Hey you guys, welcome to Heal Survive and Thrive. Today we are, we're going to talk about gaslighting, how someone makes you really question your own reality, why it happens, how it happens, dissecting it and what to do about it. So you know me. I'm always educational and then I have to give you guys, you know, the tools like how do you overcome gas

lighting? How do you overcome self-doubt? Because you losing your grip on reality and you

doubting your own thoughts or feeling like you are too sensitive, it's honestly just a manifestation

of abuse that you've been through. So we're going to dive into all of it today. Gaslighting is one of

the most sneaky forms

of emotional abuse. It is under the emotional abuse umbrella because it's the thing with

the gaslighting is it's so subtle. It's not like physical abuse where you can obviously

see the bruises. It's not the verbal abuse where you can feel the yelling. I mean, you

can hear the yelling. Gaslighting

is bruises really of the mind. By the end of this episode, I want you to understand how

gaslighting works, the tactics that a person will use when they are gaslighting you, why it is

so effective and how to really begin dealing with this. You know, like let's, let's dive into all of it.

Let's learn how to help ourselves since gasoline does chip away at yourself,

a self-esteem and sense of self.

So what exactly is gaslighting?

It's psychological manipulation.

It's a tactic that's used in order for an abuser to get what they want. So they do this

so you can question yourself. You question your thoughts. You question your memories. You question

your perceptions of reality. The term gaslighting. It comes from an old movie where really a husband

dimmed the lights in the house. So in this movie, the husband

dims all the lights in the house and insisted to his wife that the lights weren't dimming. Over

time, she started to believe she was losing her mind. This is exactly what happens in real life.

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