The Courage to Walk Away: Move on After Infidelity by Mourning What You Lost, Identifying Your Relationship Needs, and Empowering Yourself for t

Discover how to successfully navigate the aftermath of a breakup or divorce caused by cheating, broken trust, financial betrayal, and more through journaling prompts and helpful exercises designed to heal and empower you for the future.

The process of breaking up and its aftermath is always an emotional roller coaster, but it's made much more painful when caused by infidelity. But once the initial shock of betrayal has passed, it's time to deal with the inevitable fallout and changes in your life.

Written by expert psychotherapist and relationship specialist Lisa Brateman, LCSW, The Courage to Walk Away is designed to help you understand and heal from the infidelity and heartbreak that ended your relationship. With unique exercises, strategies, activities, and more, you'll learn what comes next after infidelity, including:

Identifying and reframing negative thoughts Understanding your relationship patterns Becoming more aware of the triggers that cause you emotional distress Learning to trust and hope again And more

This workbook is the perfect guide to help you move on through the grief, turn loss into opportunity, and focus on your own needs, wants, and desires, now and for a more fulfilling relationship you'll have in the future.


About the Author
Lisa Brateman, LCSW, is a psychotherapist, relationship specialist, public speaker, and media commentator with over two decades of experience. She offers individual, couples, and group therapy in New York City. Her areas of expertise include anxiety and depression; couples therapy, marital and premarital; and conflict resolution. She earned her bachelor's degree in communications from William Paterson University and her master's degree in social work from New York University.

Lisa is a contributing member of SheSource at the Women's Media Center, a progressive, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working to raise the visibility, viability, and decision-making power of women and girls in media. As an internationally recognized expert in her field, Lisa is a frequent commentator for TV, radio, newspapers, and magazines. Analyzing the psychological impact of current events, Lisa demystifies human behavior and relationships.

In addition to her private practice, Lisa was the psychotherapy consultant at the office of New York Sinus and Sleep Medicine, where she worked with clients to reduce anxiety and other psychological barriers to sleep. She has offered therapy groups on women's issues at the NYC Community Center. She has been an adjunct professor in social work and sociology at Saint Thomas Aquinas College in Sparkill, New York, teaching a course entitled "Social Work in Today's World."

Her first book, What Are You Really Fighting About? How to Turn Conflicts into Conversations, will be published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2024.

The mother of two sons, she lives with her partner in Manhattan.