â€œA beacon of truth and wisdom for the abused and a help in their healing.â€ â€”Scot McKnight and Laura Barringer, authors of A Church Called Tov

â€œReading this book . . . will change you forever, for the better.â€ â€”Rachael Denhollander, speaker, victim advocate, and author of What Is a Girl Worth?

â€œSincerely thoughtful, incredibly practical, and truly compassionate book on abusive systems and the consequences of cover-ups.â€ â€”Christina Edmondson, PhD, cohost of Truthâ€™s Table podcast

â€œAm I the only one who sees thisâ€”am I just imagining things? Is something wrong with me . . . or could this be abuse?â€

Maybe you donâ€™t know for sure: all you know is something feels off when you think about a certain relationship or interaction with an institution or organization. You feel alone and confusedâ€”but calling it â€œabuseâ€ feels extreme and unsettling, a label for what happens to other people but not you. Yet you canâ€™t shake the feeling: somethingâ€™s not right.

In his debut book, researcher and advocate Wade Mullen introduces us to the groundbreaking world of impression managementâ€”the strategies that individuals and organizations utilize to gain power and cover up their wrongdoings. Mullen reveals a pattern that accompanies many types of abuse, almost as if abusers are somehow reading from the same playbook. If we can learn to decode these evil methodsâ€”if we can learn the language of abuseâ€”we can help stop the cycle and make abusers less effective at accomplishing destruction in our lives.

Somethingâ€™s Not Right will help you to identify and describe tactics that were previously unidentifiable and indescribable, and give you the language you need to move toward freedom and create a safer future for yourself and others.

Wade Mullen

Something's Not Right