Abused: Is This Real life?

Do you want a better life, free of your abuser? Are you questioning if what you are experiencing is abuse? Do you want to leave, but you don't know how? Are you living your life in survival mode? Do you even know your true self anymore? Abused: Is This Real Life? is about recognizing gaslighting and psychological abuse, gaining the courage to leave, and finding who you are again. You will find practical advice, guidance on setting boundaries, and rediscovering who you were before your abuser took away your self-concept and identity. Through traumatic, moving, and impactful personal details, the author shares how she came to recognize the insidious gaslighting, emotional abuse, and psychological manipulation happening in her own marriage, along with how she overcame years of childhood sexual abuse and rape. The author includes lists of questions to help identify mental abuse and to stop living in survival mode, so that you can create a life in which you can thrive, not merely survive. Abused: Is this Real Life? provides encouragement, hope, direction, and resources available to you when abuse is all too real in your life, and you don't know where to turn.