From Love Trauma To Fearless Love: 7 Tango Steps for Breaking Free from Narcissists and Predators

New Author of the Year 2020 - Audiobook Reviewer Kirkus Reviews Recommended

Were you caught in a narcissist's web?

Some relationships begin on a cloud: breathless, electric, walking on air. Everything feels chosen. Everything feels right. Until it doesn't.

From Love Trauma to Fearless Love is the book Jianny Adamo wrote because she lived it. A licensed psychotherapist, she found herself on the inside of the very experience she had only ever witnessed from the outside: pursued, dismantled, and left to rebuild from the ground up.

What she found on the other side through therapy, through Argentine tango, and through the painful, clarifying work of speaking her truth, became the foundation of everything she now teaches.

This book is her testimony. And it is your guide.

The Story

Elena leaves an unfulfilling marriage in search of something real. Vulnerable and open, she walks into the arms of Cesar, a charming, calculating narcissist who systematically dismantles her sense of reality, her self-worth, and her trust in her own perceptions. In her darkest hours, Elena discovers Argentine tango. Step by step, the dance becomes her mirror, her teacher, and her path back to herself.

The Framework

The book unfolds in two parts. Part One offers seven tango lessons, each paired with a corresponding stage of loving and leaving a narcissist, beautifully allegorical and deeply practical. Part Two provides clinical insight for the healing journey: how to name what happened, understand how it works, and chart a compassionate path toward recovery, wholeness, and fearless love.

Inside you will find:

• How to recognize the signs of narcissistic abuse before and after the relationship ends
• The psychological traits and tactics of narcissists, sex addicts, and psychopaths explained clearly
• How love trauma develops and why it affects even the most intelligent, accomplished people
• The stages of healing from shock and disbelief through recovery and reinvention
• How to rebuild your sense of self, your trust in your perceptions, and your capacity for genuine love
• The path from surviving to thriving to a life and a love that is truly fearless

Whether you are in the middle of a toxic relationship, newly out of one, or still carrying the weight of an experience from years ago, this book will light your passage out of the darkness and walk with you toward inner peace, clarity, and the fearless love you deserve.

"A valuable guide to recognizing predatory behavior and surviving sexual abuse." - Kirkus Reviews

"Powerful self-discovery through the Tango " - AudiobookReview.com

"Genuine in tone and at times lyrical." - BookLife Prize