After Betrayal, Everything Feels Unsafe

You found out, and the ground gave way. Now you can't stop the images, can't sleep, can't concentrate, and can't understand how someone you trusted could do this. One moment you want answers, the next you want to run. People around you say you should be over it by now, and that makes you feel even more alone. 

Or maybe you're the one who caused the wound. You see the pain in your partner's eyes, you want to make it right, and everything you try seems to make it worse. You don't know how to rebuild what you broke. 

Wherever you're standing, the connection is fractured and neither of you can repair it alone. That's not a failure. That's what betrayal does, and it's exactly what the right help is for. 

Betrayal Is Trauma, and It's Treated That Way Here 
If you're the betrayed partner, what you're feeling is not you overreacting. The racing thoughts, the hypervigilance, the need to check, the waves of grief and rage, these are trauma responses, the same ones we see after any shattering event. Too many partners get rushed to forgive before they've been allowed to heal. Here, your trauma comes first. We help your nervous system settle and your sense of safety return before any talk of rebuilding, because healing that skips the wound never holds.

The Approaches I Use 

I use trauma-informed approaches chosen for what betrayal actually does to the mind and body: 

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