WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR PARTNER, YOUR PRIMARY PERSON, IN AN INSTANT BECOMES A SOURCE OF DANGER AND PAIN?The Betrayal Bind introduces new language, concepts, and imagery to explore the crucial relational dilemma that betrayed partners face when their significant other is unsafe to connect to, yet connection is the key to healing.Discovering a partner's sexual betrayal spins your world out of control. In a split second, your sense of safety is shattered, your trust is...

"Healing Betrayal: First Steps for Partners and Spouses of Sex and Pornography Addicts" is written by Psychotherapist, author, and speaker Mari A. Lee, LMFT, CSAT-S.Mari is the founder of Growth Counseling Services, a counseling and recovery center in Southern California specializing in working with sex and porn addicts, and partner and spouse betrayal trauma.With over 10 years of clinical experience, Mari has written "Healing Betrayal" for the partner or spouse who has jus...

Ready for your spirit to feel whole again? These daily meditations provide trauma survivors with a daily experience of the emotional and spiritual healing that our soul wants for us. Based on years of counseling and spiritual coaching of survivors of all types of traumas, the authors invite readers to a daily healing and empowering connection to their soul and conscious contact with their Higher Power.Peace is an inside job. Deep within you is an indestructible soul whose voice and...

“Take a whimsical journey, with this award-winning self-development playbook, guiding you in a quest to increase happiness levels in your daily life! By implementing simple daily practices you will increase emotional intelligence, connect to your body, reduce negative self-talk, increase intuition, and kick out limiting beliefs. By clearing out the “mind clutter” you create new space in your mind, which can open the door into your life purpose and pull back the layers to easily reconnect t...

A Partner's Guide to Truth and HealingA Healing Journey for Betrayed PartnersJohn Sternfels, LPC, NCC, CCPS, CSAT, CMAT, C-SASIWhen infidelity occurs, betrayed partners enter into a state of emotional distress. In a flash, their world is suddenly turned upside down. With no help in sight, no one to turn to, and no one to help, they find themselves alone, shocked, angry, and scared. Their world becomes filled with hypervigilance, avoidance behaviors, flashbacks, slee...

A go-to guide on how to confront, heal from, and ultimately thrive after the devastation of betrayal by a partner's compulsive sexual or other addictive behaviorThis is the first book specifically for partners affected by addictive behavior that addresses, in detail, how to identify, create, and maintain boundaries as a vital component of self-care and an indispensable tool for healing and growth. Through working the 5-Step Boundary Solution partners will gain clar...

There is nothing in the world quite like the feeling that someone, somewhere, finally gets it.Adult children of narcissists have been conditioned to downplay, dismiss, and ignore their experiences. This survival skill of staying below the radar can cause even very skilled clinicians to miss subtle opportunities to connect. It is paramount that clinicians understand the scope of these clients’ experiences in order to support their healing—and to avoid the common clinical mi...

This no-nonsense guide is for anyone who has ever been cheated on and needs advice—not based on saving their relationship after infidelity—but saving their sanity.In the infidelity literature, cheaters get all the glory—their unmet needs, commitment challenges, and love triangle drama. They are the glamorous taboo breakers, star-crossed lovers, and rebels against the hegemonic forces of monogamy. Chumps (the betrayed partners) by contrast are the dullards left out ...

**The #1 New York Times bestseller. 1 million copies sold!From thought leader Dr. Brené Brown, a transformative new vision for the way we lead, love, work, parent, and educate that teaches us the power of vulnerability.***“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat an...

Women with Attention Deficit Disorder, psychotherapist Sari Solden's, groundbreaking book, explains how every year, millions of withdrawn little girls and chronically overwhelmed women go undiagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder because they don't fit the stereotypical profile: they're not fast-talking, hyperactive, or inattentive, and they are not male.This pioneering book explores treatment and counseling options, and uses real-life case histories to examine the special challe...

When your partner betrays, what are the first steps to picking up the pieces of your shattered heart?Many unsuspecting people wake up every day to discover their loved one, the one person whom they are supposed to trust completely, has been living a life of lies and deceit because they suffer from a disease-sex addiction. This is a disease shrouded in secrecy and shame. This is your go-to-guide for what to do when you discover your partner is a sex addict. Each chapter is based on frequent...

Cruise Control is the premiere book on the growing problem of sex addiction in gay men. This second edition explores how technology has impacted the instant ability to "meet up" and the implications of being in recovery in a committed relationship. Accessible resource for achieving sex addiction recovery including a "30 day test" and a dating plan.