Skills Module 2: Recovery from the bodily effects of toxic stress

About this course

Part 2 of skills training for recovery from narcissistic abuse, gaslighting and toxic stress, presented by Dr. Liane Leedom

Toxic stress is physically and emotionally overwhelming. Stress caused by the sociopath (psychopath, narcissist) curtails your ability to deal with the problems they cause. You may first need to extinguish the multi-alarm fire of emotional crisis, and in this course, Dr. Liane Leedom teaches you exactly how to do it.

The STOP skill means, stop, take a step back, observe and proceed mindfully. When your emotions are trying to make you act without thinking, this skill helps you stay in control.

The TIP skills, such as placing your face in cold water, help you change your body chemistry quickly, calming your extreme emotions and racing mind.

Finally, analyzing and changing your own behavior helps you problem-solve for the future.

Highlights

• How toxic stress prevents you from seeing reality
• Crisis survival skills and how to use them
• Pros and cons of acting on crisis urges
• Behavior change for repeated distressing events
• Tips for using behavior change strategies effectively

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 course is Part Two of Skills training for recovery from abuse, gaslighting and toxic stress, presented by Dr. Liane Leedom. The cost is $62.50 for 2.5 hours of instruction — two classes, 75 minutes each. Once you purchase the course, you can access it online as long and as often as you want.

Be sure to watch the FREE introduction — Your first step towards real recovery from narcissistic abuse and trauma.

Dr. Leedom’s total program has four modules plus a bonus wrap-up, which will get you well on the road to recovery. Save $105 when you buy the entire program. 

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 this course, you should be able to:

• Recognize and alleviate the toxic stress in your life
• Use the STOP skill to stay in control in stressful situations
• Use the TIP skills to calm your body when it is roiled by emotion
• Analyze your own behavior — what you’re doing and not doing
• Increase the probability of behaviors you want

Program agenda for Recovery from the bodily effects of toxic stress

Class 1

• Goals of distress tolerance
• Overview of crisis survival skills
• When to use crisis survival skills
• Stay in control with the STOP skill
• Evaluating the pros and cons of acting on crisis urges
• Changing your body chemistry with TIP skills
• Using cold water, step by step
• Paired muscle relaxation, step by step
• Effective rethinking and paired relaxation, step by step

Class 2

• Strategies for distracting yourself from distress
• Self-soothing and grounding
• Body scan meditation step by step
• Strategies for improving the moment
• Sensory awareness, step by step
• Behavior change for repeated distressing events
• Analyzing behavior and planning for problem solving
• Chain analysis for understanding behavior
• Chain analysis step by step
• Missing links analysis — why did behavior not occur?
• Strategies for increasing the probability of behaviors you want
• Strategies for decreasing or stopping unwanted behaviors
• Tips for using behavior change strategies effectively
• Identifying effective behavior change strategies

You are emotionally overwhelmed but the demands of life must still be met. You have intense pain that can’t be resolved quickly. This is when you need crisis survival skills to help you slow down, calm down and think. Dr. Liane Leedom teaches you what to do.

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