Welcome to the Partner's Healing Workshop. These health-based healing lessons were created to guide you through the wake of discovering a partner's sexually compulsive behavior. The following lessons (and accompanying exercises) should be completed in order.

Partner's Healing Lessons

Getting Started: Partner's Workshop Introduction

Stage One: Developing Awareness

• Your Path to Healing
• Reclaiming Your Life
• Your Partner's Path to Recovery
• Life Beyond Addiction and Recovery
• Understanding Addiction
• Understanding the Sexualized Mind
• Your Role in Recovery/Healing
• Your Partner's Role in Recovery/Healing
• Assessing Your Partner's Sincerity

Stage Two: Assessing Reality

• Preparing Yourself for Change
• The Traumatic Discovery
• The Traumatic Response
• Assessing the Damage

Stage Three: Personal Development

• The Vision to Heal
• Developing a Support System
• Understanding Your Values
• Strengthening Your Values
• When Values Collide
• Identifying Your Boundaries
• Developing Healthy Boundaries
• Managing Boundary Violations
• The Emotional Roller Coaster
• Establishing Balance and Stability **
• Maintaining Balance and Stability

Stage Four: Health Monitoring

• Health Monitoring
• Personal Daily Monitoring
• Personal Weekly Monitoring
• Monitoring Your Partner

Stage Five: Identifying Obstacles

• Anger in the Healing Process
• Depression in the Healing Process
• Assigning Blame
• Seeking Retribution**
• Codependency and Enabling
• Forgiveness

Stage Six (optional): Advanced Addiction Awareness

• Addiction Through Your Eyes
• Addiction Through Their Eyes
• Understanding Compulsive Behaviors I
• Understanding Compulsive Behaviors II
• Understanding Compulsive Behaviors III
• Developing Your Own Addiction

Stage Seven: Transitioning

• Mourning Your Losses
• Letting Go of Their Addiction
• Life Beyond Addiction, Recovery and Healing **

Supplemental Lessons (optional):

• Traffic Lights
• Pillars and Scaffolding
• STD Testing
• Understanding Sexual RItuals involving Same-Sex Attraction (part 1)
• Understanding Sexual RItuals involving Same-Sex Attraction (part 2)

** Lessons currently under construction