I Was a Victim of Gaslighting, and I Never Realized it Until I Broke Free

Gaslighting is a tricky thing. It’s an insidious form of manipulation that can be hard to spot because it happens so gradually and subtly.

Michelle Aarons
ILLUMINATION
Published in
7 min readSep 26, 2022

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Gaslighting is a term used to describe when someone tells you something that makes you doubt yourself, but…

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Michelle Aarons
ILLUMINATION

Copywriter and digital marketer since 2005; I have ghostwritten on Forbes, Entrepreneur, The Next Web, and more. Friend, lover, mother, and cat momma.