Relationships > Conflict/Physical/Emotional Abuse
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Helen Villiers, Katie McKenna You're Not the Problem: The Impact of Narcissism and Emotional Abuse and How to Heal
Two popular psychotherapists explore narcissism in family of origin, unpacking the fallout from being raised by narcissistic parents, and offering strategies for how to heal. Many emotionally abusive behaviors from parent to child have become socially acceptable because of the way we repeat things our parents said and did, things passed down from generation to generation that persist today. You're Not the Problem enables us to recognize these behaviors and realize the profound impact they have had, and still have, and to see the patterns they form in our relationships with parents, partners and friends. It also shows us how to heal on a personal level but also on a societal level. The legacy and the damage caused by narcissistic and emotional abuse will carry on, perpetuated by trauma and repeating cycles, unless we learn to recognize and understand it, unless we as individuals and as a society learn how to challenge it and stop its vicious cycle of destruction—which is what this book sets out to do. This book will explain and illustrate: How to recognize emotional abuse in family relationships: its language and behaviors; The immediate and long term impact of these behaviors; Strategies for healing; How to avoid repeating these behaviors. Using client narratives and sample scripts, Villiers and McKenna offer a compassionate, sympathetic approach to looking at our familial patterns—and how we can break free from these toxic relationships and reclaim our lives.
$28.99
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Lexie Bean Written on the Body: Letters from Trans and Non-Binary Survivors of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence
Written by and for trans and non-binary survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, this book prove help and guidance to those who struggle to find safety at home, in their bodies, and other unwelcoming places. This collection of letters written to body parts weaves together narratives of gender, identity, and abuse. It The book holds the concerns and truths that many trans people share while offering space for dialogue and reclamation. Written with intelligence and intimacy, this book is for those who have found power in re-shaping their bodies, families, and lives.
$27.95
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Lundy Bancroft Why Does He Do That?: Inside The Minds Of Angry And Controlling Men
In this groundbreaking bestseller, Lundy Bancroft--a counselor who specializes in working with abusive men--uses his knowledge about how abusers think to help women recognize when they are being controlled or devalued, and to find ways to get free of an abusive relationship. He says he loves you. So...why does he do that? You've asked yourself this question again and again. Now you have the chance to see inside the minds of angry and controlling men--and change your life. In Why Does He Do That? you will learn about: - The early warning signs of abuse - The nature of abusive thinking - Myths about abusers - Ten abusive personality types - The role of drugs and alcohol - What you can fix, and what you can't - And how to get out of an abusive relationship safely
$27.99
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Why Can't I Let You Go?
Break Free from Trauma Bonds, End Toxic Relationships, and Develop Healthy Attachments In Why Can’t I Let You Go, relationship expert Michelle Skeen will help you identify your attachment style, core beliefs, and the harmful behavior patterns that are keeping you stuck in toxic relationships. You’ll learn proven-effective skills to help you interrupt these unhelpful patterns and attachments in new and old relationships. You’ll also discover what you really value in relationships and go on to develop healthy, secure, and lasting love. Understanding yourself and your deeply held, and often unconscious, beliefs is the first step toward liberating yourself from trauma bonds. Change isn’t easy, but in time you’ll realize that it’s easier and less painful than the heartache and self-doubt you’ve been enduring for years. With this compassionate guide, you’ll find the support and guidance needed to create the loving relationships you truly want.
$29.95
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When Love Hurts: Abuse in Relationships
A Woman's Guide to Understanding Abuse in Relationships When Love Hurts was first published in 2000, it was designed to help women recognize the signs of abuse in a relationship and the abusive strategies their partner uses to control and disempower them. It also provides tools on what to do if a woman is experiencing abuse. Along with stories of women who have experienced many forms of abuse, When Love Hurts also offers exercises that allow readers to make their own decisions about their lives, or to understand what a friend or family member may be going through.
