Someone I Love: A Guide to Helping Those Stuck in Harmful Behaviors and Relationships, by Harmony Dust

When someone you love is trapped in an abusive relationship, addiction, exploitation, or other harmful patterns, it’s easy to feel helpless. You want to help—but you’re afraid of saying or doing the wrong thing.

Someone I Love is a practical, trauma-informed guide designed to help family members, friends, faith leaders, and professionals effectively support someone caught in destructive relationships or behaviors. Drawing on more than 20 years of experience walking alongside survivors, Harmony Dust shares compassionate, research-informed tools to help you build trust, encourage healing, and avoid common mistakes that can unintentionally push someone further away.

Inside you’ll learn how to:

• Better understand why people stay in harmful situations
• Respond with compassion instead of frustration
• Support healing without enabling harmful behaviors
• Communicate in ways that build trust and hope
• Care for yourself while caring for someone else

Whether your loved one is experiencing abuse, exploitation, addiction, trauma, or another destructive cycle, Someone I Love will equip you with practical tools to become a safe, steady source of support on their journey toward healing.

Paperback, 68 pages