening, bit by bit, argument by argument.
When Jesse leaves for Europe, those familiar patterns don’t pause. They accelerate. Strange crises appear. New names surface. Stories shift without warning. And each twist seems designed to pull her back into the same exhausting loop.
From the other side of the world, the mystery sharpens and the abuse cycle reveals its true gravity. What felt confusing up close becomes impossible to ignore at a distance.
Trigger warning: This episode contains discussions of emotional and sexual abuse, suicide, and self-harm.
If you are impacted by any of the themes discussed in this episode, help is available:
Lifeline Australia 13 11 14 – 24/7 crisis support & suicide prevention.
1800RESPECT 1800 737 732 – Free, 24/7 counselling for people impacted by domestic, family or sexual violence.
Suicide Call Back Service 1300 659 467 – Free professional 24/7 telephone, online and video counselling for people at risk of suicide, or those bereaved or concerned.
Beyond Blue 1300 22 4636 – Support for anxiety, depression, and suicide prevention.
If someone’s life is in immediate danger or you believe there is imminent risk call 000.
Beyond Curious shares lived experiences of coercive control, emotional abuse, and professional misconduct. All events discussed are drawn from documented evidence, contemporaneous messages, or firsthand accounts. Identifying details have been changed or withheld to protect privacy and safety.
All references to documents, images, or communications are based on material that was voluntarily shared with the host at the time of the events. Any opinions expressed are clearly identified as personal reflections, and care has been taken to avoid publishing private medical or identifying information.
The aim of this podcast is to raise awareness, promote understanding, and support recovery, not to defame or harm. Every statement has been made in good faith and supported by credible material.
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01:11:04
31 October 2025
Ok so, let's talk about Tom Hardy...
June and July blur into chaos as Jesse’s relationship with Danni spins deeper into cycles of love, rage and pseudo-repair. What begins with suspicion over dating apps and “rental ads” turns into legal threats, psychological warfare and emotional collapse. Between therapy sessions, friends trying to help, and moments of deceptive calm, Jesse clings to the hope that the man she fell for is still real.
Caught between love, guilt, despair, and a life-saving insurance policy, Jesse faces the unthinkable and begins to understand just how deeply coercive control can unravel a person’s sense of self.
This episode explores the devastating psychological toll of coercive control and how survival can come down to a single, unexpected moment of clarity.
Trigger warning: This episode contains discussions of emotional abuse, suicide, and self-harm.
If you are impacted by any of the themes discussed in this episode, help is available:
Lifeline Australia 13 11 14 – 24/7 crisis support & suicide prevention.
1800RESPECT 1800 737 732 – Free, 24/7 counselling for people impacted by domestic, family or sexual violence.
Suicide Call Back Service 1300 659 467 – Free professional 24/7 telephone, online and video counselling for people at risk of suicide, or those bereaved or concerned.
Beyond Blue 1300 22 4636 – Support for anxiety, depression, and suicide prevention.
If someone’s life is in immediate danger or you believe there is imminent risk call 000.
Beyond Curious shares lived experiences of coercive control, emotional abuse, and professional misconduct. All events discussed are drawn from documented evidence, contemporaneous messages, or firsthand accounts. Identifying details have been changed or withheld to protect privacy and safety.
All references to documents, images, or communications are based on material that was voluntarily shared with the host at the time of the events. Any opinions expressed are clearly identified as personal reflections, and care has been taken to avoid publishing private medical or identifying information.
The aim of this podcast is to raise awareness, promote understanding, and support recovery, not to defame or harm. Every statement has been made in good faith and supported by credible material.
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01:52:46