Yes, you can overcome the abuse — here’s how
When you’ve been involved with a sociopath (psychopath, narcissist), you’ve been gaslighted, manipulated and trauma-bonded. This is why it is so difficult, mentally and emotionally, to break free.
But freedom is possible. You can overcome the psychological abuse and restore your emotional equilibrium.
Dr. Liane Leedom, a psychiatrist who was herself targeted by a psychopath, teaches you exactly how to do it.
In this introductory webinar, you’ll learn how people become sociopaths, why they’ll never change, and how you can fall in love with them.
Or, if the person is a family member, colleague or friend, how you become trapped.
Dr. Leedom helps you understand how you got here, which is the first step in recovery. Then she introduces you to techniques that will enable you to move past the betrayal and reclaim your life.
Here’s a taste of what you’ll learn about sociopaths:
- Why the damaging behavior of a sociopath is not an accident
- The core deficit and key obsession that drive sociopaths to exploit others
- How psychopathic personality traits are related to narcissism, antisocial personality, borderline personality and ADHD
- Why sociopathy is not just a moral failing — it’s a biological disorder
- Why, even though the sociopath blames you for your mistreatment, it was never your fault
Here’s what you’ll learn about yourself:
- Why you continue to believe the sociopath’s promises, even when you have evidence that they are false
- How the sociopath’s good and bad treatment of you creates a trauma bond, and why it’s so difficult to break
- Why it’s difficult to make good decisions when you’re emotionally upset or feeling numb
- Why, after a fight, you forget how badly you’ve been treated and are willing to reunite with your abuser
- How cultivating your wise mind enables you to separate the truth from the gaslighting so you can escape the sociopath’s influence, once and for all
About the instructor Dr. Liane Leedom
Liane J. Leedom, M.D., is a psychiatrist and a professor of counseling and psychology at the University of Bridgeport. She is author of Just Like His Father? A Guide to Overcoming Your Child’s Genetic Connection to Antisocial Behavior, Addiction and ADHD, and Women Who Love Psychopaths: Investigating the Relationships of Inevitable Harm. She is also author of multiple peer-reviewed studies, including Counseling Intimate Partner Abuse Survivors: Effective and Ineffective Interventions; The Dominance Behavioral System and Psychopathology: Evidence from Self-Report, Observational and Biological Studies; The Problem of Parental Psychopathy; and Did He Ever Love Me? A Qualitative Study of Life with a Psychopathic Husband.
Read Dr. Leedom’s studies at ResearchGate.
In addition to her university research and teaching, Dr. Leedom is currently in private practice as a psychiatrist. She trained in medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, and at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She previously served on the medical staff of several Connecticut facilities, including St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Hall-Brooke Behavioral Health Services, the Hospital of St. Raphael and the Center for Optimum Care.
Cost and credits
This is the free one-hour introduction of Skills training for recovery from abuse, gaslighting and toxic stress, presented by Dr. Liane Leedom. To watch the free webinar, register below.
Dr. Leedom’s total program offers you six modules for 17 hours of training. You’ll learn the skills you need to discern the truth of your situation, escape the abuse and find your road to recovery.
Sign up for the total program, including this free introductory webinar, by clicking the link below.
Although this course does not award continuing education credits, you will be able to download a certificate of achievement upon completion.
Learning objectives
After completing the introductory program, you should be able to:
- Explain what makes someone a sociopath
- Describe why it’s empirically possible to fall in love with a sociopath
- Explain why it’s difficult to escape and get over the relationship
- Implement the two basic principles for surviving your encounter with a sociopath
- Use the STOP skill to stay in control of your emotions
Program agenda for Your first step in your recovery from narcissistic abuse
1 hour class
- Yes, healing and recovery from narcissistic abuse is possible
- What makes someone a sociopath
- Two clusters of psychopathic personality traits
- Is the inability to love really absolute?
- What causes preoccupation with power?
- How did I love a sociopath?
- Why can’t I just get over the relationship?
- How trauma can affect your window of tolerance
- Understanding hyperarousal and hypoarousal
- Understanding the wise mind
- Survival principle #1: Don’t make the situation worse
- Survival principle #2: Take small steps toward healing every day
- What behaving skillfully will enable you to do
- Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) includes four sets of skills
- Skills training assumptions
- Dialectics: Opposite truths that stand together
- Stay in control of your emotions with the STOP skill
Here’s a preview of the course:
Emotional recovery after the sociopath (psychopath, narcissist) requires conscious effort on your part, but you can do it. Dr. Liane Leedom teaches you how the skills of mindfulness enable you to achieve peace and emotional stability.
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FREE! Your first step towards real recovery from narcissistic abuse and trauma
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I’m still working through the material but I would highly recommend this course to anyone who is suffering from post traumatic stress and struggling through connecting the dots after living through covert narcissistic abuse. The course provides tools and resources to guide those on their healing path in ways that are easy to understand. The hosts have credentials and most important, they have lived the experience themselves. I hope to see more courses similar to this one as I am finding many benefits. The learning material is worth it in every way!
Very helpful to my healing journey. Informative and well spoken.
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Thanks to everyone who attended Wednesday night or watched the recording. I’m looking forward to presenting the rest of the recovery skills program. You can sign up just for the next 4 weeks or the entire course it is up to you.