Unleashing Your Power: Moving Through the Trauma of Partner Betrayal

Praise for Unleashing Your Power:“GAME. CHANGER. Deeply respectful and full of practical exercises and insights that help heartbroken women find their way back to themselves after the trauma of sexual betrayal. If you are a betrayed partner THIS is the workbook you have been waiting for.” - LAURIE HALL, RScP, CPC, PSAP, Author of An Affair of the Mind. Partner Betrayal Specialist and President of the Board of Directors, The Association of Partners of Sex Addicts Trauma Specialists.“Carol Juergensen Sheets and Christine Turo-Shields have created a much-needed workbook to help betrayed partners move through the complex trauma of betrayal to create their lives anew. Ambitious and encyclopedic, Unleashing Your Power—Moving Beyond Partner Betrayal presents both new and reimagined tried-and-true exercises specifically crafted for the betrayed partner’s individual journey to safety, health, and finding purpose, passion, and renewal. Make no mistake, this book may be compact, but there is no space wasted, and its contents are dense with years of therapeutic work distilled into a clear, effective process. Partners will find it life-changing, as they give each exercise its due, and Coaches and Therapists will find it invaluable as an adjunct to their work with betrayed partners.” - JAMES W. ANNEAR, LMHC, CCPS-S, CSAT-S Core Relationship Recovery, Certified Clinical Partner Specialist Supervisor, Certified Sex Addiction Therapist-Supervisor.About this Workbook:Many trauma theorists believe that partner betrayal is perhaps the most devastating trauma that one can experience because it has occurred with the person that you always believed you could count on for your emotional, physical, and spiritual safety. Finding out that your husband had a double life makes you doubt everything about your relationship, which in turn can make you doubt yourself. It can leave you so dazed that you wonder if anything in your life or in the world is real! This workbook was written to assist partners in finding themselves again after their relationship has been shattered by sexual betrayal. Bestselling author Carol Juergensen Sheets co-wrote this book with Christine Turo-Shields to help partners move through The 3 Stages of Partner Betrayal. The workbook assists you in finding safety and stabilization by working through your feelings of confusion, disorientation, and self-doubt, which is a natural by-product of deception. The book provides exercises to do the hard work of facing your anger, grief, and mourning for what you thought you had, what you didn’t have, and what you fear you will never have again! The last section of the workbook is dedicated to posttraumatic growth and is specifically designed to get you to think about your new sense of self and how you can find new meaning and purpose in your life, separate from him and the ordeal that you just experienced. You will feel a new strength and will likely want to actualize it and your potential in new and different ways. This workbook is a road map for self-discovery, and Carol and Christine are here to help you every step of the way! Read more