Loving Someone Who Has Sexual Trauma
On sale
30th November 2023
Price: £16.99
Genre
Complementary Therapies, Healing & Health / Coping With Illness & Specific Conditions / Self-help & Personal Development
Selected:
Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781648481574
If your partner is a survivor of sexual trauma, they may experience anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, or feel triggered by intimate situations. And you may feel confused, overwhelmed, or unsure of how to support them. This gentle guide will give you the tools you need to help nurture intimacy and trust, and cultivate a secure relationship.
In Loving Someone Who Has Sexual Trauma, marriage, family, and sex therapist Megan Lara Negendank offers self-compassion and attachment-based communication skills to support your partner. You’ll also learn powerful, trauma-informed techniques and strategies to help you understand the full impact of your partner’s past experience, increase feelings of safety and connection, and ultimately improve your relationship in the here and now.
In this gentle guide, you’ll discover:
– Communication skills to help promote trust
– How to avoid or deescalate from common triggers
– How to identify attachment styles and soothe conflict patterns
– Emotional and physical bonding skills
If you’re ready to move beyond fear, anger, and disconnection to a thriving intimate relationship where you both can feel loved, safe, and connected, this book can help you get started.
In Loving Someone Who Has Sexual Trauma, marriage, family, and sex therapist Megan Lara Negendank offers self-compassion and attachment-based communication skills to support your partner. You’ll also learn powerful, trauma-informed techniques and strategies to help you understand the full impact of your partner’s past experience, increase feelings of safety and connection, and ultimately improve your relationship in the here and now.
In this gentle guide, you’ll discover:
– Communication skills to help promote trust
– How to avoid or deescalate from common triggers
– How to identify attachment styles and soothe conflict patterns
– Emotional and physical bonding skills
If you’re ready to move beyond fear, anger, and disconnection to a thriving intimate relationship where you both can feel loved, safe, and connected, this book can help you get started.
Reviews
Although resources for survivors of sexual trauma abound, very few exist for their intimate partners. Partners play a crucial role in the day-to-day lives, sexual experiences, and healing journeys of survivors. It can be difficult to understand reactions and coping mechanisms a survivor may express. To know what to say or how to react. Negendank's work is a pivotal asset in helping alleviate relationship distress while increasing intimacy and pleasure.
Megan has shed light, compassion, and hope on a sorely under-discussed topic: how to best support a partner with a sexual trauma history. As a fellow trauma therapist, I deeply respect the way Megan has approached this topic with a wonderful combination of psychoeducation, coping skills, and stories to equip partners of those who have experienced sexual trauma to both show up for them and for themselves.
Megan's approach is validating and compassionate. The couples' stories she shares are relatable, inclusive, and cover a broad range of how people and relationships are impacted by the ripple effects of sexual trauma. Her book creates space for self-reflection and personal growth, and it offers practical strategies you can begin implementing right away, all while feeling like Megan is right there with you guiding you through your own healing process.