Infidelity. The word alone can make your stomach drop, your heart pound, and your brain spin with “why,” “how,” and “what now.” It’s one of the most painful breaches a couple can experience — and yet, as both Dr. Janis Abrahms Spring (author of After the Affair) and...
Sexual trauma comes in all shapes and sizes - but let's talk about why talking about sexual trauma heals. Sometimes it looks like rape or sexual abuse. Sometimes it looks like infidelity, a sexual affair, or an emotional affair. Whatever it looks like, many of the...
Unfortunately, shame and sexual abuse go together. Shame goes to the core and can result in feelings of being broken or less than. I rarely see a client who has been sexually abused or raped who doesn’t feel some sense of personal shame for what happened. Whether they...