Trish Purnell-Webb

Rebuild after betrayal with this trauma-informed guide--based on the powerful Gottman Method for helping couples heal from infidelity. If your partner has been unfaithful to you, you no doubt feel deeply hurt, betrayed, disoriented and confused, angry, and emotionally overwhelmed. You may have feelings of distrust toward your partner, or worry that nothing will ever be the same between you again. You aren't alone. Infidelity--whether an emotional or sexual affair--is all-too-common, and can leave you feeling broken inside. So, how can you heal the trauma of infidelity and rebuild trust with your partner? Written by a psychologist and based on the Gottman Method for couples therapy, this book outlines a powerful, trauma-informed approach to help you and your partner heal from infidelity, strengthen love and intimacy, and rebuild trust after betrayal. You'll find skills to help you cultivate a deeper bond with your partner--one that builds on friendship and shared experiences. You'll also learn to set healthy boundaries, and manage the difficult and intense emotions that can occur after infidelity. This book offers an evidence-based, three-phase approach to healing after infidelity: The Atonement Phase: Deal with the crisis of discovery and disclosure The Attunement Phase: Develop skills to address--rather than avoid--the relationship issues that contributed to infidelity and rebuild friendship The Attachment Phase: Work on physical and emotional intimacy and vulnerability Infidelity is painful and often traumatic, but it doesn't have to end or cloud your relationship forever. The powerful approach in this compassionate guide will help you and your partner make the positive changes needed to sustain a healthy connection for years to come.

Foothold Bridget's headlong rush into adulthood throws her into a marriage with a man she barely knows, a dangerous and traumatic journey, and a battle to change societal norms or risk her own destruction. Sailing into Moreton Bay in 1824, Bridget and her fellow army wives face extreme hardships, not least of which is their powerlessness as the property of their husbands while facing the brutal realities of living in a newly established penal colony in the middle of nowhere. Bridget understands they must learn to not only survive but thrive, give birth, raise children, form a community, and fight for their rights or die. Along the way she is forced to confront her own naivety and develop a ruthlessness that enables her to find a way to lead in a man's world in order to ensure her own survival.

People in successful relationships deliberately build and attend to the friendship and connection in their relationship, skillfully manage conflict and physiological arousal and work together to create shared meaning and understanding in their day to day lives together. This book provides daily information, tips and tasks to make small lasting change often. Based on 40 plus years of research by Drs John and Julie Gottman these daily tips provide simple, commonsense, safe handrails to stabilise, strengthen and deepen intimacy and connection through doing small practical things with positive intention. What this book will give you is: * increased knowledge of your partner; * increased expressed appreciation and kindness towards each other; * increased attentiveness and focus; * increased positivity and resilience; * improved conflict management skills and strategies; * access to deeper, more meaningful communication; * tips to eradicate proven destructive negative patterns in conflict; * strategies for understanding and honouring each other's dreams, goals, wishes and needs; * tools for creating greater shared meaning and rituals of connection that are proven to stabilise and strengthen relationships; * pathways to strengthen trust and commitment. The suggested daily tasks are designed to assist you and your partner to discover a closer, connected, satisfying partnership. 365 Things to Improve your Relationship is the scaffolding to build a successful, lasting life together.