Heart to Heart’s Inspire 2021 Conference

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A Conference for Partners of Sex Addicts and Intimacy Anorexics Conference Location: Colorado Springs, CO INSPIRE 2021 is a 3-day conference for women who are or were in a relationship with a sex addict or intimacy anorexic. You will be hearing from experts in the field about how to grow, heal and inspire others in your journey. You will also …

Healing Expression’s Therapeutic Collage Workshop

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For Locals in the Vancouver, WA area: Therapeutic Arts Facilitator, Lani Kent, offers this unique opportunity to reengage with and care for your heart after this long and challenging year. For those needing a time of self care, exploring their own heart stories, helping professionals who journey with those processing their life experiences or anyone needing a time to slow …

NEWLIFE Workshop: Intimacy in Marriage

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NEWLIFE Workshop in Washington, DC: Intimacy in Marriage: Experiencing True Connection Is your marriage a dream or a nightmare? Do you feel fully known by your spouse? Do you know what true intimacy in marriage is supposed to be? The Intimacy In Marriage Workshop examines the various types of intimacy – spiritual, emotional and physical – as well as the challenges of …

Healing From Divorce: Part 1 of 3

By Hope After BetrayalDivorce, Relationships, Uncategorized

THE SHOCKWAVE “I had an affair.” That statement literally felt like the equivalent of falling off of a 10-story building. It did not help that while I was being told this, I was driving on HWY 14 with my 5-month-old son in the backseat. The world seemed to stand still. I felt like I was having an out of body …

An Exercise In Aligning Perspectives

By Hope After Betrayalcurrent year, Relationships, Uncategorized

“I sat there stunned, scrolling through his browsing history as image after image showed a slew of underdressed athletes in suggestive poses for the camera. The familiar feelings of betrayal struck a chord in my heart as it seemed yet again, he was choosing to look for self-gratification in places other than his wife. The troubling fact was, he had …

Formal Disclosure

By Hope After BetrayalEncouragement, Relationships, Uncategorized

By Heather Davis The process of a formal therapeutic disclosure consists of the betrayer sharing the full reality of their acting out, guided and supported by their therapist, with the one who has been betrayed, who also is being supported and guided by a therapist. It is an essential step in recovery and healing from the effects of sexual addiction …

Healing All Your Parts Webinar, by Restoring Hearts

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HEALING ALL YOUR PARTS, WITH JENNA RIEMERSMA Join Karen with her guest, Jenna Riemersma, author of Altogether You. We will discuss Internal Family Systems and how to heal our broken parts. About Jenna Riemersma Jenna Riemersma is the Clinical Director of The Atlanta Center for Relational Healing. She is a teaching faculty member for the International Institute of Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP). …

2021 Sexual Integrity Leadership Summit

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Sexual Integrity Leadership Summit ​2021 The Sexual Integrity Leadership Summit creates a space where we can come together as leaders and create strategies to help churches more effectively speak into sexual brokenness our culture is experiencing today. The 2021 summit will provide training and support, but also space to collaborate with other like-minded change agents in the church. April 29-April …

The 2020 Choose Connection Summit

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The Choose Connection Summit’s mission is simple…. …we will provide education, inspiration, and hope to individuals and couples seeking freedom from addiction and trauma into flourishing relationships of connection, healing, and love. Join Live Online | October 15–18, 2020 An amazing 3 days 4 DAYS of inspiration and practical advice from experts in the fields of recovery, trauma, and relationships.   Get you FREE …

Guest Blog: Rescued from the Cave of Betrayal

Annie DemaraGrief, Relationships, Uncategorized

Cave of Betrayal “Lord, may my husband be quick to agree with You in his sin.” The words were not my own, but those of a “pray for your husband guide” that I had been following. The timing of this prayer was not a coincidence. Just a couple of hours after that sentence left my lips, I found myself fully …

Godly Grief

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Godly grief may seem like an oxymoron at first. Doesn’t being a daughter or son of the Almighty God give you a pass on pain? After all, we learn in Romans 8:28 that all things work for our good and in 8:27, we are more than conquerors and we are promised in John 10:10 Christ came to give us an …