Healing from Toxic Relationships Workbook

Have you ever left a relationship and thought What just happened? Or have you been in a relationship where you were constantly questioning what was happening, who the other person really was, or why you stayed in it longer than you would normally stay in a relationship that didn't make you happy?If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may have been in a toxic relationship, that may have included intimate partner violence (emotional abuse counts!). In order to truly heal from these relationships, we have to understand what happened in them.Learning about the abuse has two main functions:One - It helps us process the memories in our frontal cortex so that we can remove them from being stuck in the hippocampus. When memories are stuck there, we experience them as PTSD or trigger or activating responses. In other words, the confusing memories are stuck in our bodies and get expressed as surprising reactions from out of nowhere.Two - It teaches us what happened so we don't get in those relationships again! So many times, people will leave abusive relationships, only to get into another one, or one that is toxic and controlling, so it doesn't seem as bad as the abusive relationship, but it still hurts.Do yourself a favor and learn what happened so you can heal and not experience that hurt again!I am a mental health therapist and a domestic violence survivor. I have extensive training and personal experience with this topic, and I have taught this content to other domestic survivors over a thousand times. I know it helps people!This workbook will teach you about all the components of abuse so you can understand what happened to you, which will help you heal. It also includes coping tools to help regain your self-esteem; and meditations and journal prompts.Sections inside this workbook:1. Introduction - Life is a Journey2. Power and Control Wheel, and Nonviolence Wheel3. Cycle of Violence4. Love Bombing and Setting Boundaries5. Trauma Bonding and Codependency6. Safety Planning7. Trauma in the Brain8. Deconstructing Communication Read more