Understanding and Healing from Domestic Abuse and Psychological Coercion
Professional educational insight on narcissistic and domestic abuse, trauma healing, and prevention from Dr. Jeanne King, Ph.D.
Trying to Understand What Is Happening in Your Relationship?
You may sense something is wrong in your relationship but struggle to name it. You may feel confused by emotional swings, criticism, silence, or control. You may wonder why conversations end in blame, why trust keeps eroding, or why you feel smaller than before.
Inner Sanctuary Online provides educational guidance to help you understand the psychological dynamics of narcissistic and domestic abuse, recognize patterns of coercion, and begin moving toward clarity, safety and healing.
For more than two decades, Dr. Jeanne King, Ph.D., has helped thousands of individuals and families understand abusive dynamics and move toward clarity, safety, and deeper integration and wholeness.
Educational Resources for Understanding Abuse
Inner Sanctuary Online offers educational guidance to help individuals, families, and professionals understand abusive dynamics and pathways toward healing and prevention.
- Recognizing patterns of narcissistic and coercive control
- Understanding trauma responses in relationships
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Learning how abuse affects perception and decision-making
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Guidance for recovery, safety, and long-term well-being
About Inner Sanctuary Online
The materials draw on decades of clinical practice, research, teaching, and advocacy work, integrating psychological, relational, and legal perspectives on coercive control and trauma recovery.
Resources are updated regularly and address both common and complex issues that arise in abusive relationships, including advanced legal and psychological dynamics.
These materials are intended for education, reflection, and prevention.
You will learn about the many faces and facets of abusive relationships, including:
Domestic Abuse Dynamics: Identifying and Breaking the Abuse Cycle
Verbal Abuse Battering: How to Step Out of the Line of Fire
Abusive Conditioning through Narcissistic Emotional Abuse
Spiritual, Psychological & Emotional Healing from Domestic Abuse
Effective Domestic Violence Counseling and Treatment Intervention
Psychosocial Politics of Legal Domestic Abuse, Custody and Divorce
Best Practices for Helping Loved Ones in Toxic Abusive Relationships
The educational materials available through membership include access to a comprehensive library of resources addressing the psychological, relational, and legal dynamics that can arise in abusive relationships.
• Gas-lighting and psychological manipulation
• Patterns of coercive and controlling behavior
• Financial and sexual control in relationships
• Trauma responses and recovery strategies
• Parental alienation and family-system dynamics
• Abuse by proxy and institutional abuse patterns
• Legal and psychiatric dynamics in high-conflict divorce
How Readers Describe Their Experience
Readers often report that educational insight helped them understand relationship dynamics more clearly and make informed decisions about their safety, well-being, and next steps.
• Greater clarity about abusive patterns and legal realities
• Confidence in navigating court and custody processes
• Discernment about when to continue or end a relationship
• Renewed trust in themselves and their capacity to heal
Educational Materials Available Through Membership
- Access a growing library of articles and educational eBooks on understanding abuse and recovery.
- Opportunity to request future topics for educational articles.
- Educational guidance on psychological and social dynamics of abusive relationships.
- Information on safety planning and pathways toward ending abusive cycles.
- Educational resources on trauma and recovery.
- Materials supporting personal reflection, resilience, and emotional healing.
- Professional perspectives on building respectful, healthy relationships.
- Education on less recognized forms of coercion and control.
- Information on legal and family-system issues that may arise in abusive relationships.
- Educational discussion of psychological dynamics that may appear in custody or divorce conflicts.
- Guidance for supporting friends or family members experiencing domestic abuse.
- Resources for individuals of all genders affected by domestic violence.
- Education on recognizing and responding to emotional and psychological abuse.
About Dr King
Dr. Jeanne King, Ph.D. is a psychologist and author whose work focuses on understanding coercive control, trauma recovery, and prevention of intimate partner abuse. Through decades of clinical practice, teaching, and writing, she has helped individuals and families recognize abusive dynamics and move toward deeper integration and wholeness.
