Surviving Bully Culture: A Career Spent Navigating Workplace Bullying and a Guide for Healing

Andrew Regal’s Surviving Bully Culture is an account of damage done over time. Drawing on decades in television news and media, Regal writes about bullying as humiliation, intimidation, exclusion, and silence that can shape a life long after the job ends. His argument is clear. Workplace bullying is not a clash of personalities or ordinary office tension. It is an abuse of power.

That directness gives the book its strength. Regal writes with anger, grief, and urgency, but also with the steadiness of someone who has spent years trying to understand what happened to him. He describes the toll in physical and emotional terms: shame, nausea, insomnia, despair, even suicidal thoughts. He refuses the softer language institutions prefer. In his telling, euphemism is part of the problem. The more politely people talk about bullying, the easier it is to excuse.

Competitive workplaces often praise toughness, speed, and high standards. Regal shows how easily those values can become cover for cruelty. His experience with CNBC, Court TV, MSNBC, and The Wall Street Journal gives the book a clear professional world, one where ambition and fear often sit side by side. The book suggests that high-pressure environments do not just tolerate bullies. They can reward them.

Regal talks about recovery and that is where the book opens up. The memoir sections give it emotional force. The healing framework gives it broader use for readers who may see themselves in these pages. Regal is not only asking for sympathy. He offers a path forward.

Some readers may find the tone repetitive. Others may want more balance. But Regal is writing against the culture of minimization that lets workplace abuse pass as management style or professional rigor.

Surviving Bully Culture argues that the deepest wounds in professional life do not always come from hard work. Sometimes they come from the people with the most power over it.