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If you've caught yourself saying "I don't even know what I need anymore," you are not alone — and you are not broken. For women navigating betrayal trauma and infidelity recovery, this kind of disconnection from your own needs is one of the most common, and least talked about, experiences. In this episode, Hali offers 5 simple, grounding questions to help you find your next honest step — without needing to have it all figured out. This episode is for you if you're a partner navigating a spouse's sex addiction or infidelity recovery, if you've been pouring your energy into his healing while your own gets put on the back burner, or if you simply feel stuck and unsure where to start. 👉Free download 5 Questions to Find Your Next Step Enjoyed This Episode? If this conversation resonated with you, here are three ways you can support the show: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a Review 💬 Join the Community 📲 Share This Episode Connect With Me + Continue Your Healing If today’s episode resonated with you, you don’t have to walk the healing journey after betrayal alone. Here are a few ways to stay connected and continue your healing: If you're ready to stop carrying this alone, I'd love for you to join me. Learn more about Reclaiming You and get started here: REGISTER for RECLAIMING YOU. Whatever you're deciding about your relationship, this is a space for your healing — come as you are. Join me at a Retreat or Intensive If you’re craving deeper, in-person support and embodied healing, I’m helping facilitate upcoming experiences created specifically for betrayed partners. The⁠ Revive and Thrive Somatic Intensive takes place October 6-9, 2026 in Spanish Fork, Utah and offers a structured, trauma-informed space to understand betrayal trauma, regulate your nervous system, and rebuild self-trust. Rise, Renew, Restore Retreat in Bali, Indonesia is an intimate, trauma-informed women’s healing retreat designed for women who have already done significant inner work and are ready to move beyond surviving into deeper joy, embodiment, and wholeness. Join us April 18–25, 2027, in Bali for a powerful fusion of somatic healing, breathwork, sound, energy work, Human Design, meaningful cultural experiences, adventure, rest, and connection—all guided by trauma-trained facilitators.  If you're trying to hold your family together while your own world is falling apart, this course is for you. It won't hand you a script for a pain this big - but it will give you language, tools, and a steadier way to show up for the people who need you most: your kids. Intentional Parenting After Betrayal Self Guided Course⁠⁠⁠⁠, created by Hali and her daughter, Morgan Ellsworth.  Free Resources & Downloads Access free tools, guided practices, and educational resources designed to support nervous system regulation, self-trust, boundaries, and clarity after betrayal. 👉6 Ways Betrayal Hides In Your Body 👉⁠⁠A Mini Guide to Mindful Healing After Betrayal⁠⁠ 👉⁠⁠Your First Steps to Rising After Betrayal⁠⁠ Listen to My Other Podcast If you are still in your relationship—or in the process of discerning whether you want to stay—I invite you to also follow my podcast, Choosing to Stay After Infidelity and Betrayal, where I speak to both partners about healing, accountability, and rebuilding trust. 👉⁠ ⁠Choosing to Stay After Infidelity and Betrayal⁠⁠ Join My Newsletter Stay connected through my newsletter, where I share reflections, trauma-informed insights, and updates on upcoming courses, workshops, retreats, and live experiences. 👉⁠ ⁠Rooted and Rising Weekly⁠⁠ Connect With Me Between Episodes Join me on social media for continued conversation, encouragement, and resources between podcast episodes. 👉 Instagram:⁠ ⁠@rootedandrising.healing⁠⁠ 👉 Facebook:⁠ ⁠Rooted and Rising Healing with Hali Roderick⁠⁠ 👉 Website:⁠⁠ ⁠rootedandrisinghealing.mykajabi.com⁠

Betrayal doesn't just break trust in one person. For a lot of women, it quietly rewrites how they see everyone — turning "this person hurt me" into "people aren't safe," or "this man betrayed me" into "men can't be trusted." In this episode, Hali talks directly to the parts of you that have gotten more guarded since betrayal. This episode covers that healing was never dependent on the relationship's outcome, that people (including the person who hurt you) can genuinely change through consistency and accountability — but that trust is earned back over time, not handed over because someone says they're changing. While you're doing the harder work of healing, start noticing the good that's still around you — the people who keep their word, apologize and actually change, show up consistently. Not to prove anything to yourself, just to notice it. Because betrayal doesn't get to decide who you become. You do. Enjoyed This Episode? If this conversation resonated with you, here are three ways you can support the show: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a Review 💬 Join the Community 📲 Share This Episode Connect With Me + Continue Your Healing If today’s episode resonated with you, you don’t have to walk the healing journey after betrayal alone. Here are a few ways to stay connected and continue your healing: If you're ready to stop carrying this alone, I'd love for you to join me. Learn more about Reclaiming You and get started here: REGISTER for RECLAIMING YOU. Whatever you're deciding about your relationship, this is a space for your healing — come as you are. Join me at a Retreat or Intensive If you’re craving deeper, in-person support and embodied healing, I’m helping facilitate upcoming experiences created specifically for betrayed partners. The⁠ Revive and Thrive Somatic Intensive takes place October 6-9, 2026 in Spanish Fork, Utah. Rise, Renew, Restore Retreat in Bali, Indonesia is an intimate, trauma-informed women’s healing retreat designed for women who have already done significant inner work. Join us April 18–25, 2027, in Bali.  If you're trying to hold your family together while your own world is falling apart, this course is for you. Intentional Parenting After Betrayal Self Guided Course⁠⁠⁠⁠, created by Hali and her daughter, Morgan Ellsworth.  Free Resources & Downloads Access free tools, guided practices, and educational resources designed to support nervous system regulation, self-trust, boundaries, and clarity after betrayal. 👉6 Ways Betrayal Hides In Your Body 👉⁠⁠A Mini Guide to Mindful Healing After Betrayal⁠⁠ 👉⁠⁠Your First Steps to Rising After Betrayal⁠⁠ Upcoming Group Coaching: Reclaiming You After Betrayal If you’re ready for deeper guidance in a structured, supportive format, I am offering a group coaching container focused on healing after betrayal, rebuilding self-trust, and grounding into your values and identity—without rushing decisions about staying or leaving. This group is ideal for those who want support that is more than just once a week. 👉⁠ Schedule a Complimentary Call to See if this is Right for You Listen to My Other Podcast If you are still in your relationship—or in the process of discerning whether you want to stay—I invite you to also follow my podcast, Choosing to Stay After Infidelity and Betrayal, where I speak to both partners about healing, accountability, and rebuilding trust. 👉⁠ ⁠Choosing to Stay After Infidelity and Betrayal⁠⁠ Join My Newsletter Stay connected through my newsletter, where I share reflections, trauma-informed insights, and updates on upcoming courses, workshops, retreats, and live experiences. 👉⁠ ⁠Rooted and Rising Weekly⁠⁠ Connect With Me Between Episodes Join me on social media for continued conversation, encouragement, and resources between podcast episodes. 👉 Instagram:⁠ ⁠@rootedandrising.healing⁠⁠ 👉 Facebook:⁠ ⁠Rooted and Rising Healing with Hali Roderick⁠⁠ 👉 Website:⁠⁠ ⁠rootedandrisinghealing.mykajabi.com⁠