$27.99
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Michael Paymar Violent No More Workbook
The exercises in the Violent No More Workbook are specifically designed to help men who batter understand, monitor, and stop their abusive and controlling behavior. Also included are exercises designed for couples who are working through basic relationship issues such as negotiating, communicating, compromising, and disagreeing without becoming abusive or controlling. Mental health counselors or facilitators in domestic abuse programs make the book Violent No More and the Violent No More Workbook available to men in their domestic abuse groups or the clients they are seeing on an individual basis. Some programs provide the book and workbook to participants as part of their fee; others require participants to purchase the book and workbook, or contribute to the cost. The Violent No More Workbook is an easy to use, step-by-step process that is written directly to men. Men who batter can change if they have the courage and motivation to change. The exercises in this workbook will help them on their journey.
$40.95
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Patricia Evans The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How To Recognize It and How to Respond
For anyone who has been in a verbally abusive relationship, whether it is a family member, a friend, partner, or someone in the workplace, this book can help. It is a practical approach to dealing with the dysfunction in a verbally abusive relationship.
$24.95
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Heather Fraser & Kate Seymour Understanding Violence and Abuse
An Anti-Oppressive Practice Perspective In this book, the authors examine violence and abuse from an anti-oppressive practice perspective and make connections between interpersonal violence and structural, institutional and cultural violence. Using case studies from Canada and elsewhere, the authors discuss topics ranging from class oppression, street violence, white privilege, war, shame, Islamophobia and abuse in intimate relationships, and introduce the core tenets of anti-oppressive social work practice. They encourage readers to reflect upon hierarchies of identity and difference in relation to the ways in which violence and abuse are defined, understood, and addressed. This book also discuss several responses to violence using an anti-oppressive framework.
$40.00
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The Relationship Workbook: Activities for Developing Healthy Relationships and Preventing Domestic Violence
Ages 16 - Adults. This book is a practical resource addressing domestic violence prevention and intervention. This collection of 72 reproducible worksheets will help individuals and couples develop skills for creating and maintaining healthy relationships. The program can be easily customized for group facilitators working with older teens and adults. Each of 50 topics covered has one or more reproducible worksheets and a facilitator's information sheet. The language, illustrations and content are applicable to diverse client populations, including male and female perpetrators and survivors of domestic violence, people in same-sex relationships, adults healing from childhood exposure to violence and people in nonviolent relationships.
$72.95
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David Richo Ready: How to Know When to Go and When to Stay
The guide to finding your perfect timing for life's biggest decisions—whether to stay or go in relationships, jobs, locations, and everything that matters most.Do we stay in what we know? Or is it the right time to leave and make a change? In more than 50 years as a psychotherapist David Richo has been asked versions of this question more than any other. He has coached countless people of all ages through agonizing decisions related to their partnerships, their career, their home, their faith. In Ready, he shares the deep wisdom we need to make these decisions—and feel confident in following through. The book looks at the mystery of timing, why we stay too long, why we leave too soon, and what it feels like when the timing is right. Richo shows that readiness is about more than just making a choice. Being ready means we understand ourselves deeply—we are prepared to take action (and staying is an action!), and we are equipped with what it takes to follow through. Filled with relatable stories and helpful practices, including meditation, self-inquiry, journaling, and affirmations, Ready helps us understand our own perfect timing to stay or to go.
$23.95
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Open Hearts: Renewing Relationships with Recovery, Romance & Reality
How to Talk to Someone When You're Mad, Hurt, Scared, Frustrated, Insulted, Betrayed, or Desperate The authors share how they found their way to joyous and fulfilling intimacy. While these concepts originated in the recovery movement, they can transform any couple seeking renewal or trying to restore a broken relationship. This is a book a couple reads together. It takes techniques that Carnes and the Laasers developed in their psychotherapy practices and weaves them into a series of individual and joint exercises. Open Hearts addresses coupleship to show how a relationship, no matter how imperfect or new, can be transformed and restored to loving intimacy.
$29.50
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Rachel Louise Snyder No Visible Bruises
What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us In No Visible Bruises, journalist Rachel Louise Snyder gives context for what we don't know we're seeing. She frames this urgent and immersive account of the scale of domestic violence in our country around key stories that explode the common myths-that if things were bad enough, victims would just leave; that a violent person cannot become nonviolent; that shelter is an adequate response; and most insidiously that violence inside the home is a private matter, sealed from the public sphere and disconnected from other forms of violence. Through the stories of victims, perpetrators, law enforcement, and reform movements from across the country, Snyder explores the real roots of private violence, its far-reaching consequences for society, and what it will take to truly address it.
