Sherapy Sessions: Cutting Toxic Family Ties Toxic Family Help

Join me in a powerful conversation with Laura K. Connell as she talks about her experiences growing up in a dysfunctional and emotionally abusive family, where she was subjected to a narcissistic mother and an emotionally neglectful father. And how she battled with alcoholism while addressing the deep-seated trauma she endured. 
✅ How and why survivors turn to various addictions (alcohol, substance abuse, eating disorders, etc) to cope 
✅ Feelings of relief from our emotional pain addictions initially bring. 
✅ Ah-ha moments that awaken the need to change 
✅ What triggers help us turn our lives around 
✅ Both the growth and the grieving of toxic family dynamics are round/whole rather than linear 
✅ It’s Not Your Fault -realizing your parents are character-disordered 
✅ Going No Contact 
✅ Stay the course, life gets better after definitive boundaries have been set on our toxic family members 
Laura K. Connell is a trauma-informed author and coach who helps professional women discover the subconscious reasons they self-sabotage and how to finally have the fulfilling life they deserve and desire. She writes about the impact of dysfunctional family dynamics on her website, laurakconnell.com. 
Her guest articles have reached millions through personal development websites Life Hack, Pick the Brain, Dumb Little Man, Highly Sensitive Refuge, the anthology Chicken Soup for the Soul, and national newspapers The Globe and Mail and Toronto Star. 
She has helped thousands heal from dysfunctional family trauma through her popular online retreats. Her book It's Not Your Fault: The Subconscious Reasons We Self-Sabotage and How to Stop is available now at the Simon & Schuster website.
Mentioned in the episode:
📌 (Book) It's Not Your Fault: The Subconscious Reasons We Self-Sabotage and How to Stop - https://amzn.to/48Xpi8A 
📌 TEDx Talk Not All Parents Are Good by Dr. Sherrie Campbell - https://youtu.be/deyHwDkG7oc 
📌 (Book) Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life - 
📌 (Book) A Million Little Pieces - 

Connect with Laura K. Connell:
📌 Website: https://www.laurakconnell.com/ 
📌 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/soulminimalist 
📌 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurak.connell/ 

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NEW BOOK!!! 
Adult Survivors of Emotionally Abusive Parents: How to Heal, Cultivate Emotional Resilience, and Build the Life and Love You Deserve - https://amzn.to/3UhURWI 
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Books by Dr. Sherrie Campbell:
⚉ Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut. - https://amzn.to/3L3sMuA 
⚉ But It’s Your Family…: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath - https://amzn.to/3tuNQEn 
⚉ Your Pocket Therapist: Quick Hacks for Dealing with Toxic People While Empowering Yourself - a href="https://amzn.to/3JBql1R" rel="noopener noreferrer"...

Many survivors of toxic family abuse must learn to cope with the loss of their toxic family members while trying to maintain relationships with their healthier family members who are, by no fault of their own, in the middle.

In this episode, you will learn how to protect and preserve valuable relationships through healthy boundary setting practices.

✅ If you're like many survivors, you have a large family and a host of non-toxic family members or close family friends who are important to you.
✅ Managing feelings of betrayal
✅ The key issue when establishing and maintaining these relationships is emotional safety.
✅ To feel safe with your healthier family members will require trust. Yet trust will prove to be challenging.
✅ Define your non-negotiable in these relationships
✅ Prioritize your mental and emotional health
✅ How To’s and Boundaries to Set


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NEW BOOK!!!

Adult Survivors of Emotionally Abusive Parents: How to Heal, Cultivate Emotional Resilience, and Build the Life and Love You Deserve - https://amzn.to/3UhURWI

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Books by Dr. Sherrie Campbell:

⚉ Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut. - https://amzn.to/3L3sMuA
⚉ But It’s Your Family…: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath - https://amzn.to/3tuNQEn
⚉ Your Pocket Therapist: Quick Hacks for Dealing with Toxic People While Empowering Yourself - https://amzn.to/3JBql1R
⚉ Success Equations: A Path to Living an Emotionally Wealthy Life - https://amzn.to/3uobd1u
⚉ Loving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own Person - https://amzn.to/36mlXp5