When your partner starts doing things differently — even for a short stretch — it's natural to feel relief, and easy to let your guard down. But a few good weeks isn't the same thing as rebuilt trust, and relaxing your boundaries too early can open the door for old patterns to quietly return. In this episode, we talk about why trusting too soon happens, what it actually costs, and how to validate how hard it is to sit in the discomfort of waiting for trust to be earned over time — not just implied by a good moment. Enjoyed This Episode? If this conversation resonated with you, here are three ways you can support the show: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a Review 💬 Join the Community 📲 Share This Episode Connect With Me + Continue Your Healing If today’s episode resonated with you, you don’t have to walk the healing journey after betrayal alone. Here are a few ways to stay connected and continue your healing: If you're ready to stop carrying this alone, I'd love for you to join me. Learn more about Reclaiming You and get started here: REGISTER for RECLAIMING YOU. Whatever you're deciding about your relationship, this is a space for your healing — come as you are. Join me at a Retreat or Intensive If you’re craving deeper, in-person support and embodied healing, I’m helping facilitate upcoming experiences created specifically for betrayed partners. The⁠ Revive and Thrive Somatic Intensive takes place October 6-9, 2026 in Spanish Fork, Utah and offers a structured, trauma-informed space to understand betrayal trauma, regulate your nervous system, and rebuild self-trust. Rise, Renew, Restore Retreat in Bali, Indonesia is an intimate, trauma-informed women’s healing retreat designed for women who have already done significant inner work and are ready to move beyond surviving into deeper joy, embodiment, and wholeness. Join us April 18–25, 2027, in Bali for a powerful fusion of methods—all guided by trauma-trained facilitators.  If you're trying to hold your family together while your own world is falling apart, this course is for you. It won't hand you a script for a pain this big - but it will give you language, tools, and a steadier way to show up for the people who need you most: your kids. Intentional Parenting After Betrayal Self Guided Course⁠⁠⁠⁠, created by Hali and her daughter, Morgan Ellsworth.  Free Resources & Downloads Access free tools, guided practices, and educational resources designed to support nervous system regulation, self-trust, boundaries, and clarity after betrayal. 👉6 Ways Betrayal Hides In Your Body 👉⁠⁠A Mini Guide to Mindful Healing After Betrayal⁠⁠ 👉⁠⁠Your First Steps to Rising After Betrayal⁠⁠ Upcoming Group Coaching: Reclaiming You After Betrayal If you’re ready for deeper guidance in a structured, supportive format, I am offering a group coaching container focused on healing after betrayal, rebuilding self-trust, and grounding into your values and identity—without rushing decisions about staying or leaving. This group is ideal for those who want support that is more than just once a week. 👉⁠ ⁠Join the Reclaiming You Waitlist to be the first to Register!⁠⁠ Listen to My Other Podcast If you are still in your relationship—or in the process of discerning whether you want to stay—I invite you to also follow my podcast, Choosing to Stay After Infidelity and Betrayal, where I speak to both partners about healing, accountability, and rebuilding trust. 👉⁠ ⁠Choosing to Stay After Infidelity and Betrayal⁠⁠ Join My Newsletter Stay connected through my newsletter, where I share reflections, trauma-informed insights, and updates on upcoming courses, workshops, retreats, and live experiences. 👉⁠ ⁠Rooted and Rising Weekly⁠⁠ Connect With Me Between Episodes Join me on social media for continued conversation, encouragement, and resources between podcast episodes. 👉 Instagram:⁠ ⁠@rootedandrising.healing⁠⁠ 👉 Facebook:⁠ ⁠Rooted and Rising Healing with Hali Roderick⁠⁠ 👉 Website:⁠⁠ ⁠rootedandrisinghealing.mykajabi.com⁠

If you're a woman and you’re doing the work — therapy, coaching, reading everything you can get your hands on — and you're still white-knuckling it alone most days of the week, this episode is for you. I talk about why healing from betrayal trauma was never going to happen in one hour a week, including from my own experience, and about a pattern I see constantly: how much of our time, money, and energy goes toward his healing while ours quietly gets put on the back burner. Then I introduce Reclaiming You, the group program built to put your healing first — with community and high-touch support to get you through the hardest days. Click here to learn more. Enjoyed This Episode? If this conversation resonated with you, here are three ways you can support the show: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a Review 💬 Join the Community 📲 Share This Episode Connect With Me + Continue Your Healing If today’s episode resonated with you, you don’t have to walk the healing journey after betrayal alone. Here are a few ways to stay connected and continue your healing: If you're ready to stop carrying this alone, I'd love for you to join me. Learn more about Reclaiming You and get started here: REGISTER for RECLAIMING YOU. Whatever you're deciding about your relationship, this is a space for your healing — come as you are. Join me at a Retreat or Intensive If you’re craving deeper, in-person support and embodied healing, I’m helping facilitate upcoming experiences created specifically for betrayed partners. The⁠ Revive and Thrive Somatic Intensive takes place October 6-9, 2026 in Spanish Fork, Utah and offers a structured, trauma-informed space to understand betrayal trauma, regulate your nervous system, and rebuild self-trust. Rise, Renew, Restore Retreat in Bali, Indonesia is an intimate, trauma-informed women’s healing retreat designed for women who have already done significant inner work and are ready to move beyond surviving into deeper joy, embodiment, and wholeness. Join us April 18–25, 2027, in Bali for a powerful fusion of somatic healing, breathwork, sound, energy work, Human Design, meaningful cultural experiences, adventure, rest, and connection—all guided by trauma-trained facilitators.  If you're trying to hold your family together while your own world is falling apart, this course is for you. It won't hand you a script for a pain this big - but it will give you language, tools, and a steadier way to show up for the people who need you most: your kids. Intentional Parenting After Betrayal Self Guided Course⁠⁠⁠⁠, created by Hali and her daughter, Morgan Ellsworth.  