The body wants to heal itself. By treating your relational trauma, you can create the conditions it needs to begin.
Our bodies translate trauma into physical, chronic, and even terminal illnesses- autoimmune disorders, cancer, chronic pain, and more. For people in unbalanced, abusive, or toxic relationships, this means their relational trauma and narcissistic abuse is literally making them sick.
Building on the Internal Family Systems model, Relationsick is a trauma-informed recovery plan that will help you rebalance relationships where you give too much and receive too little. Relationsick will help you break free from the fawning behaviors that keep you stuck in toxic relational dynamics- with romantic partners, family, friends, professional relationships, or authority figures- so you can heal your nervous system, emotions, and body. Drawing on more than 30 years of experience, Drs. Lissa Rankin and Jeffrey Rediger place recovery firmly in your hands through grounded, ethical, trauma-informed, evidence-based medical advice.
Protect and heal your body by learning to:
• Spot the red flags of narcissism- as well as the green flags of healthy, responsible, health- inducing behaviors
• Understand fawning, codependency, over-functioning, and enabling behaviors-so you can take charge of your health
• Understand how religious and cultural belief systems can reinforce abuse through 'spiritual bypassing'
• Deprogram unhealthy conditioning and set patterns that will help your nervous system begin the process of deeper healing
• Get to know the parts of you that cause you to give too much and keep you stuck in power imbalances that can make you sick
• Heal traumatized parts so you are empowered to take a firm stand for yourself and your health
• Communicate clear and assertive boundaries, navigate existing relationships with narcissists, and decide if a no-contact approach is right for you
• Show up for yourself and your other relationships, so you can nurture safe, transparent, and loving connections in your life
With practical self-help tools like quizzes for self-assessment and Internal Family Systems practices, this radical new approach to recovering from physical illness and unhealthy relationships makes it clear that your body has the power to treat and reverse trauma-inflicted illness. All you have to do is let it.
