Today, I want to introduce you to what I call the Six Devastating Outcomes of Betrayal. Let’s start with defining what an outcome is. An outcome is ... Read More »
The Fear Bind: Why Healing After Sexual Betrayal Requires Risking More Loss
When sexual betrayal is discovered, it creates a cascade of losses that is hard to quantify. We lose our relational safety, sexual safety, and ... Read More »
The Betrayal Bind: Why Infidelity Leaves You Feeling Stuck, Conflicted, and Unable to Move on
If you have experienced betrayal, you know the feeling of being stuck. You feel trapped between the desperate need to leave and the desperate need to ... Read More »
The Nature of Betrayal, Part 2
In the last blog post, we started looking at the five stages that all betraying individuals move through. Betrayal unfolds in the following ... Read More »
The Nature of Betrayal, Part 1
We use the word betrayal to describe the experience at the heart of broken trust. But betrayal is not just an event, it’s a process, and it unfolds in ... Read More »
5 Building Blocks to Understanding Betrayal Trauma, Part 3
In this series of posts, we are exploring the way in which betrayal creates traumatic responses that impact our body, brains and minds. We are ... Read More »
5 Building Blocks to Understanding Betrayal Trauma, Part 2
In this series of posts, we are exploring the way in which betrayal creates traumatic responses that impact our body, brains and minds. We are ... Read More »
5 Building Blocks to Understanding Betrayal Trauma, Part 1
When we experience danger, stress or trauma our threat response system fires up and moves us to toward fight, flight or freeze. However, because ... Read More »
Betrayal: The Bigger Story
Everybody is called at some point (and most of us are called several times throughout life) to go through something so challenging we think it will ... Read More »