Free Resources & Downloads Access free tools, guided practices, and educational resources designed to support nervous system regulation, self-trust, boundaries, and clarity after betrayal. 👉6 Ways Betrayal Hides In Your Body 👉⁠⁠A Mini Guide to Mindful Healing After Betrayal⁠⁠ 👉⁠⁠Your First Steps to Rising After Betrayal⁠⁠ Listen to My Other Podcast If you are still in your relationship—or in the process of discerning whether you want to stay—I invite you to also follow my podcast, Choosing to Stay After Infidelity and Betrayal, where I speak to both partners about healing, accountability, and rebuilding trust. 👉⁠ ⁠Choosing to Stay After Infidelity and Betrayal⁠⁠ Join My Newsletter Stay connected through my newsletter, where I share reflections, trauma-informed insights, and updates on upcoming courses, workshops, retreats, and live experiences. 👉⁠ ⁠Rooted and Rising Weekly⁠⁠ Connect With Me Between Episodes Join me on social media for continued conversation, encouragement, and resources between podcast episodes. 👉 Instagram:⁠ ⁠@rootedandrising.healing⁠⁠ 👉 Facebook:⁠ ⁠Rooted and Rising Healing with Hali Roderick⁠⁠ 👉 Website:⁠⁠ ⁠rootedandrisinghealing.mykajabi.com⁠

In this episode, betrayal trauma recovery coaches Dawn Knight and Amy Graziano join Hali to talk about the power of small-group healing after betrayal. You'll hear why group work is designed to complement therapy and one-on-one coaching, why early-stage groups don't ask members to stop focusing on their partner, and what's different about navigating betrayal after age 50 — including the layers of decades-long marriages, adult children, identity, and financial entanglement. Dawn and Amy also introduce Sunlit Reflections, their co-facilitated 13-week trauma-savvy support group for women in early betrayal recovery, meeting Tuesdays, 6:30–8:00 PM ET via Zoom, beginning October 6, 2026. About the guests: Dawn Knight is a betrayal trauma and grief recovery coach supporting women across the adult lifespan, with specialized insight into betrayal after age 50. Learn more at dawnknightcoaching.com. Email Facebook  Instagram  Amy Graziano is a betrayal trauma recovery coach, peer group facilitator, and founder of Reflections in the Waves. Learn more at reflectionsinthewaves.com Email Instagram:   @reflectionsinthewaves Facebook Enjoyed This Episode? Here are three ways you can support the show: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a Review 💬 Join the Community 📲 Share This Episode Connect With Me + Continue Your Healing If today’s episode resonated with you, you don’t have to walk the healing journey after betrayal alone. Here are a few ways to stay connected and continue your healing: Join me at a Retreat or Intensive If you’re craving deeper, in-person support and embodied healing, I’m helping facilitate upcoming experiences created specifically for betrayed partners. If you're ready for a deeper connection with your daughter(s) join my upcoming retreat - Becoming Together: A Mother Daughter Retreat - hosted by myself and my two daughters in Sedona, Arizona on September 8 - 12th. The⁠ Revive and Thrive Somatic Intensive takes place October 6-9, 2026 in Spanish Fork, Utah. Rise, Renew, Restore Retreat in Bali, Indonesia is an intimate, trauma-informed women’s healing retreat designed for women who have already done significant inner work and are ready to move beyond surviving into deeper joy, embodiment, and wholeness. Join us April 18–25, 2027! If you're trying to hold your family together while your own world is falling apart, this course is for you. It will give you language, tools, and a steadier way to show up for the people who need you most: your kids. Intentional Parenting After Betrayal Self Guided Course⁠⁠⁠⁠, created by Hali and her daughter, Morgan Ellsworth.  Free Resources & Downloads Access free tools, guided practices, and educational resources designed to support nervous system regulation, self-trust, boundaries, and clarity after betrayal. 👉6 Ways Betrayal Hides In Your Body 👉⁠⁠A Mini Guide to Mindful Healing After Betrayal⁠⁠ 👉⁠⁠Your First Steps to Rising After Betrayal⁠⁠ Upcoming Group Coaching: Reclaiming You After Betrayal If you’re ready for deeper guidance, I am offering a group coaching container focused on healing after betrayal, rebuilding self-trust, and grounding into your values and identity—without rushing decisions about staying or leaving. 👉⁠ ⁠Join the Reclaiming You Waitlist to be the first to Register!⁠⁠ Listen to My Other Podcast If you are still in your relationship—or in the process of discerning whether you want to stay—I invite you to also follow my podcast, Choosing to Stay After Infidelity and Betrayal, where I speak to both partners. 👉⁠ ⁠Choosing to Stay After Infidelity and Betrayal⁠⁠ Join My Newsletter Stay connected through my newsletter, where I share reflections, trauma-informed insights, and updates on upcoming courses, workshops, retreats, and live experiences. 👉⁠ ⁠Rooted and Rising Weekly⁠⁠ Connect With Me Between Episodes Join me on social media for continued conversation, encouragement, and resources between podcast episodes. 👉 Instagram 👉 Facebook 👉 Website

We tend to think being "regulated" means being calm, neutral, and grounded. But when you're using your voice in a new way, or setting a boundary you've never set before, regulation can feel like your heart pounding and your hands shaking — and still be exactly right. In this episode, we talk about the difference between activation and dysregulation, why new isn't the same as wrong, and how to trust yourself through the shaky, uncomfortable middle of doing something different. Enjoyed This Episode? Here are three ways you can support the show: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a Review 💬 Join the Community 📲 Share This Episode Connect With Me + Continue Your Healing If today’s episode resonated with you, you don’t have to walk the healing journey after betrayal alone. Here are a few ways to stay connected and continue your healing: Join me at a Retreat or Intensive If you’re craving deeper, in-person support and embodied healing, I’m helping facilitate upcoming experiences created specifically for betrayed partners. If you're ready for a deeper connection with your daughter(s) join my upcoming retreat - Becoming Together: A Mother Daughter Retreat - hosted by myself and my two daughters in Sedona, Arizona on September 8 - 12th. The⁠ Revive and Thrive Somatic Intensive takes place October 6-9, 20026 in Spanish Fork, Utah and offers a structured, trauma-informed space to understand betrayal trauma, regulate your nervous system, and rebuild self-trust. Rise, Renew, Restore Retreat in Bali, Indonesia is an intimate, trauma-informed women’s healing retreat designed for women who have already done significant inner work and are ready to move beyond surviving into deeper joy, embodiment, and wholeness. Join us April 18–25, 2027, in Bali for a powerful fusion of somatic healing, breathwork, sound, energy work, Human Design, meaningful cultural experiences, adventure, rest, and connection—all guided by trauma-trained facilitators.  