$24.00
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Resmaa Menakem Monsters in Love: Why Your Partner Sometimes Drives You Crazy - and What You Can Do About It
Conflict is a natural part of any intimate relationship. Yet most couples either avoid it or try to smooth over their differences. This often results in at least one partner compromising their integrity-and stunting their own growth. Monsters in Love challenges the idea that conflict between partners is unhealthy or something to avoid. Instead, it encourages both people to stand by what they need and who they are-but to do so with compassion rather than competitiveness or vengefulness.
$29.50
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Ramani Durvasula It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People
It's not always easy to tell when you're dealing with a narcissistic person. One day they draw you in with their charm and charisma, the next they gaslight you, wreck your self-esteem, and leave you wondering, What should I have done differently? The answer is: absolutely nothing. Just as a tiger can't change its stripes, a narcissist will not stop manipulating and invalidating you, no matter how much you try to appease them. Drawing on more than two decades of studying the landscape of narcissism and working with survivors, Dr. Ramani explores how narcissists hijack our well-being and offers a healing path forward. Unpacking the oft-misunderstood personality, she reveals the telltale behavioral patterns that indicate you may be dealing with a narcissist. Along the way, you'll learn how to become gaslight resistant, chip away at the trauma bonds that keep you stuck in the cycle, grieve the loss of these painful relationships, create and maintain realistic boundaries, discern unhelpful behaviors from narcissistic behaviors, and recover your sense of self after constant invalidation.
$39.00
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Help for High-Conflict Couples
Using Emotionally Focused Therapy and the Science of Attachment to Build Lasting Connection Based in the revolutionary science of attachment theory and evidence-based emotionally focused therapy (EFT), this is an effective, research-based road map for helping high-conflict couples break free from painful and destructive habits. With this book, you'll uncover the root cause of your conflicts-both as individuals and as a couple. You'll also find simple strategies for creating an emotionally secure environment, as well as tips for managing triggers, de-escalating arguments, and cultivating a real and lasting connection. Feeling emotionally safe and secure in our relationships is a primal need, and it is integral for our health and well-being. If you're ready to transform conflict and chaos into unshakable closeness, this book will guide you, every step of the way.
$29.95
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Dr. Stephanie Sarkis Healing From Toxic Relationships
10 Essential Steps to Recover from Gaslighting, Narcissism and Emotional Abuse Surviving and escaping a toxic or abusive relationship can often only be part of the struggle. Long after, survivors often struggle to heal; your self-esteem may be damaged, you may feel rage and betrayal, and you may punish and/or blame yourself. The author of Gaslighting and specialist in toxic behavior, narcissistic abuse, and personality disorders, Dr. Stephanie Sarkis has seen it all--and she is here to help you understand how to move forward. In Healing from Toxic Relationships, Dr. Sarkis extends compassion and knowledge to survivors, helping you understand the underpinnings of toxic behavior and how to find peace.
$24.99
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Robin Stern The Gaslight Effect Recovery Guide: Your Personal Journey Toward Healing from Emotional Abuse: A Gaslighting Book
This guided journal helps readers understand the dynamics of challenging and unhealthy relationships, and how to leave one. Author of The Gaslight Effect. In 2007, Dr. Robin Stern coined the phrase to explain the long-term effects of repeated gaslighting, covert emotional abuse that undermines and controls another person by deflecting, twisting, and denying their reality. Gaslighting can happen in a romantic relationship, between family members, or at work. In every case, victims constantly second-guessing themselves, are loathe to make simple decisions, and destabilized from the constant reality shifts. This book will help you identify if you are part of a pattern of emotional abuse and free yourself from that dynamic with crucial mindset shifts. Prompts, checklists, quizzes, and guided reflective questions explore past and present relationships, helping readers gain confidence to leave an abusive partner set boundaries in unavoidable situations, and heal.
$24.99
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Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy With Trauma Survivors
Strengthening Attachment Bonds Combining attachment theory, trauma research, and emotionally focused therapeutic techniques, clinicians learn to help modify interactional patterns that maintain traumatic stress, thereby fostering positive, healing relationships among survivors and their partners. In-depth case material details the process of assessment and treatment with couples coping with the impact of different kinds of trauma, including childhood abuse, serious illness, and combat experiences. The concluding chapter features valuable advice on therapist self-care.
