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Whole again : healing your heart and rediscovering your true self after toxic relationships and emotional abuse / Jackson MacKenzie ; foreword by Shannon Thomas

Author
MacKenzie, Jackson
Published
[New York] : A TarcherPerigee Book, [2019]
Copyright Date
©2019
Physical Description
xxxii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

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Contents
Foreword -- The feeling in my heart -- Introduction: Fracture -- Tools. Daily practice -- Mindfulness -- Personal responsibility -- Unconditional love -- Identifying the protective self. Looking for patterns -- Your protective self -- The perfectionist -- The cluster-B abuse survivor -- Codependent -- C-PTSD -- Avoidant -- Borderline -- Other protective selves -- Deconstructing the protective self. Beyond numbness -- External to internal -- Resentment -- Intentional triggers -- Fear: Anxiety and depression -- The core wound -- Resolving the core wound. Just stay -- Toxic shame -- Self-doubt -- Self-forgiveness -- Forgiveness -- Boundaries -- Changing life -- Shifting from a dual to non-dual perspective -- Whole again -- Afterword: Angel.
Summary
"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 book, he guides readers 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 close work with--and deep connection to--thousands of survivors of abusive relationships Jackson discovered that most survivors have symptoms of trauma long after the relationship is over. These range from feelings of numbness and emptiness to depression, perfectionism, substance abuse, and many more. But he's also found that it is possible to work through these symptoms and find love on the other side, and this book shows how. Through a practice of mindfulness, introspection, and exercises using specific tools, readers learn to identify the protective self they've developed - and uncover the core self, so that they can finally move on to live a full and authentic life--to once again feel light, free, and whole, and ready to love again. This book addresses and provides crucial guidance on topics and conditions like: complex PTSD, Narcissistic abuse, Avoidant Personality Disorder, Codependency, Core wounding, toxic shame, Borderline Personality Disorder, and so many more. 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"--
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9780143133315 (paperback)
0143133314 (paperback)
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