Another Blog I contributed to Sex & Relationship Healing.com

How to Heal & Feel Safe Again After Betrayal Trauma

Once you develop a better understanding and language for what your mind and body are going through during your relationship crisis, it’s important to explore how you can feel safe again.  Safety is paramount to healing...

The greatest tools needed to heal from a crisis are 1) gain a better understanding of what’s happening and 2) regain a sense of safety.  Today’s two-part article on healing from relational/betrayal trauma will explore how one can establish both necessary tools.  Before...

In my field of treating Intimacy Disorders, we find ourselves talking a lot about intimacy.  What, exactly, is INTIMACY? Many use this soundbite to explain it:

INTIMACY= INTO ME YOU SEE

In other words, authentic intimacy with another person is the courageous an...

The cornerstone to mental/emotional health includes a willingness to courageously and honestly show up every day—uncertain of the outcome—and not allow shame to impede one’s journey.  That often requires a daily practice of vulnerability, authenticity, accountability,...