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Recovering addicts are faced with many challenges, and these challenges can often extend to their romantic partners. During the recovery period, couples often struggle with overcoming feelings of betrayal and frustration, and may have a hard time rebuilding trust and closeness. While there are many resources available to recovering addicts, there are limited resources for the people who love them. In Loving Someone in Recovery, therapist Beverly Berg offers powerful tools for the partners of recovering addicts. Based in mindfulness, attachment theory, and neurobiology, this book will help readers sustain emotional stability in their relationships, increase effective communication, establish boundaries, and take real steps toward reigniting intimacy. The material in this book is drawn from the author's successful Conscious Couples Recovery Workshop. With more than twenty-five years in the field, she has developed a unique set of exercises that address the issues faced by couples in recovery. This book addresses the roles that both partners play in recovery, and aims to help readers develop a new appreciation for one another and improve self-confidence and acceptance. The road to recovery is never an easy one, but by building a strong support system, the chances of success are exponentially greater.

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Beverly Berg, MFT, PhD, has worked with children and adults in a psychotherapy practice since 1982, and has been active in the field of chemical dependency as a marriage, family, and child therapist since. Her work is founded on the integration of psychological, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. Dr. Berg has studied and practiced meditation, holistic treatment methods, and twelve-step programs for over thirty years. Her specialty is somatic psychology, which focuses on the complex relationship between mind and body. Much of Dr. Berg's life has been devoted to the study and practice of different schools of Buddhist meditation and the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon. She uses long-term and short-term therapy modalities: psychodynamic, systemic, strategic, cognitive behavioral, EMDR, and indirect Eriksonian hypnosis. Currently, Dr. Berg has a full caseload, runs a weekly psychotherapy process group, supervises and educates MFT interns, and presents at addiction conferences across the country year-round. She runs a year-round workshop, Conscious Couples Recovery, to rehab institutions as an adjunct therapy for aftercare treatment for clients transitioning out of rehab and into everyday living, as well as for the recovering couple that have sober time under their belts. In addition to being a professional in the mental health field, Dr. Berg is a mother and a wife. Randye Kaye is a national voice talent and actress, also currently heard as part-time newscaster and classical music host on NPR affiliates WSHU-FM and AM. Prior to that, while raising her children, she was a full-time morning personality for a top-rated Connecticut radio station in addition to her voice-over, on-camera, and theater work. Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, is the author of Wired for Love, Your Brain on Love, and Love and War in Intimate Relationships. He has a clinical practice in Southern California, teaches at Kaiser Permanente, and is an assistant clinical professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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