Celebrating 1 year of Dark Souls the Book

On 4th July 2011 it will be exactly a year since I published Dark Souls Healing and recovering from Toxic Relationships.

It will also by my 49th birthday. As a way of saying thankyou to all my supporters I am doing a special promotion.  I have decided to do a celebration offer and put out the Kindle edition at half price up until the 4th of July. It is now $5.99

Its been an a tough year but I am very happy. I am still coaching clients who have come out of relationships with these predators and have been busy donating books and doing talks for Womens Aid who I am delighted to say have incorporated some of my book into their programmes. In addition I have been fortunate to get myself a part time job working with vulnerable people. All in all its been a very good year.

In my efforts to get the book out by that date I made a few mistakes and in my rush the original editions had a few typos. They have been for sale on the website now for a few months at half the regular price for those that aren't bothered about the odd typing error. I wanted to write a book about psychopaths that was different and it seems that the word is spreading on these predatory people with more and more people now writing books on sociopaths and books on narcissitic personality disorder all the time.

Most sales for Dark Souls now go through Amazon and many more people are learning about psychopathic personalities so that they can empower themselves and not get victimised either in relationships or in the workplace.

If you would like to educate yourself about these types of people or have been in a relationship with a person who you think may have psychopathy or narcissistic personality tdisorder then please read the recent review below. Even if you haven't had the misfortune of dating someone you might know a person who has and could change their life by educating them.

Grab yourself a bargain copy for the next few weeks by going to Amazon and select the Kindle Edition.

"If you've been involved with someone who seemed to be your dream come true, but turned out to suck all the energy, financial resources and happiness out of you, then Sarah Strudwick's new book, "Dark Souls: Healing and Recovering from Toxic Relationships" is worth reading. This book, written by a very well-informed survivor of a toxic relationship with a narcissistic sociopath, offers a wealth of information about the key symptoms of sociopathy and malignant narcissism; an inspiring tale of the author's personal journey of coping with a hellish relationship and her survival; information about other helpful books and resources that can help victims; and, last but not least, a dab of wry British humor to entertain you.

Dark Souls gets to the essence of what makes personality disordered individuals so predatory, ruthless and dangerous. It exposes their luring techniques, when such individuals seem to be perfect and adapt to your ideals. It reveals why this is only a mask to hide these social predators' real motives, which is to use and abuse others for their personal gain and amusement.

It explains the physiological and psychological manifestations of sociopathy and narcissism, exploring the reasons behind their shallowness of emotions that leads these predators to con, deceive, beguile, torment and sometimes physically harm others.

The book also examines, in an introspective and highly informative manner, the profile of their chosen targets: whom social predators tend to select and why. Although nobody is immune from victimization by sociopaths and narcissists, Strudwick indicates that these predators tend to pick the emphatic, vulnerable and needy out of the herd. She traces the root of this vulnerability to childhood upbringing, using her own life as an example. This doesn't mean, however, that their chosen victims are weak. The author also goes on to explain that sociopaths tend to target strong and principled victims.

They prefer individuals whom they initially regard as a challenge, later use as a false front and, when they are finally unmasked, who won't behave towards them as unscrupulously as they do (by lying, cheating and/or defrauding others).

While there are quite a few informative books on narcissism and sociopathy, "Dark Souls" still manages to bring a lot to the literature on the subject through its wit and spiritual perspective. This book uses the metaphor of the "dark soul" and the concept of spiritual energy to explain how psychopaths and narcissists drain our emotional energy as well as to point to a road of recovery and personal flourishing once we end these toxic relationships. "

Claudia Moscovici, psychopathyawareness