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Broken Together

by Francoise Mastroianni

A guide to recovery from sexual integrity issues, while embracing your recovery and helping your partner heal. Podcast by author and licensed clinical professional counselor, Francoise Mastroianni.

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Episodes

  1. Separation Agreement

    Separation agreement is meant to build trust, and give you both the space to rebuild from within.

  2. DARVO

    D-Denial A-Attack R-V-Reverse Victim O-Offender

  3. AVOID TRIGGERS

    Getting to know how your body/mind react to triggers.

  4. Honesty at its best

    "You're only as sick as your secrets". 12 Step Groups

  5. Radical Transformation-2

    A check point for negative and self-destructive talk and behaviors

  6. Radical Transformation

    Transformation evolves through the ability to be genuinely authentic and radically honest.

  7. Getting to know your addiction

    The CDQ's Core Dialogue Queries, take you through 40 days of dialogue between you, the healthy recovering you and the addict. This is from Patrick Carnes "Recovery Start"

  8. Reed's Story

    Using the "Core Dialogues" you can gain an understanding of how and why your addiction came to exist and take on a life of it's own.

  9. Be of Sober Mind

    Recovery is a life long journey

  10. A Reflective Heart

    A letter from my husband, written with a fully surrendered heart.

  11. Recovery with a Covenant

    It is not your partners responsibility to police the work you do or not in your recovery process; commit yourself to figuring out your own consequences if you violate the covenant between the two of you.

  12. Sticky Notes

    The "Sticky Note" exercise exemplifies the losses and cost effect for partners to stay or not.

  13. Wait with Expectation

    Having patience is a virtue. It does not come natural for most of us. Digging in the trenches of our lives require that we sit in stillness, while God is doing something supernatural of our lives. Waiting for deliverance is the hard work of our salvation. We want it to be over and NOW…

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  14. Silence in Worship

    Abbott Pastor said: Any trial whatever comes to you can be conquered by silence." (Scazzero, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality)

  15. Taking time to know yourself

    Taking time to know yourself is a process of knowing God to know thyself.

  16. Effects of Shame

    Maintaining Balance in Recovery

  17. Which Circle are you in?

    Relational Circles, staying in the outer circle to create more space for recovery.

  18. Looking back to move forward

    An important part of recovery is to look back into your childhood and pull up painfull memories, so you can began to process how they impacted you in the hear and now.

  19. Helping you Heal

    Healing through the trauma in your life. Let's start by writing your own personal mission statement and what it means to you.

  20. Brotherhood/Accountability

    Completion of the "Amends Matrix" and what it means to have accountability within the brotherhood.

  21. AMENDS MATRIX

    Having to say your sorry is a process of leaning into the offended's story, their thoughts and feelings. What makes them hurt over your thoughts, behaviors and actions. Take the time to know yourself and feel the pain of making an amends using the 7 Steps of the Amends Matrix (Jason Martinkus).

  22. 12 Step Program-2- Making an Amends

    Step 8 speaks into making an amend, using the "Amends Matrix" is a thorough apology.

  23. The 12 Steps to Recovery and Healing

    Some of our hardest moments are when we reach the" bottom of the pit," this is exactly what Bill Wilson cried out, "if there is a God let him show himself, I am ready to do anything, anything." Wilson is the founder of AA.

  24. Shame 11

    History of your emotions. Learn what its like to recognize shame and turn it around before it consumes you and robs you of a precious moment to repair.

  25. Shame on the Brain

    Knowing the effects of shame on the brain and body

  26. Impact on body and mind-2

    Where is God in my pain?

  27. Trauma on the Body and Mind

    The induced trauma and impact on the mind and body from sexual integrity issues can have a devastating impact on your spouse's physical body, it can affect both her relationship to her body how she sees herself and takes care of her body. It can cause new medical concerns and it can also alter…

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  28. How sexual trauma is related to sexual integrity issues

    Don't take for advantage that your partner "will get over this." In due time she figures out how to move forward, but the impact on her sexuality, physically, emotionally and spiritually linger, way more than she would like.

  29. Crisis and Destabilization

    Destabilization is a state of decreased optimism in maintaining status quo for what is familiar and constant. It undermines ones ability to trust their own judgement.

  30. Trauma's impact on the mind and body

    The induced trauma and impact on the mind and body from sexual integrity issues can have a devastating impact on your spouses physical body.

  31. Trauma Model

    Helping you to understand the level of trauma your partner experiences in the aftermath of discovery/disclosure.

  32. Disclosure 6

    Writing Your Disclosure- coming clean-rigorous honesty.

  33. Disclosre 5

    WRITING YOUR DISCLOSURE-Can activate your trauma.

  34. Disclosure 4

    WRITING DISCLOSURE, an acronym providing the outline and details of writing your disclosure.

  35. Disclosure 3

    Timeline for a Formal Therapeutic Disclosure (FTD)

  36. Disclosure 2

    Why Disclose? A formal therapeutic disclosure (FTD) is hard enough to work through, any dribbling or trickling of held secrets and lies will only delay the healing and recovery process.

  37. Disclosure1

    Disclosures are never an easy process. Take a listen and learn about a formal therapeutic disclosure (FTD). A step by step protocol that will guide and direct you and your partner with the best possible outcome. It does not promise "happily ever after," but it does deliver the truth, and the…

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  38. Disclosure 1

    Disclosures are never an easy process. Take a listen and learn about a formal therapeutic disclosure (FTD). A step by step protocol that will guide and direct you and your partner the best possible outcome, given the subject matter. It does not promise "happily ever after," but it does deliver…

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  39. The Brotherhood

    The Brotherhood is a vital attribution to your recovery process. It can be a matter of a slip or relapse to a difference of involving the brotherhood and experiencing a healthy, safe, sober and honest recovery.

  40. Understanding Her Pain

    For the man who is willing to work his own recovery program to help his partner heal; I present a twenty minute episode on your past sexual integrity issues as your wife's present day issues.

  41. Beautifully Broken

    We are beautifully broken together. B-Beautifully Broken R-Responsible, Remorse, Repair and No Repeat (Dr. Laura Schlesinger) O-Own your Own K-Kindness E-Empathy N-Negotiable

  42. Vunerability

    What does it mean to be seen and heard. I am a partner and your podcast host "Broken Together" sharing my story from a place of healing and vunerability.

  43. Introduction to Broken Together

    Broken Together with host Francoise Mastroianni, a twenty minute weekly podcast on sexual integrity issues. www.newreflectionsclinical.com

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

A guide to recovery from sexual integrity issues, while embracing your recovery and helping your partner heal. Podcast by author and licensed clinical professional counselor, Francoise Mastroianni.

HOSTED BY

Francoise Mastroianni

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A guide to recovery from sexual integrity issues, while embracing your recovery and helping your partner heal. Podcast by author and licensed clinical professional counselor, Francoise Mastroianni.

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