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The Sexual Healing Journey

“The Sexual Healing Journey is a much-needed resource for individuals and couples struggling to create healthy, joyous, safe, and loving sexual lives in the aftermath of abuse. Hopeful, clear, practical, and thorough, it makes the process of reclaiming the pleasure of healthy sexuality seem possible and accessible.”

—ELLEN BASS coauthor of The Courage to Healand coeditor of I Never Told Anyone

“Wendy Maltz is one of our most gifted healers, and she has written a beautiful book. Practical, useful, and long-needed, it will be a gift to many.”

—PATRICK J. CARNES, PH.D., author of Don’t Call It Loveand Out of the Shadows

“This book still stands as the most important resource available to survivors concerning sexual functioning and sexual healing. The Sexual Healing Journey offers essential hope and compassion in addition to understandable explanations and exercises that improve self-awareness, communication, touching, sexual contact, and sexual intimacy. I highly recommend it to all practitioners and I routinely suggest it to clients and their significant others as an indispensable resource.”

—CHRISTINE A. COURTOIS, PH.D., author of Healing the Incest Wound and Recollections of Sexual Abuse

“This is an excellent resource! Wendy Maltz deals directly with the negative effects of sexual abuse while managing to stay a strong advocate for healthy sex.”

—MITCHELL TEPPER, PH.D., M.P.H., founder of the Sexual Health Network and SexualHealth.com

“With the compassion and caring that bespeaks her own healing journey, Wendy Maltz has given us a treasure: her clinical anecdotes are poignant; her instructions are thoughtful and clear. The Sexual Healing Journey will always have a space on my bookshelf; it is a must-read for survivors, therapists, and those who care.”

—CLYDE W. FORD, PH.D., author of Where Healing Waters Meet and Compassionate Touch

“A must-read for any survivor who wants to experience the pleasures of a safe and loving sexual relationship. Thank you, Wendy, for providing this gentle, empowering guide!”

—MARILYN VAN DERBUR, former Miss America, incest survivor, named “Outstanding Woman Speaker in America”

“This book is a powerful and effective means of restoring and enhancing sexuality in the aftermath of sexual abuse. Wendy Maltz’s practical, plain-spoken approach and specific exercises are a helpful adjunct to therapy, as well as a valuable guide for people who want to address these issues on their own.”

—AL COOPER, PH.D., author of Sex and the Internet and former director of the San Jose Marital and Sexuality Centre

“This highly useful book provides much-needed comfort, reassurance, and practical information for survivors of abuse who wish to reclaim healthy sexuality and for the people who care about them. . . . An invaluable resource.”

—YVONNE DOLAN, M.A., author of Resolving Sexual Abuse and One Small Step

“The Sexual Healing Journey allows the sexual abuse survivor to let go of shame and pain from the past and embrace a healthy sexual self. It is a book of heart, hope, and answers, and I highly recommend it.”

—CLAUDIA BLACK, PH.D., author of It Will Never Happen to Me and Changing Course

“Men and women who have despaired that their sex lives would never change will find hope and answers in this friendly, encouraging, and essential guide.”

—LAURA DAVIS, coauthor of The Courage to Heal and author of Allies in Healing

“The new updated edition of The Sexual Healing Journey continues with its hopeful and practical message that survivors of childhood sexual abuse can move beyond the burden of the past and into the healing journey of the present. It is a must-read for survivors and professionals alike.”

—KENNETH M. ADAMS, PH.D., author of Silently Seduced and When He’s Married to Mom

“Wendy Maltz has always been wise, but this major revision of The Sexual Healing Journey reflects decades more of clinical experience and is even wiser. With gentleness and clarity, Wendy provides a time-tested program for changing attitudes about sex, disarming triggers, and reclaiming sex within a context of healthy loving.”

—MARK F. SCHWARTZ, SC.D., clinical director of the Castlewood Treatment Center and former director of the Masters and Johnson Institute

“This encouraging self-help book opens the way for you to initiate your own sexual healing journey. You will find information and nourishing exercises to help you stop unproductive interactions and start experiencing the pleasure of a mutually fulfilling, intimate sexual relationship.”

—LAURA M. BROTHERSON, certified family life educator, author of And They Were Not Ashamed, and host of “The Marital Intimacy Show”

“This superb text provides clear and helpful tools for survivors and therapists addressing sexual problems caused by sexual abuse. The stories offer hope and illuminate the path to healthy, loving sexual functioning.”

—SUSAN LEE, ED.D., director of the Florida Postgraduate Sex Therapy Training Institute and the Sex Therapy Postgraduate Training Institute of New York

“Highly recommended! The Sexual Healing Journey is a must-read for all survivors of sexual abuse who feel sexually damaged. It offers hope as well as concrete tools that help survivors develop healthy sexuality. No other book comes close to this one in scope, compassion, and concrete advice.”

—LAURIE BETITO, PH.D., psychologist, sex therapist, and host of Canada’s “Passion” radio show

“A timeless healing treasure! With this new edition, The Sexual Healing Journey continues as an excellent guide for survivors seeking to embrace and enjoy sexual intimacy with their chosen life partner.”

—HANK ESTRADA, male survivor advocate and author of UnHoly Communion

“Wendy Maltz takes her readers carefully, step-by-step, through a program of self-healing. Survivors of sexual abuse, their partners, and their therapists will benefit enormously from this reassuring guide.”

—LONNIE BARBACH, PH.D., author of For Yourself and For Each Other