Living and Loving After Betrayal, Steven Stosny, PhD
Living and Loving After Betrayal, Steven Stosny, PhD
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Living and Loving After Betrayal
How to Heal from Emotional Abuse, Deceit, Infidelity, and Chronic Resentment

Author: Steven Stosny, PhD

Narrator: Arthur Morey

Unabridged: 6 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/17/2013


Synopsis

Betrayal has many faces, including anger, abuse, deceit, and infidelity. These feel like betrayal because they violate the implicit promise of emotional bonds, that your loved one will care about your well-being and never intentionally hurt you. If you've recently left a relationship where you felt betrayed by your partner, you may have difficulty moving on. In fact, it can seem impossible to view the world without the shadow of past betrayal hovering over you. As a result, you may struggle to create meaning in your life and to build new, loving relationships.

In Living and Loving after Betrayal, therapist and relationship expert Steven Stosny offers effective tools for healing, based on his highly successful CompassionPower program. He founded the CompassionPower agency on the belief that we are more powerful when compassionate than when angry or aggressive, and that true strength comes from relating compassionately to others and remaining true to your deeper values. In this book, you'll learn practical strategies for overcoming betrayal-induced trauma and the chronic resentment and depression that result, using this innovative compassion-empowerment approach.

Most books on betrayal only focus on the obvious issues, such as infidelity, abuse, or sex addiction. This book explores the effects of those kinds of betrayal, as well as less-talked-about types, such as emotional manipulation, dishonesty, deceit, and financial cheating. In addition, the book helps you regain a sense of trust in others so that you can eventually find another compassionate person to share your life with or, if you choose, to rebuild a relationship with your reformed betrayer.

About Steven Stosny, PhD

Steven Stosny, PhD, is founder of CompassionPower, a successful anger-regulation program that he has directed for more than twenty years. In addition, he has treated more than six thousand people through his organization. He has appeared on many major media programs, including several appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show. He is the author of Love without Hurt and You Don't Have to Take It Anymore, and coauthor of How to Improve Your Marriage without Talking about It. Steven has taught at the University of Maryland and at St. Mary's College of Maryland.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Abby on May 28, 2017

This book was recommended to me and was initially very helpful in the first few months. As healing happened, though, I found myself turning to it less and less, which I guess is a good thing!......more

Goodreads review by Laurie on September 06, 2020

Healing before forgiving I loved the fact that the book said you needed to heal from the betrayal before you can move on with or without the relationship......more

Goodreads review by Chastidy on September 21, 2021

This is a truly helpful and practical book. It is focused on intimate partner betrayal but is applicable if you’ve experienced betrayal in any part of life. Stosny shares the psychology of betrayal in a very readable fashion. He gives clear concepts for healing and even reconciliation and forgivenes......more

Goodreads review by drowningmermaid on August 13, 2019

- Sooo much horn-tooting about all the great shows he's been on and all the brilliant innovations only he has thought of. Pleh. + BUT he wound up winning me over about 2/3rds in once he really got into the process of recovery, which he has clearly put a lot of time into witnessing and developing cohe......more

Goodreads review by Alisa on April 30, 2021

I read this to expand my skills in marital counseling. I really liked his other book,” Love Without Hurt,” but this one not as much. I would suggest reading chapters that you find useful and skipping the rest......more