Thawing Toxic Relationships eBook

Thawing Toxic Relationships is a book about healing and co-creating healthy, functional relationships for those who grew up in a dysfunctional family such as one that included alcoholism, addiction, and/or codependency. Get the eBook today. See what other readers had to say below. Help me get my message out by writing a review if you agree others will also benefit.

If you relate to Don Carter’s Iceberg Model, would like to have a genuinely happy and functional relationship then this book is for you! Building healthy relationships, a skill that eludes most people who have been raised in a less-than-nurturing family, is the ultimate objective for Thawing Toxic Relationships.

Sample of Exercises & Recovery Activities:

• Workbook Introduction: Separateness & Connectedness (p.46) Distance & Pursuit; Ego-State Functioning
• From Section 1.1: Core Issues & Relationships Styles (p.49) Externalizers & Internalizers; Codependents & Counter-Dependents
• From Section 1.2: Exploring Your Developmental Stages (p.54) Assessing the Development of Psychological Positions & Relationship Styles
• From Section 1.3: Infatuation & Identification vs. True Intimacy (p.65) Why we Hurt the Ones we Love: Cycles of Abandonment, Shame, and Contempt
• From Section 1.4: Psychological Sweatshirt's (p.72) Examples of Mixed Messages & Relationship Polarities
• From Section 2.1: Structuring Time & the Three Hungers of the Inner Child (p.76) Structure Hunger, Stimulus Hunger, & Position Hunger
• From Section 2.3: Games We Play (p.86) Complimentary & Crossed Transactions
• From Section 2.3: Distorted Perceptions, Payoffs for Playing Games (p.94) Some Classic Mind Games, Moves, and Payoffs
• From Section 3.3: Are You Living Life in Reaction? (p.110) Friend or Foe? - Treating Each Other Like an Enemy
• From Section 3.7: Key Relationship Skills (p.119) Communication & Ego-State Functioning
• From Section 3.7.6: Analyzing Your Transactions (p.127) Analyzing Communication, Feelings & Emotions

Read about the Cycle of Drama, the Chemistry of drama how to save your marriage, improve communication, how to set and maintain healthy boundaries, be assertiveness, identify relationship mind games (Distance and Pursuit games, the Punishment Cycle, the Drama Triangle - and why we play them). Gather the tools and skills necessary to overcome these and many other dysfunctional relationship patterns.

• STOP Re-Experiencing Painful Emotional Themes and Dysfunctional Relationship Patterns.
• START Identifying and Healing Your Emotional Triggers.
  
• STOP Doing Your Pain in Advance. (9 times out of 10 it's Unnecessary Pain) 
• START Letting Go of Worries, Anxieties, Insecurities, and Fears (WAIFs).
  
• STOP Sabotaging Yourself with Short-Term Fixes, such as False Refuges like Alcohol, Drugs, Chocolate Cake, etc.
• START Achieving Your Goals and Dreams.
  
• STOP Feeling like an Imposter. Take Off the Mask of an Invented Self. 
• START being Authentic and Share Who You REALLY are with Others ~ Your True Self.
  
• STOP the Cycles of Depression, Anxiety, Addiction, and Compulsion.
• START Healing the Emotional Wounds of Abandonment and Generating Cycles of Success!
  
• STOP the Inner Criticism and Infection of Shame.
• START Practicing Self-Compassion and Self-Leadership.
  
• STOP Protecting Yourself with a Scab of Contempt for Self and/or Others.
• START Practicing Assertiveness and Healthy Boundaries.
  
• STOP People-Pleasing and Approval Seeking.
• START to Uncover, Discover, Recover, and Share Who You Really Are ~ Your True Self.