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Showing posts with label wife of sex addict. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wife of sex addict. Show all posts
Friday, August 14, 2009
Your Sexually Addicted Spouse: How Partners Can Cope and Heal
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
New Support Group for Alumni!
Facilitated by Marsha, the Process Support groups are for women who have already done a Partner's Healing Journey Group, but who feel they need continued support, guidance, and a way to process what they are dealing with for awhile. If you find you aren't yet ready to do it on your own, a Process Support Group would likely provide the support and direction you need.
Next Process Support Group starts on Monday!!
] Complete Information on the Process Support Group
Next Process Support Group starts on Monday!!
] Complete Information on the Process Support Group
Monday, April 13, 2009
Counselors, Support Group Leaders for Wives of Sex Addicts
Good Morning!
With Marsha's coming move to Mexico, A Woman's Healing Journey is liquidating as much of its inventory as possible. This spells OPPORTUNITY for those that supply workbooks to support group members or to clients.
Counselors. Some of you give copies of Partner's Healing Journey workbooks to your clients, this is an awesome service that arms wives with the tools to cope with their husband's acting out and to begin to heal.
Support Groups Facilitators. You use the workbook on a weekly basis to lead wives on their healing journey. The workbook provides an easy format for support group facilitation, even if you are not trained as a counselor.
Churches. Increasingly, church staffs are faced with the pain of sex addiction in parishioner's lives. You can provide truly helpful support and a pathway for understanding and healing by giving hurting partners of sex addicts a workbook.
If you do not have a support group started yet, we have prepared a Leading the Group download (attached) to help you lead a group.
Here is the opportunity! We have several cases of workbooks that we would rather not move! Each case has 50 workbooks and we are willing to extend the current discount (2 workbooks for $10) to entire cases.
50 workbooks (1 case) for $250
This is a $750 retail value that can increase funds for your organization or ministry, or allow you to give out free workbooks, or pass the discount along to your clients/group members.
Supply is limited and after Marsha's move, these prices will no longer be available!
] Purchase a Case Today
Helping Wives of Addicts,
A Woman's Healing Journey Staff
www.awomanshealingjourney.com
With Marsha's coming move to Mexico, A Woman's Healing Journey is liquidating as much of its inventory as possible. This spells OPPORTUNITY for those that supply workbooks to support group members or to clients.
Counselors. Some of you give copies of Partner's Healing Journey workbooks to your clients, this is an awesome service that arms wives with the tools to cope with their husband's acting out and to begin to heal.
Support Groups Facilitators. You use the workbook on a weekly basis to lead wives on their healing journey. The workbook provides an easy format for support group facilitation, even if you are not trained as a counselor.
Churches. Increasingly, church staffs are faced with the pain of sex addiction in parishioner's lives. You can provide truly helpful support and a pathway for understanding and healing by giving hurting partners of sex addicts a workbook.
If you do not have a support group started yet, we have prepared a Leading the Group download (attached) to help you lead a group.
Here is the opportunity! We have several cases of workbooks that we would rather not move! Each case has 50 workbooks and we are willing to extend the current discount (2 workbooks for $10) to entire cases.
50 workbooks (1 case) for $250
This is a $750 retail value that can increase funds for your organization or ministry, or allow you to give out free workbooks, or pass the discount along to your clients/group members.
Supply is limited and after Marsha's move, these prices will no longer be available!
] Purchase a Case Today
Helping Wives of Addicts,
A Woman's Healing Journey Staff
www.awomanshealingjourney.com
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Will You Be Our Friend?
A Woman’s Healing Journey is now member to many social websites. Would you be our friend and connect with us in cyberspace? Just click on a link below to connect with us.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Survey: Online Forums/Community
A Woman’s Healing Journey is planning a new online community in 2009. We currently have the online forums running, but there is a demand for something greater.
Will you help us develop this new community for wives of sex addicts?
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Celebrating 10 Years!
This month, Marsha is celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Living with Your Husband’s Secret Wars. Originally published in 1999, Living with Your Husband’s Secret Wars helped wives of sex addicts deal with their husband’s acting out when talking about sexual addiction was taboo in the church!
