
Navigate five healing phases from still in denial to long-term healing in this course, using practical tools and a guided belay to reclaim your life after abusive relationships.
Make a detailed list of your partner's worst offenses to anchor reality during cycles of abuse and hoovering, helping you heal and plan an exit.
Explore how denial and shame trap you in abusive relationships and how healing begins when you leave denial, release shame, and reclaim your self-worth through self-care.
Anger is a protective, primitive emotion in healing from abusive relationships; identify what lies beneath it—usually grief—and move toward a healthier, happier life by processing that sadness.
See how crying fits into healing from abusive relationships, acknowledging non-linear recovery and financial upheaval, while empowering self-reliance through budgeting, found money, and creative resilience.
Embrace alone time to heal from abusive relationships, build selfhood, and gain the power to leave unhealthy dynamics. Cultivate independence, self-exploration, and balanced connections to sustain a fulfilling life.
Learn to do something that scares you safely by stretching in six areas after abusive relationships—physically, emotionally, academically, psychologically, professionally, and socially—to build resilience and healing.
Keep evidence-based records like a private investigator, using electronic proofs, emails, bank statements, and diaries to show patterns and protect yourself in abusive relationships.
Develop a safety plan for leaving abusive relationships and assess lethality using key risk factors. Build support networks, secure funds, copies of documents, a go bag, and a code word.
Learn to cope with flying monkeys by giving time, using the snip technique, and living well as your best revenge, while seeking support through therapy or abuse groups.
Adopt rock star parenting after abusive relationships by staying consistent, loving, and firm; set clear boundaries, follow through on consequences, and avoid Disneyland parenting while guiding kids.
Prioritize self-care and healthy selfishness to heal from abusive relationships, proving that putting yourself first improves wellbeing, parenting, and everyday life.
Learn to identify silver linings after an abusive relationship, cultivate long-term growth, and recognize how children, new opportunities, and renewed relationships can help you move forward.
Learn dating do's and don'ts after abusive relationships, including spotting red flags like charm, lies, rapid commitment, and disrespect, while prioritizing healing and independence for safer, mindful dating.
Dream big and heal from abusive relationships by embracing resilience and hope. The Seven Magic Mountains in the desert celebrate dreaming and connection.
Created by a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist with over 25 years of clinical expertise, "Healing From Abusive Relationships" guides the participant on a journey of recovery and renewal from a physically, emotionally, or financially abusive relationship. Using real-life examples and easy-to-follow instructions, Ms. Somberg clearly explains each concept and the reasoning behind her plan for healing your shattered life, reducing your isolation and psychological distress, and recovering your self-worth and personal power once again.
Participants in this course will understand why abuse is so hard to spot and why it takes the average woman seven times to leave their abuser. Ms. Somberg teaches her students Lenore Walker's Cycle of Violence, the 10 Tools Of The Trade that abusers use to snare their prey, plus how a person's psychological strengths and "super traits" get manipulated and used against them in these toxic and confusing relationships.
Spread over 15 easy-to-follow mini-lectures, "Healing From Abusive Relationships" teaches you insightful and practical methods for managing your own confusing emotions and reaction patterns endemic to abuse. You will understand an abuser's behavior and manipulations more clearly and discern why we can be duped so easily. There are even tips for parenting your children who may have been alienated, and methods for managing friends and family who have become "flying monkeys" who abuse you by proxy.
Ms. Somberg's experience, wisdom, and chatty/upbeat demeanor will inspire you. She provides useful tools to tackle the confusion, increasing self-blame and isolation, and trauma that keeps survivors dependent and emotionally drained. You need not rely any longer on the controlling and clever machinations of an abuser who exploits the weaknesses they created. You can, instead, transform yourself by implementing simple strategies to rebuild your emotional, financial, and professional self. Know that despite all you have suffered, you can, deserve to, and will thrive again!