Don't Love the Abuser: A Guide to Healing After Toxic Relationships

For people who have experienced abuse, the symptoms of emotional trauma can persist long after the relationship has ended. Feelings of numbness and emptiness, depression, perfectionism, rumination, excessive care for others or the desire to please them, the need for total control. This list, as the author claims, can go on forever, and it will be unique for everyone. After speaking with thousands of such individuals whom he could rightly call his fellow sufferers, Jackson Mackenzie concluded that a person can successfully overcome these symptoms. Speaking about codependency, addiction, post-traumatic stress, as well as borderline, narcissistic, and other types of personality disorders, Mackenzie empathizes deeply with each individual and shares how to learn to forgive and free oneself from false shame. The methods he has discovered allow working on the protective "self" created by our psyche, in order to continue the journey towards a complete and authentic life, to feel lightness, freedom, wholeness, and readiness to give and receive love.