Since 1999, thousands of copies of Living with Your Husband’s Secret Wars have sold. The church has recognized sexual immorality as a serious problem. And Marsha has personally helped thousands of women through her books, speaking engagements, coaching, support groups, and website.
In honor of the 10 year anniversary, A Woman’s Healing Journey is offering both Living with Your Husband’s Secret Wars and the Partner’s Healing Journey workbook for $10 each. If you already have a copy, purchase another and donate it to your church library to help other women seeking hope in a painful time in their lives.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Are You Ashamed of Your Story?
Dear Friend,
Do the details of your husband’s addiction and the “stain” it spilled on your story cause you to feel shame and make you want to hide your pain because you fear others discovering your new reality? Many of us respond that way, even though to do so heightens our isolation and suffering and blocks our journey toward new hope and healing.
But not long ago I “met”—via the Internet—an amazing woman named Katherine who rose above the shame, fear and isolation her husband’s addiction catapulted into her life, and she now uses her story to touch the lives of other hurting women with understanding, courage and love. Whether you still fear discovery, or you long to discover purpose and meaning in your pain, I want to share an exchange I had with Katherine because it reflects a beautiful life-lesson for all of us:
Marsha,
One of the things I feel the Lord pressing on me is to take ‘ownership' of my story. For close to 3 years, I felt like I was going to 'wake up’ from my life. I so remember those times when I would be afraid to bump into anyone I knew. I remember feeling like a scared animal when going shopping and wanting to, needing to leave the store if I happen to see anyone who would recognize me. Over the last year, the Lord has brought much healing. I know that all of this has a purpose and fits into His plan. Using my real name in my story allows me to accept the plan that God has for me. This is my life and I don't feel the shame of it like I did. I see God's hand in it and I want to make Him proud of me.
~ Katherine
Katherine,
I've thought so much about what you wrote about taking ownership of your story. One reason it felt important to me is because one of the steps in healing from trauma requires that we integrate the traumatic events into our over-all life story. I think that is what I hear you doing. How wonderful that you no longer feel the shame you once did about this aspect of your story. The second reason is because you believe that all of this has a purpose. That is amazing, Katherine, because it tells me that you see that God doesn't waste anything in our lives if we surrender it to him, even the seeming garbage of our lives. I've begun to realize that what we thought was waste--even outright trash--gets recycled by God and put to a glorified purpose if we can come to the place you have. I pray that He will bless you for how you are doing this in your life. Thank you for lighting the way for others who need a guide.
~ Marsha
If you are reading this and you are where Katherine once was—still thinking, or hoping, that you will wake up from the nightmare that her life had become—please know that there is hope for you, too. Katherine has what I think of as a “big” story, and it was splashed all over the town where she lived. Yet by taking the necessary steps to seek out and move through a healing process, in just a few years Katherine has gone from wanting to hide, to regularly facilitating a support group for other partners of sex addicts, and teaching and sharing in a large prayer ministry near her home in Canada. Katherine’s new purpose is leading the hurting towards hope and healing.
Our prayer for you is that you, too, will reach out and connect with other women who understand your pain, and that you will commit to a process that can move you through the healing steps required to integrate the trauma into the fabric of your life. Who knows what plan God might have to use your whole story for his higher purpose?
] Read stories from other wives of sex addicts
] Share your story anonymously
Do the details of your husband’s addiction and the “stain” it spilled on your story cause you to feel shame and make you want to hide your pain because you fear others discovering your new reality? Many of us respond that way, even though to do so heightens our isolation and suffering and blocks our journey toward new hope and healing.
But not long ago I “met”—via the Internet—an amazing woman named Katherine who rose above the shame, fear and isolation her husband’s addiction catapulted into her life, and she now uses her story to touch the lives of other hurting women with understanding, courage and love. Whether you still fear discovery, or you long to discover purpose and meaning in your pain, I want to share an exchange I had with Katherine because it reflects a beautiful life-lesson for all of us:
Marsha,
One of the things I feel the Lord pressing on me is to take ‘ownership' of my story. For close to 3 years, I felt like I was going to 'wake up’ from my life. I so remember those times when I would be afraid to bump into anyone I knew. I remember feeling like a scared animal when going shopping and wanting to, needing to leave the store if I happen to see anyone who would recognize me. Over the last year, the Lord has brought much healing. I know that all of this has a purpose and fits into His plan. Using my real name in my story allows me to accept the plan that God has for me. This is my life and I don't feel the shame of it like I did. I see God's hand in it and I want to make Him proud of me.
