Emotionally Focused Therapy Resources
The following recommended Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) books and resources can help augment the couples therapy when couples are experiencing difficulty in their relationship. This can be especially helpful when you are waiting to be seen for therapy and will help you prepare for the process. Most of the resources come in book, Kindle and audio formats. When EFT therapist is combined with these recommended resources, the changes can be profound. Again, these resources cannot replace the effectiveness of Emotionally Focused Therapy but do help facilitate the process.
Relationships
Hold Me Tight and the ‘Demon Dialogues’ and ways to stop the cycle and pain.
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A must read for any couple embarking on the journey of reconnecting and rebuilding their primary relationship.
Created For Connection: The ‘Hold Me Tight’ Guide for Christian Couples
Are you looking to enrich a healthy relationship, revitalize a tired one, or rescue one gone awry? This book helps you do both as you incorporate the teachings of God into your marriage. We all want a lifetime of love, support, and faith, but sometimes we need a little help.
Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships
Workbooks
EFT Workbook for Couples
This hands on must read, resource helps couples begin the process of building a foundation of new ways of connecting together. While Hold Me Tight is an excellent primer for therapy, this workbook will help carry the couple throughout the therapeutic process to really integrate the experience of therapy and build more safety between sessions.
"Hold Me Tight" Workbook
Drawing on the latest developments in Emotionally Focused Therapy, a field pioneered by Dr. Johnson, The Hold Me Tight Workbook is packed with sage wisdom and science-backed advice, as well as compelling conversation prompts, exercises, activities, and resources to help couples work through conflict and achieve greater levels of intimacy.
Affair Recovery Resources
Not "Just Friends"
How to Help Your Spouse Heal From Your Affair
Once an affair comes to light, many unfaithful persons “wake up” and want to save their marriages. Yet, they usually make terrible mistakes in their bungled attempts to win back their partners’ trust. Linda J. MacDonald, an infidelity specialist for 23 years, has identified behaviors and attitudes that determine unfaithful persons’ success or failure to mend their marriages after the wrecking ball of an affair.
Trauma / Individuals and Couples
What Happened To You? conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
Have you ever wondered “Why did I do that?” or “Why can’t I just control my behavior?” Others may judge our reactions and think, “What’s wrong with that person?” When questioning our emotions, it’s easy to place the blame on ourselves; holding ourselves and those around us to an impossible standard. It’s time we started asking a different question.
Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy with Trauma Survivors
This book provides a theoretical framework and a practical model of intervention for distressed couples whose relationships are affected by the echoes of trauma. Combining attachment theory, trauma research, and emotionally focused therapeutic techniques, Susan M. Johnson guides the clinician in modifying the interactional patterns that maintain traumatic stress and fostering positive, healing relationships among survivors and their partners.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body is the Healing of Trauma
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, a foremost expert of trauma, has spent more than three decades working with survivors. In the Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control and trust. The tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal. – and offers new hope for reclaiming lives.