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. 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.

This book addresses and provides crucial guidance on topics and conditions like: complex PTSD, Narcissistic abuse, Avoidant Personality Disorder, Codependency, Core wounding, toxic shame, Borderline Personality Disorder, and so many more.

Through a practice of mindfulness, introspection, and exercises using specific tools, readers learn to identify the protective self they've developed - and uncover the core self, so that they can finally move on to live a full and authentic life-to once again feel light, free, and whole, and ready to love again.

But he’s also found that it is possible to work through these symptoms and find love on the other side, and this book shows how. These range from feelings of numbness and emptiness to depression, perfectionism, substance abuse, and many more. Through his close work with-and deep connection to-thousands of survivors of abusive relationships Jackson discovered that most survivors have symptoms of trauma long after the relationship is over. In this highly anticipated new book, he guides readers 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 people 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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