Betrayal Trauma

A Poem.

Pain to Power: Stolen Childhood I am a woman in long term recovery, I am recovering from many things drugs/alcohol, depression/anxiety, trauma, guilt, and shame. I have had a hard life, suffered many injustices, but I learned to turn my pain into power. …

First of all, I wanted to say, I am sorry you are here and reading this if you have experienced betrayal and betrayal trauma. It is a terrible thing to endure and go through!! Just know that I am here for you! This post includes my affiliate link Betrayal trauma…

Injustice can stall us halfway through our stories of recovery. …

I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard this, or I heard through the grapevine through friends or family that this was said about me. “Yeah, what I did was wrong, but he wasn’t a saint either.” There’s a couple reasons why this response from a cheating…

Jack returned home earlier than expected from a business trip, eager to surprise his girlfriend, Emily. As he approached their house, he noticed a car in the driveway. A feeling of unease crept into his heart. He silently unlocked the front door and stepped inside, the sound of whispers echoing…

Affairs, as I’ve written about, are truly terrible to the betrayed person. A lot of people think when a person is in recovery from an affair, that the focus is on the romantic acts of the affair, and I’ll be honest, that is a big part, but the truly traumatic…

I thought I was just a little bit quirky. I thought I had life under control. I thought a lot of things and then one day, my world came crashing down. …