Healing from Toxic Relationships

Name: Healing from Toxic Relationships
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9780306847257
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10 Essential Steps to Recover from Gaslighting, Narcissism, and Emotional Abuse

By Stephanie M Sarkis

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Healing from Toxic Relationships by Dr Stephanie M Sarkis offers compassionate guidance for survivors of toxic or abusive relationships. The book outlines ten essential steps to help readers move forward, including blocking contact, creating closure, forgiving oneself, setting boundaries, seeking professional help, practising self-care, reconnecting, grieving, looking outward, and preventing future toxicity. Drawing on her expertise in narcissistic abuse and personality disorders, Dr Sarkis provides a practical and accessible framework for healing and regaining peace.
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This book is ideal for anyone dealing with toxic relationships—whether with partners, family, friends, or colleagues—seeking expert advice and a practical path to recovery.

From the psychologist and author of Gaslighting comes a practical recovery plan outlining ten foundational steps to true healing.

Description

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 behaviour, 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 behaviour and how to find peace.

Highlighting ten essential steps, Dr. Sarkis provides survivors with an accessible framework that can be applied to anyone preparing to heal:

1. Block or Limit Contact

2. Create Your Own Closure

3. Forgive Yourself

4. Establish Boundaries

5. Talk to a Professional

6. Practice Self-Care

7. Reconnect

8. Grieve

9. Look Outward

10. Prevent: Keeping Toxic People Away

Anyone who is in a toxic relationship—whether it’s with a romantic partner, colleague, family member, or friend—deserves a way out and a path forward. Dr. Sarkis offers help and hope.

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Publishers Weekly praises the book for its practicality, noting its clear enumerated lists and self-assessment check-ins which aid readers in addressing issues such as anger control and codependency. They describe it as a thorough programme for healing from abuse.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780306847257

Publisher: Hachette Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 July 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Da Capo Press Inc

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 168.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 296g

Pages: 272

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About the Author

Stephanie Moulton Sarkis, PhD, NCC, DCMHS, LMHC is a psychotherapist specializing in anxiety, gaslighting, narcissistic abuse, and ADHD. She is the author of several books, including the best-selling Gaslighting: Recognize Manipulative and Emotionally Abusive People - and Break Free. Dr. Sarkis is a National Certified Counselor, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and a Florida Supreme Court Certified Family and Circuit Mediator. She is an American Mental Health Counselors Association Diplomate with a designation of Clinical Mental Health Specialist in Child and Adolescent Counseling, one of only 20 therapists in the US with that designation. She has been in private practice for 20 years. She is a senior contributor for Forbes and a contributor to Psychology Today. She is the host of the Talking Brains podcast. She is based in Tampa, Florida. You can visit her website at www.stephaniesarkis.com.