The Courage to Walk Away: Move On after Infidelity by Mourning What You Lost, Identifying Your Relationship Needs, and Empowering Yourself for the Future

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.

Lisa Brateman, LCSW, is a psychotherapist, relationship specialist, and media commentator. In her midtown Manhattan private practice, she offers individual and couples therapy.

As an internationally recognized expert in her field, Lisa is a frequent commentator for TV, radio, newspapers, and magazines and has appeared on CBS Evening News, WPIX-TV Evening News, NBC Evening News, Arise America-TV News, CCTV, Asia America Television, CTV. She has contributed to articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, GQ, U.S. News & World Report, MSNBC, WSJ Market Watch, Vogue, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Harper’s Bazaar, CBS News MoneyWatch, Rolling Stone Magazine, The Independent, Today, the Daily Mail, New York Magazine, Cosmopolitan Magazine, PBS, Teen Vogue, Bravo TV, New York Daily News, Brides Magazine and the New York Post. Analyzing the psychological impact of current events, Lisa demystifies human behavior and relationships.

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. 

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