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From Darkness to Embracing the Light: A Spiritual Guide for Reclaiming Your Life After Soul-Crushing Relationships (Spiritual practices that can benefit mind and spirit) Kindle Edition

by Mariel Gordon (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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This book is focused on healing techniques and how to reclaim your birthright of happiness, peace and love after a toxic relationship. It recounts a spiritual journey of recovery from narcissistic relationships and includes 25 emotional, energetic, and spiritual healing practices the author used to heal from betrayal and trauma. By sharing her experience and research on narcissism, the author will help survivors find a way out of suffering to peace and freedom. The book provides insights and practices to reclaim the lives of survivors and empower them to to heal, forgive the past, and open to the future. The author uses the 12 powers of Unity to frame her discussion of what is needed to heal from these kinds of relationships.

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Hands down by far this is the best book I have read in years. Her poetry is so powerful that not only can you see it, but you can feel it too. Waterfall91 at BookBub Excellent advice. I have employed a number of your suggestions and find it extremely helpful. Ed Janvik on QuoraA unique and groundbreaking work dealing with painful, toxic relationships Linda Terberg, authorFilled with gems of wisdom and insight, Reverend Sharon F.

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This book is an intense and honest look at the difficulties and impossibility of pathological love and narcissistic relationships. My own journey showed me the need to embrace a spiritual and energetic solution to empower myself and other survivors to recover and thrive. My healing story was meant to give hope, inspiration and practical tools for breaking the trauma bond and deep healing. I provide a practical and informative set of healing practices and techniques which include those that are simple, spiritual and emotional. Self care and self forgiveness during the healing process are a must. If you or a loved one is looking for transformation from being abused or traumatized by such relationships, I believe that this book will help you heal as I did.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07YK1ZCQ6
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 28, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 471 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 236 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #562,071 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #392 in Self-Help for Abuse
- #1,082 in Abuse Self-Help
- #1,143 in New Age Mental & Spiritual Healing

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Mariel Gordon is a pen name. Mariel has a doctorate in social psychology from the University of Maryland and a master's in writing from Johns Hopkins University. Her education consists of many life lessons over the years on her spiritual journey. Her interests include travel, healing, sunsets, swimming, and living her best life now and in the future. She resides in Florida with her beautiful boy cat whose pen name is The Rock.

Her book From Darkness to Embracing the Light is mixed genre and includes memoir, prose, and poetry describing her experience and lessons learned from being in relationship with individuals with the personality disorder of narcissism, one of the Dark Triad of disorders. Her purpose is to bring hope to the millions who still suffer and to make them aware of healing practices that are not known by the general public as well as other practices for recovering emotionally, spiritually, and psychologically. By using the practices detailed here, many will be helped to heal from trauma, depression, anxiety, and acute stress that resulted from narcissistic relationships.

The just released book Living in Light: Spiritual Practices for Body, Mind and Spirit in a Post-Pandemic World details nine simple and practical spiritual healing practices which are not only helpful for recovery from the mental health effects of the current global health crisis, but are also focused on the life-long goal of staying well mentally, physically, spiritually, and emotionally despite the ever-present challenges of grief and loss. The scientific benefits of each technique, and how they helped me during the pandemic and after will be highlighted. Each chapter will have exercises that worked for me in overcoming loss and acute stress from the effects of COVID-19. They are useful to anyone wishing to enhance happiness, feelings of peace, and a sense of well-being, and for any future global health crises.

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Spiritual/energetic recovery from abuse.

Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2020

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This well written, well researched book is especially valuable for addressing the aspect of narcissistic abuse and recovery that is often overlooked; that of energetic/spiritual abuse.
While the author’s chapters address the psychological and emotional aspects of abuse as well, her personal journey of survival includes valuable insights into the energetic aspects, including practical exercises for breaking the trauma bond, becoming centered again, and deep healing from narcissistic control and exploitation.
Her poetry appears within the chapters, shining a light into her subconscious as we accompany her on her healing path.
This book grants inspiration, hope, and practical tools for empowering survivors to recover and thrive. It encourages the survivor to identify hidden patterns within that may have predisposed him or her to the abuse, encouraging a deep look within to heal oneself from old vulnerabilities and through this deep healing, become stronger than ever before.
If you or a loved one is looking to transform their experience from being abused to being full on empowered, then this book belongs in your recovery library.

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Barbara Clevenger

Heart-touching and wise

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2023

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Loaned my book out as soon as I finished reading it. Several other friends come to mind who would also like it. My experience with narcissism was with some congregants. As a minister I was negligent about setting clear boundaries and enforcing them. I repeatedly forgave. They were inhospitable to those not in their own group. I founded the church 13 years before they tried to fire me, for not growing the church! It came to a congregational vote and they then left. I stayed for 5 more years before retiring. I was invited back for the church's joyous 25th anniversary. The church is thriving and so am I. There is life after betrayal.

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Steve Camp

Definitely a "must read" for anyone dealing with a present/past abusive or controlling partner!

Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2019

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Mariel Gordon has not only shared her own personal story, a powerful one, but she has used both informative prose and heart-touching poetry that is not only brutally honest and raw but incredibly visual and beautiful. I cannot resist comparing her writing to that of Mark Nepo, in that it is clearly written from a place of knowing and reflects so wonderfully the evolution of Ms. Gordon's spiritual journey and consciousness, all the while remaining feet-on-the-ground honest. Her incorporation of Unity's 12 Powers is handled in a very effective and useful manner! Be prepared to learn some very unsettling things about the "Dark Triad" personalities!

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Keith M Jones

How to reclaim your self-confidence after toxic relationships

Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2020

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Well-written, engaging discussion of Dark Triad relationships, enhanced by personal experiences and insights from the author. I found this book revelatory, explaining several of my own relationships that failed, for which I felt I was to blame. With a new understanding of toxic personalities, I now feel better about abandoning these people, who I now realize are not redeemable. The footnotes and citations are generally helpful and keep the academic details out of the main text, making the book easier to read. Well done, Ms. Gordon!

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gerald b.

Life is a journey with much to learn along the way

Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2020

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The poetry is strong and. And beautifully written. She writes of her personal experiences, but references many scholars and is well documented . Different techniques by many authors .i saw many things that I could relate to, that I have gone through in my own life. Well worth the read

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THIS CLARIFIES EVERYTHING! The

Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2020

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WOW! This. Clarifies EVERYTHING! Written so clearly, even a hamster could understand! Changes my life! Explains even the inane.

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MIMI24

Mixed Review

Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2020

I think this book would be excellent for relationship issues in couples. I thought it was about narcissistic relationships in any category. I have a very narcissistic family member that I thought this book might give me insight into. I didn't find it that helpful for my circumstances. I was provided a complementary copy of this book through Reading Deals and I gave an honest review.

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Dick D.

An inspirational book of healing

Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2019

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Mariel Gordon's writings and poetry are gifts of reflection and insight. The author's journey towards love, light and healing is an inspiration.