How to Reclaim Your Power From a Manipulative or Controlling Person
Stake your claim and protect your space. There are a few of the best ways to take back power from a manipulative person.
Most of the people who land on this blog gets here on the back of bad relationships and traumatic childhoods. Life hasn’t been kind to them, and they’ve learned to think poorly of themselves along the way. In many cases, this has created individuals who get trapped in toxic cycles with manipulative people. Low on themselves, they allow dangerous people in to pull their strings and coerce them.
Breaking this cycle of manipulators is hard. Their controlling behaviors undermine our central idea of self, and create this idea that we have to accept what they do to us. It’s not true. We can break through the pattern and find a better way to live and relate to the people who populate our lives.
The sneaky ways manipulative people steal your power.
A manipulative person rarely takes power, out in the open where everyone can see it. They convince us to give our power away, little by little, over time. By lying to us, and convincing us that we are worthless, powerless, or otherwise unlovable, we give them to reign over our lives. We…
