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...

Now revised and expanded! Leave a Cheater, Gain a Life is a no-nonsense guide for anyone who has ever been cheated on and needs advice not for saving their relationship after infidelity, but for 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 hege...

Cheated on…Battered by emotion…You don't know where to turn.You feel betrayed, devastated, embarrassed, angry, and completely heartbroken.You ask yourself,"How can I stop infidelity from ruining my life?""How do I cope with this nightmare?You don't realize there is a roadmap that explains what you are going through. That roadmap is Cheating in a Nutshell.Knowledge is Power and Understanding is Liberatin...

Have you been traumatized by infidelity?The phrase "broken heart" belies the real trauma behind the all-too-common occurrence of infidelity. Psychologist Dennis Ortman likens the psychological aftermath of sexual betrayal to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in its origin and symptoms, including anxiety, irritability, rage, emotional numbing, and flashbacks. Using PTSD treatment as a model, Dr. Ortman will show you, step by step, how to:• work through c...

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.

“Detachment” has been the standard message of most addiction literature for the last twenty years. The conventional wisdom offered to an addict’s loved ones has been to let the addict “hit bottom” before intervening. Now intervention specialist Debra Jay challenges this belief and offers a bold new approach to treating addiction that provides a practical and spiritual lifeline to families struggling with alcohol or drug abuse.In No More Letting Go, Jay argues that ...

Lust, Men, and Meth: A Gay Man's Guide to Sex and Recovery provides insight for gay men struggling with the issues of sex and recovery, and for the professionals who work with them. The reader is equipped not only with essential information on the problems of drugs and sexuality, but also with solutions in the form of tools and resources that will support him along his path. The book is unique in its blend of therapeutic perspectives from addiction and sex therapy, from which Dr. ...

How to stop drinking, stay stopped, and develop emotional skills for a life of excitement and connection … without the hangover.“No thanks—I’m not drinking tonight.” In a culture that equates alcohol with enjoyment and social acceptance, making this simple statement can make us feel like we’re depriving or even punishing ourselves. “When we realize we don’t want to drink anymore or can no longer drink safely, it can feel like the only choices are t...