Betrayal trauma creates a pain that has been described as worse than the death of a loved one. Carol the Coach will be interviewing Amanda Elliott Asproni who wants to help betrayed partners work through the trauma. Clients who come into counseling with betrayal trauma alongside untreated complex trauma/PTSD struggle with the healing process in nuanced ways compared to betrayal trauma alone. She will be explaining the differences for clients who present with both complex and betrayal trauma?  And she will be sharing how their recovery journey compares with clients who suffer from betrayal trauma?

During the last year, all of our lives have changed drastically. While we now have more access to therapy and recovery groups than ever thanks to online platforms and Telehealth, we are also facing isolation and stressors that can severely derail or escalate addiction and trauma. Recovery in a post pandemic world takes new levels of commitment, but can also deepen our growth more than ever. Today Carol the Coach will be interviewing Faith Niece who works with partners and families to navigate through the trauma of sex addiction partner betrayal while in a pandemic.

There are many types of residential,  intensive and individual programs designed to help the addict, but today, Carol the Coach will be interviewing Timothy Lee, who founded  the New York Pathways Relationship Restoration Program. We are featuring this program  because it works from a partner sensitive approach in that it includes loooking at partner trauma. Timothy describes treating both the addict and the betrayed partner and working to restore the relationship. He defines the addicts program as the following: we work from the addiction treatment model, which focuses on abstinence, psychotherapy, peer support and 12-step recovery. For our partners, we are mainly using a trauma model of treatment, helping the partner establish safety self-care and setting boundaries. We also work with the conjoint therapy model. The model focuses on various tasks to be completed to maintain good individual and relational recovery.He does this by meeting with his therapist along with his partner and her therapist. Listen as he talks about why he believes this to be such an important treatment program for couples!

Today Carol the Coach is interviewing Jenni Rochelle who has created a coaching program for women healing from betrayal trauma.  It’s a six-month, private coaching program for women who are in the later stages of healing and are ready to reclaim and rediscover themselves.   The website is www.jennirochelle.com/beautyafterbetrayal

Carol's guest was unable to appear so she talked about her new book "Unleashing Your Power" and how that book can move you through the 3 stages of partner betrayal. As you listen to the show, ask yourself what you can do to detach from the pain and grow from the inner strength that you have inside.

Returning to a healthy sexual relationship is complex and often times partners want to know that their spouse will not be triggered by resuming

 a sexual relationship. Partners do not want to be compared to unhealthy sexual images or experiences and wish they could "know" what their

 husband is thinking while they are being intimate. Today, Carol the Coach is interviewing Alex Katehakis, who has written a workbook for sex addicts 

to help them develop a sexual health plan that emphasizes the many dimensions of healthy sexuality.

Listen, as they talk about the sensitive subject of sexual reintegration.

Lots of professionals are finding brainspotting an efffective technique to process trauma. Today, Carol the Coach is interviewing Julie StOnges who took the training and has found it is absolutely the quickest way to help children and people who have ADHD. She also believes it can help with partner betrayal. She has been tracking clients progress and their emotional states and have found measurable differences . She saw amazing patterns of processing, pain, relief, joy and even God spots. They call God spots a space where God shows up and speaks love and acceptance. 

She describes "Brain Spotting" as an experience which uses your upset memories or thoughts along with stressful body sensations to isolate spaces in your brain and mind where trauma or stress has not assimilated into your story. Facial reflexes and breathing patterns indicate how processing is going and what stage you are in. Most clients say it is the last time they ever feel the pain to that extent. Listen as Julie, shares this exciting process for trauma.

There are many great forms of therapy out there today to help partners and sex addicts process betrayal, trauma, recovery, and other important issues for healing.Today, Mike Vaugn shares with partners, a powerful type of therapy that can connect addicts to the pain that may have contributed to their addiction and deceit.  One of the more powerful types of therapy is called experiential therapy. We all know that the joys and sorrows in life impact not only our minds, but also our bodies. With that said, experiential therapy helps clients process fully because it engages our whole body. It is often said that just as wounds happen through experience, healing happens through experience as well. Experiential therapy is designed to help healing through techniques that engage the whole person.

Sex Addiction can fatally wound a marriage relationhsip.  Dr. Crystal Hollenbeck is an APSATS therapist and helps marriages move from a place of woundedness to a place of healing.  She conducts Three Day Marriage Intensives for couples who have a consistent recovery path with Sex Addiction Recovery and Betrayal Trauma Recovery, and are ready to move from a place of woundedness to a place of healing in their relationship.  She wants partners to know there is hope for building and maintaining a strong, fun, loving, intimate, healthy marriage that includes a healthy and fulfilling sex life.   Visit her website at www.CrystalHollenbeck.com.  She has offices in Orlando and Tampa Florida.  You can call her at 407.408.6521 or email her at [email protected]

Today, Carol the Coach is interviewing Riana Milne who is a relationship expert and personal life coach who has studied relationhip trauma and she wants to go over the 10 adverse childhood events that sabotages relationships. Many partners have had childhood trauma and would like to understand what they have experienced and what they need to do to cope with it. She also wants to offer some free gifts to our listeners who want to understand their self and the relationship.