Healing from Toxic Relationships
Workbook
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​​​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?
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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:
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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.
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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.
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Do yourself a favor and learn what happened so you can heal and not experience that hurt again!
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​​This workbook teaches you about the following topics, has journal entry prompts, and teaches you coping tools. Get your copy in print or digital today!
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1. Introduction - Life is a Journey
2. Power and Control Wheel, and Nonviolence Wheel
3. Cycle of Violence
4. Love Bombing and Setting Boundaries
5. Trauma Bonding and Codependency
6. Safety Planning
7. Trauma in the Brain
8. Deconstructing Communication
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Please process this information with others, but direct anyone wanting a copy of the workbook to my website. Tag me in your social media posts @katemageau.therapist
Thank you for your support and for your courage to learn and heal! <3 :)
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While you're here, also check out my Warning Signs books! They tell my story of domestic violence, and teach about the domestic violence that was occurring at the end of every chapter. It's another way to learn and heal, and a way to teach people in your life about it too, so you don't have to do as much explaining. <3
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Most of the first book is also uploaded as a podcast!
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