~ Katherine
Katherine,
I've thought so much about what you wrote about taking ownership of your story. One reason it felt important to me is because one of the steps in healing from trauma requires that we integrate the traumatic events into our over-all life story. I think that is what I hear you doing. How wonderful that you no longer feel the shame you once did about this aspect of your story. The second reason is because you believe that all of this has a purpose. That is amazing, Katherine, because it tells me that you see that God doesn't waste anything in our lives if we surrender it to him, even the seeming garbage of our lives. I've begun to realize that what we thought was waste--even outright trash--gets recycled by God and put to a glorified purpose if we can come to the place you have. I pray that He will bless you for how you are doing this in your life. Thank you for lighting the way for others who need a guide.
~ Marsha
If you are reading this and you are where Katherine once was—still thinking, or hoping, that you will wake up from the nightmare that her life had become—please know that there is hope for you, too. Katherine has what I think of as a “big” story, and it was splashed all over the town where she lived. Yet by taking the necessary steps to seek out and move through a healing process, in just a few years Katherine has gone from wanting to hide, to regularly facilitating a support group for other partners of sex addicts, and teaching and sharing in a large prayer ministry near her home in Canada. Katherine’s new purpose is leading the hurting towards hope and healing.
Our prayer for you is that you, too, will reach out and connect with other women who understand your pain, and that you will commit to a process that can move you through the healing steps required to integrate the trauma into the fabric of your life. Who knows what plan God might have to use your whole story for his higher purpose?
] Read stories from other wives of sex addicts
] Share your story anonymously
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Your Trauma Has Found A Voice!
September ‘09 Target Release Date for
Through A Trauma Lens:
Sexual Addiction’s Traumatic Impact On Partners
by Marsha Means, M.A.
Trauma. You’ve undoubtedly felt its excruciating pain as a result of your husband’s sex addiction. And you’re likely intimately acquainted with the roller coaster emotions that follow sex addiction’s discovery; the careening emotions that can plunge you into depression’s darkest recesses or catapult you to heights of anxiety you’ve never before experienced. We’ve heard women express it in thousands of ways. Listen to a few of them describe it in their own words:
- I threw up; couldn’t sleep; couldn’t eat. I cried constantly. I felt horror, anger, rage, terror, fury at God.
- You know that picture of the airplane hitting the tower in New York City? That’s what it’s like in my life.
- I have been having daily Migraines and I’m terrified. I know this will sound silly but I am even sleeping with my Bible.
When I first discovered all this I went into the bedroom where his clothes were hanging and ripped them off of the hangers and threw them, screaming “Who were you?” Am I mourning the death of the man I loved, or am I mourning the discovery that the man I loved never existed?
It's like hanging upside down and not being able to right myself. It's being stabbed over and over again and trying to find solid ground under the slippery pool of my own blood; most of the time it's laying in a shallow grave as most of me dies.
Trauma. You can feel it in these women’s words, can’t you? But what many of you haven’t felt is true understanding and empathy from others who recognize and understand your trauma; others who are equipped and willing to help you heal from it. And that’s why we are so excited to make this announcement about our next book, Through A Trauma Lens: Sexual Addiction’s Traumatic Impact On Partners. Our book has found a home with New Horizon Press and has a target release date of September 2009!
This means that if all goes as planned you will be able to buy your own copy just eleven months from now. It also means that my co-author, Barb Steffens, PhD, and I—along with New Horizon Press—will be doing everything possible to get the word out so that more clergy, counselors, doctors, and ordinary people begin to “get it.” Our passion is to represent you and the pain you’ve experienced to those who can help you feel understood and heard, and who can then walk you through your healing journey to wholeness, whether the man in your life decides to change or not.
We invite you to participate in this project with us by praying for us as we work hard to meet a very short January 2nd completion date while continuing to respond to hurting women via email, phone calls, support groups and one-on-one sessions.
