Loving Someone Who Has Sexual Trauma

Name: Loving Someone Who Has Sexual Trauma
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SKU: 9781648481574
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A Compassionate Guide to Supporting Your Partner and Improving Your Relationship

By Megan L Negendank

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Loving Someone Who Has Sexual Trauma by Megan L Negendank is a compassionate guide for partners of sexual trauma survivors, offering tools to nurture intimacy, build trust, and create a secure relationship. It addresses challenges such as anxiety, PTSD, and triggers in intimate situations, providing self-compassion and attachment-based communication techniques.

The book covers how to recognise attachment styles, soothe conflicts, and develop emotional and physical bonding, helping couples move beyond fear and disconnection to a loving, connected partnership.
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This book is ideal for partners of sexual trauma survivors seeking to understand and support their loved ones, as well as therapists and counsellors working with such couples.

In the book, readers will learn powerful, trauma-informed techniques to help them understand the full impact of their partner’s past experience, as well as strategies to increase feelings of safety and connection, and ultimately improve their relationship in the here and now.

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Create a supportive and secure relationship with a partner who has experienced sexual trauma.

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.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Natasha Helfer, LCMFT, CST-S praises the book as a pivotal resource for partners, vital in reducing relationship distress and enhancing intimacy and pleasure. Therapist Maegan Tanner, MA, AMFT, APCC, commends it as a realistic, compassionate, and practical guide she eagerly recommends to clients navigating healing journeys.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781648481574

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 November 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: New Harbinger Publications

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 150.0mm

Height: 226.0mm

Weight: 280g

Pages: 200

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Education & Reference Happiness & Mental Health Health & Wellness Megan L Negendank Non-Fiction Parenting & Family Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

Megan Lara Negendank, LMFT, CST, is a licensed marriage and family therapist, and a certified sex therapist. She is founder of Love Heal Grow, a psychotherapy center in Northern California where she specializes in trauma-informed, relationship-focused psychotherapy for survivors of trauma and their partners. She has been featured as a relationship expert on PBS, NPR, and in Sacramento Magazine.

Foreword writer Stephanie Buehler, PsyD, CST-S, is a licensed psychologist, certified sex therapist and supervisor, and fellow of the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health. She is author of What Every Mental Health Professional Needs to Know About Sex.