Shameless (The Therapist #2)

by Ws Greer
Shameless (The Therapist #2)
Author: Ws Greer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2020-06-17
Genre:
ISBN:
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A mask is temporary, even if we don't realize it. My mask was put in place against my will. It was securely fastened by my mother and all of her judgments and expectations, and I willingly hid behind it until I could no longer bear it-until my mask slowly slipped away as I looked in the mirror and caught a glimpse of who I truly am, and what I really want. After being made to feel enough embarrassment and shame to last a lifetime, I realize I have absolutely nothing to be ashamed of. My therapist, Dr. Malcolm Colson, has helped me remove my shackles, and I'm able to take my time learning what pleases me. I won't let judgement hold me back, I won't be shamed into chastity, and I will no longer allow myself to go unsatisfied. Now that the mask is off, I'll never hide behind it again. Instead, I'll discover what my needs are, and never again settle for a man who isn't capable of meeting them.

Shameless

by Nadia Bolz-Weber
Shameless
Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber
Publisher: Canterbury Press
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2019-01-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1786221357
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Raw, intimate, and timely, Nadia Bolz-Weber's latest book offers a full-blown overhaul of our harmful and antiquated ideas about sex, gender, and our bodies. Christians are obsessed with sex. But not in a good way. For nearly two thousand years, this obsession has often turned destructive, inflicting pain, suffering, and guilt on countless people of all persuasions and backgrounds. In Shameless, Bolz-Weber calls for a reformation. To make her case, she offers experiences from her own life and stories from her parishoners alongside biblical theology to explore what the church has taught, and the harm those teachings have caused. Along the way, she re-examines patriarchy, sex, and power with candour but also with hope, because in her heart she believes the "Gospel is powerful enough, transgressive enough, and beautiful enough to heal not only the ones who have been hurt but also those who have done the hurting." This is by far Bolz-Weber's most personal book yet, revealing intimate and emotional details about her life while offering a reading experience that is as entertaining and affirming as it is intellectually robust and liberating. For anyone who has been harmed by the shaming sexual messages so prevalent in religion, this book is for you.

A Guide to Shameless Happiness

by Will Ross
A Guide to Shameless Happiness
Author: Will Ross
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2014-06-18
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9781499769241
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Change The Way You FeelYou Can Choose to Be HappyA Guide to Shameless Happiness is a concise booklet that clearly outlines practical suggestions and easy-to-follow steps showing you how to lead an ethical, rewarding, and joyous life that is guided by compassion and reason.Based on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), the message of A Guide to Shameless Happiness is that you don't have to be miserable. Shameless happiness is a commitment you make yourself to refuse to be miserable, while unapologetically and unreservedly making yourself happy at every opportunity.Here's What This Book Can Do for YouIf you're fighting anxiety or depression, trying to beat an addiction, or simply want to lose weight, the key to success is learning to think differently. Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is a practical, sensible, and effective approach that will help you master your thoughts and think constructively, allowing you to reach your goals and find happiness sooner. Written in plain English, A Guide to Shameless Happiness shows you the easiest and fastest way to get started.You'll learn how to use your reasoning powers to achieve personal happiness and reach your long-term and short-term goals. You'll learn the number one, psychotherapeutic technique – used by psychologists and therapists all over the world – so you can react to events in a rational and realistic manner. You can use the methods described in A Guide to Shameless Happiness to overcome a range of common problems and to help yourself in a variety of areas personal growth, including worry, anger, fear, unassertiveness, guilt, depression, weight control, and self-motivation.

Shameless

by Pamela Madsen
Shameless
Author: Pamela Madsen
Publisher: Rodale Books
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2011-01-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1609617231
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A funny, sexy, and wildly entertaining look at the rewards of fully realized desire in the life of one ordinary woman. At 43 years old, Pamela Madsen was happily married to the man she fell in love with at 17. She was the mother of two sons and had a successful career as a nationally known advocate for fertility issues. But she felt a growing sexual restlessness and yearning that wouldn't let up. And though Pamela loved her husband and didn't want to have an affair, she knew deep down that she needed more, much more. In Shameless, she tells the story of how she found it—and not only kept her marriage intact but made it stronger than ever. In this fearless memoir, Pamela tells the story of her search for sexual, personal, and spiritual wholeness. She explores, in riveting detail, what she experienced at the hands of sexual healers, men who brought her untold pleasure (and became her close friends in the process). But this is not just another sex book: Shameless is also an account of how Pamela's journey healed her issues with food and body image and most important, helped her weave the many roles that she played—daughter, friend, partner, mother—into one fully integrated person. It is a story about a woman falling in love with herself and a call to other women to do the same.