She is a licensed psychologist of 40 years. This background gives her the benefit of understanding the psychosocial dynamics that bind abusive relationships, as well as the mechanics of healing relationship abuse and personal violation.
Dr. King practices what she teaches daily. This is especially important when it comes to energy psychology, in general. She has maintained a formal meditation practice for 52 years and taught EEG clinical biofeedback and self-regulation for over 25 years.
Real People, Real Progress
"I simply wanted to say thank you for all of the GREAT insight you have supplied me with over the last 1 1/2 years since I exited a life-threatening violent relationship. Your articles have instilled in me a continued belief that I was not to blame! I love you for that! No one else has, nor had, my back!"
Article Insight Reader
"Dr. King, Congratulations. For the second year in a row your CWR column, 'Breaking The Cycle,' has been selected by our readers as the overwhelming choice as their Favorite CWR Column. You are providing our readers with much needed information and advice, and they obviously appreciate you and your articles as much as we do. Thank you so much."
Donell Edwards
Reporter
"My 7yr old son and I now live in transitional housing in XXXXXXX, and are recovering from our Domestic Violence situation! Your articles have been a great inspiration and very helpful through the counseling to heal our wounds. Thank you!"
Article Insight Reader
"Just know you gave me immense strength and clarity in every session that has carried over into my everyday life so that I don't feel like a victim but more like a woman who can distinguish with clarity what is being done to her."
Article Insight Reader
"My wife and I are traveling and I had a chance to read your article on hearing "no" this morning. Two years ago, that article may have bothered me, but with your help and that of my self-help practices, I found myself cheering you on as I read through it."
Article Insight Reader
"Partners in Prevention is an invaluable resource in regard to the horrific craziness of domestic violence. I will forward you to others whenever I come across someone who needs this. Thank you for parting some very dark clouds and helping me along my path toward sunlight."
Article Insight Reader
"Dear Dr. King, I did download your book several years ago and I read every line. You gave me hope because I understood that I was not the crazy one, as he tried to make me believe, I finally saw the truth of the situation.
He was gaslighting me and I had nearly lost every last bit of self confidence or pride in myself. He had me feeling like I was lucky to be abused by him every day, in every way, he took a piece of me away. Until I was nearly gone, but then I read your book and it saved my life! I needed to let you know that, you did save my life. Thank you"
Article Insight Reader
"Your articles on domestic violence have been a life-saver. They have meant very much to me in my separation from violent spouse, now 1 1/2 years. THANK YOU."
Article Insight Reader
"I love you dear friend. Yes, your heart was translated to the written page and it reached my eyes just in time for it was when I was ready to end my broken life.
And your words got me on my feet even though I did not know there would be many more lessons to learn. I devote my life to help others that walk where I have walked and that came by your intervention that you did not know."
Article Insight Reader
"I read your articles and they are such great help, and I feel such spiritual uplift from each and every one. I am so very grateful for your experiences and knowledge and insight that help me with each read… Thank you for clarity and sanity and the nurturing of my roots to dig deeper and to be stronger. I am so very grateful."
Article Insight Reader
"Dr Jeanne King, I cannot remember how I first found you but for the last 3 years your emails and now your posts here are always so wise and useful and also empower me. I am saying this today, as a thank you, before I forget. Stay blessed🙏🏻❤"
@fsamuel_uncaged
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"I am grateful that over time that you helped me discover that even in the most volatile/dangerous situations, that I am not powerless! And in those turbulent times...I either have the choice to contribute to the escalation of the situation or more importantly, the power in my case, to deescalate the situation and keep myself, my husband and those I love safe."
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Former Patient
"Thank you for helping us go from our darkest moments into the light. The acceptance and honesty in our work with you saved our 42-year marriage."
Article Insight Reader
Former Patient
"Great Dr King, your messages are so powerful. I have shared the meaning with friends who cannot read English ...and they have been blessed and have their broken marital relationship transformed. We are so grateful to your Life Ministry."
