CC05 Workshop 04 - Acceptance: A Radical Approach to Healing Intimate Wounds - Janis Spring, PhD, ABPP
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Couples Therapy | Intimacy | Forgiveness | Healing
- Categories:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2005
- Faculty:
- Janis Abrahms Spring, PhD, ABPP
- Duration:
- 1:59:31
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Mar 04, 2005
- License:
- Never Expires.
Description
Description: This workshop presents an in depth, practical model of “acceptance,” a healing alternative when an offender cannot or will not make amends. Participants learn how hurt parties can honor their emotions, reduce obsessive rumination, protect themselves from further harm, and see the offender’s behavior in a broader context without excusing it. Through vivid clinical examples, the session offers a step by step roadmap for resolving injury, reclaiming dignity and moving forward even when genuine forgiveness is not possible.
Syllabus Description: Forgiveness has been held up as the gold standard of recovery from intimate wounds. Often people find forgiveness too generous, particularly when the offender is unrepentant. Dr. Spring proposes a bold, new healing alternative that lets us make peace with the past- with or without forgiving.
Educational Objectives:
- To describe an alternative to forgiveness when the offender is unrepentant.
- To describe how to control obsessive ruminations about the injury.
*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*
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Janis Abrahms Spring, PhD, ABPP Related Seminars and Products
Janis Abrahms Spring, Ph.D., ABPP, is a board certified clinical psychologist and nationally acclaimed expert on issues of trust, intimacy, and forgiveness. Her first book, After the Affair: Healing the Pain and Rebuilding Trust When a Partner Has Been Unfaithful, has sold more than a half million copies and was a Books for a Better Life Award finalist in the categories of Best First Book and Best Relationship Book. The completely updated second edition (2012) includes a new chapter on affairs in cyberspace. How Can I Forgive You? The Courage to Forgive, the Freedom Not To, was a Books for a Better Life Award finalist in the category of Best Psychology Book. Life with Pop: Lessons on Caring for an Aging Parent, a Living Well Award Silver Medalist, captures the extraordinary, ordinary personal challenges and moments of grace that come with caregiving and growing old.