From Betrayal Trauma to Healing and Joy: A Workbook

What it is

Marsha Means co-wrote Your Sexually Addicted Spouse with Dr. Barbara Steffens, the book that established betrayal as trauma rather than codependency, and this workbook is the applied version of that framework. It is built to be written in: exercises on what happened, on the body's response, on boundaries, on what safety would actually look like, and on rebuilding a self that got subsumed in someone else's addiction. Because it is a workbook rather than a narrative, it works well alongside a therapist or a partner group, and it gives a woman something to do in the weeks when she cannot concentrate long enough to read. Means writes as a Christian and as someone with her own history here, though the substance is trauma work rather than devotional. Pair it with Your Sexually Addicted Spouse for the theory.

What it may help with

• My spouse's porn use has hurt me
• I'm healing from sexual abuse or trauma

How to access it

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