This is a collection of three powerful books that provides a comprehensive guide to healing from emotional abuse, trauma, and toxic relationships. Included in this Captivating 3 Book Collection The First book will show all about Dark Psychology and how to deal with manipulation. Whether you’re aware of it or not, you’re being subjected to countless manipulations every day. Discover the various tricks, tactics and even your own dark side. The Second book is for anyone who has experienced Emotional Abuse or wants to support a loved one who has. Inside you will learn about the causes and effects, as well as healing strategies for becoming emotionally stronger. The Third book reveals how Shadow Work can uncover hidden aspects of your personality, heal old wounds, and create lasting positive changes. Get ready to explore the secrets that lie within and learn how to use their power. Together, these "three books" offer a complete guide to healing and recovery from emotional abuse , trauma , and toxic relationships . So if you’re looking to break free from the cycle of abuse or manipulation, heal and regain control of your life or learn more then begin now with this 3 Book Collection.
This book is available for kindle unlimited and audible; I did both with Alexa reading the ebook for me. The audible version had several production issues (such as repeated phases, long gaps, background noises and struggling enunciation) that made the Alexa option more appealing; it seemed to get much worse toward the end of each book. The first two (2) books really covered the same ground with respect to emotional abuse and trauma where the first having much more light weight/hippie feel to it where the second seemed more clinical and worth the effort. The third book takes on Jungian psychology with a New Age slant. For folks the buy into repressed personality traits and the like, this would be an interesting topic; although the whole shadow trope for all of this feels a bit weird to me. Most of this probably should be done with a licensed therapist though. Over all the second book is worth a read, but the audible is a pass until the production issues are fixed.
This text contains three books together in one volume and suffers from poor editing and inevitable repetition. It has merits, but you have to spend a lot of time to dig them out. For me, the most useful parts came at the beginning and near the end. The table of contents makes a good template for strategies to identify and approach escape and recovery from abuse and/or manipulation. Near the end of the long book comes a series of self-discovery and reframing exercises that would equip you to take some action if you had issues covered by this text. In combining these texts, I would suggest it would have been better to put these exercises nearer the beginning to more accurately allow the reader to see which part of the subsequent text was most relevant (if at all) to them. Each section has a bibliography of sources.
The general format is to describe the features of the abuse or manipulation, the ways it might affect the individual and the strategies to counteract or recover. I found some of the advice trite and unrealistic. An example is escaping from gaslighting by turning to friends (you're told not family) to get an independent view on what is said or done. It had previously described how the manipulator would isolate the victim from all former friends and outside contacts.
The texts are littered with all sorts of editing errors, which on occasions make it nonsensical or garbled at best. An example is that the writer(s) call themselves Relove Psychology. It may be a Freudian slip that at one point they refer to themselves as Revolve Psychology.
I received a free advance review copy, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
I thought the overall information of the books was valuable, but the delivery felt quite negative. I think if the information could have been framed in a more positive light it might have been easier to digest. I’m not sure if it was intentional, but in some sections it almost seemed as if the author was actually trying to strike fear into the reader and that didn’t sit well with me.
Because of the way this was written and sectioned out I kept needing to take breaks and having palette cleansers in between before I could pick it back up again, which is why it took me so long to leave my feedback.
As far as getting to 5 stars, I would have to see a lot more personality and a more uplifting tone.
This is my honest opinion, which is given voluntarily, after being given the book to read as an ARC.