Victory Over Verbal Abuse: A Healing Guide to Renewing Your Spirit and Reclaiming Your Life
Patricia Evans
Language: English
Pages: 240
ISBN: 1440525803
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
"You're too sensitive."
"You'll never amount to anything."
"You're crazy."
If this is what you hear--from your spouse, your parent, your boss--then you've been the victim of verbal abuse. This insidious behavior permeates our culture--from the privacy of our own homes to the public glare of our schools, workplaces, and other institutions.
But you don't have to live with it. In this groundbreaking companion to her bestselling The Verbally Abusive Relationship, acclaimed public speaker, educator and author Patricia Evans brings you the tools you need to triumph over verbal abuse, no matter where or how you encounter it.
She'll guide you step by step through a powerful healing process that provides:
- A thorough review of available therapies
- Strategies for dealing with abusers
- Positive messages of support and encouragement
- Inspiring affirmations for every week of the year
With Patricia's help, you'll achieve the clarity you need to build a new life--far from senseless accusations, wounding words, and confusing comments that have taken an untold toll on your psyche. You'll find validation, and learn to believe in yourself--and a better future--once more.
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abusive sentences are listed in the appendix of The Verbally Abusive Man Can He Change?, as well as a list of behaviors for your reference. It may be necessary that you tell him that he must make every effort to stop if he is to have any relationship with you. If he won’t work to change and you can’t leave, try ignoring him until you can. Then, if he doesn’t agree to do the work necessary to change, and you decide to leave, you can clearly state, “This is why I left you,” followed by the list of
wonder I attack. I am getting back at you for existing where I am supposed to exist. Abusers will respond with anything from irritation to rage if their partner does not match their projection. Controlling People explains what this lost “self” projected into the partner is all about. Abusers Define Their Partners To further clarify, let’s look at what abusers do. No matter how overt or covert the abuser is, all verbal abusers do one thing universally. That one thing is this: abusers define
abuser seems unable to face the fact that the partner is actually a separate person. The abuser is unconsciously driven not to lose the part of himself projected into his partner. Consequently, he will deny the separate existence of his partner. Partners experience this phenomenon as feeling like a wall seems to exist between them. Of course, the partner is not really in a partnership with her mate. In fact, she is in what seems to be a relationship doomed to loneliness. Recovery from an
may indicate a conflict between your intuition and your thinking. Your intuition guides you if you practice tuning in to it. Here is another way to access your intuition. If you think, “I can’t find my pen,” and you don’t feel a real sense of loss, this is likely your intuition telling you that you misplaced it and it will be found. As your intuition informs you, it becomes increasingly your own guidance system, and your trust in yourself increases. Another way your intuition works is when it
cult.” He spoke as if he were God and “knew” that the attendees were members of a cult. The irony is they were attending the workshop in order to escape the influence of someone’s control over them, possibly as she was trying to escape his control over her. He implied that she and other attendees were doing the opposite. He used the word “cult” as it is often applied to secret cults run by psychopaths where people are tortured or commit suicide with poisoned Kool-Aid or where they abuse