About this module
Yes, you can have a life worth living, even when your life has been shattered by sociopaths (narcissists, psychopaths). In this final module, 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
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
Here’s a preview:
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.