The Empowered Divorce Podcast; Navigating Divorce After Betrayal Trauma and Abuse

131. Was Any Of It Real? Understanding The Confusion After A Life Saving Divorce


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In this episode, I tackle one of the most painful and confusing questions that often follows a life-saving divorce: Was any of it real?Was there any good? Was it all bad?

I dive into the cognitive dissonance that makes it hard to reconcile the good moments with the harmful ones, why your brain held on to the good, and how trauma clarity can bring painful but necessary revelations.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
📍 Reality Fragmentation: Why your brain struggles to reconcile the good with the painful truth
📍 Trauma Clarity: How gaining new language and understanding shifts your perspective
📍 Attachment and Survival: Why you clung to the good moments, and how they might not have been as safe as they seemed
📍 The Mask Is Off: Why they might seem different now, and what that actually means
📍 The Power of Acceptance: How shifting from questioning them to focusing on yourself is the key to healing
📍 Grief as a Path to Freedom: Mourning the illusion of who they were and reclaiming your own truth

Takeaways & Next Steps:
✔️ You are not crazy or alone in this experience. Your confusion is valid.
✔️ Seeing them clearly now doesn’t erase the good, but it does change its meaning.
✔️ You do not need to untangle their reality—your healing comes from reclaiming your own.
✔️ Grief is the bridge to clarity and freedom—don’t rush it, but don’t fear it either.
✔️ The good in your past relationship was created by YOU—and you can create even more goodness moving forward.

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