Happily Even After with Life Coach Jen

177: The Seven Stages of Betrayal Healing Roadmap


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After betrayal shatters your world, finding your way forward can feel impossible without a map. Where are you on your healing journey? Where do you want to go? And most importantly, how do you get there?

Drawing from both personal experience and professional expertise as a trauma-informed certified life coach, I've created the Betrayal Healing Roadmap – a comprehensive guide through the seven stages of betrayal recovery. Like a GPS for your healing journey, this roadmap helps you identify your current location so you can chart your course toward freedom and peace.

The journey begins with Discovery – that shocking moment when your world implodes and your nervous system goes into overdrive. Your body remembers every detail of this trauma as you cycle through fight, flight, and freeze responses. This quickly leads to the Questioning stage, where your brain desperately tries to make sense of what happened through investigation and rumination. While natural, becoming a "professional detective" ultimately keeps you stuck rather than moving forward.

The third stage introduces the toxic cycle of Blame and Shame, where the unfaithful partner often deflects their shame onto you, and you might absorb it as your own. Recognizing this pattern is crucial for breaking free. Then comes the Grief stage – mourning not a death, but the relationship you thought you had and the future you'd planned. Many try to skip grief, but feeling these emotions, including anger, is essential for healing.

At the Crossroads stage, you face the ultimate question: stay or go? This decision requires clarity that only comes after some healing has occurred. Rushing this choice often leads to decisions made from trauma rather than wisdom. Whether you stay or leave, the Rebuilding stage follows – creating either a new relationship foundation based on honesty and accountability or building your independent life with renewed confidence.

The journey culminates in what I call "Happily Even After" – the Freedom stage where you've reclaimed your joy and peace. Your life is no longer defined by betrayal but by what you've created afterward. You'll still experience occasional sadness or triggers, but you now have the tools to process them without getting derailed.

Ready to find your place on this map and begin moving forward? Take my free quiz at lifecoachjen.com to discover which stage you're in, then let's work together to create your happily even after.

Please follow me on instagram and facebook @happilyevenaftercoach and if you want to see what coaching is all about I offer a free 45 min. clarity call via zoom.

Email me: [email protected] for any comments or questions.

Thanks for listening, please like and review as well as share with your family and friends.

My website is www.lifecoachjen.com



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