Toxic Relationship Knowledge Center

The Survive, Transform, Soar! Knowledge Center is your place to come for articles, inspiration, support organizations and other information Dawn has identified that may interest you or increase your knowledge base.

Articles here will rotate as the page becomes full, so check back and see what is new!

Articles

How to Choose a Mate, Psychology Today
The best way I know to judge the health of a relationship – how it makes you feel about yourself

Healing from Narcissistic Abuse, Shrink4Men
One for the guys…which goes to show how much similarity there is in those with personality disorders, whether male, female or ‘other.’

You Are Not Crazy
This is a great website that will help you recognize whether you experienced emotional abuse.

Starting Over: How To Rebuild Your Finances After Escaping A Financially Abusive Relationship
This article from Bankrate provides tips on budgeting, building credit and getting back into the workforce when you need to recover from financial rape.

Organizations Providing Education and Support

These organizations have excellent information available on their website and/or additional resources to support you in your recovery and transition to tremendous:

The Institute for Relational Harm Reduction and Public Pathology Education – A body of survivors who have sustained psychological injury because of someone else’s pathology and their supporters–people who are seeking to impact public education surrounding issues related to pathology, personality disorders and psychopathy

DrugRebab.com – This page of their website has some excellent information about the links between domestic abuse and substance abuse, which may be used as an excuse to abuse, as a method of coercion and control, or as a coping strategy.

LoveIsRespect.org – A resource for teens to prevent and end dating abuse.

AddictionCenter is a referral resource to treatment options for abused people or their partners when substance addiction increases one person’s desire for control over another or decreases one person’s ability to resist the controlling actions of a partner.

RehabSpot devotes a portion of their website to information on self-love, how to create and maintain healthy relationships and how to deal with stressors in healthy ways.

Violence Awareness and Prevention Guide – good information resource about all kinds of domestic violence–physical, emotional, sexual, financial

Inspiration

“Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.”
~ James Harvey Robinson (1863 – 1936) , American Historian

“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”
~ Rumi

“Keep going. You need not fear who and what you’ve left behind; they will stop when they know you’re gone. You need not fear who and what you are going to; they will open their arms when you arrive. You cannot arrive until you’re gone. This is a principle of the freebegodo way of life.”
~ Michael Ackerman, artist, creator of the freebegodo ‘mashup word’ and concept

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
~ Henry David Thoreau

“Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
~ Lolly Daskal, Founder of Lead From Within

“Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise again.”
~ Rumi

Music

Survivors Survive
Singer/Songwriter: Ryan Hamner

Praying
Singer/Songwriter: Kesha, live performance @ YouTube