One of the most important things you can do is educate yourself.
Infidelity Trauma: An Interview with a Specialist, MJ Dennis, LPC, LMFT, AASECT-CST, APSATS-CCPS: Part 1
Infidelity Trauma: An Interview with a Specialist, MJ Dennis LPC, LMFT, AASECT-CST, APSATS-CCPS: Interview Part 2
Dealing with Marriage Infidelity with Dr. James Dobson’s Family Talk, Guest – Dr. Sheri Keffer
Marital unfaithfulness is continuing to destroy the bond of marriage in our modern-day. Listen as Dr. Tim Clinton talks with licensed marriage and family therapist Dr. Sheri Keffer, who speaks candidly about how pornography, lust, and infidelity destroyed her first marriage. Dr. Keffer discusses what couples can do to find healing and reconciliation from this emotional pain.
Empathy – Brené Brown
What is the best way to ease someone’s pain and suffering? In this beautifully animated RSA Short, Dr Brené Brown reminds us that we can only create a genuine empathic connection if we are brave enough to really get in touch with our own fragilities.
The “fight or flight response” is our body’s automatic and primitive, inborn response that prepares the body to “fight” or “flee” from perceived attack, harm or threat to our survival. Sometimes, though, we perceive threat or harm when in reality, things are totally fine.
Books we recommend
by Barbara Steffens, Phd, LPCC and Marsha Means, MA
From Betrayal Trauma to Healing & Joy
by Marsha Means, MA (Workbook)
Intimate Deception: Healing the Wounds of Sexual Betrayal
by Dr. Sheri Keffer
Moving Beyond Betrayal: The 5-Step Boundary Solution for Partners of Sex Addicts
by Vicki Tidwell Palmer, LCSW, CSAT
Keep Walking: 40 Days to Hope and Freedom After Betrayal (Devotional)
by Lynn Marie Cherry
by Stephen Arterburn & Jason Martinkus