We also invite you to participate by taking part in our anonymous trauma survey. You will find the link to the online survey at this end of this article. Because our book will be filled with women’s trauma experiences we need anonymous stories from women like you that we can weave into the writing. So if you would like to help the world understand the traumatic impact sex addiction had on you—and by sharing help people understand it’s traumatic impact on partners in general—click on the link below and pour out your heart. For women around the world we say “Thank you.”
] Participate in Trauma Survey
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Did Jesus Heal Marriages?
by Coach Christy
In a recent Boundaries Group we discussed the challenges we women face when we attempt to draw boundaries with our sexually addicted husbands. We felt sad that women so often experience strong resistance not only from their husbands, but also from their church community even though boundaries are healthy, important, and necessary—especially with a sex addict. But in spite of their importance, women are often told that boundaries run counter to submission. As we discussed this too-frequent reality, we realized that often Christians—though well intentioned—at times become so eager to heal a marriage they overlook the need for healing of the individuals in that marriage.
As I listened to the group members talk about their failed attempts to enlist their pastor’s or elders’ help in confronting their husband’s sexual sin, I began to wonder how Christ would respond if he still walked the Earth. And then it occurred to me that nowhere in the Bible—nowhere in all the accounts of Christ’s miracles and healings—is there even one account of Jesus healing a marriage. Not a single one. Every account of healing written in Scripture consists of Jesus and an individual or group of individuals. But nowhere is there documented a miracle involving a marriage.
That does not mean that Jesus never healed a marriage; I have no doubt He did. But I believe the emphasis on the individual, one-on-one healing experiences is very significant. Jesus was concerned with the individual. He did not wait to heal people until their spouse was present. Nor did he tell a wife to read scripture, have more faith, and be more submissive so her husband could be healed. Neither did he blame one person for another’s sin or affliction. He had compassion on each individual and healed them, just as he died for each individual.
Does this mean healing marriages isn’t important? Absolutely not. Everything we do at A Woman’s Healing Journey comes from our strong desire to try to help you save your marriage. We women love our husbands, and we recognize our marriages are sacred institutions. Yet we seek to never forget that a marriage is comprised of two individuals. Two individuals who need their own healing, and two individuals whom God holds individually responsible for their walk with him. A marriage cannot be healed unless the individuals in that marriage want, seek, and pursue their own healing.
A three-legged stool provides one picture of marriage; one leg represents the husband; another the wife; and the third, God. All three legs are necessary for the marriage to stand. If one leg breaks, the stool topples. But when sex addiction becomes a part of a marriage, two legs break because the husband’s sin breaks his wife’s heart. There can be no hope of making the stool stand again without repairing—or healing—both of the legs. And only the Master Builder can fix them. But even he cannot do it unless both legs submit to His healing process.
Where does that leave us if our husband is not presently interested in his own healing? We can act on our individual requirement to seek healing for ourselves, and we can ask God to use that process to cause our husbands to yearn for their own healing. One valuable component of that process in our lives includes Biblical boundaries. So often we learn to draw healthy, appropriate boundaries we see our husbands become willing to surrender to their own healing process. And when that happens, healing for our marriage becomes a very real possibility!
] Learn more about Boundaries Support Groups for wives of sex addicts
In a recent Boundaries Group we discussed the challenges we women face when we attempt to draw boundaries with our sexually addicted husbands. We felt sad that women so often experience strong resistance not only from their husbands, but also from their church community even though boundaries are healthy, important, and necessary—especially with a sex addict. But in spite of their importance, women are often told that boundaries run counter to submission. As we discussed this too-frequent reality, we realized that often Christians—though well intentioned—at times become so eager to heal a marriage they overlook the need for healing of the individuals in that marriage.
As I listened to the group members talk about their failed attempts to enlist their pastor’s or elders’ help in confronting their husband’s sexual sin, I began to wonder how Christ would respond if he still walked the Earth. And then it occurred to me that nowhere in the Bible—nowhere in all the accounts of Christ’s miracles and healings—is there even one account of Jesus healing a marriage. Not a single one. Every account of healing written in Scripture consists of Jesus and an individual or group of individuals. But nowhere is there documented a miracle involving a marriage.
