Released on: March 27, 2008, 3:45 pm

Press Release Author: Marsha Means, M.A.

Industry: Government

Press Release Summary: In the aftermath of the revelation of former Governor
Spitzer's ties to a New York prostitution service, the Emperor's Club VIP, both the
media and the general public continue to speculate about Silda Wall Spitzer's
thoughts and personal life. The same news that shattered Mrs. Spitzer's world has
turned into a million-dollar-plus-trick for Ashley Alexandra Dupre. You can even buy
an Emperor's Club VIP "Client 9" T-shirt online to show that you're one of her new
fans.

Press Release Body: In the aftermath of the revelation of former Governor Spitzer's
ties to a New York prostitution service, the Emperor's Club VIP, both the media and
the general public continue to speculate about Silda Wall Spitzer's thoughts and
personal life. The same news that shattered Mrs. Spitzer's world has turned into a
million-dollar-plus-trick for Ashley Alexandra Dupre. You can even buy an Emperor's
Club VIP "Client 9" T-shirt online to show that you're one of her new fans.

But experience tells us that soon the story will cool and the media and public alike
will all but forget about Governor Spitzer, Silda Wall Spitzer, and Ashley Alexandra
Dupre. But will Mrs. Spitzer forget it all so easily?

Psychologist Yael Margolin-Rice is quoted as saying, "I'm sure in all the external
ways she'll be fine. In the internal ways nobody knows."

But mental health professionals specializing in sexual betrayal trauma have a
different opinion.

"Out of the thousands of women who've contacted me after discovering their husband's
sexual betrayal and sexual addiction not one has escaped without experiencing
trauma, and many suffer from post traumatic stress (PTS), often for years following
the experience. Sexual betrayal rocks a woman to her core and without help from a
professional who understands the impact on her life a woman can suffer from
long-term depression, anxiety, panic attacks, flashbacks, and a host of other mental
health issues. And many develop health-related issues," says counselor and author
Marsha Means, MA, who experienced sexual betrayal in her previous marriage.

Dr. Barb Steffens, a mental health counselor whose clinical research validates the
sexual betrayal/trauma experience says, " All too often, after the offender has come
clean and feels relief from keeping the secret, the spouse is left picking up the
pieces of a shattered life and devastated dreams. These are terrible wounds in the
best of circumstances. Add to it the often-public shame and embarrassment that
discovered sexual scandal brings, and these wives have a compounded experience of
shell shock, emotional devastation, and trauma. It is a traumatic death of the life
and marriage she thought she had. This kind of traumatic betrayal can take a great
deal of time and care to heal."

Steffens and Means have paired their years of training and experience to write the
forthcoming book, Through a Trauma Lens: Viewing Sexual Betrayal as Trauma. "We know
from experience that Mrs. Spitzer needs a time out; she needs support; and she needs
a process that will move her through the grief and loss this brought into her life
by her husband's sexual secret," Means says. We hope she doesn't attempt to escape
the aftermath of her husband's indiscretions through work as one career counselor
said she could. Though that approach is tempting, it does not lead to the long-term
healing one desperately needs following the trauma of sexual betrayal."

For more information about coping with a husband's sexual betrayal, visit
www.awomanshealingjourney.com.

Web Site: http://www.awomanshealingjourney.com

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