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Deceived: Facing Sexual Betrayal, Lies, and Secrets
By Claudia Black, PhD, MSW
Nearly a decade ago, I began to work with women confronting sexual betrayal. It was this professional experience that inspired me to write Deceived: Facing Sexual Betrayal, Lies and Secrets, a book for female partners of sex addicts. Much of this article is excerpted from that book, published by Hazelden in April 2009.
Most couples, whether married or not, have both spoken and unspoken commitments that sex stays within the relationship; they communicate and respect each other's personal needs and boundaries. Their expectation is for unconditional love, but they know that relationships have conditions that need to be negotiated openly. Unfortunately these commitments and expectations are often a facade in many relationships.
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Featured Workshop: Partners of Sex Addicts
This workshop is designed to support the partners of sex addicts, for whom early awareness of the addits' behavior can feel overwhelming. Often there has been a devastating disclosure that leaves the partner feeling deep betrayal. Partners often blame themeselves, question their reality, or wonder how their lives have spiraled to such a place.
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Author to Reader
By John Bradshaw, MA
John Bradshaw's latest book, Reclaiming Virtue: How We Can Develop the Moral Intelligence to Do the Right Thing at the Right Time for the Right Reason, will be released April 28, 2009.
Reclaiming Virtue is a very ambitious book. I originally conceived of it as part of my own Stage Four recovery work, but I later came to the realization that the book is more like a record of my own struggle over the past 50 years.
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Twisters and Roller Coasters: Living with Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
By Debra L. Kaplan, MA, LAC, LISAC
Not too long ago, a client who I was treating for prescription drug abuse, looked at me and said, "It's my desperate need to silence my feelings that drives me to want to use." She went on to describe what it felt like to live in her skin. "It's as if the people in my life are at the controls of this rollercoaster called my life and I'm trapped and I can't get off. I like or hate the ride based on how I feel about them at that moment; in my mind you're either with me or against me. But I can't fire them from the controls!"
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The Meadows' Integrated Evaluation Program
By Thomas Best, MD, Director of The Meadows
The Meadows is offering a new program called the "Integrated Evaluation." This program combines our groundbreaking Survivors Week workshop with a state-ofthe-art evaluative process.
In addition to attending the workshop, each client meets with a treatment team consisting of a psychiatrist, primary care physician, addition medicine specialist, clinical psychologist, and nutritionist. The evaluation team works collaboratively to ensure that clients receive the most thorough, integrated, and comprehensive evaluation.
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2009 Workshops
We offer a series of programs designed to meet the needs of people new to The Meadows, who have not experienced our primary treatment, and as a source of renewal for our alumni.
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Save The Date
Professional lectures, trainings and symposiums. ... to view the events click here.
Free Lecture Series
Free Lecture Series are lectures open to the community. The Meadows sponsors these lectures in various cities throughout the country. Lectures are targeted to graduates of The Meadows but are also open to the recovery community. Speakers include local therapists familiar with The Meadows' model.
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Be a Member of Our Multidisciplinary Team ...To view current job openings at The Meadows click here.
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