That does not mean that Jesus never healed a marriage; I have no doubt He did. But I believe the emphasis on the individual, one-on-one healing experiences is very significant. Jesus was concerned with the individual. He did not wait to heal people until their spouse was present. Nor did he tell a wife to read scripture, have more faith, and be more submissive so her husband could be healed. Neither did he blame one person for another’s sin or affliction. He had compassion on each individual and healed them, just as he died for each individual.
Does this mean healing marriages isn’t important? Absolutely not. Everything we do at A Woman’s Healing Journey comes from our strong desire to try to help you save your marriage. We women love our husbands, and we recognize our marriages are sacred institutions. Yet we seek to never forget that a marriage is comprised of two individuals. Two individuals who need their own healing, and two individuals whom God holds individually responsible for their walk with him. A marriage cannot be healed unless the individuals in that marriage want, seek, and pursue their own healing.
A three-legged stool provides one picture of marriage; one leg represents the husband; another the wife; and the third, God. All three legs are necessary for the marriage to stand. If one leg breaks, the stool topples. But when sex addiction becomes a part of a marriage, two legs break because the husband’s sin breaks his wife’s heart. There can be no hope of making the stool stand again without repairing—or healing—both of the legs. And only the Master Builder can fix them. But even he cannot do it unless both legs submit to His healing process.
Where does that leave us if our husband is not presently interested in his own healing? We can act on our individual requirement to seek healing for ourselves, and we can ask God to use that process to cause our husbands to yearn for their own healing. One valuable component of that process in our lives includes Biblical boundaries. So often we learn to draw healthy, appropriate boundaries we see our husbands become willing to surrender to their own healing process. And when that happens, healing for our marriage becomes a very real possibility!
] Learn more about Boundaries Support Groups for wives of sex addicts
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Two Support Groups Starting Next Week
Marsha Means, M.A., author, speaker, counselor, and former spouse of a sex addict is starting 2 new telephone support groups for wives of sex addicts.
Marsha will help you through the trauma and start you on your healing journey!
For 12-weeks, starting the date and time you select, you will meet with Marsha and your group for an hour and a half.
] Complete Information and Upcoming Registration Dates
Other Counseling Options include:
] One-on-One Coaching Session with Marsha
] Self-led Workbook by Marsha or Marsha's book, Living with Your Husband's Secret Wars
Monday, August 4, 2008
Healing: God, Choice, Relationships, Process
As I listen to hurting women share the heartache that comes with loving a sex addict, there are days when I feel as if I have been ministering beside the pool at Bethesda in Jerusalem, surrounded by the sick, the broken, and the dying. At those times I am reminded of the crippled man who had lived beside the pool for thirty-eight long years, waiting and hoping for his healing. And then one glorious day in his life Jesus came, and he walked straight toward the crippled man lying on there on his mat, right where he’d been for the last thirty-eight years, clinging to the ragged edges of his hope. But Jesus did not just miraculously touch him and give him a new body; instead he asked a question, and a rather strange question at that. He asked, “Do you want to get well?” Apparently healing was available to him, but he had to supply the “want-to” if he wanted to be whole. I believe there is a lesson in that picture for us: healing is a choice.
Healing is a Choice
I have never met a partner of a sex addict who did not want to heal. No one in their right mind would choose to hurt this way. Yet even in our desire for healing we sometimes fail to recognize that our want-to must include our action. Though I am a firm believe in salvation through faith, God’s Word tells us that “Faith without works is dead.” And so I believe it is with the healing of our broken hearts and broken lives; we must search out the resources we need to heal, then pick up the phone and make those calls until we find a place to connect for our healing.
Healing Requires Relationship
Healing rarely happens in a world of one. God is a very relational God, and that’s the way he designed us: to hunger and thirst for relationship and connection; for places to be known, yet loved and accepted. Places where we can bring our deepest pain and be heard in love. Places where others will gently hold up a mirror so they can reflect back to us what they hear and see in our words and countenance.
