Take Back Your Life (3rd Edition)

Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships

By: Janja Lalich

Narrated by: Becky Parker, Tyra Kennedy, Ryan Edlinger, Janja Lalich

3rd Edition

Updated and revised, including a new section on the Troubled Teen Industry

Cult victims and those who have experienced abusive relationships often suffer from fear, confusion, low self-esteem, and post-traumatic stress. Take Back Your Life explains the seductive draw that leads people into such situations, provides insightful information for assessing what happened, and hands-on tools for getting back on track.

©2023 Janja Lalich (P)2024 Janja Lalich

Excellent!!!

Excellent resource for both survivors and clinicians. I appreciate that the author has provided a resource for clinicians who need better understanding of these systems of control in order to help their clients. As a Survivor, of domestic abuse and high control religion, this book has deepened my understanding of what happened to me and how I can continue to heal. This work articulates the experience of abuse and high control group survivors that is both scientifically informed and deeply compassionate. I highly recommend.

Very informative helpful book

If you have experienced authoritarian religious abuse as I have and have trouble being you, this book will help,

Janja Lalich tells of experiences with cults and a

In Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships, the listener is brought into a world that if you've only seen in movies or television, a totally different experience of being in a cult. In our world today, it is not uncommon, and some members are finally being caught and prosecuted. It's another epidemic in our country that until it's made public, not many people talk about. Janja Lalich explains how one may be enticed into that world, especially if they believe no one cares of loves them, but then when reality sinks in, and abuse, physical and sexual occurs, with coercion, and believing there is no way out, defeat in oneself can occur. I recommend that every one listen to this book. First, because of how the book is put together, it makes the story more dramatic, where you get multiple actors, in the book, multiple voices. To me, it's like a play on audio, and it delivers, no matter the story. The terror, the aftermath of one that leaves the cult, is one that can last forever, and end up being part of the person forever, even defining that person. Not everyone gets out, or gets out alive, and that is another issue with survival or belief in something that is not really there. This book is entitled Take back your life, and it is worth every single word, and if it can help persons heal or start to heal, it has done its job. The experience of the author is worth noting, and how incredible a story, a true story of lives destroyed, and lives that can heal, is remarkable. PTSD is no joke, and many people who suffer from it, don't realize that they have it, and it's not just for war-torn brave armed forces, anyone suffering a trauma, can suffer. I know, because I do. Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships on audiobook is a definite listening recommendation by Amy's Bookshelf Reviews. Amy's Bookshelf Reviews recommends that anyone who listens to this book, to also write a review.