Every minute in the United States, 20 people suffer physical violence at the hands of a loved one and over ten million Americans are physically and emotionally abused by the people they love and trust.<\/p>\n
How do you get yourself or someone you love out of a toxic relationship? And how do you stay out?<\/p>\n
Whitney Amann explained in this Healthy Living.<\/p>\n
From the outside, Mary Mitchell seemed to have it all. Beautiful home, great job, loving relationship. But Mary felt like she was hiding behind a mask. Her seven-year marriage ended and when she started a new relationship, she found herself with a violent and abusive partner.<\/p>\n
Mary said, Its easier to have a bruised heel or a broken bone heal than it is to un-hear things.<\/p>\n
Many women who have been impacted by domestic violence now work as advocates and one of those women is Janie Lacy.<\/p>\n
She said, My sister, Carmen, she was murdered at the age of 19 by the father of her two children.<\/p>\n
Janie turned her grief into action. She earned her masters degree in counseling psychology and became a licensed therapist. Five years ago, she started the group woman redeemed for women with a history of toxic relationships.<\/p>\n
Lacy counsels her clients with a 90-day detox from their troubled relationship. She says days 14 through 21 are when clients are most vulnerable and most likely to reach out to their former significant other.<\/p>\n
She said, If we could get them through those 90 days and subside those efforts then we can start reprogramming their brain.<\/p>\n
If a friend or loved one is in a toxic relationship, Lacy advises people to not back away, but be quietly present. Send a text saying thinking of you to let that person know that you are there and they can open up to you.<\/p>\n
If you need help or want information for a friend, call the national domestic violence hotline at 1-800-799-7233.<\/p>\n
To learn more about services, click here.<\/p>\n
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