And those are the kinds of relationships that enable us to begin our healing journey so we don’t waste long years of our lives stranded—like the crippled man beside the pool—without hope or help for decades of our lives. Connection and caring from other women who understand can make all the difference in our lives. Two recent quotes from women in support groups illustrate this point. The first is from a woman whose losses and heartbreak have been far greater than my own, yet she is valiantly fighting to heal. Recently while she shared newly discovered painful information with us she said with great emphasis: “There’s no other place in the whole world where I could say this stuff that I’m saying to you all right now! I’m so glad I have you in my life.”
The second is from a woman on a different continent far, far from the United States. So far in fact that she has to dial into the conference call line to “meet” with our group in the middle of the night! Yet she’s there, putting action to her healing, even in her grogginess. Just last week at the end of a call as she said her “group goodbye” she said: “Thank you all for supporting me the way you do. You’re all truly beautiful!”
Healing is a Process
But just getting together to talk with other hurting partners would not take us very far toward our healing without a healing process. It’s the WANT-TO + RELATIONSHIP + A HEALING PROCESS that helps make healing happen. And of course, God. He is the author of our healing on every level, so even as we use materials that provide a healing process for partners of sex addicts, we incorporate God’s healing love throughout.
As you consider your own healing and where you are in that process, reflect on the following words from a recent group member who has greatly benefited from the blending of these healing components. As you read her words think about whether or not you need to take new action to move further along in your own healing journey.
“I thank God that he allowed me to find you. You have given me hope; you have been able to taste the salt of my tears. You were compassionate. You listened and cared. At first you didn’t mix other stuff in…you just listened. Your compassion gave me hope. Then you gently brought in the truth, gradually, a little at a time, and with each new piece of truth comes new revelation that enables me to “get it,” and to slowly begin to make healthier choices in my life.”
Healing is a Choice
I have never met a partner of a sex addict who did not want to heal. No one in their right mind would choose to hurt this way. Yet even in our desire for healing we sometimes fail to recognize that our want-to must include our action. Though I am a firm believe in salvation through faith, God’s Word tells us that “Faith without works is dead.” And so I believe it is with the healing of our broken hearts and broken lives; we must search out the resources we need to heal, then pick up the phone and make those calls until we find a place to connect for our healing.
Healing Requires Relationship
Healing rarely happens in a world of one. God is a very relational God, and that’s the way he designed us: to hunger and thirst for relationship and connection; for places to be known, yet loved and accepted. Places where we can bring our deepest pain and be heard in love. Places where others will gently hold up a mirror so they can reflect back to us what they hear and see in our words and countenance.
And those are the kinds of relationships that enable us to begin our healing journey so we don’t waste long years of our lives stranded—like the crippled man beside the pool—without hope or help for decades of our lives. Connection and caring from other women who understand can make all the difference in our lives. Two recent quotes from women in support groups illustrate this point. The first is from a woman whose losses and heartbreak have been far greater than my own, yet she is valiantly fighting to heal. Recently while she shared newly discovered painful information with us she said with great emphasis: “There’s no other place in the whole world where I could say this stuff that I’m saying to you all right now! I’m so glad I have you in my life.”
The second is from a woman on a different continent far, far from the United States. So far in fact that she has to dial into the conference call line to “meet” with our group in the middle of the night! Yet she’s there, putting action to her healing, even in her grogginess. Just last week at the end of a call as she said her “group goodbye” she said: “Thank you all for supporting me the way you do. You’re all truly beautiful!”
Healing is a Process
But just getting together to talk with other hurting partners would not take us very far toward our healing without a healing process. It’s the WANT-TO + RELATIONSHIP + A HEALING PROCESS that helps make healing happen. And of course, God. He is the author of our healing on every level, so even as we use materials that provide a healing process for partners of sex addicts, we incorporate God’s healing love throughout.
As you consider your own healing and where you are in that process, reflect on the following words from a recent group member who has greatly benefited from the blending of these healing components. As you read her words think about whether or not you need to take new action to move further along in your own healing journey.
“I thank God that he allowed me to find you. You have given me hope; you have been able to taste the salt of my tears. You were compassionate. You listened and cared. At first you didn’t mix other stuff in…you just listened. Your compassion gave me hope. Then you gently brought in the truth, gradually, a little at a time, and with each new piece of truth comes new revelation that enables me to “get it,” and to slowly begin to make healthier choices in my life.”
