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Welcome to the Bethesda Workshops Online Store, your hub for additional healing resources designed to support recovery at every stage. Here you’ll find transformative tools like the Making Advances video series for women, faith-grounded webinars such as Healing After Betrayal for partners, plus recommended books and materials to guide you toward sexual wholeness. Each resource is crafted by our licensed, Christian-based clinicians to complement our in-person intensives and provide continued hope and growth beyond the workshop.
Take a look around and find the support you need on your healing journey.
Making Advances
A groundbreaking first-of-its-kind resource that offers clinicians a research-informed, biopsychosocial framework for understanding and treating women struggling with sex and love addiction, honoring their unique experiences and healing journeys .
Out of the Dog House
Offers a faith-based roadmap—melding Robert Weiss’s proven, step‑by‑step strategies for rebuilding trust after infidelity with Marnie Ferree’s Christian insights and scripture—to guide men toward genuine repentance, restored intimacy, and relationships stronger than before .
No Stones
Marnie C. Ferree courageously shares her own journey of shame and recovery while blending clinical insight, scriptural grace, and practical guidance to help women (and those who support them) break free from sexual addiction and heal relational wounds .
The Soul of Shame
Curt Thompson, M.D., compassionately blends neuroscience, biblical insight, and real-life vignettes to reveal how shame shapes our identities, and offers a pathway into healing through vulnerability, community, and reauthoring the stories we tell ourselves .and healing journeys .
Unwanted
Jay Stringer compassionately reframes unwanted sexual behaviors—not as moral failures, but as meaningful signals shaped by trauma, shame, and unmet emotional needs—offering a research-based (3,800+ participants) and Christ‑centered roadmap to lasting healing through self-awareness, community, and grace .
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. reveals how trauma reshapes the brain and body’s stress response—even long after the event—while offering an expansive, evidence-rich blend of neuroscience, case studies, and somatic therapies (like yoga, EMDR, and neurofeedback) to guide survivors toward healing .
Intimate Deception
Dr. Sheri Keffer offers a compassionate, research-backed guide for women navigating the trauma of betrayal, blending neuroscience, personal stories, and clinical expertise to help readers reclaim their voices, rebuild trust, and find lasting healing.
Altogether You
Jenna Riemersma bridges IFS and Christian faith, guiding readers through embracing their inner “parts” (like protectors and exiles) with grace, accessing the God‑created Self at their core, and finding true spiritual and emotional integration—praised by IFS founder Richard Schwartz as “groundbreaking and courageous” .
Get Past Your Past
Jason VanRuler invites readers—through his own story of overcoming trauma, addiction, and brokenness—to courageously acknowledge past wounds and step toward emotional and spiritual healing, offering practical insights, biblical wisdom, and therapist-backed tools that guide us into deeper relationships with ourselves, others, and God .
Atomic Habits
James Clear offers a research-backed, step-by-step framework—centered on tiny, 1% daily improvements and a four-step behavior-change model (cue, craving, response, reward)—that helps readers shift identity, redesign their systems, and achieve remarkable, lasting transformation.
Dopamine Nation
Dr. Anna Lembke unpacks how our culture of overabundance and digital distractions rewires the brain’s reward system—then offers science-backed solutions like dopamine fasting, self-binding strategies, and “pain-pressing” practices—on the path to true, lasting pleasure and resilience.
Reclaiming Sexual Wholeness
Todd Bowman equips therapists, clergy, and faith-based care providers with a comprehensive, research-informed framework—rooted in a biopsychosocial and faith-integrated perspective—for addressing problematic sexual behaviors and trauma in a sensitive, holistic way across various population groups .
Online Courses
Bethesda Workshops offers two impactful online courses to meet learners where they are: Breaking the Bonds of Sexual Addiction equips pastors, group leaders, and lay facilitators with practical tools for guiding others through recovery, while The Body’s Role in Trauma provides therapists with faith-informed, somatic techniques to support trauma healing. Both courses are available on-demand, accessible, insightful, and ready when you are.
Breaking The Bonds Of Sexual Addiction Video Series
Marnie C. Ferree, M.A., is an LMFT and Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT), leading Bethesda Workshops—a Christian-based intensive program for sex addicts, partners, and teens. She pioneered the first treatment for female sex addicts in 1997 and later, the first workshop for teen girls. Marnie authored No Stones, edited Making Advances, and co-authored Out of the Doghouse for Christian Men.
The Body’s Role in Trauma: Techniques for Therapist
Learn the necessity of the body in trauma work, practical techniques to reduce client overwhelm and therapist burnout, and somatic practices to regulate the nervous system. This course will be led by Dr. Christine Baker, a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP). She will include a Christian faith-based perspective on this growing field of work.