Connect with Dr. Sherrie Campbell:

⚉ Website: https://drsherriecampbell.com/
⚉ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SherrieCampbellPhD


Check out the Sherapy Master Class: The Toxic Family Sherapy Course designed to help people master toxic family members and turn their life around to one of freedom, peace, and empowerment. Click here https://bit.ly/SherapyMasterclass


Get early access to news, insights, and tips straight from your inbox. Subscribe to Dr. Sherrie’s email list, go to https://drsherriecampbell.com/

Grief of estrangement lingers, and it comes with many names. Regardless of how you refer to it, this type of grief is most often a lifelong process.

Let's find out why in this episode:

✅ The grief of estrangement is inherently complicated because our family members don't stop gossiping or smearing us regardless of boundaries set.

✅ Estrangement grief can also be referred to as:
▪️ Complicated/ambiguous grief
▪️ Prolonged grief.
▪️ Chronic grief.
▪️ Persistent complex bereavement disorder.

✅ Prolonged grief is when a true death doesn't occur but the cutting of relational ties does.

✅ Signs and symptoms of prolonged grief.

✅ Common triggers of prolonged grief.

✅ Transformative properties of prolonged grief.

✅ How To's and Boundaries to Set


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NEW BOOK!!! Dropping March 1, 2024.

Adult Survivors of Emotionally Abusive Parents: How to Heal, Cultivate Emotional Resilience, and Build the Life and Love You Deserve - https://amzn.to/3UhURWI

*****


Books by Dr. Sherrie Campbell:

⚉ Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut. - https://amzn.to/3L3sMuA
⚉ But It’s Your Family…: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath - https://amzn.to/3tuNQEn
⚉ Your Pocket Therapist: Quick Hacks for Dealing with Toxic People While Empowering Yourself - https://amzn.to/3JBql1R
⚉ Success Equations: A Path to Living an Emotionally Wealthy Life - https://amzn.to/3uobd1u
⚉ Loving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own Person - https://amzn.to/36mlXp5


Connect with Dr. Sherrie Campbell:

⚉ Website: https://drsherriecampbell.com/
⚉ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SherrieCampbellPhD


Check out the Sherapy Master Class: The Toxic Family Sherapy Course designed to help people master toxic family members and turn their life around to one of freedom, peace, and empowerment. Click here https://bit.ly/SherapyMasterclass


Get early access to news, insights, and tips straight from your inbox. Subscribe to Dr. Sherrie’s email list, go to https://drsherriecampbell.com/

Relief is often overlooked as a valid form of grief.

We are taking a deep dive into this one in this episode.

✅ There's no right or wrong way to grieve our abusive family members. Each of us will have our own response to their abuse, manipulation and abandonment.

✅ For some of us, cutting off from them may feel more like a gain than a loss, leaving some of us feeling inappropriately guilty and confused.

✅ When we are grieving a family member who made our life nothing short of a living hell, it's very normal to feel relief when we cut off from them.

✅ Reasons we feel relief or "absent grief."

✅ Taking guilt out of relief.

✅ Don't compare your grief to societal or anyone else's projected standards.

✅ How To's and Boundaries to Set


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NEW BOOK!!! Dropping March 1, 2024.

Adult Survivors of Emotionally Abusive Parents: How to Heal, Cultivate Emotional Resilience, and Build the Life and Love You Deserve - https://amzn.to/3UhURWI

*****


Books by Dr. Sherrie Campbell:

⚉ Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut. - https://amzn.to/3L3sMuA
⚉ But It’s Your Family…: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath - https://amzn.to/3tuNQEn
⚉ Your Pocket Therapist: Quick Hacks for Dealing with Toxic People While Empowering Yourself - https://amzn.to/3JBql1R
⚉ Success Equations: A Path to Living an Emotionally Wealthy Life - https://amzn.to/3uobd1u
⚉ Loving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own Person - https://amzn.to/36mlXp5


Connect with Dr. Sherrie Campbell:

⚉ Website: https://drsherriecampbell.com/
⚉ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SherrieCampbellPhD


Check out the Sherapy Master Class: The Toxic Family Sherapy Course designed to help people master toxic family members and turn their life around to one of freedom, peace, and empowerment. Click here https://bit.ly/SherapyMasterclass


Get early access to news, insights, and tips straight from your inbox. Subscribe to Dr. Sherrie’s email list, go to https://drsherriecampbell.com/

Grief is an emotional reaction to the loss of something or someone important.

