Freedom from toxic relationships : moving on from the family, work, and relationship issues that bring you down

Freedom from toxic relationships Moving on from the family, work, and relationship issues that bring you down

Avril Carruthers

Book - 2013

"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 book, 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 reader on how to recognize if they're involved in one"--

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Subjects
Interpersonal relations.
Interpersonal conflict.
Adult children > Family relationships.
Interpersonal communication.
Published
New York : Tarcher/Penguin 2013.
Language
English
Main Author
Avril Carruthers (-)
Edition
First Tarcher/Penguin paperback edition
Physical Description
xv, 268 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-263) and index.
ISBN
9780399166112
  • What is a toxic relationship? Where it all begins ; Toxic relationships ; Am I in a toxic relationship or what? ; Parents and children ; Unhealthy family connections ; Mending toxic childhood connections ; Cutting the cord ; Exploration ; Forever baby ; Why attachments don't go away by themselves ; Subtle body awareness exercise 1 : etheric sensing
  • Adult relationships : up close and personal. The thing about attraction ; When old wounds come back to bite us ; Pulling at the heartstrings ; Breaking up ; What happens to connections when we die? ; Letting go ; Strange phenomena ; Seriously toxic-- personality disorders ; The fatal flaw scale ; Subtle body awareness exercise 2 : experiencing the astral body
  • The journey to healing. Moving out of the tangle ; Interdependence ; How does a connection turn toxic? ; The curious effect of clearing toxic attachments ; Positive reconnections ; Using relationships to evolve ; Is my soul mate out there? ; What hope have I got with parents like mine? ; Learning to trust our own judgment ; When the going gets tough ; Our attachments and characters ; Forgotten pacts ; Are deliberate cords okay? ; Living in the present ; Subtle body awareness exercise 3 : experiencing a present time connection
  • Meeting the world with confidence. Creating me, creating you, creating us ; What the real you has to say ; The gifts of long-term meditation ; Making sense of it all ; Do I need a clearer or can I do it myself? ; Sacred space.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

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. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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