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Sex After Betrayal Intensive

Because healing your sexual self can feel daunting, because it creates uncomfortable feelings of sadness, shame, blame, guilt, pain, and fear, because it involves risk, because it is a movement out of the familiar and into the unknown, you may be tempted to take a passive approach. Being passive is not intentional. It happens because it is the default option. It is easier to just keep going along as is because even though you are living with the negative impacts of sexual betrayal, it somehow feels safer to stay there than to strive for growth and health in an area where you feel so wounded.

The danger here is that humans are not by nature stagnant. We do not continually stand still (either physically or emotionally). Rather, we are continually developing, evolving, and changing. That is how we survive and thrive as individuals and as a species. And we cannot healthfully ignore this fact in our sexual lives.

If we do not take a proactive approach to healing the sexual wounds created by betrayal, these wounds will fester, becoming infected and causing deeper problems for us. Rather than being temporary, the wounds will become chronic. In such cases, the negative impacts of sexual betrayal create patterns and habits and new ways of thinking and behaving that become ever more deeply etched into our sexual selves (and therefore more difficult to change). So we must act, and we must do so sooner rather than later.

The truth is that your sexuality will not heal itself. The wounds created by sexual betrayal are significant, shattering your previous understanding of who you are and altering your sense of self around your sexuality, and you must take conscious action to heal these wounds. Sexual betrayal is not a mere scratch. It will not simply heal on its own over time.

Healing from sexual betrayal requires that you intentionally focus on understanding how betrayal has impacted you and create a new understanding of your sexual self – reclaiming (or maybe claiming for the first time) your sexual voice and power. The Sex After Betrayal: Reclaiming Your Sexual Voice intensive is designed to do exactly that. Providing you with expert help and support and a safe space in which to learn, explore and healing the sexual wounds caused by betrayal.

To find out if this intensive is right for you, schedule a call today!

 

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Blog & Events

December Recommended Readings

State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity by Ester Perel “Betrayal hurts but it can also be healed” … [Read More...]

November Recommended Readings

It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by … [Read More...]

October Recommended Reading

Neglect-The Silent Abuser: How to Recognize and Heal from ChildhoodNeglect by Enod Gray Neglect, … [Read More...]

September Recommended Reading

She Comes First: The Thinking Man’s Guide to Pleasuring a Woman by Ian Kerner Ian Kerner, an … [Read More...]

Foreboding Joy

This post was originally published on PartnerHope.com Recently, I was listening to an audio … [Read More...]

August Recommended Reading

Sexual Alarm System: Women’s Unwanted Response to Sexual Intimacy and How to Overcome It by Judith … [Read More...]

MUSINGS ON THE SEX AFTER BETRAYAL INTENSIVE

In June we held the first Sex After Betrayal: Reclaiming Your Sexual Self therapy intensive. It was … [Read More...]

The Dynamic Multi-Dimensional Nature of Betrayal Trauma

Female hand pushing dominoes on grey background In my previous two posts, we deepened our … [Read More...]

Podcast Interview with Rob Weiss LCSW, CSAT on Understanding Complex Betrayal Trauma

I recently had the opportunity to be interviewed by Rob Weiss LCSW, CSAT-S on his podcast called … [Read More...]

The Aftermath of Betrayal

Nothing can prepare you for the moment you discover that the person closest to you, the person you … [Read More...]

Podcast Episode “How To Navigate Through Betrayal Trauma” Featuring Michelle Mays

Every month we bring your way ideas and information on resources, media, or tools to be … [Read More...]

Sex After Betrayal Intensive

Because healing your sexual self can feel daunting, because it creates uncomfortable feelings of … [Read More...]

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