Healing from a Narcissistic Relationship: A Caretaker's Guide to Recovery, Empowerment, and Transformation

Name: Healing from a Narcissistic Relationship: A Caretaker's Guide to Recovery, Empowerment, and Transformation
Brand: Author's Republic
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.37 (32 reviews)
Author: Margalis Fjelstad
ISBN: 9781518949852

Author: Margalis Fjelstad

Narrator: Sally Vahle

Unabridged: 7 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Novel Audio

Published: 04/25/2017

Categories: Nonfiction, Psychology, Psychopathology, Psychotherapy

Synopsis

When a relationship with a narcissist ends, the caretaking partner is often left confused, deeply hurt, and often still emotionally connected, while the narcissist seems to easily move on to the next relationship. Healing from a Narcissistic Relationship offers guidance about what to expect as the relationship unravels and how to cope with the fallout. It also helps the reader learn to truly disengage and move through the grief process.

Presenting techniques for healing and rebuilding self-esteem and self-confidence, this book offers a guide to developing emotional strength and encourages forgiveness and reconciliation with the past. It shows the reader how to increase emotional self-protections, quit caretaking in relationships, and become more independent and self-loving. Using real stories, Margalis Fjelstad offers a process of healing that can direct the reader away from former patterns of inequitable relationships and toward loving, caring connections that can truly grow healthfully and flourish. It shows that ending a relationship with a narcissist may be the best thing that ever happened.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chloe on November 17, 2024

This book is packed full of advice regarding falling in love, relationships, breakups, and toxic behaviors that are easy to overlook. The first half of the book describes these subtle and not subtle behaviors and second half describes how to heal, handle trauma and to rebuild identity and independen......more

Goodreads review by Mark on July 09, 2021

Absolutely the best book I've read on narcissism, its signs, and its impact. Fjelstad's writing is direct, clear, without flourish, and practical. Also, she includes in several places related tasks that help clarify her directions in an applicable way. I read this slowly so as to absorb its message......more

Goodreads review by Tina on September 10, 2017

Immensely helpful and practical. The tips on emotional aikido (86-87) and the analogy about being a chair (30) are two of the most valuable parts of this book. Fjelstad's explanations will leave you with a better understanding of a narcissist's false self, its impacts, and how to cope.......more

Goodreads review by Niels on May 15, 2018

The book is geared toward women coming out of a relationship. If you are able to see past the specific advice on that situation, there's a lot to take away for everybody wanting to understand narcissistic behaviour.......more

Goodreads review by Ashley on September 01, 2020

I listened to the audiobook so I don’t have any of the great quotes from this book saved but it was like having a therapist hypnotize me out of all the turmoil of an unending relationship of drama and pain. First she told me my life. Word for word what was happening with my ex who maybe a narcissist......more