Description
A game changing resource for those seeking to reevaluate their relationships.” —Publishers Weekly
Let go of your toxic partner, heal your emotional wounds, and set healthy boundaries for future relationships with this step-by-step guide to overcoming toxic relationships.
From red flags to crossed boundaries, to lies and gaslighting, you’ve recognized that you were or currently are in a toxic relationship. But now what?
It’s time to fully let the relationship go and begin to heal. With Toxic Relationship Recovery, you’ll address the ways that you were wronged during your relationship. You’ll learn strategies for how to trust other people and yourself again after being gaslit, find the warning signs of toxicity and narcissism in others, and reframe negative, harmful thoughts to a positive outlook on life.
As you work to let go of the toxic relationship that ate away at your happiness, you’ll learn how to carve out space for you to be happy on your own and to love yourself for who you are. When you’re ready to enter another relationship, you’ll implement healthy boundaries and clear communication. Put yourself first with Toxic Relationship Recovery.
This book helps you look inward and heal. Set boundaries for what doesn’t feel right to you. Helps navigate the new you with your current relationships.
Great book, great information! Easy to understand.
Here is my honest review. It’s a long one but worth it, I promise!
I spent 29 years of my life trying to figure myself out, the ongoing toxic relationships I got involved with, and the ones that happened all around me throughout my life trajectory. I am 30 now.
I grew up in a developing country with deeply rooted patriarchal ideals and religious doctrine. I faced childhood domestic abuse, got bullied at school (obligated to be best friends with my bully to earn her approval), and went from one toxic relationship to another all throughout my childhood, adolescence, and well into my early adulthood.
All of this created a deep sense of insecurity within myself. It wasn’t until the end of 2022, while suffering from MDD, that I decided to break off my engagement with my narcissistic, prone-to-anger, domestic partner of 7 years. Shortly after, I stumbled upon Jamie’s book. At the end of my painful journey with toxic relationships, it all came down to the decision (after deeply concerning thoughts started to kick in) if I was going to stand up and fight this internal war with blood and tears or give up entirely on myself.
I’m not even close when I tell you Jamie’s book wrapped up the 29 years of my life. Her book stared directly into my soul, all my pain, and every single experience, and she broke them down one by one into manageable chunks to analyze them in her book. I spent all my life researching books and on the internet, to the point that I started to look into my own mental health, wondering if there was something wrong with me. You don’t know how much I wished I had found her book sooner with all my heart.
I consider “Toxic Relationship Recovery” my go-to book, and I even dare to say my bible. In her book, Jaime writes eloquently, speaking human-to-human, and presents case stories with clear examples to elaborate on her advice, exercises, and action items. It is a complete workbook. Jamie talks directly to your child-self, and trust me when I say so many parts of me healed reading this book.
Even if nothing resonates now, I urge you to read it. Sometimes, when reading, and because we are dealing with so much pain, we can deny what is happening right in front of our eyes. Still, deep down, something in our gut gives us a true, undeniable feeling that we need to move on. When you read Jamie’s book, there will come a moment in your life when something happens, and her advice will kick in and give you just enough fire within yourself to take the jump and choose yourself once and for all. I hope this helps and wish you all the best in your healing journey!
This book is an excellent resource for those coming out of toxic relationships. Highly recommend.
From a professional perspective (I am a therapist), I highly recommend this book. I work through this book with clients and they tell me that it triggers them (in a good way) to realize how toxic the relationship they are in or getting out of, really is. I love the exercises at the end of each chapter that lead to healing discussions and the development of personal autonomy. It helps clients (and myself) realize the toxic traits that our partners or ourselves have and ways that we can correct them to steer our own ships. 10/10 recommend!