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The Emotional Abuse Recovery Workbook: Breaking the Cycle of Psychological Violence
Move your life forward with this workbook for healing
Move away from harmful personal and professional relationships, and instead, toward recovery and growth. This accessible workbook will help you identify and acknowledge abuse, validate your feelings, practice self-care, set boundaries, create a safety plan, examine healthy relationships, and design your exit plan.
The Emotional Abuse Recovery Workbook offers ways to work through your trauma, leading you through the process of awareness, understanding, and healing. Engaging exercises steer you to look inward and examine and navigate relationships, while keeping your health and safety a priority. You'll identify your strengths and values, work out strategies to manage daily challenges, discover your resilience, and promote improved self-worth and a sense of well-being.
In this workbook you'll learn
Regain your freedom and sense of self with The Emotional Abuse Recovery Workbook .
Move away from harmful personal and professional relationships, and instead, toward recovery and growth. This accessible workbook will help you identify and acknowledge abuse, validate your feelings, practice self-care, set boundaries, create a safety plan, examine healthy relationships, and design your exit plan.
The Emotional Abuse Recovery Workbook offers ways to work through your trauma, leading you through the process of awareness, understanding, and healing. Engaging exercises steer you to look inward and examine and navigate relationships, while keeping your health and safety a priority. You'll identify your strengths and values, work out strategies to manage daily challenges, discover your resilience, and promote improved self-worth and a sense of well-being.
In this workbook you'll learn
Regain your freedom and sense of self with The Emotional Abuse Recovery Workbook .
- GenresPsychologyMental Health
158 pages, Paperback
Published August 4, 2020
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August 23, 2020
Somewhat useful as a tool for the right person.
First, a disclaimer that I have read more psychology texts than the average person, as I find them a wonderful tool to learn from, including a couple that are cited as references for this book. My review is thus from that perspective.
Early in the book, emotion abuse and survivors are described as such:
"Emotional abuse is systemic, nonphysical bullying. It encompasses a pattern of behaviors used against the victim to hurt, undermine, and control them. The abuser's primary mission is control. As a victim of emotional abuse, you may experience anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, confusion, difficulty concentrating or making decisions, and other physical symptoms."
It's entirely valid, but it also explains why this workbook is just a tool in the path to escape and recovery, not the be-all, end-all. For someone in the depths of abuse, it's terribly difficult to see the positives and a way out, which would make answering some of the questions effectively a challenge, if not impossible. Questions that may assist in a stronger mindset, like "Do you notice any patterns in your own relationships?" can easily be answered with self-negative answers, perpetuating the effect of the abuse.
The guidance about support systems is strong, but I question some of the potential people cited. It's a heavy burden to ask a co-worker, and I don't see an HR Department as being there for psychological home guidance.
If the survivor is in the proper mindset, with the right resources and support, and is able to work on this book without the abuser seeing it (because that could bring extreme pain to one's life, quickly), it may help. Given the severe long-term psychological damage that emotional abuse causes, and the difficulty in recognizing self-worth and breaking free, this could be a very small percentage of people in these circumstances.
Many of the questions don't have enough space for a thorough answer - one specifically cites 10 minutes brainstorming, with a mere 10 lines to do so. Other questions seem over complicated, asking for words to be listed in order of importance from 1-20 when survivors may not find importance or significance in many things yet.
First, a disclaimer that I have read more psychology texts than the average person, as I find them a wonderful tool to learn from, including a couple that are cited as references for this book. My review is thus from that perspective.
Early in the book, emotion abuse and survivors are described as such:
"Emotional abuse is systemic, nonphysical bullying. It encompasses a pattern of behaviors used against the victim to hurt, undermine, and control them. The abuser's primary mission is control. As a victim of emotional abuse, you may experience anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, confusion, difficulty concentrating or making decisions, and other physical symptoms."
It's entirely valid, but it also explains why this workbook is just a tool in the path to escape and recovery, not the be-all, end-all. For someone in the depths of abuse, it's terribly difficult to see the positives and a way out, which would make answering some of the questions effectively a challenge, if not impossible. Questions that may assist in a stronger mindset, like "Do you notice any patterns in your own relationships?" can easily be answered with self-negative answers, perpetuating the effect of the abuse.
The guidance about support systems is strong, but I question some of the potential people cited. It's a heavy burden to ask a co-worker, and I don't see an HR Department as being there for psychological home guidance.
If the survivor is in the proper mindset, with the right resources and support, and is able to work on this book without the abuser seeing it (because that could bring extreme pain to one's life, quickly), it may help. Given the severe long-term psychological damage that emotional abuse causes, and the difficulty in recognizing self-worth and breaking free, this could be a very small percentage of people in these circumstances.
Many of the questions don't have enough space for a thorough answer - one specifically cites 10 minutes brainstorming, with a mere 10 lines to do so. Other questions seem over complicated, asking for words to be listed in order of importance from 1-20 when survivors may not find importance or significance in many things yet.
May 14, 2023
Amazing. Just a life saver. I feel validated and more healed than before. My abuser as my mother and two ex boyfriends. This helped me so much. It was hard at first - to work through all of that trauma- but I did, and I’m so thankful for this book.
It is however, just a book- if you need more support, as the book says, please please do get the help you need. The book itself teaches you how to escape, but it cannot help you physically escape- only good and kind police offers and therapists can. It’s okay to be an adult and ask for help. It doesn’t make you weak- it makes you human.
Anyway, I highly recommend this book- but to take it slow- that’s why I took two months- you can’t heal from a life time of trauma in just one week or a night. I have been in therapy for years- for this kind of trauma, this book was mainly an extra coping mechanism and tool for me. But, for others- I suggest you do it with a therapist as well- the author does good to recommend therapy too. Anyway- just know that after this book and lots of help from therapy and the right people, you can survive. If you don’t have the right people yet, this book gives you resources to get the right help that you need. It’s well done.
💯🍅 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ five star review from me!
It is however, just a book- if you need more support, as the book says, please please do get the help you need. The book itself teaches you how to escape, but it cannot help you physically escape- only good and kind police offers and therapists can. It’s okay to be an adult and ask for help. It doesn’t make you weak- it makes you human.
Anyway, I highly recommend this book- but to take it slow- that’s why I took two months- you can’t heal from a life time of trauma in just one week or a night. I have been in therapy for years- for this kind of trauma, this book was mainly an extra coping mechanism and tool for me. But, for others- I suggest you do it with a therapist as well- the author does good to recommend therapy too. Anyway- just know that after this book and lots of help from therapy and the right people, you can survive. If you don’t have the right people yet, this book gives you resources to get the right help that you need. It’s well done.
💯🍅 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ five star review from me!
June 8, 2021
Great addition to therapy, emdr, or other treatment. Based on really solid science and draws from a lot of amazing work.
Only downside is I bought it as part of inner aspects / parts treatment and it relies on the concept of a unified self in most sections, but not impossible to use in that treatment.
Only downside is I bought it as part of inner aspects / parts treatment and it relies on the concept of a unified self in most sections, but not impossible to use in that treatment.
September 6, 2022
I’d recommend this workbook to anyone who is going through a rough patch in life and feels like giving up. I’d also recommend this book to anyone who wants to better themselves emotionally. Would pair great with therapy but also great if you do not have time/money for that. Covers a lot of bases from scratch.
March 13, 2023
This book has some good information in it and is certainly helpful. I liked that there are activities at the end of the chapters that help you to start working on recovering. The book along with the worksheets help you to start coming to terms with the trauma you have suffered.
November 16, 2024
It helped to see my issues on paper.
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