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After abuse, emotions can stop making sense.
Sometimes they are too big for the situation you are in. Sometimes they are absent altogether. Sometimes they appear hours or days after the moment that should have sparked them.
You may have tried to tell yourself to "just be in the moment," but the connection still wasn't there. You may have tried to force yourself to feel happy, but the joy remained muted. You may even be smiling on the outside while feeling flat underneath. These efforts often fail because the emotional system itself has been disrupted.
What actually helps.
Reconnecting With Your Feelings After Abuse provides a step-by-step guide to rebuilding your ability to process emotions in a healthy way. It explains how emotional processing works under normal conditions, how abuse hijacks that process, and how the protective interruptions you built to survive continue to interfere with emotional flow long after the abusive environment has ended.
The book shows what happens when the emotional processing cycle remains broken, including emotional dysregulation, dissociation, delayed responses, and overwhelming emotional surges. It then guides you through a clear, five-step reconditioning process that supports the gradual restoration of emotional stability, continuity, and trust in your internal signals.
Written from lived experience, this book offers survivors something rare: a clear explanation of what happened to their emotional system, and a grounded pathway to rebuild it without destabilisation or self-blame.
About the Author: Stand Again was created to support men recovering from family violence and coercive control. Written from lived experience, not clinical theory, the books and resources provide clear frameworks for understanding abuse, rebuilding identity, and learning to reconnect with healthy emotions.The mission of Stand Again is simple: no man should have to face recovery in silence or isolation. Through books, free resources, and YouTube content, Stand Again offers language, tools, and hope for survivors ready to reclaim their lives.
Title: Reconnecting With Your Feelings After Abuse
Publisher: Stand Again
Publication Date: 2025
Binding: PAP
Condition: New
Edition: 2nd Edition