WARNING

Not Everyone Should Read This Book!

WHO SHOULD READ THIS BOOK

BEYOND PISD

• Couples who are looking for courage, strength and hope in the aftermath of infidelity or sex addiction.
• Remorseful Spouses who genuinely want to know how to heal their partner’s crushed heart.
• Betrayed Partners whose lives have been shattered and who are looking for a path to healing.
• Therapists who want a bibliotherapy resource that tells a realistic story of healing from infidelity and sex addiction.
• People who enjoy a good human interest story.

WHO SHOULD NOT READ THIS BOOK

BEYOND PISD

• Spouses who have no interest in healing the pain their infidelity caused their partners.
• Betrayed Partners whose pain is so raw they panic when they hear stories of other people’s infidelity.
• Couples who hate each other and just want to end their relationship.

For Couples recovering from infidelity and sex addiction:

• BEYOND PISD introduces them to another couple with a shared history.
• They no longer feel isolated in the shame and guilt that made it impossible to reach out to friends and family.
• Their thoughts and feelings are validated.
• They learn essential truths about the real causes of infidelity and the complexities of intimate partner betrayal trauma.
• They are empowered as they see how recovery strategies can keep them safe and give them hope.
• They experience another couple taking time to work carefully through each phase of recovery.

For Sex addiction and partner betrayal trauma therapists:

• BEYOND PISD provides a bibliotherapy resource to support recovery.
• Issues that otherwise would take longer to surface are opened up for dialogue.
• Defensiveness decreases as clients first reflect on the experiences of the characters in the book
• As recovery strategies are introduced, clients have concrete examples of how they are applied and their benefit.
• Clients’ experiences are normalized as therapists make observations about similarities between the clients and the characters in the book.

The novel BEYOND PISD is a complete work of fiction. It is neither biographical nor autobiographical. The characters are NOT based on anyone, living or dead. Any similarity between the story of Meg and Art Graham and the lived-experiences of people reading the book is simply evidence that infidelity and sex addiction impacts people’s lives in comparable ways.

Direct Therapy and Indirect Consultative and Supervisory services are not offered by anyone associated with this website.

The links and the material contained in this website are for the sole purpose of elaborating on the experiences of the fictional characters in the novel BEYOND PISD as they progress through their unique recovery process. Including these links and materials is neither an endorsement of their therapeutic value nor a recommendation of their use by those recovering from infidelity.

Infidelity is traumatic both for the spouse who committed the infidelity and the betrayed partner. Therefore, if you proceed to access the materials on this website:

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