Healing Hearts: Coping with Betrayal - Betrayal is a profound emotional wound that can shake the foundation of one’s trust and sense of security. Whether it stems from infidelity, broken friendships, or family betrayals.

Healing as Partners: Supporting Betrayal Trauma Recovery - Betrayal trauma can shatter the very foundation of trust in a relationship, leaving partners grappling with profound emotional wounds.

Betrayal trauma can be deeply distressing, affecting individuals on emotional, psychological, and even physical levels. Individuals seeking healing from betrayal trauma can explore holistic approaches that encompass mind, body, and spirit. This article covers key strategies and resources available to support this healing journey.

Emotional healing is the profound process of transforming pain into strength, fostering resilience amidst life's trials.

Healing from Past Trauma-The journey of love is often painted as a picturesque landscape, filled with tender moments, shared dreams, and unwavering support. However, beneath..

The body doesn’t discriminate between a physical trauma and an emotional trauma. It will hold onto the pain regardless.

Infidelity within a relationship causes a ripple effect that impacts multiple facets of the betrayed partner's life and lived experiences. It impacts our mind, body, and spirit. This multi-layered betrayal results in a type of trauma that is referred to as betrayal trauma.

Dysregulation occurs in varying levels of intensity and for many different reasons. When you can track and map your nervous system, you become more able to intervene with your own body and emotions.

If trauma is left unhealed, unprocessed, and even ignored, the pain finds a way to manifest. In fact, our trauma wounding has the potential to become re-enacted through patterns of addiction, including sex addiction and process addiction. Fortunately, there is hope for healing.

It can be difficult to make sense of our bodies and their reactions. The way we feel does not always align with how we think we should feel, and we oftentimes we end up stuck in discomfort. This is not an uncommon experience. Thankfully, we can make sense of these reactions through Polyvagal Theory, and work our way back towards a restful state.

Do you feel “crazy” or “needy” for wanting to be closer to a friend with whom you already have a strong foundation? Or, do you feel frustrated due to another’s “unreasonably high” expectations on you and your time? Luckily, attachment theory can provide some insight into your relational needs.

Complex trauma comes in all shapes and sizes, from attachment trauma to compounding low intensity incidences. To heal, you have to find the treatment path that works best for you.

You have experienced betrayal, deception or gaslighting in a primary relationship. You are alone. You are confused. Are you going crazy? What in the world is happening?

You are not crazy. Betrayal trauma is happening.