Article Insight Reader
"Thank you, Dr. King for working so hard to help women who have been subject to not only an abusive ex-partner but the legal system also. No one should have to put up with either, but abuse from an attorney just makes it somehow incredibly wrong. You have helped me a lot by sharing your insight and knowledge..."
Article Insight Reader
"I just want to say thank you for all your work on this issue. Every member of my family of origin had some degree of Narcissistic abuse in their behavior…
Needless to say, my life has been rife with abuse of every kind from all angles…
Thank you for all of your (often painful) blogs about this issue. Every one has helped me to see my "family" in the stark light of day. I really appreciate your work"
Article Insight Reader
"I'd make it a point to get my hands-on anything Dr. King writes concerning Domestic Abuse; a subject that is near and dear to my heart. Her compassion and understanding are like a breath of fresh air in a sea of information that is often difficult to navigate, but too critical not to."
Tina Caldwell
GA
Access the Inner Sanctuary Online Educational Library
Many individuals and families seek guidance in understanding abusive relationship dynamics and pathways toward healing. Inner Sanctuary Online provides structured educational materials designed to make complex psychological concepts accessible and practical for everyday life.
Membership supports the nonprofit educational work of Partners in Prevention and provides ongoing access to the Inner Sanctuary Online resource library, including articles, guided reflections, and selected eBooks.
New materials are added regularly so members can continue learning at their own pace, in private, and without pressure.
Inner Sanctuary Online members receive immediate access to 30 articles and one eBook, and a new set of 30 articles and one eBook each month, along with other video eInsights. Alternatively, members may elect to have access to the article and video library only. This provides you 300+ insight articles over the next 10 months to support your healing journey.
eBooks available through Inner Sanctuary Online Portal include:
Narcissistic Abuse in Intimate Relationships: Signs of Covert Domestic Violence
Yes, Abusers Can Change: End Spousal Abuse and Save Your Marriage
Emotional Verbal Abuse: How to Recognize, Cope and Heal
Controlling Intimate Relationships: Emotional, Sexual and Financial Control
Legal Domestic Abuse: Learn to Successfully Navigate the System
Crazy-Making Legal Psychiatric Abuse: Signs and Prevention
Domestic Abuse Dynamics: Vol I Identifying Abusive Relationships
Domestic Abuse Dynamics: Vol II Breaking the Cycle
Abused Men: How to Break the Cycle and Heal
Psychological Healing for Domestic Abuse
Domestic Abuse Healing From Within
Stop Domestic Abuse: How to Help Others Break the Cycle
There is no shipping involved, and no domestic abuse resources downloaded to your computer unless you choose to do so. You gain instant, private and convenient access upon signing up. Simply log into your account at InnerSanctuaryOnline.org with your username and password.
Members have full control over their account and can cancel directly from their member account page at any time.
Membership helps support the nonprofit educational work of Partners in Prevention and sustain ongoing resources for individuals, families, and professionals seeking understanding and prevention of abuse.
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
The sooner you know the subtleties of this destructive domestic abuse enigma, the sooner you will be on your road to breaking the cycle of domestic abuse and healing the harm of victimization.
By joining today, you secure the lowest price for this resource library. Once we release additional features, membership fees will increase accordingly in order to offset web operations and maintenance expenses.
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Once you cancel, you will have access to your current month until the end of that monthly billing cycle, and no further content will be delivered into your account beyond your cancelation. At the end of that billing cycle, there will be no further access of the material from InnerSanctuaryOnline.org.
If you choose the annual option, you will have access to ALL of the material, including all 300 article insights and all 12 eBooks immediately. If you choose the monthly option, then the article insights and eBooks are dripped (become accessible) to you monthly.
Absolutely. This can be done in your member’s account.Â
Most definitely. In fact, this is partly why we developed this platform for you, so you would have a place to learn about domestic violence without downloading this material onto your computer. We clearly understand and appreciate your need for privacy. Domestic violence is a serious matter and we get it.
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