Awaken Your Sexuality

Awaken Your Sexuality: A Guide to Connection and Intimacy After Addiction and Trauma

2nd Edition

[Covington, S. and Carlisle, V. (2025). Center City, MN: Hazelden Publishing]

Originally published by HarperCollins in 1992 and republished in 2000 by Hazelden Books, Awakening Your Sexuality: A Guide for Recovering Women by Dr. Stephanie Covington has become a classic in the field of recovery literature. Thirty years after Awakening Your Sexuality was published, sexuality remains one of the most neglected issues for women in recovery from addiction and trauma.  An updated and expanded version of this crucial text, now titled Awaken Your Sexuality: A Guide to Connection and Intimacy After Addiction and Trauma, is needed to fill the gap in women’s recovery literature.  There is both a book and workbook available.

Recovering women, nonbinary people, and gender-diverse people seeking to reconnect with their sexual selves deserve up-to-date information about sexual health and pleasure, examples drawn from the issues of today, and inclusive language reflecting gender and sexual diversity. Vanessa Carlisle, PhD, joins Covington as co-author to amplify the wisdom of the original text and introduce fresh insight. Drs. Covington and Carlisle weave new research with accessible narratives from composite case studies in a down-to-earth, practical guide that is bolstered by both of their lived experiences in recovery.

• Book - $19.95 each
• Workbook - $19.95 each

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PREORDERS WILL BE AVAILABLE AUGUST 2025 FOR SHIPPING IN OCTOBER 2025.