Joann Condie - Aftershock: Overcoming His Secret Life with Pornography: A Plan for Recovery

Id like to put this book in the hands of every wife who has experienced the trauma of discovering that her husband has turned to pornography. Reading Aftershock is like sitting down with empathetic counselors who offer a roadmap to recovery.

GARY CHAPMAN, PHD, author of The 5 Love Languages

Aftershock is a hands-on, biblically grounded resource that will guide you toward hope and healing. From their expertise and many years of experience, Joann and Geremy provide compassionate and practical advice to address the real-life questions and experiences you are facing. This book will remind you that you are not alone!

DR. JULI SLATTERY, clinical psychologist; author of Rethinking Sexuality: Gods Design and Why It Matters; president of Authentic Intimacy

Im always excited when another quality book rises up to offer hope, tools, and healing to women devastated by betrayal. When a woman faces the devastation of a cheating husband, there is no such thing as too many resources. She will need to hear other womens stories of hope, she will need to understand the forensics of sexual addiction, and she will need wise godly counsel. Joann and Geremy provide this through their book Aftershock. The voices are honest, hopeful, and full of biblical wisdom. This is a must-read for any Christian womans healing library.

MEG WILSON, founder of Hope After Betrayal Ministries and author of Hope After Betrayal: Healing When Sexual Addiction Invades Your Marriage

This book is absolutely crucial for a woman to read as she walks through recovery from her husbands issues with pornography or sexual infidelity. Far too few resources exist for this problem that is plaguing countless marriages across the country and around the world. When a wife finds herself reeling from the impact of her husbands choices, she needs sound, trustworthy, biblically based advice. Aftershock can be that trusted voice in your journey. This is not a path that any one of us can navigate alone. This invaluable resource can gently guide you into how to face your emotions, construct a plan to work with your husband, and find hope to stay the course as you go through the ups and downs of recovery. We wish this book had been available when we walked through a restoration process over a decade ago. We learned many of these exact same insights from expert counselors and teachers. But Aftershock packs all of that wisdom into one powerful roadmap for your recovery. We highly recommend this book for anyone facing the tumultuous journey from loss and betrayal to hope, healing, and freedom. There is joy on the other side!

NICK AND MICHELLE STUMBO, Pure Desire Ministries

With dozens of captivating anecdotes, practical advice, and sound integration of theology and psychology, Aftershock offers help and hope to wives deluged by their husbands secret sins. Condie and Keeton guide you through the ups and downs of a personal recovery that offers your marriage the best opportunity for reconciliation. This is the book Ive been needing for over two decades, to use in my own practice specializing in the treatment of sex addiction.

ROB JACKSON, MS, LPC, certified clinical sex addiction specialist

Im excited Aftershock is available. I personally know the authors, and for years, Ive followed their work in the area of marriages struggling with pornography or other sexual addictions. Aftershock does not give an empty guarantee to the reader that everything will be happy ever after. What it does provide is a balanced, honest, straightforward explanation of the problem and a practical, doable plan a plan that helps the reader see the problem clearly, confront her husband, and recognize what true, long-lasting recovery looks like. If you find yourself reeling in the aftershock of discovering your husbands pornography addiction or affair, I would highly suggest you read this book before doing anything else.

TIM SANFORD, licensed professional counselor and author of several books, including Forgive for Real: Six Steps to Forgiving

Women who discover their husbands are involved in pornography experience a myriad of emotions from shock to anger to heartache to a deep sense of betrayal and loss. Joann Condie and Geremy Keeton have a wealth of counseling experience in this arena, and they have written Aftershock as a means of providing wives with concrete steps they can take and offering them renewed hope for the future. If you or someone you know is facing the pain of a spouses pornography addiction, we highly recommend this book.

DR. GREG AND ERIN SMALLEY, Focus on the Family Marriage and Family Formation; coauthors of Reconnected: Moving from Roommates to Soulmates in Your Marriage

If youve discovered that your husband has become involved in pornography, youre likely feeling heartbroken, confused, and desperate for help. Know that youre not alone Joann Condie has counseled many other women who have walked through similar crises, and she can help you navigate this painful season as well. Aftershock offers tangible, biblically based steps you can take to move toward healing and hope.

JIM DALY, president, Focus on the Family

I have the utmost respect and admiration for Joann and Geremy. Their expertise in counseling and personal care for a wife facing sexual betrayal is evident on every page. The content in this book is powerful for helping a wife discover hope and healing after sexual infidelity has been disclosed. For wives wanting personal and practical help in navigating the recovery process after betrayal, Aftershock is a must-have resource. You wont regret following the advice in this book!

JONATHAN DAUGHERTY, founder and president, Be Broken Ministries

Aftershock... is a great resource for women. The book offers a clear, wise, compassionate, and biblical approach for healing and restoration. I highly recommend this book for hurting wives and the counselors who are committed to assisting them on their recovery journey.

DR. JOHN THORINGTON, counselor and author of Pure Teens: Honoring God, Relationships, and Sex and Pure Teens: Free to Love

In Aftershock, Joann Condie and Geremy Keeton calm the chaos of sexually betrayed women with expert spiritual support and an immensely compassionate bedside manner. Their decades of counseling couples through marital crisis is evident on every page through practical, methodical, and deeply spiritual guidance for walking forward through pain and into lasting healing. This book is essential reading not only for wounded wives, but for any caregiver pastors, counselors, small group leaders, or friends who choose to walk with women through one of lifes most painful challenges.

DANIEL WEISS, president of the Brushfires Foundation

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