If you're trying to hold your family together while your own world is falling apart, this course is for you. It won't hand you a script for a pain this big - but it will give you language, tools, and a steadier way to show up for the people who need you most: your kids. Intentional Parenting After Betrayal Self Guided Course⁠⁠⁠⁠, created by Hali and her daughter, Morgan Ellsworth.  Free Resources & Downloads Access free tools, guided practices, and educational resources designed to support nervous system regulation, self-trust, boundaries, and clarity after betrayal. 👉6 Ways Betrayal Hides In Your Body 👉⁠⁠A Mini Guide to Mindful Healing After Betrayal⁠⁠ 👉⁠⁠Your First Steps to Rising After Betrayal⁠⁠ Upcoming Group Coaching: Reclaiming You After Betrayal If you’re ready for deeper guidance in a structured, supportive format, I am offering a group coaching container focused on healing after betrayal, rebuilding self-trust, and grounding into your values and identity—without rushing decisions about staying or leaving. This group is ideal for those who want support that is more than just once a week. 👉⁠ ⁠Join the Reclaiming You Waitlist to be the first to Register!⁠⁠ Listen to My Other Podcast If you are still in your relationship—or in the process of discerning whether you want to stay—I invite you to also follow my podcast, Choosing to Stay After Infidelity and Betrayal, where I speak to both partners about healing, accountability, and rebuilding trust. 👉⁠ ⁠Choosing to Stay After Infidelity and Betrayal⁠⁠ Join My Newsletter Stay connected through my newsletter, where I share reflections, trauma-informed insights, and updates on upcoming courses, workshops, retreats, and live experiences. 👉⁠ ⁠Rooted and Rising Weekly⁠⁠ Connect With Me Between Episodes Join me on social media for continued conversation, encouragement, and resources between podcast episodes. 👉 Instagram:⁠ ⁠@rootedandrising.healing⁠⁠ 👉 Facebook:⁠ ⁠Rooted and Rising Healing with Hali Roderick⁠⁠ 👉 Website:⁠⁠ ⁠rootedandrisinghealing.mykajabi.com⁠

In this episode of the Choosing Different mini-series, Hali is joined by her daughters, Mataia and Morgan, for an honest conversation about betrayal trauma's impact on the whole family — not just the marriage. Hali reflects on what she believed she was doing right at the time (staying reassuring, keeping hard details between the adults) and what she's since learned she missed about how her daughters were actually experiencing it. Mataia and Morgan share what that season of family trauma recovery looked like from where they were standing as kids, and how it's shaping the choices they make now as young moms of their own. Together they talk about the protective patterns that form in the middle of survival mode, why validating both the parent's experience and the child's experience matters for real healing, and what it looks like to break old patterns on purpose instead of by accident. The episode closes with an invitation to the Becoming Together mother/daughter retreat. Mentioned in this episode:  Join Us: Becoming Together Mother-Daughter Retreat  If this conversation resonated with you, we'd love for you to join us in person. We're hosting a Becoming Together Mother Daughter Retreat in Sedona, AZ, September 8–12.  Get support for your children:  Witnessed Group Coaching program led by Morgan Ellsworth.  Connect with Morgan Ellsworth: [email protected] Instagram: @healing.betrayed.families  Podcast: Healing Betrayed Families Enjoyed This Episode? If this conversation resonated with you, here are three ways you can support the show: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a Review 💬 Join the Community 📲 Share This Episode Connect With Me + Continue Your Healing If today’s episode resonated with you, you don’t have to walk the healing journey after betrayal alone. Here are a few ways to stay connected and continue your healing: Sign up for my Rooted and Rising Healing mailing list to stay informed of all upcoming resources and events where we can connect.  Join me at a Retreat or Intensive If you’re craving deeper, in-person support and embodied healing, I’m helping facilitate these upcoming experiences:  The Revive and Thrive Somatic Healing Intensive⁠⁠⁠ takes place October 6-9th in Spanish Fork, Utah and offers a structured, trauma-informed space to understand betrayal trauma, regulate your nervous system, and rebuild self-trust. Free Resources & Downloads Access free tools, guided practices, and educational resources designed to support nervous system regulation, self-trust, boundaries, and clarity after betrayal. 👉The Six Ways Betrayal Hides In Your Body  👉A Mini Guide to Mindful Healing After Betrayal 👉Your First Steps to Rising After Betrayal Upcoming Group Coaching: Reclaiming You After Betrayal If you’re ready for deeper guidance in a structured, supportive format, I am offering a group coaching program focused on healing after betrayal, rebuilding self-trust, and grounding into your values and identity—without rushing decisions about staying or leaving. 👉 Join the Reclaiming You Waitlist! Listen to My Other Podcast If you are still in your relationship—or in the process of discerning whether you want to stay—I invite you to also follow my podcast, Choosing to Stay After Infidelity and Betrayal, where I speak to both partners about healing, accountability, and rebuilding trust. 👉⁠ ⁠Choosing to Stay After Infidelity and Betrayal⁠⁠ Connect With Me Between Episodes Join me on social media for continued conversation, encouragement, and resources between podcast episodes. 👉 Instagram:⁠ ⁠@rootedandrising.healing⁠⁠ 👉 Facebook:⁠ ⁠Rooted and Rising Healing with Hali Roderick⁠⁠ 👉 Website:⁠⁠ ⁠rootedandrisinghealing.mykajabi.com⁠

Healing after betrayal is exhausting — and sometimes there simply aren't words left to describe what you're carrying. In this episode, watercolor artist, educator, and Certified Trauma-Informed Coach Beth Woessner joins us to talk about art as a bottom-up tool for nervous system regulation. Beth Woessner is a Professional Watercolor Artist, Educator, and Creative Entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience, and a Certified Trauma-Informed Coach through Moving the Human Spirit. She is a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF), trained in Nonviolent Communication (NVC), a Certified Peer Facilitator (C-SASI), and a Multidimensional Partner Trauma Specialist candidate through APSATS. Beth offers 1:1 recovery and wellness coaching, custom watercolor commissions, private art instruction, and group workshops for retreats, organizations, and private groups — creating spaces grounded in compassion, presence, and nervous system awareness for people reconnecting with themselves after loss, relational difficulty, and betrayal trauma. Connect with Beth:  Website: www.bethwoessner.com  Email: [email protected] Instagram: @bethwoessnerart  Facebook: Beth Woessner Art  Tender Resilience: Creative Healing Circle  Enjoyed This Episode? Here are three ways you can support the show: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a Review 💬 Join the Community 📲 Share This Episode Connect With Me + Continue Your Healing Here are a few ways to stay connected and continue your healing: Join me at a Retreat or Intensive If you’re craving deeper, in-person support and embodied healing, I’m helping facilitate upcoming experiences created specifically for betrayed partners. If you're ready for a deeper connection with your daughter(s) join my upcoming retreat - Becoming Together: A Mother Daughter Retreat - hosted by myself and my two daughters in Sedona, Arizona on September 8 - 12th. If you're trying to hold your family together while your own world is falling apart, this course is for you. It won't hand you a script for a pain this big - but it will give you language, tools, and a steadier way to show up for the people who need you most: your kids. Intentional Parenting After Betrayal Self Guided Course⁠⁠⁠⁠, created by Hali and her daughter, Morgan Ellsworth.  