Sarah Brassard, author of Inside: A Guide to the Resources Within to Stay Connected to Your Truth, Even in Trying Times

All true healing happens within, which in turn offers you the miracle of hope.' It takes your hand and encourages you to keep going, prompting you to build a power base of self-discovery that takes you home to yourself. Dismantling the effects of trauma can be a daunting undertaking. 'Jackson’s book is an empathetic gem of true knowing. Jerold Kreisman, MD, co-author of I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality This book may help fill in the holes that can make you whole again.” MacKenzie addresses co-dependency, addiction, post-traumatic stress, and borderline, narcissistic, and other personality disorders, outlining pathways to achieve forgiveness and discharging shame. He describes how development of a ‘protective self’ can provide acute, numbing relief from emotional pain, but at the expense of more enduring self-acceptance. “In Whole Again, Jackson MacKenzie lays open some of his own personal wounds to advise on how scars from past traumas can heal. Like Brené Brown's The Gifts of Imperfection and John Bradshaw's Healing the Shame that Binds You, Whole Again offers hope and multiple strategies to anyone who has survived a toxic relationship, as well as anyone suffering the effects of a breakup involving lying, cheating and other forms of abuse-to release old wounds and safely let the love back inside where it belongs. In Whole Again, he shares insights and tools for working through the protective self we've developed, so that we can finally move on to live a full and authentic life-to once again feel light, free, whole, and ready to give and receive love. These may include feelings of numbness and emptiness, depression, mood swings, isolation, perfectionism, rumination, caretaking and people-pleasing, a need for control, physical maladies, substance abuse, and more.īut he also found that it is possible to work through these symptoms and find fulfillment and love on the other side. Through his work with thousands of survivors of abusive relationships, Jackson discovered that survivors frequently have symptoms of trauma lasting long after the relationship is over. In this highly anticipated new audiobook, he guides listeners on what to do next-how to fully heal from abuse in order to find love and acceptance for the self and others. His first book, Psychopath Free, explained how to identify and survive the immediate situation. Jackson MacKenzie has helped millions of readers in their struggle to understand the experience of toxic relationships. From a leading voice on recovering from toxic relationships, a deeply insightful guide to getting back to your 'old self' again-in order to truly heal and move on.

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