Gaslighting Recovery: Finding Your Way Back to Reality

This is practical advise to help you take the steps to get out and stay out. Begin your journey to a better life today. In Gaslighting Finding Your Way Back to Reality, the author leads victims of psychological manipulation and abuse out of the darkness to find their way back to their true selves. Discover yourself again before the abuser entered your life and began to insidiously tear down what you knew to be true about love, relationships, and even your own thoughts.The author shares personal stories of abuse, sexual violence, and gaslighting as well as details from her own therapy sessions that helped her awaken to the reality of the brainwashing and abuse she was suffering in her own marriage. If you are reading this, perhaps you are beginning to awaken to your own suffering or know someone who is.This book offers practical advice on recognizing when you are in an unhealthy, toxic relationship and what steps to take in creating a safety plan, staying safe, creating healthy boundaries, re-inventing yourself and living your best life.Do you ever find yourself I don’t know what is real and what’s not real anymore? Maybe I am just too sensitive. Did it happen the way he said it happened, or did I imagine it all? Do you feel like you walk on eggshells often? Do you find yourself hiding your true feelings, opinions, and thoughts from your partner in order to escape harsh criticism, belittling, dismissiveness, verbal attacks or other negative consequences? Do you ever feel like you just can’t be yourself with your partner? Do you even know who your “self” is anymore? Has your partner become more controlling, accusatory, threatening, or punitive? Do you know you are unhappy and realize there is conflict, but can’t quite pinpoint the source of the conflict and unhappiness in your marriage or relationship? Are you noticing a pattern of behavior that makes you feel unsafe emotionally or physically? Do you want to find your way back to reality and remember who you were before the relationship?The author shows us coping techniques to overcome the trauma of these experiences such as specific meditations and breathing exercises to create a sense of calm and presence when our emotions are being exploited and heightened to the point where we may not recognize ourselves anymore. We find our way back to reality and rise above the drama by reconnecting with our inner selves. The book also and self-blame and shame why some victims find themselves repeatedly in abusive relationship show abuse can be so subtle and covert, that you don’t realize the gaslighting that is happening or notice the gradual psychological control tactics that your partner is employing. You just know there is a problem, you are not happy, there is conflict, and you aren’t sure where it all stems from You will find the support, guidance, and validation you need to get back to the reality you once knew. You will rise from the drama a better version of yourself and walk away from this book with the tools necessary to free yourself from the abuser and reclaim the life you are dreaming of.