Overview
Registration is now open for the four-session Madison on-site edition of, The RollerCoaster Relationship Recovery Seminar & Support Group.
Roller Coaster Relationships are unstable relationships involving break-up/make-up cycles, mixed messages, manipulation, exploitation, verbal and emotional abuse and other issues that can make life miserable, frightening, and exhausting. Often one member in such relationships---whether a partner, parent, child, sibling, or friend---suffers with a personality disorder (e.g., Borderline Personality or Narcissistic Personality Disorder) that makes it difficult for them to behave in consistently caring, kind, and reality-based ways. This group is for partners, "exes," or family members still in, exiting, or recovering from relationships with people "on the rollercoaster" who have taken you along for the ride.
Here's what we'll cover:
Roller Coaster Relationships are unstable relationships involving break-up/make-up cycles, mixed messages, manipulation, exploitation, verbal and emotional abuse and other issues that can make life miserable, frightening, and exhausting. Often one member in such relationships---whether a partner, parent, child, sibling, or friend---suffers with a personality disorder (e.g., Borderline Personality or Narcissistic Personality Disorder) that makes it difficult for them to behave in consistently caring, kind, and reality-based ways. This group is for partners, "exes," or family members still in, exiting, or recovering from relationships with people "on the rollercoaster" who have taken you along for the ride.
Here's what we'll cover:
- Crazy-making, invalidating, victim-playing, exploitating: what you need to know about "personality disorders"
- How to respond to suicide and homicide threats and risks
- Your vulnerability to toxic relationships and what to do about it
- Boundaries, bottom lines, and protecting what's important to you
- Staying in, getting out, going back, going forward, staying still...and evaluating your best path
- Maintaining your equilibrium and recovering your happiness, whatever your situation
- Exiting, letting go, and protecting what's yours and what you want
- Each session may include educational materials presented by the instructor, facilitated and focused group conversation, role plays and demonstrations as the group wishes, and practices for improving your well-being and happiness as homework.
