A guide to leaving painful, destructive relationships behind—both at home and at work Toxic relationships often come disguised as seemingly normal ones. These subtly destructive 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 book, transpersonal psychotherapist Avril Carruthers will take a close look at adult relationships to show why we get involved in toxic relationships in the first place, and instruct the reader on how to recognize if they’re involved in one. Once the toxic relationship is identified, the author shows the reader how to begin their journey toward healing and how to meet the world with a new kind of confidence, so that the cycle of toxic relationships can be broken once and for all. What Carruthers teaches is just how possible it can be to learn how to recognize the manipulative or sweetly corrosive partner, the family dynamics that make Christmas and other get-togethers seem like hell, or the nightmare boss who causes daily torment—and that we can learn to leave these painful, destructive patterns behind forever.

Freedom from Toxic Relationships: Moving On from the Family, Work, and Relationship Issues That Bring You Down

Self-Help

Carruthers, Avril

Relationships

TarcherPerigee

In order to survive the challenges presented by families, the workplace, and relationships, many people put on masks and play roles. These include the victim who only feels good when they are rescuing people; the bully who monsters others; and the insecure who allow others to step on them. These roles are often developed in childhood and can last a lifetime, and their presence can drain and sabotage individuals, distracting them from leading better lives. Accessible and inspired, this innovative approach to deep-seated issues looks at the destructive influence of repressed hurts and traumas that manifest themselves in the form of personality types, and offers insight on how to release them once and for all.

Let Your Past Go and Live: Freedom from Family, Relationship and Work Baggage

Motivational

Inspired Living

A guide to the tools needed to leave painful, destructive relationships behind, both at home and at work, with dozens of helpful case histories Starting with details of how to recognize the manipulative or sweetly corrosive partner, the family dynamics that make Christmas and other get-togethers hell, and the nightmare boss, this book teaches readers what they can do to leave painful, destructive relationship patterns behind. Toxic relationships come in many guises, which can make them hard to identify. This guide explains that often they don't entail physical violence so much as a slow erosion of self esteem, a loss of personal identity, or a growing desire to please friends, partners, family members, and others who are impossible to please. Many toxic relationships begin early in childhood, or as people start to form their own personal relationships, and even when they find the courage to move on, if the fallout from these relationships is not dealt with, they may end up attracting more of the same. This book teaches how to observe these patterns in relationships, making it possible to truly move on.

Freedom from Toxic Relationships: Moving on from the Family, Work and Relationship Issues That Bring You Down

Allen& Unwin

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