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Healing Betrayal: First Steps for Partners and Spouses of Sex and Pornography Addicts was written by psychotherapist, author, and speaker Mari A. Lee, LMFT, CSAT-S.
Mari is the founder of Growth Counseling Services, a counseling and recovery center in Southern California specializing in working with sex and porn addicts, and partner and spouse betrayal trauma.
With over 10 years of clinical experience, Mari has written Healing Betrayal for the partner or spouse who has just learned that their significant other may be dealing with sex and/or porn addiction. Having had her own personal journey as a former partner, Mari knows firsthand how heartbreaking and emotionally draining it is to be in relationship with a person who is sexually deceptive.
Healing Betrayal will support the partner and spouse as a first steps guide and road map to help them navigate the difficult journey of despair that so many betrayed and hurting spouses face.
©2018 Mari A. Lee, LMFT, CSAT-S (P)2018 Mari A. Lee, LMFT, CSAT-SListeners also enjoyed...
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- TabithaL
- 06-21-20
A Very Compassionate Publication
I learned a lot. Mari answered questions I did not even know I had, labeled emotions I didn’t have words for, and gave a meaningful explanation as to what the partner and afflicted are coping with.
I only need now to find something that addresses more specifically when the addict or otherwise afflicted refuses to, or is not ready to be honest.
She gave excellent resources, so today begins the day I can feel hopeful, courageous, and empowered.
Thank you Mari❤️
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- campbellanthony
- 06-19-24
Waste of money and time
All she recommends is, get a therapist. She'll start saying something that sounds like advice but will then just tell you to get a therapist and how a therapist can help with that. Do not recommend this book at all. She's just promoting herself and telling you to get a therapist.
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- Katie Love
- 10-22-18
Save your money
this book could be summarized in 1 sentence "you need help so find a CSAT therapist near you, cause a book won't do it."
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