Intimate Deception: Healing the Wounds of Sexual Betrayal

What it is

Sheri Keffer brings two things to this that rarely come together: clinical training as a marriage and family therapist specializing in betrayal trauma, and her own experience on the receiving end of it. Intimate Deception covers the full territory — what betrayal does emotionally, physically, spiritually and sexually, how to manage the emotional flooding that hijacks the first months, how sexual addiction actually works so a woman is not left guessing, how to set and hold boundaries, and how to get out from under shame that was never hers. The section on physical effects is one of the reasons to prefer this book: partners routinely present with sleep disruption, hypervigilance and physical symptoms and are told it is anxiety, when it is trauma. $18.99 paperback from Revell. Together with Aftershock and Your Sexually Addicted Spouse, this is the core partner shelf.

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

Paperback (Revell) Purchase from the Focus on the Family store or a bookseller

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