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*WASHINGTONIAN MAGAZINE*

I am delighted to be featured in the article "Making Love Last" in the February 2010 Washingtonian magazine (p. 23). Some comments I made: "A lot of people think that being angry at their spouse and yelling at them is expressing how they feel. I help them learn how to pay attention to what they're feeling and how to voice their feelings-- not to voice their anger but the emotion under the anger in a constructive way."....."People think if there's an affair there's got to be a divorce. A lot of people have a better marriage after an affair." To those who are thinking of getting married, I suggest "Slow down. Get to know each other. And talk about the difficult stuff that you don't want to talk about. Talk about it gently, carefully, but get it out there."

*UPCOMING WORKSHOPS AND PRESENTATIONS*


I will be presenting a workshop, Patterns of Infidelity and Their Treatment in Marriage Counseling, on Sunday, February 21, 2010 sponsored by the Association of Practicing Psychologists, Montgomery-P.G. Counties. It will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Georgia Ave. in Silver Spring, from 9:00 am to 12:15 pm. For registration information, please contact Carolyn Huard at chuard@comcast.net or 301-881-5044.

On Friday, April 23, 2010, I will be presenting a full day workshop for the Virginia Society of Clinical Social Workers on "An Affair -- What Now? It will be held at VCU in Richmond. For more information, contact Linda Gupta at lagupta@vcu.edu

I will present on the topic of the "Lopsided High Conflict Divorce" at the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts Conference in Denver, CO, on June 3, 2010.

I've been invited to come back to Singapore to do several days of training for mental health professionals and to give a talk on infidelity to the public. This will be October 13 - 16, 2010.

Emily also did an interview on infidelity in August 2008 for TV Globo in Brazil. The program aired on Monday in Brazil and now it's on the internet -- in Portuguese.

A little bit about TV Globo from the producer, Laura Machado: TV Globo is the largest broadcaster in South America. Our network newscasts have around 30 million viewers in Brazil , where Globo is a free TV. TV Globo also has an international channel broadcast to 46 countries, including the US. We have international news bureaus in NY, San Francisco, Jerusalem, London, Paris, Rome, Beijing and Buenos Aires. The network website is: http://www.redeglobo.com.br The story will be broadcast in Espaço Aberto: Ciência e Tecnologia (Open Space - Science and Technology), a weekly show from GloboNews, the 24-hour News channel of TV Globo.

When the Edwards affair broke in August 2008, I did an on-line discussion for Washingtonpost.com regarding politics and infidelity. I was also asked to comment by the Associated Press and others about Tiger Woods' situation.
Bottom line: Continual success seems to breed a sense of invincibility.

At the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts conference in June 2008 in Vancouver, BC, Emily presented "The Con Game: How to Avoid Being Had." This was also about recognizing personality disorders, the changes that need to be made in our legal and mental health systems to hold the personality disordered parent accountable, and formulating parenting arrangements that will work in this situation. Isolina Ricci, author of Mom's House, Dad's house and Mom's House, Dad's House for Kids, and Lynelle Yingling, a parenting coordinator, joined Emily in this presentation.

My article, “The Affair as a Catalyst for Change,” was published in Infidelity: A Practitioner’s Guide to Working with Couples in Crisis, in 2007.

GoodLife TV Network Airs Program on Rebuilding Marriage After An Affair

GoodLife TV’s series American Family aired an episode on “Rebuilding Marriage After An Affair” in February 2005. The one-hour show highlights the moving journeys of two couples who have endured the heart-break of infidelity: Anne and Brian Bercht of British Columbia recount their intense struggle to stay together which Anne chronicles in her new book, “My Husband’s Affair Became the Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me”; and Ben and Ann Wilson, counselors at their church in Colorado share their painful recovery after unfaithfulness brought them to the brink of divorce. Also featured is an interview with Peggy Vaughan, author of “The Monogamy Myth”, who addresses the staggering statistics of on-line adultery.

A discussion with renowned therapist Emily M. Brown and Retrouvaille Peer Counselor Denise Felde follows on solutions to save marriages. This is a powerful program. Check out the website www.americanfamily.tv for more information.

Check your local cable and dish providers for GoodLife Television.

The show will be rebroadcast several times throughout 2005. Check your local cable and dish providers for GoodLife Television.

The series "American Family," is produced for GoodLife Television. The host is Dr. Bettina Gregory, former ABC News correspondent and practicing psychologist. The program's theme highlights contemporary family issues, and shows how families work them through. GoodLife is a national cable company out of Washington, DC, in major markets across the country, appears in upwards of 12 million homes with a growing viewership.

Emily’s typology of affairs was described in an article on infidelity in the Wall Street Journal on November 14, 2008.

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