The⁠ Revive and Thrive Somatic Intensive takes place October 6-9, 20026 in Spanish Fork, Utah. Free Resources & Downloads Access free tools, guided practices, and educational resources designed to support nervous system regulation, self-trust, boundaries, and clarity after betrayal. 👉⁠⁠A Mini Guide to Mindful Healing After Betrayal⁠⁠ 👉⁠⁠Your First Steps to Rising After Betrayal⁠⁠ Upcoming Group Coaching: Reclaiming You After Betrayal If you’re ready for deeper guidance in a structured, supportive format, I am offering a group coaching container focused on healing after betrayal, rebuilding self-trust, and grounding into your values and identity—without rushing decisions about staying or leaving. This group is ideal for those who want support that is more than just once a week. 👉⁠ ⁠Join the Reclaiming You Waitlist to be the first to Register!⁠⁠ Listen to My Other Podcast If you are still in your relationship—or in the process of discerning whether you want to stay—I invite you to also follow my podcast, Choosing to Stay After Infidelity and Betrayal, where I speak to both partners about healing, accountability, and rebuilding trust. 👉⁠ ⁠Choosing to Stay After Infidelity and Betrayal⁠⁠ Join My Newsletter Stay connected through my newsletter, where I share reflections, trauma-informed insights, and updates on upcoming courses, workshops, retreats, and live experiences. 👉⁠ ⁠Rooted and Rising Weekly⁠⁠ Connect With Me Between Episodes Join me on social media for continued conversation, encouragement, and resources between podcast episodes. 👉 Instagram:⁠ ⁠@rootedandrising.healing⁠⁠ 👉 Facebook:⁠ ⁠Rooted and Rising Healing with Hali Roderick⁠⁠ 👉 Website:⁠⁠ ⁠rootedandrisinghealing.mykajabi.com⁠

Have you ever felt like your betrayal story didn't quite "qualify"? Like it wasn't dramatic enough, or the wrong shape, or somehow not worthy of the healing you needed? In this episode, we talk about the quiet habit of comparing our pain — and why measuring our experience against someone else's tends to minimize suffering rather than ease it. Sparked by a moment in Hali's women's betrayal trauma group, this conversation explores the many forms betrayal takes — emotional affairs, problematic sexual behavior, virtual infidelity, financial betrayal, emotional neglect, and every combination in between — and why each person's history, and the depth of the manipulation they endured, shapes a wound that can't be ranked against anyone else's. You'll hear why you belong in this community exactly as your story is. Betrayal is betrayal. Your pain is valid. Come as you are. Enjoyed This Episode? If this conversation resonated with you, here are three ways you can support the show: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a Review 💬 Join the Community 📲 Share This Episode Connect With Me + Continue Your Healing If today’s episode resonated with you, you don’t have to walk the healing journey after betrayal alone. I create trauma-informed resources, conversations, and learning experiences to support individuals and couples navigating infidelity, betrayal trauma, and relational repair. Here are a few ways to stay connected and continue your healing: Join me at a Retreat or Intensive If you’re craving deeper, in-person support and embodied healing, I’m helping facilitate upcoming experiences created specifically for betrayed partners. If you're ready for a deeper connection with your daughter(s), ⁠complete this interest list⁠ for more information about my upcoming retreat - Becoming Together: A Mother Daughter Retreat - hosted by myself and my two daughters in Sedona, Arizona on September 8 - 12th. Complete this⁠⁠⁠ Interest list for an upcoming course for parents called Intentional Parenting After Betrayal⁠⁠⁠⁠, hosted by Hali and her daughter, Morgan Ellsworth.  The⁠ ⁠⁠Courage to Thrive Betrayal Trauma Intensive⁠⁠⁠ takes place August 25-28 in Spanish Fork, Utah and offers a structured, trauma-informed space to understand betrayal trauma, regulate your nervous system, and rebuild self-trust. Free Resources & Downloads Access free tools, guided practices, and educational resources designed to support nervous system regulation, self-trust, boundaries, and clarity after betrayal. 👉⁠⁠A Mini Guide to Mindful Healing After Betrayal⁠⁠ 👉⁠⁠Your First Steps to Rising After Betrayal⁠⁠ Upcoming Course: Reclaiming You After Betrayal If you’re ready for deeper guidance in a structured, supportive format, I am offering a course focused on healing after betrayal, rebuilding self-trust, and grounding into your values and identity—without rushing decisions about staying or leaving. This course is ideal for those who want support without individual coaching and at a pace that honors their nervous system. 👉⁠ ⁠Join the Reclaiming You Waitlist to be the first to Register!⁠⁠ Listen to My Other Podcast If you are still in your relationship—or in the process of discerning whether you want to stay—I invite you to also follow my podcast, Choosing to Stay After Infidelity and Betrayal, where I speak to both partners about healing, accountability, and rebuilding trust. 👉⁠ ⁠Choosing to Stay After Infidelity and Betrayal⁠⁠ Join My Newsletter Stay connected through my newsletter, where I share reflections, trauma-informed insights, and updates on upcoming courses, workshops, retreats, and live experiences. 👉⁠ ⁠Rooted and Rising Weekly⁠⁠ Connect With Me Between Episodes Join me on social media for continued conversation, encouragement, and resources between podcast episodes. 👉 Instagram:⁠ ⁠@rootedandrising.healing⁠⁠ 👉 Facebook:⁠ ⁠Rooted and Rising Healing with Hali Roderick⁠⁠ 👉 Website:⁠⁠ ⁠rootedandrisinghealing.mykajabi.com⁠

