Book Recommendations

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Book Recommendations


For Betrayal Trauma:

1) The Betrayal Bind: How to Heal When the Person You Love the Most Hurts You the Worst Paperback – March 7, 2023 by Michelle Mays

2) Intimate Deception: Healing the Wounds of Sexual Betrayal By Dr. Sheri Keffer

3)  Treating Trauma from Sexual Betrayal: The Essential Tools for Healing By Kevin Skinner 

4) Mending A Shattered Heart By Stefanie Carnes

5) Facing Heartbreak: Steps to Recovery for Partners of Sex Addicts by Stefanie Carnes


For Sex Addicts:

1) Facing the Shadows 3rd Edition: Starting Sexual and Relationship Recovery By Patrick Carnes

2) Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction By Patrick Carnes

3) Don't Call It Love: Recovery From Sexual Addiction Kindle Edition by Patrick Carnes

4) TINSA: A Neurological Approach to the Treatment of Sex Addiction by Michael Barnes

5) Sex Addiction 101: A Basic Guide to Healing from Sex, Porn, and Love Addiction Paperback – October 27, 2015 by Robert Weiss PHD


Trauma:

1) The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma By Bessel van der Kolk, MD

2) Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can help you find—and Keep Love By Amir Levine and Rachel Heller

3) It Didn’t Start with you: How inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn

4) Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Love Others Without Losing the Best of Who You are By Lysa TerKeurst


IFS Books

1) No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard Schwartz

2) You are the One You’ve Been Waiting For: Applying Internal Family Systems to Intimate Relationships by Dr Schwartz

3) Transcending Trauma: Healing Complex PTSD with Internal Family Systems by Frank Anderson