About this course
Skills training for recovery from abuse, gaslighting and toxic stress, presented by Dr. Liane Leedom — Bonus
Yes, you can have a life worth living, even when your life has been shattered by sociopaths (narcissists, psychopaths). In this final webinar, Dr. Liane Leedom summarizes the skills training that helps you navigate the difficulties these predators cause. Then, she suggests how the experience may enable you to cultivate wisdom.
Whether we have sociopaths in our family of origin, or we encounter them as we live our lives, it’s shocking to realize just how fundamentally different they are from regular human beings. Still, by knowing they exist, we can protect ourselves and others whom we love.
The painful encounters offer the opportunity for post-traumatic growth, in which you recover and release the pain. In fact, you absolutely can overcome the betrayal, achieving balance and peace. That’s self-transcendence — the final stage of adult development.
Highlights
- Thriving despite being linked to psychopathy
- Review of the program’s wellness skills
- Self-transcendence: The final stage of adult development
- Self-transcendent emotions: Gratitude, compassion, awe
- Spirituality: Finding meaning and staying grounded
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 the bonus Part Five of Skills training for recovery from abuse, gaslighting and toxic stress, presented by Dr. Liane Leedom. It’s FREE with the purchase of the total 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 program, you should be able to:
- Explain how psychopathy can affect an entire family
- Describe what it means to be wise
- Recognize unhealthy mind states
- Cultivate healthy mind states
- Name self-transcendent emotions
Program agenda for Post-traumatic growth and spirituality
- Mindfulness exercise
- Linked lives
- Alone and connected: A dialectic
- Psychopathy in parents
- Psychopathy in siblings
- Psychopathy in sons and daughters
- Thriving despite being linked to psychopathy
- Review: All the wellness skills
- Recovery pyramid
- Cultivate wisdom
- What does it mean to be wise?
- Abandon unhealthy mind states
- Cultivate healthy mind states
- The self and suffering
- Self-transcendence
- Cultivate self-transcendent emotions
- Gratitude, compassion, awe
- Spirituality in recovery
The sociopath’s betrayal was devastating, but with the skills you learned, you can overcome the pain. By abandoning unhealthy mind sets and cultivating wisdom, you can achieve self-transcendence — the final stage of adult development.