Find Out if You Are in a
Controlling Relationship
Pathways to Recovery
Tuesday, 10:28 a.m.
Dr. Karin Taverniers
Being in an abusive relationship can affect all areas of one’s life, and take its toll on one’s physical, emotional and psychological well-being.
Emotionally manipulated women have reported a wide range of afflictions, ranging from sleep disturbances, digestive problems, heart disease, chronic fatigue and/or weakness, to anguish, anxiety, confusion and disorientation.
However, control abuse is not easily recognizable, but there are often warning signs:
- constant put-downs and criticism
- humiliation
- threats
- emotional blackmail
- frightening temper tantrums and unpredictable mood swings
- continuous blaming
- brainwashing
- isolation
- restrictions to work opportunities, financial resources or social activities
- ridiculing
- extreme sense of entitlement
- “crazy-making” behavior
- use of “male privilege”
I’m Dr. Karin Taverniers, a professional couples and family therapist, with over twenty years of experience in working with women in abusive and controlling relationships.
Karin’s book on verbal abuse in controlling relationships is truly enlightening and is a must for anyone working with or suffering from verbal abuse. As a psychologist, I highly recommend her publications and expertise on the subject matter. They have been extremely helpful to me in my own practice.
Petra Elder, PsyD
www.chevychasepsychology.com
When I first started working with couples, back in the late ’80’s, it struck me how often women would come in with apparent unexplainable depression, feelings of self-blame, low self-esteem, and diminished autonomy and self-confidence.
Not all of them were able to associate their profound discomfort with their troubled relationships, and those who did, wondered what they had done wrong in their marriage, when it was they in fact who were being abused.
Many of them had aimlessly sought help elsewhere, only to end up feeling more frustrated and helpless than before.
I, too, like many, many other couples therapists, in my early years of practice, had not been trained to include the ‘gender abuse lens’ in my work with couples.
It takes two to tango, or so they thought. One side abuses, while the other plays along by accepting the abuse. In that sense, couples therapy often worsened the problem rather than alleviating it.
But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Based on my vast experiences with couples, and years of research for my doctoral dissertation on gender abuse, I’ve laid out a simple and easy to understand book to help you to recognize the dynamics of control abuse in relationships and to take charge of your emotional destiny.
Not only will you encounter how to identify and break the control cycle of your relatonshi, you’ll also learn:
- How to pinpoint the factors and contexts that facilitate power abuse.
- Why women are not the “lesser sex”.
- That men and women belong to the same planet, not to different ones. Men are not from Mars, and women are not from Venus. They both inhabit the planet Earth and can relate as equals.
- That control is not a necessary ingredient for relationships to work.
For only $24.95 you will discover the tools you need to recover the life you once enjoyed in this easy-to-read, no-filler e-book.
Take six full months to examine this wealth of information and put it to value in your relationship.
Or in any other relationship for that matter: whether it be with your boss, your peers, or even a controlling parent. Once you’ve used these strategies, I’m confident you won’t want to send it back.
To order your copy today, click here now!
To your success,
Dr. Karin Taverniers
Also available in Spanish!