The following recommended EFT on-line programs, 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.
Couples / Relationship
Hold Me Tight and the ‘Demon Dialogues’ and ways to stop the cycle and pain.
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‘Hold Me Tight’ by Dr. Susan Johnson is a must read for any couple embarking on the journey of reconnecting and rebuilding their primary relationship. The science based research helps once realize how powerful attachment is.
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.
Hold Me Tight with Dr Susan Johnson.
The Hold Me Tight on-line’ program can help each partner understand their respective role in their negative cycle and as well as their attachment styles. This process will help couples move through Stage One (which has four steps) of EFT and prepare the couple for Stage Two which is the EFT Therapy process.
Every day, we hear of relationships failing and questions of whether humans are meant to mate for life. Love Sense presents new scientific evidence that tells us humans are meant to mate for life. She helps us better understand what healthy, loving communications looks like and what if feels like.
EFT Workbooks
A workbook based on EFT methods to help build a solid foundation for connection.
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.
Affair Recovery Resources
The seminal read for partners when an attachment injury such as infidelity has occurred.
Shirley Glass helps both the person who cheated and the one who was cheated on understand one another’s experience through empathy and awareness.
This is a book has been recommended by the EFT community to help work through affairs especially when toggling back and forth between this and ‘Hold Me Tight’.
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.
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Trauma / Individuals and Couples
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.
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While this text book, written and researched by Dr. Susan Johnson, helps EFT therapists provide understanding and treatment in healing partners with trauma/PTSD, it is also is effective for partners in relationship struggling with trauma to read it as well.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in 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.
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