Two BOOKs WRITTEN TO SUPPORT your personal growth after covert abuse.
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Have you endlessly searched online trying to make sense of their behaviour? Hoping to understand how they treat you. ‘Is it normal?’ ‘Why does it hurt so much?’ Or perhaps you feel conflicted because you think their behaviour is unacceptable, but you question your judgement. You ask yourself,
‘Is it me?’
‘Am I too sensitive?’
‘Am I crazy?’
Was It Even Abuse? was written by Emma Rose Byham, founder of The Personal Growth Project and Instagram community (@thepersonalgrowth.project) to support you in working through the chronic confusion and self-doubt experienced after emotional and psychological abuse. This book explores:
Emma helps you to restore clarity by breaking down a complex topic, supporting you to stop doubting what you’ve experienced, facilitate self-compassion for how you’ve been affected, reduce the inner conflict of who you understand them to be, and shift focus onto personal growth and building healthy relationships.
‘Is it me?’
‘Am I too sensitive?’
‘Am I crazy?’
Was It Even Abuse? was written by Emma Rose Byham, founder of The Personal Growth Project and Instagram community (@thepersonalgrowth.project) to support you in working through the chronic confusion and self-doubt experienced after emotional and psychological abuse. This book explores:
- The answers to key questions that create confusion
- How minor incidents can be significantly abusive
- Identifying abusive behaviour, trauma responses and the abusive dynamic
- Reducing conflict between the potential and reality of the relationship
- Reframing core beliefs about relationships and love
Emma helps you to restore clarity by breaking down a complex topic, supporting you to stop doubting what you’ve experienced, facilitate self-compassion for how you’ve been affected, reduce the inner conflict of who you understand them to be, and shift focus onto personal growth and building healthy relationships.
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When you are healing from abuse, the pressure rarely comes only from within.
You may be told you’re stuck in the past.
That you’re too sensitive.
That your feelings don’t make sense.
That you should be more positive.
Or even that you are to blame.
Over time, these messages can shape how survivors understand themselves in recovery, often in ways that add confusion, shame, or self-doubt on top of what has already happened.
In Dear Survivor, Emma Rose Byham explores five false beliefs that survivors are frequently measured against while trying to rebuild their lives. Rather than focusing on self-blame alone, this book looks at the social and relational pressures that shape recovery after abuse and how those expectations can interfere with healing. It offers a way of separating other people’s assumptions from your own lived experience, so recovery can unfold with more clarity and self-trust.
Healing is not about meeting expectations. It is about understanding what happened and allowing your recovery to unfold without apology.
You may be told you’re stuck in the past.
That you’re too sensitive.
That your feelings don’t make sense.
That you should be more positive.
Or even that you are to blame.
Over time, these messages can shape how survivors understand themselves in recovery, often in ways that add confusion, shame, or self-doubt on top of what has already happened.
In Dear Survivor, Emma Rose Byham explores five false beliefs that survivors are frequently measured against while trying to rebuild their lives. Rather than focusing on self-blame alone, this book looks at the social and relational pressures that shape recovery after abuse and how those expectations can interfere with healing. It offers a way of separating other people’s assumptions from your own lived experience, so recovery can unfold with more clarity and self-trust.
Healing is not about meeting expectations. It is about understanding what happened and allowing your recovery to unfold without apology.
About the author
Emma founded The Personal Growth Project in 2017 to support the growth of survivors of emotional and psychological abuse, through her writing and her mentoring. She has established a large online community, and her social media posts have become a source of providing clarity. Her gift is to put into words an experience that is often hard to describe.
Emma’s background is working with young people who have experienced abuse, to help them recognise healthy and unhealthy bonds in their relationships, and to help them gain confidence and clarity. Emma has since studied Counselling and has a BSc (Hons) Psychology degree (BPS accredited). She trained in integrative therapeutic counselling, combining person-centered, psychodynamic and CBT methods. She has in-depth knowledge of the experiences of abuse which has been gained through attending courses, first person accounts, self-teaching and personal experience.
Emma’s background is working with young people who have experienced abuse, to help them recognise healthy and unhealthy bonds in their relationships, and to help them gain confidence and clarity. Emma has since studied Counselling and has a BSc (Hons) Psychology degree (BPS accredited). She trained in integrative therapeutic counselling, combining person-centered, psychodynamic and CBT methods. She has in-depth knowledge of the experiences of abuse which has been gained through attending courses, first person accounts, self-teaching and personal experience.