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Old Jul 16, 2019, 08:05 PM
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Originally Posted by kiwi215 View Post
So if anyone managed to make it through all of that, here are some things that helped me recover (in no particular order):

- The book "The Body Keeps the Score"
- Website therapyconsumerguide,com (by user Ididitmyway on this forum... thank you!!)
- Therapy-Induced Trauma: What It Is and How It Can Happen
- Emotional Abuse in Psychotherapy | TELL: Therapy Exploitation Link Line
- First, Do No Harm: Abusive Psychotherapists | Psychopaths and Love
- When Therapists Do Harm | The Ferentz Institute
- EMDR therapy
- Neurofeedback
- Love and support from people who genuinely care about me and love and support me
thanks for sharing your inspirational story! i too have found many of the things you listed above to be the most beneficial in my own healing and for helping me to get out of an unhealthy therapeutic relationship and harmful therapy, especially:

- The book "The Body Keeps the Score"
- Website therapyconsumerguide,com (by user Ididitmyway on this forum... thank you!!)
- Emotional Abuse in Psychotherapy | TELL: Therapy Exploitation Link Line
- First, Do No Harm: Abusive Psychotherapists | Psychopaths and Love
- When Therapists Do Harm | The Ferentz Institute
- Neurofeedback
- Love and support from people who genuinely care about me and love and support me

the most helpful of that list being the love and support of my husband and the neurofeedback therapy.

i too have also remained in contact with my ex-T since ending therapy over two years ago and we have had quite a few conversations about my struggles of the therapy with him. he actually acknowledged and apologised to me in person and admitted, knowing what he knows now, he would have done some things quite differently. for me, that moment was priceless because it helped me to finally feel at peace with what had happened. similar to you, i can now view the process i experienced (including my years in therapy and post therapy) from a new perspective. for me, it feels as if it was somewhat a necessary 'process' for me have had that helped propel me forward to finally be able to experience all the new and positive changes in my life. i'm not saying that it in necessary for clients to have a bad experince in therapy to make these type of life changes, but i personally refuse to let the harmful experiences overpower me or my life any further. i'm using it as a means to learn, grow, and further empower myself as i continue on my journey through life.
Thanks for this!
here today, kiwi215