Gaslighting Quotes

“Walking mindfulness practice: In his book Peace Is Every Step, Thich Nhat Hanh (1992) describes a walking mindfulness practice. You walk at a slower pace than usual. When you put your foot down, focus on how your feet feel on the earth, and how the sun and breeze feel on your face. If you see something pleasant, like a tree, just stop and observe it. When you put your other foot down, refocus all over again. This is a great practice for someone with a particularly active and jumpy mind.”
― Stephanie Sarkis, Gaslighting: Recognize Manipulative and Emotionally Abusive People—and Break Free

“This is the gaslighters’ mantra. As noted earlier, personality disorders have a feature called ego-syntonic behavior. This means that people with a personality disorder feel that they are normal and everyone else is crazy. They feel their behavior is perfectly acceptable and meets the needs of their ego. This is one of the reasons that people with personality disorders are so difficult to treat—they don’t think anything is wrong with them or their behavior.”
― Stephanie Sarkis, Gaslighting: Recognize Manipulative and Emotionally Abusive People—and Break Free

“The gaslighting parent usually has a “golden child” and a “scapegoat child.” The former can do no wrong, whereas the latter can do no right. This pits siblings against each other, and these feelings of competition commonly extend into adulthood.”
― Stephanie Sarkis, Gaslighting: How to recognise manipulative and emotionally abusive people - and break free