✿ a history of Gaslighting

✿ how the fabric of society allows gaslighting to self perpetuate (systemic gaslighting)


✿ the long reaching negative effects & impact of gaslighting on mental health and physical well-being, workplace and career, family and children, intergenerational trauma and so on

✿ grasping the repetitive nature of gaslighting & how that cycle both contributes to abusive relationships while perpetuating the general abuse cycle

✿ revealing gaslighting strategies, such as denying, trivializing, projection and blaming the victim for the problem-shifting

✿ being able to appreciate gaslighting as a distinct form of emotional manipulation and abuse from other forms of the same flavour

✿ how gaslighting can take on a variety of forms depending on the nature of the relationship and the setting in which it occurs

✿ investigating the personality traits and lifestyle choices of gaslighters 

✿ the influence of power dynamics in unhealthy relationships

✿ developing a deeper awareness of your own lived experience

✿ developing resiliency and a healthy sense of self as a protective mechanism against the impacts of gaslighting

✿ developing healthy coping skills and assertive techniques for self-care and self-love

✿ forgiving one's self

✿ locating support systems and resources for recovery and healing

✿ truly understanding the red flags of unhealthy relationships

✿ developing an understanding of your individual boundaries

✿ learning how to communicate those boundaries and assert yourself

✿ acquiring the skills necessary to have productive and forceful conversations with those gaslighting you

✿ investigating the options and choices available to effectively and safely exit unhealthy relationships where those boundaries are not respected

✿ the process of regaining trust in oneself and others following the use of gaslighting

✿ the process of cultivating a healthy self-image and a sense of self-worth and truly believing OURSELVES before we negotiate that belief in the outer world

✿ recognising when we are projecting our fear of being gaslighted onto people who are not gaslighters (making sure we aren't being paranoid for ex to protect ourself)

✿ breaking cycles and clearing energetic fields with kids