Betrayal has a way of stripping your sense of safety and agency. The truth was hidden from you, the timeline wasn't yours, and the version of life you were living turned out to be something else entirely. So where do you even begin to rebuild trust — especially trust in yourself? In this episode, we start somewhere unexpectedly powerful: the space around you. Not as a verdict on how "together" you are, but as a gentle mirror. We walk room by room — the overflowing closet, the cluttered bedroom, the messy desk, the things you've tolerated so long they turned invisible, the neglected kitchen, the blocked entryway — and explore what each one might be reflecting back about where you're ready to heal. This isn't about a spotless home or shaming yourself for the laundry pile. It's about reclaiming one of the few arenas that is fully yours right now, and using small, finishable acts of order and self-care to rebuild the quiet confidence that betrayal trauma so often takes: I can trust myself, and I can care for myself. If you're navigating life after betrayal and craving a sense of control, grounding, and peace again, this episode offers warm, body-inclusive reflections and two simple invitations to start. Enjoyed This Episode? If this conversation resonated with you, here are three ways you can support the show: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a Review 💬 Join the Community 📲 Share This Episode Connect With Me + Continue Your Healing If today’s episode resonated with you, you don’t have to walk the healing journey after betrayal alone. Here are a few ways to stay connected and continue your healing: Join me at a Retreat or Intensive If you’re craving deeper, in-person support and embodied healing, I’m helping facilitate upcoming experiences created specifically for betrayed partners. If you're ready for a deeper connection with your daughter(s), ⁠complete this interest list⁠ for more information about my upcoming retreat - Becoming Together: A Mother Daughter Retreat - hosted by myself and my two daughters in Sedona, Arizona on September 8 - 12th. Complete this⁠⁠⁠ Interest list for an upcoming course for parents called Intentional Parenting After Betrayal⁠⁠⁠⁠, hosted by Hali and her daughter, Morgan Ellsworth.  The⁠ ⁠⁠Courage to Thrive Betrayal Trauma Intensive⁠⁠⁠ takes place August 25-28 in Spanish Fork, Utah. Free Resources & Downloads Access free tools, guided practices, and educational resources designed to support nervous system regulation, self-trust, boundaries, and clarity after betrayal. 👉⁠⁠A Mini Guide to Mindful Healing After Betrayal⁠⁠ 👉⁠⁠Your First Steps to Rising After Betrayal⁠⁠ Upcoming Course: Reclaiming You After Betrayal If you’re ready for deeper guidance in a structured, supportive format, I am offering a course focused on healing after betrayal, rebuilding self-trust, and grounding into your values and identity—without rushing decisions about staying or leaving. This course is ideal for those who want support without individual coaching and at a pace that honors their nervous system. 👉⁠ ⁠Join the Reclaiming You Waitlist to be the first to Register!⁠⁠ Listen to My Other Podcast If you are still in your relationship—or in the process of discerning whether you want to stay—I invite you to also follow my podcast, Choosing to Stay After Infidelity and Betrayal, where I speak to both partners about healing, accountability, and rebuilding trust. 👉⁠ ⁠Choosing to Stay After Infidelity and Betrayal⁠⁠ Join My Newsletter Stay connected through my newsletter, where I share reflections, trauma-informed insights, and updates on upcoming courses, workshops, retreats, and live experiences. 👉⁠ ⁠Rooted and Rising Weekly⁠⁠ Connect With Me Between Episodes Join me on social media for continued conversation, encouragement, and resources between podcast episodes. 👉 Instagram:⁠ ⁠@rootedandrising.healing⁠⁠ 👉 Facebook:⁠ ⁠Rooted and Rising Healing with Hali Roderick⁠⁠ 👉 Website:⁠⁠ ⁠rootedandrisinghealing.mykajabi.com⁠

What happens when a child no longer has to convince their parent that their pain was real? In this episode of Choosing Different Mini Series, Hali sits down with her daughter, Morgan Ellsworth, for a short, unscripted conversation about one of the most healing things a parent can offer: belief. They talk about the three quiet ways parents unintentionally dismiss a child's experience - through differing memories, good intentions, and simple unawareness - and why none of those things make a child's pain any less real. Join Us: Becoming Together Mother-Daughter Retreat  If this conversation resonated with you, we'd love for you to join us in person. We're hosting a Becoming Together Mother Daughter Retreat in Sedona, AZ, September 8–12.  Join us: FREE Parenting Through the Wreckage Webinar on Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 5pm Pacific Get support for your children:  Witnessed Group Coaching program led by Morgan Ellsworth.  Connect with Morgan Ellsworth: [email protected] Instagram: @healing.betrayed.families  Podcast: Healing Betrayed Families Enjoyed This Episode? If this conversation resonated with you, here are three ways you can support the show: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a Review — Reviews help other people in the betrayal trauma community find this podcast when they need it most. It only takes a minute and means the world. 💬 Join the Community — Connect with others who are navigating this same journey. You don't have to do this alone.  📲 Share This Episode — Know someone who needs to hear this? Send it to them. Share it on your social media. You never know who might be waiting for exactly this conversation. Here are a few ways to stay connected and continue your healing: Sign up for my Rooted and Rising Healing mailing list to stay informed of all upcoming resources and events where we can connect.  Connect With Me + Continue Your Healing Join me at a Retreat or Intensive If you’re craving deeper, in-person support and embodied healing, I’m helping facilitate these upcoming experiences:  The Revive and Thrive Somatic Healing Intensive⁠⁠⁠ takes place October 6-9th in Spanish Fork, Utah and offers a structured, trauma-informed space to understand betrayal trauma, regulate your nervous system, and rebuild self-trust. Free Resources & Downloads Access free tools, guided practices, and educational resources designed to support nervous system regulation, self-trust, boundaries, and clarity after betrayal. 👉The Six Ways Betrayal Hides In Your Body  👉A Mini Guide to Mindful Healing After Betrayal 👉Your First Steps to Rising After Betrayal Upcoming Group Coaching: Reclaiming You After Betrayal If you’re ready for deeper guidance in a structured, supportive format, I am offering a group coaching program focused on healing after betrayal, rebuilding self-trust, and grounding into your values and identity—without rushing decisions about staying or leaving. 👉 Join the Reclaiming You Waitlist! Connect With Me + Continue Your Healing Listen to My Other Podcast If you are still in your relationship—or in the process of discerning whether you want to stay—I invite you to also follow my podcast, Choosing to Stay After Infidelity and Betrayal, where I speak to both partners about healing, accountability, and rebuilding trust. 👉⁠ ⁠Choosing to Stay After Infidelity and Betrayal⁠⁠ Join My Newsletter Stay connected through my newsletter, where I share reflections, trauma-informed insights, and updates on upcoming courses, workshops, retreats, and live experiences. 👉⁠ ⁠Rooted and Rising Weekly⁠⁠ Connect With Me Between Episodes Join me on social media for continued conversation, encouragement, and resources between podcast episodes. 👉 Instagram:⁠ ⁠@rootedandrising.healing⁠⁠ 👉 Facebook:⁠ ⁠Rooted and Rising Healing with Hali Roderick⁠⁠ 👉 Website:⁠⁠ ⁠rootedandrisinghealing.mykajabi.com⁠

