Surviving Infidelity: Making Decisions, Recovering from the Pain by Rona B. Subotnik and Gloria Harris This book is an oldie but goodie. It has been around for years but has stood the test of time and is still relevant today for those healing from infidelity. The beginning of the book can be particularly helpful for those who are dealing with emotional affairs. The authors devote a section to … [Read more...]
Embracing Failure in Recovery
By: Robert Rubinow, LPC The addicted mind is permeated with thoughts that bend one’s view of reality into an unrecognizable panorama. These negative thoughts—like little seedlings deposited by our adverse experiences of the world, and often, the families or cultures we grow up in—grow over time into an interconnected labyrinth of beliefs with deep and hazardous roots, like a dense, defended … [Read more...]
June Recommended Reading
Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships by Dr. Sue Johnson Sue Johnson is the founder of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples, an attachment-based approach that helps couple build a safe bond with one another that allows intimacy to flourish. While Johnson has written several books on EFT this is her most popular seller as it provides an eye-opening … [Read more...]
CRR Team Spotlight, Cheryl Schenck
Over the coming weeks we want to introduce you to members of CRR’s Clinical Team who you may not yet know. This week we invite you to take a few minutes to get to know a little bit more about Cheryl Schenck. Cheryl Schenck is a Licensed Professional Counselor who works with individuals and couples, and leads groups. Cheryl has been with the Center for Relational Recovery since 2012. After she … [Read more...]
Do My Words Matter?
Words are potent. They can be the vehicle we use to deliver love, affirmation, appreciation, and hope. Conversely, words have the power to hurt, condescend, hate, and offend. In the Bible, the book of Proverbs says, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue.” Sigmund Freud said, “Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.” Even with … [Read more...]
The Gifts of Gratitude in Recovery
“Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.” ― John Ortberg It is easy during recovery—when our eyes are turned toward our failures and our hopes toward sobriety—to become lost in self-preoccupation and unhealthy introspection. After all, depending on our medicated self to “figure it all out” has been our modus operandi for a … [Read more...]
May Recommended Reading
Facing Love Addiction: Giving Yourself the Power to Change the Way You Love by Pia Mellody First published over 15 years ago, this book is still the go-to resource for understanding love addiction and love avoidance. Pia Mellody masterfully lays out a clear understanding of how the attachment patterns of love addiction and avoidance manifest in relationships, helping the reader identify each … [Read more...]
CRR Team Spotlight, Bruce Butler
Over the coming weeks we want to introduce you to members of CRR’s Clinical Team who you may not yet know. This week we invite you to take a few minutes to get to know a little bit more about Bruce Butler. Bruce Butler has been a member of the Clinical Team at the Center for Relational Recovery since 2013. Bruce specializes in treating individuals and couples dealing with relational (marital) … [Read more...]
But If Not
My sister is a potter. Well, really she is an artist and one of the ways she expresses all the pent-up artistic ability she carries around is through pottery. I get pictures texted to me at random times of vases, pots, sculptures, and platters, all thrown and carved, showing exquisite care and intricate detail. Often, these are pictures of the raw clay item waiting to be glazed and fired in the … [Read more...]
CRR Team Spotlight, Michelle Mays
Over the coming weeks we want to introduce you to members of CRR’s Clinical Team who you may not yet know. This week we invite you to take a few minutes to get to know a little bit more about Michelle Mays. Michelle D. Mays LPC, CSAT-S is the founder and Clinical Director of the Center for Relational Recovery, serving individuals and couples struggling with sexual addiction, betrayal trauma, … [Read more...]
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