But what about grieving someone who is alive and emotionally absent?

✅ Grieving someone who is alive, but who is no longer a welcomed part of our life introduces a host of unexpected challenges.

✅ Grief of the living dead catapults us into unfamiliar, scary, and lonely situations, where we find it hard to stay hopeful and often feel desolate without a “family” support system.

✅ Grieving the living dead makes us acutely aware that we have ALWAYS been grieving them, even when we were connected to them.

✅ There difference between being alone and lonely.

✅ The living dead don’t go peacefully after ties have been cut. They haunt us from the sidelines of our life for the remainder of our/their life.

✅ What to expect along this grief journey.

✅ How To’s and Boundaries to Set


*****

NEW BOOK!!! Dropping March 1, 2024.

Adult Survivors of Emotionally Abusive Parents: How to Heal, Cultivate Emotional Resilience, and Build the Life and Love You Deserve - https://amzn.to/3UhURWI

*****


Books by Dr. Sherrie Campbell:

⚉ Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut. - https://amzn.to/3L3sMuA
⚉ But It’s Your Family…: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath - https://amzn.to/3tuNQEn
⚉ Your Pocket Therapist: Quick Hacks for Dealing with Toxic People While Empowering Yourself - https://amzn.to/3JBql1R
⚉ Success Equations: A Path to Living an Emotionally Wealthy Life - https://amzn.to/3uobd1u
⚉ Loving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own Person - https://amzn.to/36mlXp5


Connect with Dr. Sherrie Campbell:

⚉ Website: https://drsherriecampbell.com/
⚉ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SherrieCampbellPhD


Check out the Sherapy Master Class: The Toxic Family Sherapy Course designed to help people master toxic family members and turn their life around to one of freedom, peace, and empowerment. Click here https://bit.ly/SherapyMasterclass


Get early access to news, insights, and tips straight from your inbox. Subscribe to Dr. Sherrie’s email list, go to https://drsherriecampbell.com/

Abandonment syndrome, rooted in early attachments, leaves survivors feeling undesired, insecure, and easily discarded.

Understanding abandonment syndrome is crucial for the development of positive self-worth, feelings of psychological safety, and for building and maintaining healthy, stable relationships.

✅ Abandonment syndrome is an emotional state in which we feel undesired, left behind, insecure, or easily discarded.

✅ As infants, we need gentle, patient, and responsive primary caregivers to provide the nurturing essentials we each need and deserve to grow us into being a stable, healthy adults.

✅​​ Foundational Anxiety

✅ Causes of Abandonment Syndrome

✅ Signs and Symptoms of Abandonment Syndrome

✅ The Link Between Trauma and Self-Harm, especially eating disorders

✅ How To’s and Boundaries to Set


Books by Dr. Sherrie Campbell:

⚉ Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut. - https://amzn.to/3L3sMuA
⚉ But It’s Your Family…: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath - https://amzn.to/3tuNQEn
⚉ Your Pocket Therapist: Quick Hacks for Dealing with Toxic People While Empowering Yourself - https://amzn.to/3JBql1R
⚉ Success Equations: A Path to Living an Emotionally Wealthy Life - https://amzn.to/3uobd1u
⚉ Loving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own Person - https://amzn.to/36mlXp5


Connect with Dr. Sherrie Campbell:

⚉ Website: https://drsherriecampbell.com/
⚉ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SherrieCampbellPhD


Check out the Sherapy Master Class: The Toxic Family Sherapy Course designed to help people master toxic family members and turn their life around to one of freedom, peace, and empowerment. Click here https://bit.ly/SherapyMasterclass


Get early access to news, insights, and tips straight from your inbox. Subscribe to Dr. Sherrie’s email list, go to https://drsherriecampbell.com/