23 Ways to Leave

People talk about toxic relationships like they should be easy to leave—as if walking away could be as simple as choosing a different route home.

But when you’re in it—really in it—leaving doesn’t feel simple. It feels like trying to breathe underwater. Like asking your body to betray what it’s come to know as “safe.”

I remember when someone saw the toxicity before I did and asked me,

“‘...Why do you let him lie to you like that?’

She wasn’t judging—just saying what I couldn’t yet admit:

I was staying in something that was slowly breaking me.

At the time, I didn’t have the tools or the strength to leave.

Now, I do.”

23 Ways to Leave is a raw, honest roadmap for anyone ready to break free—not just from toxic relationships, but patterns, excuses, fears that keep you small and the lies we tell ourselves to survive. It’s not just about leaving the past behind you. It’s about recovering the part of you that was lost, so you can become whole again.

If you’ve ever needed someone to say, “Here. Let me help you…” This book is for you.

“It’s like truth and a hand to hold along the way. While making you feel not alone in all of it.” -Reader

Here’s the full video and episode of the Still Processing Podcast over on Substack.

Here’s the full video and episode over on my YouTube channel, Unhinged Healing.

Thanks for checking out this special episode. Download the first four chapters for free here.

See you all tomorrow for Chapter 1.

Love you, mean it,

-Mindy