📚 Living & Loving after Betrayal by Steven Stosny

This self-help book by therapist Steven Stosny is for people who feel betrayed by a partner. It looks at infidelity, abuse and sex addiction, and also at less-discussed betrayals such as emotional manipulation, dishonesty, deceit and financial betrayal.

Key Themes

• Many kinds of betrayal, including the less-discussed ones
• A compassion-based approach drawn from Stosny's CompassionPower programme
• Practical strategies for trauma, chronic resentment and depression after betrayal
• Learning to trust again, with a new partner or a reformed one

Sissoo recommends this because betrayal can shake how we see ourselves and others, and this book offers a compassionate way to explore that. It also leaves the choice of what comes next with the reader.

If you would like support alongside the book, you could explore Speaking & Listening Therapies, or compassion practices such as Loving-kindness in Meditation.

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