$56.95
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Emotional Blackmail
Susan Forward presents the anatomy of a relationship damaged by manipulation, and gives readers an arsenal of tools to fight back. In her clear, no-nonsense style, Emotional Blackmail provides powerful, practical strategies for blackmail targets, including checklists, practice scenarios and concrete communications techniques that will strengthen relationships and break the blackmail cycle for good.
$21.00
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Theresa Comito The Emotional Abuse Recovery Workbook: Breaking the Cycle of Psychological Violence
Move your life forward with this workbook for healing Move away from harmful personal and professional relationships, and instead, toward recovery and growth. This accessible workbook will help you identify and acknowledge abuse, validate your feelings, practice self-care, set boundaries, create a safety plan, examine healthy relationships, and design your exit plan. The Emotional Abuse Recovery Workbook offers ways to work through your trauma, leading you through the process of awareness, understanding, and healing. Engaging exercises steer you to look inward and examine and navigate relationships, while keeping your health and safety a priority. You'll identify your strengths and values, work out strategies to manage daily challenges, discover your resilience, and promote improved self-worth and a sense of well-being. In this workbook you'll learn to: Identify emotional abuse—Begin to recognize, acknowledge, and understand the dynamics of emotional abuse, and start your recovery process. Take action—Move into guided examinations of your relationships. Make an exit plan with boundaries and safety nets to build new, healthier skills, and rediscover self-compassion and self-care. Move forward—Avoid repeating old patterns. Rebuild. Map out next steps into healthier relationships and greater independence while you enhance your network of supporters. Regain your freedom and sense of self with The Emotional Abuse Recovery Workbook.
$23.99
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Draw On Your Relationships
Draw on Your Relationships (2nd Edition) is a bestselling reproducible resource to help people of all ages express, communicate and deal more effectively with their emotions through drawing. Built around five key themes, each section contains a simple picture exercise with clear objectives, instructions and suggestions for development. The picture activities have been carefully designed to help ease the process of both talking about feelings and exploring life choices, by trying out alternatives safely on paper. This will help to create clarity and new perspectives as a step towards positive action. The Relationship Cards are a supplemental resource (sold separately) that enhance this resource.
$92.95
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Alice Miller Drama Of The Gifted Child: Search for the True Self
The Search for the True Self "Far too many of us had to learn as children to hide our own feelings, needs, and memories skillfully in order to meet our parents' expectations and win their "love." Alice Miller writes, "When I used the word "gifted" in the title, I had in mind neither children who receive high grades in school nor children talented in a special way. I simply meant all of us who have survived an abusive childhood thanks to an ability to adapt even to unspeakable cruelty by becoming numb… Without this 'gift' offered us by nature, we would not have survived." Learn how to thrive with this validating book.
$22.99
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Dee Wilkinson Creating Your Future After a Toxic Relationship: A Coaching Workbook
Dee Wilkinson uses a coaching approach throughout the workbook, taking the reader through a logical 10-step process to design a brighter future in line with their authentic self. There are exercises, tools, and techniques for the reader to work through to help them understand themselves fully, therefore creating better long-term decision making. A life coach can also use the resource to support the reader's journey through the steps by asking coaching questions and offering insights and challenges as necessary to keep the reader on track.
$35.95
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Shahida Arabi Breaking Trauma Bonds With Narcissists And Psychopaths
Stop the Cycle of Manipulation, Exploitation, and Abuse in Your Romantic Relationships Is your relationship thriving, or merely surviving? Are you the victim of constant manipulation, gaslighting, and deception at the hands of your partner? Do you constantly make excuses for your partner's abusive behavior? If you feel trapped in a relationship with someone who displays narcissistic or psychopathic behavior, you may be experiencing a trauma bond-a powerful connection you've developed with your abuser as a result of the danger, betrayal, or a power imbalance inherent in your relationship. This powerful guide is packed with the tools you need to finally break free from the destructive grip of narcissistic or psychopathic abuse. Identify manipulation tactics used by abusers to create and maintain unhealthy bonds, and learn how to recognize, understand, and draw boundaries with your partner. Insightful tips and practical strategies in this book will help you end your relationship safely and build healthy relationships in the future.
$29.95
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