🔥 What Is Gaslighting?

Gaslighting is when someone tries to make you doubt your own reality—
your memory, your feelings, your instincts, your truth.

It’s not just lying.
It’s lying with the intention to control you.

💡 What It Sounds Like:

• “That never happened.”

• “You’re being too sensitive.”

• “You always overreact.”

• “You’re imagining things.”

• “You’re crazy.”

• “No one else sees it that way.”

• “You made me do it.”

• “You’re remembering it wrong.”

• “Why are you so negative all the time?”

At first, you might argue back.
But after a while, you start second-guessing yourself.
You stop trusting your gut.
You wonder: “Am I the problem?”

That confusion? That doubt? That’s the goal of gaslighting.

🪞A Metaphor: The Crooked Mirror

Imagine standing in front of a mirror every day.
But instead of reflecting your true image, it bends the truth just slightly.
Every time you speak, feel, or remember—
the mirror tells you you’re wrong.

Eventually, you stop trusting the mirror.
But worse—you stop trusting yourself.

Gaslighting is like someone handing you that crooked mirror and telling you it’s the truth.

🧠 Gaslighting Is Psychological Abuse

It doesn’t always come with shouting or hitting.
Sometimes, it comes wrapped in smiles, soft voices, or fake concern.
It can come from:

• Partners

• Parents/Adult Children/Family

• Bosses

• Religious leaders

• Movement leaders

• Institutions

• Communities

• Political leaders
• People who are Envious of You 

What matters is not who’s doing it.
What matters is how it makes you feel:
Small. Silenced. Doubting your own reality.

🚨 If You’ve Been Gaslit, You May:

• Apologize constantly

• Struggle to make simple decisions

• Feel anxious, confused, or “crazy”

• Re-explain things over and over

• Stay quiet to avoid more conflict

• Replay events obsessively, trying to find “proof”

That’s not weakness. That’s survival.

🔥 Your Truth Is Still There

Gaslighting is designed to bury your truth under guilt, shame, and confusion.
But your truth didn’t disappear—it’s just waiting to be heard again.

You are not too much.
You are not unstable.
You are not imagining things.
You are remembering what they want you to forget:
You are wise.
You are worthy.
You are right to protect yourself.

✨ Affirmations for Breaking Free from Gaslighting

• I believe my body, my memory, and my emotions.

• I am not confused. I am recovering my clarity.

• My instincts are not wrong—they are sacred.

• I do not have to prove what I know to be true.

• I trust myself to rise out of the fog.

• My truth is whole—even if no one else believes it yet.

Gaslighting only works if you start believing the lie.
Your healing begins the moment you say:

“I know what happened. I trust myself. I am not crazy.”

You are not alone.
You are not broken.
You are waking up to your power.