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Boundaries Support Group starts Thursday!
Don't miss our first Boundaries support group ...
When we live with an addict of any kind, boundaries become particularly important. But when we live with a sex addict, they become imperative!
We are excited that Christy, a certified Coach, is here to help partners develop or hone essential boundaries skills using the Boundaries materials.
We limit this group to 5 wives of sex addicts and only have 3 open seats!
You will need the Boundaries book and workbook by Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend for this group. If you cannot attend the next group, you can still get the book and workbook (below) and familiarize yourself with the materials to attend a future group.
When we live with an addict of any kind, boundaries become particularly important. But when we live with a sex addict, they become imperative!
We are excited that Christy, a certified Coach, is here to help partners develop or hone essential boundaries skills using the Boundaries materials.
- Learn to set clear boundaries in your life
- Establish what you are or are not responsible for
- Protect yourself using physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual boundaries
We limit this group to 5 wives of sex addicts and only have 3 open seats!
You will need the Boundaries book and workbook by Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend for this group. If you cannot attend the next group, you can still get the book and workbook (below) and familiarize yourself with the materials to attend a future group.
Friday, July 11, 2008
Welcome, Christy, & New Boundaries Telephone Support Groups
A Woman’s Healing Journey welcomes a new ministry team member, Coach Christy! A friend of Marsha’s since 2001, Christy comes with a strong recovery journey of her own and years of practice walking alongside other hurting women. You can learn more about Christy in her bio.
We're delighted to announce that Christy will launch our first Boundaries Telephone Support Group this month, enabling us to offer this much-needed curriculum to partners of sex addicts.
When we live with an addict of any kind, boundaries become particularly important. But when we live with a sex addict, they become imperative! We are excited to announce that with Christy on board we can now help partners develop or hone essential boundaries skills.
You can learn more about the Boundaries groups based on Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend’s wonderful book and workbook. These groups will follow the same format used in the Partner’s Healing Journey telephone support groups, enabling us to keep the groups small so each participant has plenty of time to share and integrate the material into her life.
We are excited that God is allowing us to walk alongside an increasing number of hurting women with our expanding ministry team. In the months to come, watch for other new resources led by Christy at www.awomanshealingjourney.com. Join us in welcoming Christy on board!
We're delighted to announce that Christy will launch our first Boundaries Telephone Support Group this month, enabling us to offer this much-needed curriculum to partners of sex addicts.
When we live with an addict of any kind, boundaries become particularly important. But when we live with a sex addict, they become imperative! We are excited to announce that with Christy on board we can now help partners develop or hone essential boundaries skills.
You can learn more about the Boundaries groups based on Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend’s wonderful book and workbook. These groups will follow the same format used in the Partner’s Healing Journey telephone support groups, enabling us to keep the groups small so each participant has plenty of time to share and integrate the material into her life.
We are excited that God is allowing us to walk alongside an increasing number of hurting women with our expanding ministry team. In the months to come, watch for other new resources led by Christy at www.awomanshealingjourney.com. Join us in welcoming Christy on board!
Friday, March 28, 2008
Help for Spouses of Sex Addicts
Greetings and welcome to "Help for Spouses of Sex Addicts" a new blog by Marsha Means, M.A. and A Woman's Healing Journey.
Marsha Means is an author, speaker, and counselor on the topic of dealing with your husband's sexual betrayal. She is also a former wife of a sex addict.
From porn addiction to use of prostitutes, Marsha has helped women to cope with their husband's sexual acting out. She formed A Woman's Healing Journey, an online organization that delivers healing and hope to women across the globe.
For more information, please visit www.awomanshealingjourney.com.
Marsha Means is an author, speaker, and counselor on the topic of dealing with your husband's sexual betrayal. She is also a former wife of a sex addict.
From porn addiction to use of prostitutes, Marsha has helped women to cope with their husband's sexual acting out. She formed A Woman's Healing Journey, an online organization that delivers healing and hope to women across the globe.
For more information, please visit www.awomanshealingjourney.com.
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