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About This Book
Betrayal has many faces, including anger, abuse, deceit, and infidelity. These feel like betrayal because they violate the implicit promise of emotional bonds, that your loved one will care about your wellbeing and never intentionally hurt you. If you''ve recently left a relationship where you felt betrayed by your partnerâor if you want to repair oneâit can seem impossible to view the world without the shadow of past betrayal hovering over you. As a result, you may struggle to create meaning in your life, find the strength to forgive, or build new, loving relationships.In Living and Loving after Betrayal, therapist and relationship expert Steven Stosny offers effective tools for healing, based on his highly successful CompassionPower program. He founded the CompassionPower agency on the belief that we are more powerful when compassionate than when angry or aggressive, and that true strength comes from relating compassionately to others and remaining true to your deeper values. In this book, you'll learn practical strategies for overcoming betrayal-induced trauma and the chronic resentment and depression that result, using this innovative compassion-empowerment approach.Most books on betrayal only focus on the obvious issues, such as infidelity, abuse, or sex addiction. This book explores the effects of those kinds of betrayal, as well as less-talked-about types, such as emotional manipulation, dishonesty, deceit, and financial cheating. In addition, the book helps you regain a sense of trust in others so that you can eventually find another compassionate person to share your life with or, if you choose, to rebuild a relationship with your reformed betrayer.Recovering from the betrayal of partner isn't easy, but Living and Loving after Betrayal offers potent ways to heal, grow, and love again.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Introduction
- Footprints on the Heart and Soul
- How to Use the Natural Motivation of Pain to Heal
- How to Develop a Healing Identity
- How to Use Restorative Images to Heal Painful Memories
- The Key to Healing and Growth: Your Core Value
- Getting to Core Value under Pressure: Your Core Value Bank
- Intimate Betrayal and Post-Traumatic Stress
- How to Change Hidden Guilt and Shame into Self-Compassion
- Overcoming Resentment and the Danger of Trust
- The Path to Wise Trust
- How to Know If Youâre Dating a Future Betrayer
- Intimacy and the Hungry Heart
- Rebuilding a Relationship with Your Betrayer
- The Compassionate Repair Process
- The Reconnection Dilemma
- Healing, Repair, Forgiveness
- References