I stumbled upon this book at a pivotal time in my life.  It was literally revolutionary & life-changing for me.  It gave me the information I needed to embrace what my intuition was telling me instead of telling myself I was over-reacting, making things up, off my rocker, being too sensitive, or simply misreading situations.  I learned about how the mind of a toxic works and I learned their manipulative (& draining!) strategies of mind games, covert vs overt put downs, triangulation, gaslighting, stonewalling, projection, love-bombing, devaluation & how they work to keep us trapped in a repetitive cycle.  Most importantly, this book validated for me that the “tells” my intuition was giving me all along, were bang-on.  Armed with the validation, along with energy work & brain-training, I was able to move out of the survival dynamic & repetitious cycles, find correct detachment, grow, heal & and find the agency to rebuild my life.  To move from powerlessness to Power.  I hope for the same for you.