August 4th is Intimate Partner Betrayal Awareness Day — a day set aside to say out loud what so many of you have been carrying in silence: that what happened to you was real, that it mattered, and that it deserves to be named. Today I'm sitting down with Andrea Rogers. Andrea is a Board Certified Coach and a Certified Partner Coach with APSATS — that's the Association of Partners of Sex Addict Trauma Specialists. She's also a Brainspotting practitioner, the founder of Fully Alive Coaching, and she works with women using something called the Multidimensional Partner Trauma Model. And Andrea isn't just doing this work from the outside — she's a betrayal trauma survivor herself, which is a big part of why this conversation matters. If you've ever felt like you were "too much" for reacting the way you did, or wondered if you were losing your mind — this conversation is for you. Enjoyed This Episode? If this conversation resonated with you, here are three ways you can support the show: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ⁠Leave a Review⁠ 💬 ⁠Join the Community⁠ 📲 Share This Episode Connect With Me + Continue Your Healing If today’s episode resonated with you, you don’t have to walk the healing journey after betrayal alone. Here are a few ways to stay connected and continue your healing: Join the ⁠Help Her Heal weekly support group⁠ for men working to rebuild trust and create safety. Sign up for my ⁠Rooted and Rising Healing mailing list⁠ to stay informed of all upcoming resources and events where we can connect.  Join me at a Retreat or Intensive If you’re craving deeper, in-person support and embodied healing, I’m helping facilitate upcoming experiences created specifically for betrayed partners. If you're ready for a deeper connection with your daughter(s),⁠ ⁠complete this interest list⁠⁠ for more information about my upcoming retreat - Becoming Together: A Mother Daughter Retreat - hosted by myself and my two daughters in Sedona, Arizona on September 8 - 12th. The⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Courage to Thrive Betrayal Trauma Intensive⁠⁠⁠⁠ takes place August 25-28 in Spanish Fork, Utah. ⁠Email Hali⁠⁠ to join the⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Interest list for an upcoming course for parents called Intentional Parenting After Betrayal⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, hosted by Hali and her daughter, Morgan Ellsworth.  Free Resources & Downloads Access free tools, guided practices, and educational resources designed to support nervous system regulation, self-trust, boundaries, and clarity after betrayal. 👉⁠A Mini Guide to Mindful Healing After Betrayal⁠ 👉⁠Your First Steps to Rising After Betrayal⁠ Upcoming Course: Reclaiming You After Betrayal If you’re ready for deeper guidance in a structured, supportive format, I am offering a course focused on healing after betrayal, rebuilding self-trust, and grounding into your values and identity—without rushing decisions about staying or leaving. This course is ideal for those who want support without individual coaching and at a pace that honors their nervous system. 👉 ⁠Join the Reclaiming You Waitlist!⁠ Listen to My Other Podcast If you are a betrayed partner, I also host a second podcast called ⁠Rooted & Rising Healing After Betrayal,⁠ created specifically for women healing from betrayal trauma. This show offers grounded, trauma-informed conversations, solo reflections, and tools to help you reconnect with yourself, reclaim your voice, and rise with clarity and strength. 👉 ⁠Rooted and Rising Healing After Betrayal⁠ Join My Newsletter Stay connected through my newsletter, where I share reflections, trauma-informed insights, and updates on upcoming courses, workshops, retreats, and live experiences. 👉⁠⁠ ⁠Rooted and Rising Weekly⁠⁠⁠ Connect With Me Between Episodes Join me on social media for continued conversation, encouragement, and resources between podcast episodes. 👉 Instagram:⁠⁠ ⁠@rootedandrising.healing⁠⁠⁠ 👉 Facebook:⁠⁠ ⁠Rooted and Rising Healing with Hali Roderick⁠⁠⁠ 👉 Website:⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠rootedandrisinghealing.com⁠⁠⁠⁠

This is the first episode of the Choosing Different mini-series of conversations between Hali and her two adult daughters, who were both teenagers when their family was in the thick of betrayal and dysfunction. Instead of letting that experience pull them apart, they've been doing the slow, unglamorous work of healing, learning each other again, and trying to break some of the generational patterns they grew up with. They are upfront that they don't have it all figured out.  This isn't a highlight reel - it's a real, sometimes messy conversation, shared in case it helps open a door in your own family.  In this episode, they talk about what it means to relate to each other as two adults instead of parent and child, how to choose curiosity over criticism, navigating marriage and relationships as an adult child, supporting each other's dreams, showing up emotionally, and, at the heart of it, what healthy repair after a rupture actually looks like.  If this conversation resonated with you, we'd love for you to join us in person. We're hosting a Becoming Together Mother Daughter Retreat in Sedona, AZ, September 8–12.  Join Us: Becoming Together Mother-Daughter Retreat  Enjoyed This Episode? If this conversation resonated with you, here are three ways you can support the show: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a Review — Reviews help other people in the betrayal trauma community find this podcast when they need it most. It only takes a minute and means the world. 💬 Join the Community — Connect with others who are navigating this same journey. You don't have to do this alone.  📲 Share This Episode — Know someone who needs to hear this? Send it to them. Share it on your social media. You never know who might be waiting for exactly this conversation. If today’s episode resonated with you, you don’t have to walk the healing journey after betrayal alone. I create trauma-informed resources, conversations, and learning experiences to support individuals and couples navigating infidelity, betrayal trauma, and relational repair. Connect With Me + Continue Your Healing Here are a few ways to stay connected and continue your healing: Sign up for my Rooted and Rising Healing mailing list to stay informed of all upcoming resources and events where we can connect.  Join me at a Retreat or Intensive If you’re craving deeper, in-person support and embodied healing, I’m helping facilitate these upcoming experiences:  The Revive and Thrive Somatic Healing Intensive⁠⁠⁠ takes place October 6-9th in Spanish Fork, Utah and offers a structured, trauma-informed space to understand betrayal trauma, regulate your nervous system, and rebuild self-trust. Email Hali⁠ to join the⁠⁠⁠ Interest list for an upcoming course for parents called Intentional Parenting After Betrayal⁠⁠⁠⁠, hosted by Hali and her daughter, Morgan Ellsworth.  Free Resources & Downloads Access free tools, guided practices, and educational resources designed to support nervous system regulation, self-trust, boundaries, and clarity after betrayal. 👉The Six Ways Betrayal Hides In Your Body  👉A Mini Guide to Mindful Healing After Betrayal 👉Your First Steps to Rising After Betrayal Upcoming Group Coaching: Reclaiming You After Betrayal If you’re ready for deeper guidance in a structured, supportive format, I am offering a group program focused on healing after betrayal, rebuilding self-trust, and grounding into your values and identity - without rushing decisions about staying or leaving. 👉 Join the Reclaiming You Waitlist! Connect With Me + Continue Your Healing Listen to My Other Podcast If you are still in your relationship—or in the process of discerning whether you want to stay—I invite you to also follow my podcast, Choosing to Stay After Infidelity and Betrayal, where I speak to both partners about healing, accountability, and rebuilding trust. 👉⁠ ⁠Choosing to Stay After Infidelity and Betrayal⁠⁠

