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Freedom From Toxic Relationships

Moving On from the Family, Work, and Relationship Issues That Bring You Down

Audiobook
69 of 69 copies available
69 of 69 copies available
A guide to leaving painful, destructive relationships behind—both at home and at work
Toxic relationships often come disguised as seemingly normal ones. These subtly destructive relationships are characterized by the slow erosion of self-esteem, a loss of personal identity, or a growing desire to please friends, partners, and family members who are impossible to please.

In this uplifting and informative audiobook, transpersonal psychotherapist Avril Carruthers will take a close look at adult relationships to show why we get involved in toxic relationships in the first place, and instruct the listener on how to recognize if they're involved in one. Once the toxic relationship is identified, the author shows the listener how to begin their journey toward healing and how to meet the world with a new kind of confidence, so that the cycle of toxic relationships can be broken once and for all.

What Carruthers teaches is just how possible it can be to learn how to recognize the manipulative or sweetly corrosive partner, the family dynamics that make Christmas and other get-togethers seem like hell, or the nightmare boss who causes daily torment—and that we can learn to leave these painful, destructive patterns behind forever.
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 30, 2013
      In this mix of psychotherapy and New Age principles, transpersonal psychotherapist Carruthers (Let Your Past Go and Live) examines how unhealthy relationships form—and what readers can do to heal them, or “cut the cord.” The author maintains that “etheric cords” are formed by those in intimate relationships, whether they happen to be parent/child, romantic, or unhealthy friendships or working situations. She is frank about the requirement of hard work: “clearing a cord is not a matter of simply imagining a giant pair of scissors, cutting the imaginary cord and being miraculously free thereafter.” Using exercises such as “etheric sensing,” “experiencing the astral body,” and explorative self-awareness techniques, Carruthers provides useful healing suggestions, although she responsibly advises seeking the benefits of professional therapy in detaching from and healing the wounds inflicted by these toxic relationships. It’s heavy on New Age–speak, but if one can get past that aspect to the core ideas, it’s a worthy addition to any self-help collection.

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