From Harm to Healing
Episodes
Episode 21 - Conversations with Dr. Minwalla - Attending (Part 2)
21 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chris recently sat down for another conversation with Dr. Omar Minwalla to explore the topic of attending work - how the person that maintained the se...
Episode 20 - Conversations with Dr. Minwalla - Attending (Part 1)
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chris recently sat down for another conversation with Dr. Omar Minwalla to explore the topic of attending work - how the person that maintained the se...
Episode 19 - Full Therapeutic Disclosure
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chris explores the purpose and process of full therapeutic disclosure, explaining how disclosure is not simply an exchange of facts, ...
Episode 18 - Power Imbalances and Restorative Justice
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chris explores how power and control shape both the harm caused by deceptive sexuality and the recovery process that follows. He also...
Episode 17 - Conversations with Dr. Minwalla - Healthy Masculinity (Part 2)
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chris recently sat down for another conversation with Dr. Omar Minwalla to delve deeper into the topic of healthy masculinity, and how it relates to "...
Episode 16 - Conversations with Dr. Minwalla - Healthy Maculinity (Part 1)
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chris recently sat down for another conversation with Dr. Omar Minwalla to delve deeper into the topic of healthy masculinity, and how it relates to "...
Episode 15 - Conversations with Trish Haight - Healing from Betrayal (Part 2)
28 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second half of the conversation Chris recently had with Trish Haight to discuss her work and to illuminate what the journey of healing can...
Episode 14 - Conversations with Trish Haight - Healing from Betrayal (Part 1)
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chris recently sat down with Trish Haight to discuss her work and to illuminate what the journey of healing can look like for the betrayed partner and...
Episode 13 - Stages of Recovery
14 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chris introduces 2 more DST frameworks — the three plates (the person who built the basement, the betrayed partner, and the injure...
Episode 12 - Conversations with Dr. Minwalla - The Three I's (Part 3)
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chris recently sat down with Dr. Omar Minwalla to have some in-depth conversations about different aspects of his DST model. Today's episode is the th...
Episode 11 - Conversations with Dr. Minwalla - The Three I's (Part 2)
31 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chris recently sat down with Dr. Omar Minwalla to have some in-depth conversations about different aspects of his DST model. Today's episode is the se...
Episode 10 - Conversations with Dr. Minwalla - The Three I's (Part 1)
24 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chris recently sat down with Dr. Omar Minwalla to have some in-depth conversations about different aspects of his DST model. Today's episode is an exc...
Episode 9 - The Triadic Core
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chris introduces the idea of “ The Triadic Core” — sexuality, gender, and the physical body — as the most sensitive parts o...
Episode 8 - Complex Trauma Shaping
10 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chris explores how subtle, repeated patterns of harm might gradually shape a betrayed partner’s emotional and psychological world. ...
Episode 7 - Safety Seeking and Victim Blaming
03 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chris explores how partners impacted by deceptive sexuality often engage in safety-seeking behaviours and how these behaviours are of...
Episode 6 - Trauma Responses
27 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chris explores how the discovery of a secret sexual reality within a relationship can lead to acute trauma. Using the clinical framew...
Episode 5 - Deceptive Sexuality Trauma
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chris starts to explore the "T" in DST – the trauma caused by deceptive sexuality. In particular, he considers the importance of un...
Episode 4 - The "A" Word
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chris explores why the DST model identifies deceptive sexuality as an abusive system, by unpacking how patterns of deception and mani...
Episode 3 - Integrity Abuse Disorder
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chris introduces the concept of "Integrity-Abuse Disorder" (IAD) — the second behavioural system identified in the DST model. Whils...
Episode 2 - Compulsive Entitled Sexuality
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chris explores the first part of the DST model’s two-part problem: the sexual or relational behaviours that take place inside the s...
Episode 1 - The Secret Sexual Basement
28 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode, therapist Chris Jones introduces the core concepts of the Deceptive Sexuality Trauma (DST) model, breaking down the idea of a "...