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A guide to leaving painful, destructive relationships behind - both at home and at work. Toxic relationships are characterized by the slow erosion of self-esteem, a loss of personal identity, or a growing desire to please friends, partners, and family members who are impossible to please. In this uplifting and informative audiobook, psychotherapist Avril Carruthers shows why we get involved in toxic relationships in the first place, and instructs the listener on how to recognize if they’re involved in one.

Codependency is a slippery slope you can slide down without realizing it. One day you wake up and genuinely don’t know who you are anymore, and that terrifies you. Sound familiar? Honestly, that’s okay. By stepping forward and speaking up for yourself internally, you’re taking the biggest, most important step of the journey.

An anxious attachment style slowly decays many relationships: whether from causing petty arguments, breakdowns in trust, or spirals of overthinking. Anxious attachment leads to fights and an array of other issues. Often, you may not even realize it!!

This book is designed to help you learn how to cope with addicts, alcoholics or substance abusers. Like most people, you are probably exhausted from trying to cope with all of the lies, arguments, anger, broken trust, stealing, manipulation, and insane behaviors that accompany having a relationship with an addict. Perhaps you have lost all hope for change and find yourself caught between loving who the substance abuser once was with all of your heart and hating the addict that they have become.

Vampires are real. They come in the form of human beings we deal with every single day. People with narcissistic personality disorder can be anyone: your parents, your spouse, your lover, your co-workers, your close friends, your boss, your teacher, or your landlord. If you have experienced the negative effects from a real-life vampire in your life, or are still struggling desperately to free yourself from one or more people with NPD, this book was designed to help you.

En Despierta Lorena Pronsky nos habla, de una manera honesta y visceral, sobre cómo superar los golpes de la vida: las pérdidas, el desamor y los miedos.

Lisa A. Romano escribió este libro para ayudar a liberar los recuerdos y las emociones de los adultos que han sido educados y vistos, y quienes tienen de codependencia, ansiedad, baja autoestima, autodeterminación paralizante y depresión. Romano es una entrenadora certificada en vida, una maestra de meditación, una facilitadora de talleres y creadora del Programa de Entrenamiento de 12 Semanas, y también una sobreviviente de depresión, ansiedad, trastornos de la alimentación y codependencia.

With research-based insights, you will be able to dig deep, take stock of your situation, how you can start breaking the chains that holds you back, and how you can make sure that you never find yourself in the same predicament again.

In this revised and updated edition of the original, groundbreaking book Overcoming Perfectionism: The Key to a Balanced Recovery, Smith describes the key differences between overt and covert perfectionism; the role early attachment, temperament, sibling relationships, and life circumstances play in developing this pattern; and how to shift toward a center of balance for a more fulfilling life.

Imagine living a peaceful life… One where you move through your days confidently and authentically… Doing your thing without worrying about how you’ll be received… That’s the life I always dreamed was possible, but I had no idea know how to get there. I felt trapped in a constant loop of people-pleasing, toxic relationships and burnout, and simply didn’t have the time for my own dreams.

This simple yet profound guidebook takes you step-by-step through the process of building a life after addiction by adopting new behaviors that create lasting change. An internationally renowned psychiatrist, neurologist, and addiction specialist, Dr. Walter Ling has worked with thousands of addicts, their loved ones, and fellow clinicians. His no-nonsense, no-judgment approach, which he calls the "neuroscience of common sense," advocates holistic methods to prevent relapse and establish new patterns to create a sustainable, meaningful life.

Dentro de este audiolibro, explora qué es la codependencia, así como el trastorno de personalidad narcisista (NPD). Descubre cómo estos trastornos afectan las relaciones en ambos lados del espectro: las que son abusadas por un narcisista y las que abusan de sus parejas. Descubre por qué sucede, qué sale mal en estas relaciones y cómo se puede volver a estar bien si alguien así lo desea. ¡El objetivo de este audiolibro es proporcionar información y orientación a través de pasos prácticos que uno puede tomar inmediatamente después de terminar de escuchar!

This book covers a selected range of topics, insights, and examples presented in the form of a guide. It discusses the subject of verbally abusive relationships, introducing the term and all that it entails. It also lists the most common red flags we should look out for in these types of relationships. Then, it zooms into a healthy relationship dynamic to showcase the difference between the two. It is vital for those listeners who didn’t get a positive example in their childhood homes. This book is meant to help you identify who and what your dealing with and give potential solutions.

Do you feel deeply misunderstood and unseen in your relationships? Does your sensitivity feel like a curse? Do you want to confidently stand up for yourself in the face of emotionally abusive people? If you've answered yes to one or all of these questions, you're most likely an Empath.

Expert psychotherapist and couples' counsellor Jessica Baum has over 10 years' experience helping her clients discover the mutually supportive relationships they deserve. In Anxiously Attached, she shares the groundbreaking research and practical tools you need to understand your core attachment patterns and form healthier and more fulfilling relationships.

Do you wake up in the morning with the feeling of anxiety or panic running through your veins? If so, there is a Twelve Step program for you that can help! Having co-dependence, perfectionism, worrying, depression, obsessing, gossiping, overt or covert manipulating, overworking, overthinking, people-pleasing, rushing, and going through life exhausted and feeling like the walking dead, all fall under this category, as well.

Theodore If you don't know me by Now. Theodore Dereese began his career as the drummer in Harold Melvin’s band before exchanging the drum riser for the microphone, his importance in the band cemented by stellar performances on songs like ‘Wake Up Everybody’, something that eventually caused friction in a band that, confusingly, bore someone else’s name. After scoring a No 1 hit with the first song they ever wrote, The O’Jays’ ‘BackStabbers’, Gene McFadden and John Whitehead were assigned the task of writing and producing for Harold Melvin. “Working with them was a ...

More often than you think, a couple’s life seems a continuous course around pain and disappointment. Maybe, you feel stuck in a relationship that seems to have nothing more to give, and you are wondering if there is something wrong with you. You don’t need to endure these situations any longer.

Addiction is a difficult and painful road, and to love an addict is to try and maneuver that road without ever having learned how to drive. For the codependent, loving an addict is going 100 miles an hour without a seatbelt. As loved ones of addicts, the more we can understand addiction and codependency and how the two impact each other in personal relationships, the better able we will be to recognize what we need to do, both for ourselves and for the addicts in our lives.

What does it take to finally strip off masks of attempted perfection? Is exposing the pain and chaos in your heart and getting real with yourself and others worth it to find true freedom? Jackie Brewer Van Dyke yearned for a fairytale family. Promising herself to never end up like her violent father and overly timid mother, the young girl morphed into “the fixer" in her household, believing she alone could put an end to the cycle of abuse. Determined to conceal her pain and feelings of inadequacy, she hid behind the façade of perfectionism. Though she resolved to never expose her ...