The Roommate

by Rosie Danan
The Roommate
Author: Rosie Danan
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2020-09-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 059310160X
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"Warmly funny and gorgeously sexy."—New York Times Book Review A LibraryReads Pick House Rules: Do your own dishes Knock before entering the bathroom Never look up your roommate online The Wheatons are infamous among the east coast elite for their lack of impulse control, except for their daughter Clara. She’s the consummate socialite: over-achieving, well-mannered, predictable. But every Wheaton has their weakness. When Clara’s childhood crush invites her to move cross-country, the offer is too tempting to resist. Unfortunately, it’s also too good to be true. After a bait-and-switch, Clara finds herself sharing a lease with a charming stranger. Josh might be a bit too perceptive—not to mention handsome—for comfort, but there’s a good chance he and Clara could have survived sharing a summer sublet if she hadn’t looked him up on the Internet... Once she learns how Josh has made a name for himself, Clara realizes living with him might make her the Wheaton’s most scandalous story yet. His professional prowess inspires her to take tackling the stigma against female desire into her own hands. They may not agree on much, but Josh and Clara both believe women deserve better sex. What they decide to do about it will change both of their lives, and if they’re lucky, they’ll help everyone else get lucky too.

Reclaiming Pleasure

by Holly Richmond
Reclaiming Pleasure
Author: Holly Richmond
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2021-10-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1684038448
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Go beyond surviving to reclaim your sexual self. If you have experienced sexual abuse, assault, harassment, or rape, you may feel disconnected from your sexual self—even if you’ve overcome the initial trauma of your experience. You are a survivor; but surviving is just the beginning. This book explores what comes next. Written by a psychotherapist and grounded in cutting-edge research, Reclaiming Pleasure picks up where other sexual trauma recovery books leave off. It offers practical tools to help you cultivate a sense of safety, security and trust in order to reclaim the vitality, pleasure and great sex you deserve. The book will also serve as your compass on a journey toward the rediscovery of desire, letting you explore what you want from others and for yourself. This groundbreaking book will help you: Understand the lasting mental, physical, sexual, and relational impacts of sexual trauma Move beyond feelings of shame Reclaim pleasure and reignite passion in your life Surviving is merely the first step in the process of recovery from sexual trauma. With this sex-positive and empowering guide, you are invited to take your recovery to the next level. You’ll feel emboldened by the desire for better sex, healthier relationships, and a more connected, pleasurable life.

THERAPY'S DELUSIONS

by Ethan Watters
THERAPY'S DELUSIONS
Author: Ethan Watters
Publisher: Scribner
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1999-04-16
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:
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Two acclaimed authors deliver an attack on talk therapy, from its Freudian underpinnings to contemporary practice, and expose the failure of this "pseudoscience" that still holds enormous sway over the American mind.

Sex, God, and the Conservative Church

by Tina Schermer Sellers
Sex, God, and the Conservative Church
Author: Tina Schermer Sellers
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2017-04-21
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317199812
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Sex, God, and the Conservative Church guides psychotherapy and sexology clinicians on how to treat clients who grew up in a conservative faith—mired in sexual shame and dysfunction—and who desire to both heal and hold on to their faith orientation. The author first walks clinicians and readers through a critique of Western culture and the conservative Christian Church, and their effects on intimate partnerships and sexual lives. The book provides clinicians a way to understand the faulty sexual ethic of the early church, while revealing the hidden mystical sex and body positive understanding of sexuality of the Hebrew people. The book also includes chapters on strategies for a new sexual ethic, on clinical steps to heal religious sexual shame, and on specific sex therapy interventions clinicians can use directly in their practice. Finally, it offers a four step model for healing religious sexual shame and actual touch and non-touch exercises to bring healing and intimacy into a person's life.

The Shameless

by Ace Atkins
The Shameless
Author: Ace Atkins
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2019-07-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0525539484
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Buried secrets, dirty lies, and unbridled greed and ambition raise the stakes down South in the lauded crime series from New York Times bestselling author Ace Atkins. Twenty years ago, Brandon Taylor was thought to be just another teen boy who ended his life too soon. That's what almost everyone in Tibbehah County, Mississippi, said after his body and hunting rifle were found in the Big Woods. Now two New York-based reporters show up asking Sheriff Quinn Colson questions about the Taylor case. What happened to the evidence? Where are the missing files? Who really killed Brandon? Quinn wants to help. After all, his wife Maggie was a close friend of Brandon Taylor. But Quinn was just a kid himself in 1997, and these days he's got more on his plate than twenty-year-old suspicious death. He's trying to shut down the criminal syndicate that's had a stranglehold on Tibbehah for years, trafficking drugs, stolen goods, and young women through the MidSouth. Truck stop madam Fannie Hathcock runs most of that action, and has her eyes on taking over the whole show. And then there's Senator Jimmy Vardaman, who's cut out the old political establishment riding the Syndicate's money and power--plus a hefty helping of racism and ignorance--straight to the governor's office. If he manages to get elected, the Syndicate will be untouchable. Tibbehah will be lawless. Quinn's been fighting evil and corruption since he was a kid, at home or as a U.S. Army Ranger in Afghanistan and Iraq. This time, evil may win out.