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About this series
You’ve been manipulated, exploited and betrayed, and you’re shocked to realize that it was all intentional. How do you recover from a narcissist, antisocial or psychopath? How do you move forward in your life?
That’s exactly what you will learn in this Lovefraud webinar series. It’s a 13-session program taught by Dr. Liane Leedom, a psychiatrist and a professor of counseling and psychology at the University of Bridgeport. She knows exactly what you’ve experienced, because she was targeted by a psychopath herself.
Unfortunately, the mental health field has no recognized treatment protocol for the trauma of narcissistic abuse. So Dr. Leedom has created a groundbreaking approach utilizing the skills training of dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) and tailoring it to the experience of survivors like you. Lovefraud is pleased to offer you this opportunity for true recovery.
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About the instructor Dr. Liane Leedom
Liane J. Leedom, M.D., 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.
Want to know more about the series? Following is information about each of the webinars!
FREE! Your first step towards real recovery from narcissistic abuse and trauma
Video recording available as soon as you complete registration.
Sociopaths engage in predatory behavior, and once they catch you, trauma bonds keep you stuck. Here’s a preview of survival principles and skills that will enable you to escape and recover.
Highlights
- Yes, recovery from narcissistic abuse is possible
- Why sociopaths crave power and can’t love
- How you fell in love with the sociopath
- Overview of four dialectical behavioral therapy skill sets
- Dialectics: Opposite truths that stand together
More info, including program agenda
1. Mindfulness to clear your head of sociopathic gaslighting
Wednesdays, Sept. 25- Oct. 16, 7-9 pm ET. Video recording of each class available the next day.
When the sociopath’s gaslighting has left your mind racing and emotions in turmoil, mindfulness teaches you that you are not your thoughts. Learn to calm your mind, soothe your senses and let go of emotional suffering.
Highlights
- After the sociopath, how mindfulness can restore your sanity
- Goal of mindfulness — to reduce suffering and increase happiness
- How to focus on being completely present in this one moment
- How to observe and release painful emotions
- The importance of validation for improved relationships
More info, including program agenda
2. Recovery from the bodily effects of toxic stress
Wednesdays, Oct. 23-30, 7-9 pm ET. Video recording of each class available the next day.
You are emotionally overwhelmed but demands 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.
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
- Radical acceptance — complete and total acceptance of what is
- Radical acceptance is willingness to do just what is needed
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3. Strategies for reducing emotional distress and vulnerability
Wednesdays, Nov. 6-20, Dec. 4, 7-9 pm ET. Video recording of each class available the next day.
Involvement with a sociopath is emotionally brutal. Still, mindfulness enables you to regulate your emotions, so you can decrease your suffering and vulnerability. Learn strategies for changing your emotional responses, even in tough situations.
Highlights
- How to reduce emotional distress and toxic stress so you can fully see reality
- Negative feelings are bad and other myths about emotional regulation
- Understanding and describing emotions
- Emotional regulation through problem solving, step by step
- Strategies for building a life worth living
More info, including program agenda
4. Evidence-based tools for respectful and fulfilling relationships
Wednesdays, Dec. 11-18, 7-9 pm ET. Video recording of each class available the next day.
You may be so worried that you’ll encounter another sociopath that you avoid people. But with skills of interpersonal effectiveness, you can get what you want and need from people in a healthy and respectful manner. Learn to build social connections with confidence.
Highlights
- How to be skillful in getting what you want and need from others
- Clarifying your goals in interpersonal situations
- FAST guidelines — how to act in ways that preserve your self-respect
- Building solid relationships and ending destructive ones
- Skills for finding friends and getting people to like you
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Cost and credits
Dr. Leedom’s program has an introduction and four parts, 25 total hours of instruction, which will get you well on the road to recovery. The value is $600, but when you buy the entire program it’s only $495. Once you purchase the course, you can access it online as long and as often as you want.
Sign up today and use coupon code Skills20 to save an additional 20%- full course for only $396! (Expires 9/25)
To maximize the benefit of the course, Dr. Leedom strongly recommends that you purchase the DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets, by Marsha M. Linehan. You’ll be able to follow along in the training and complete all of the exercises, which will greatly help with your recovery. The manual is available on Amazon for $40.
Although this course does not award continuing education credits, you will be able to download a certificate of achievement upon completion.
If you’ve tangled with a sociopath (psychopath, narcissist), your brain has been fried and your heart has been shattered. No matter how much support you have, you’re the only one who can rebuild your internal reality. Learn the skills to do it.
Sign up today and use coupon code Skills20 to save an additional 20% – full course is only $396! (Expires 9/25)
Lovefraud offers a money back guarantee. If you are not satisfied with your course, your money will be refunded. For multi-part courses, you must request a refund before the second webinar in the program.