Whole Again

Healing Your Heart and Rediscovering Your True Self After Toxic Relationships and Emotional Abuse

De: Jackson MacKenzie, Shannon Thomas - foreword

Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith, Erin Spencer

From a leading voice on recovering from toxic relationships, a deeply insightful guide to getting back to your "old self" again - in order to truly heal and move on.

Jackson MacKenzie has helped millions of people in their struggle to understand the experience of toxic relationships. His first book, Psychopath Free, explained how to identify and survive the immediate situation. In this highly anticipated new audiobook, he guides listeners on what to do next - how to fully heal from abuse in order to find love and acceptance for the self and others.

Through his work with thousands of survivors of abusive relationships, Jackson discovered that survivors frequently have symptoms of trauma lasting long after the relationship is over. These may include feelings of numbness and emptiness, depression, mood swings, isolation, perfectionism, rumination, caretaking and people-pleasing, a need for control, physical maladies, substance abuse, and more.

But he also found that it is possible to work through these symptoms and find fulfillment and love on the other side. In Whole Again, he shares insights and tools for working through the protective self we've developed so that we can finally move on to live a full and authentic life - to once again feel light, free, whole, and ready to give and receive love.

Like Brené Brown's The Gifts of Imperfection and John Bradshaw's Healing the Shame that Binds You, Whole Again offers hope and multiple strategies to anyone who has survived a toxic relationship, as well as anyone suffering the effects of a breakup involving lying, cheating, and other forms of abuse - to release old wounds and safely let the love back inside where it belongs.

©2019 Jackson MacKenzie and Shannon Thomas (P)2019 Penguin Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

“In Whole Again, Jackson MacKenzie lays open some of his own personal wounds to advise on how scars from past traumas can heal. He describes how development of a ‘protective self’ can provide acute, numbing relief from emotional pain, but at the expense of more enduring self-acceptance. MacKenzie addresses co-dependency, addiction, post-traumatic stress, and borderline, narcissistic, and other personality disorders, outlining pathways to achieve forgiveness and discharging shame. This book may help fill in the holes that can make you whole again.” (Jerold Kreisman, MD, co-author of I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality)

"Jackson’s book is an empathetic gem of true knowing. Dismantling the effects of trauma can be a daunting undertaking. Whole Again is a compassionate guide. It takes your hand and encourages you to keep going, prompting you to build a power base of self-discovery that takes you home to yourself. All true healing happens within, which in turn offers you the miracle of hope." (Sarah Brassard, author of Inside: A Guide to the Resources Within to Stay Connected to Your Truth, Even in Trying Times)

"In Whole Again, Jackson MacKenzie has synthesized the important basic principles and tools of healing and writes in a style that is both warm and articulate. Whole Again offers a good starting point for those not yet ready for therapy or in conjunction with therapy. It is almost impossible to deal effectively on your own with the effects of trauma and abuse, but having a supportive community and using the simple tools in this book can help you begin the journey toward healing." (Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, founder of A Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy® [PACT], and author of Wired for Love and We Do: Saying Yes to a Relationship of Depth, True Connection, and Enduring Love)

time to heal!

Actually very helpful. nice to have an actual recovery book that is focused on healing,moving on and letting go and on improving the self, not anybody else! I would reccomend to anybody who has suffered from narcissistic abuse syndrome who is ready to move on with life and stop obsessing over the abuser!_

Enlightening

Put words to the chaos in my brain and heart! So helpful for the healing process. Excellent book.

Triggered!!

I hardly ever get triggered but going through a break up with a severely narcissistic sociopath and me being co-dependent, I felt this book SO MUCH!! Had tears coming down quite a few times and it has helped me realize that none of this was my fault and I need to let go. Thank you for this book! Seriously!!!

Gave me a very close to understanding BPD vs Narcissist

Being an empath, this book give me a sense of belongingness and hoping that by listening to this book more times that it will imprint in my senses that I do not have the power to change a BPD but the power to change me, FOR the better.

Major impact on my journey to wholeness

And helped me understand what that means in the first place. This book has been a key stepping stone for me. I've listened to it 3 times now over the course of about 10 months and probably will again at some point.

Fast track to heal from dysfunctional relationship

Please listen/read this book if you are a survivor of a dysfunctional relationship or raised in a unhealthy home environment. it's very transformational 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾♥️♥️🏁

Emotional abuse

If you ever been through an emotionally abusive relationship and as a result feel like you’ve lost yourself and deal with their inner critic in tour head and intrusive thoughts, this book is for you. I highly suggest reading it, it’s a great book.

narcissist abuse to healing

This book helped me through an excruciating breakup with a covert narcissist with a dismissive-avoidant attachment style. I highly recommend this book in your collection if you want to find out the ROOT of your pain and begin healing in many facets. It is a must-own.

Must Read!!!

This book was a life saver for me. I was married to a narc/sociopath and the psychological and emotional damage has been hard to manage. Through listening to this I began to understand what happened, begin to heal and love myself again. It was the hope I needed.

A powerful, practical, healing book

The insights in this book have gone far beyond my other sources of knowledge and wisdom on my journey to feeling whole again, including therapy and countless other books. Understanding the core wound and how that generates the protective self that manifests differently depending on if you have codependent or BPD patterns has been a huge gift towards me letting go of the stories I’ve used to keep me feeling grounded and safe but ultimately kept me in cycles of unhealthy habits in relationships.