There's a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from loving someone's potential. You keep showing up for who they could be while quietly absorbing who they actually are — and somewhere in there, you start to disappear. In this episode, we reframe overfunctioning not as a generosity problem or a character flaw, but as a way of keeping hope alive so that grief stays at arm's length. We explore why grief can feel more dangerous than effort — because effort feels active and hopeful and in our control, while grief feels like giving up. We look at the difference between potential and patterns, and why the more honest question isn't whether someone is capable of meeting a need, but whether they do, consistently, over time, including under stress. Finally, we talk about what it looks like to stop — to grieve the relationship you hoped for so you can see the one you actually have, to tell the difference between deserving to have a need met and believing you have to earn the right to ask, and to step out of the audition altogether. Because you don't earn love by disappearing. Recognizing what you deserve starts the moment you stop trying to earn it. Enjoyed This Episode? If this conversation resonated with you, here are three ways you can support the show: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a Review 💬 Join the Community 📲 Share This Episode Connect With Me + Continue Your Healing If today’s episode resonated with you, you don’t have to walk the healing journey after betrayal alone. Here are a few ways to stay connected and continue your healing: Join me at a Retreat or Intensive If you’re craving deeper, in-person support and embodied healing, I’m helping facilitate upcoming experiences created specifically for betrayed partners. If you're ready for a deeper connection with your daughter(s), ⁠complete this interest list⁠ for more information about my upcoming retreat - Becoming Together: A Mother Daughter Retreat - hosted by myself and my two daughters in Sedona, Arizona on September 8 - 12th. Complete this⁠⁠⁠ Interest list for an upcoming course for parents called Intentional Parenting After Betrayal⁠⁠⁠⁠, hosted by Hali and her daughter, Morgan Ellsworth.  The⁠ ⁠⁠Courage to Thrive Betrayal Trauma Intensive⁠⁠⁠ takes place August 25-28 in Spanish Fork, Utah. Free Resources & Downloads Access free tools, guided practices, and educational resources designed to support nervous system regulation, self-trust, boundaries, and clarity after betrayal. 👉⁠⁠A Mini Guide to Mindful Healing After Betrayal⁠⁠ 👉⁠⁠Your First Steps to Rising After Betrayal⁠⁠ Upcoming Course: Reclaiming You After Betrayal If you’re ready for deeper guidance in a structured, supportive format, I am offering a course focused on healing after betrayal, rebuilding self-trust, and grounding into your values and identity—without rushing decisions about staying or leaving. This course is ideal for those who want support without individual coaching and at a pace that honors their nervous system. 👉⁠ ⁠Join the Reclaiming You Waitlist to be the first to Register!⁠⁠ Listen to My Other Podcast If you are still in your relationship—or in the process of discerning whether you want to stay—I invite you to also follow my podcast, Choosing to Stay After Infidelity and Betrayal, where I speak to both partners about healing, accountability, and rebuilding trust. 👉⁠ ⁠Choosing to Stay After Infidelity and Betrayal⁠⁠ Join My Newsletter Stay connected through my newsletter, where I share reflections, trauma-informed insights, and updates on upcoming courses, workshops, retreats, and live experiences. 👉⁠ ⁠Rooted and Rising Weekly⁠⁠ Connect With Me Between Episodes Join me on social media for continued conversation, encouragement, and resources between podcast episodes. 👉 Instagram:⁠ ⁠@rootedandrising.healing⁠⁠ 👉 Facebook:⁠ ⁠Rooted and Rising Healing with Hali Roderick⁠⁠ 👉 Website:⁠⁠ ⁠rootedandrisinghealing.mykajabi.com⁠

After betrayal, the hardest emotion to let yourself feel often isn't sadness or anger — it's joy. A good moment arrives and instead of sinking into it, you brace, waiting for the other shoe to drop. In this episode, I unpack why that happens: how a nervous system wired for protection can read joy as risk, and why bracing against happiness is a survival response rather than a personal failing. We talk about Brené Brown's idea of "foreboding joy," why pain can feel safer than openness, and how healing involves teaching your body that peace and joy aren't traps. Then we get practical, with small, repeatable ways to build your tolerance for feeling good again — no forced gratitude, no pretending you're further along than you are. If you've ever caught yourself flinching at your own happiness, this one's for you. Enjoyed This Episode? If this conversation resonated with you, here are three ways you can support the show: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a Review 💬 Join the Community 📲 Share This Episode Connect With Me + Continue Your Healing If today’s episode resonated with you, you don’t have to walk the healing journey after betrayal alone. I create trauma-informed resources, conversations, and learning experiences to support individuals and couples navigating infidelity, betrayal trauma, and relational repair. Here are a few ways to stay connected and continue your healing: Join me at a Retreat or Intensive If you’re craving deeper, in-person support and embodied healing, I’m helping facilitate upcoming experiences created specifically for betrayed partners. If you're ready for a deeper connection with your daughter(s), ⁠sign up for my upcoming retreat⁠ - Becoming Together: A Mother Daughter Retreat - hosted by myself and my two daughters in Sedona, Arizona on September 8 - 12th. Complete this⁠⁠⁠ Interest list for an upcoming course for parents called Intentional Parenting After Betrayal⁠⁠⁠⁠, hosted by Hali and her daughter, Morgan Ellsworth.  The⁠ ⁠⁠Courage to Thrive Betrayal Trauma Intensive⁠⁠⁠ takes place August 25-28 in Spanish Fork, Utah and offers a structured, trauma-informed space to understand betrayal trauma, regulate your nervous system, and rebuild self-trust. Free Resources & Downloads Access free tools, guided practices, and educational resources designed to support nervous system regulation, self-trust, boundaries, and clarity after betrayal. 👉⁠⁠A Mini Guide to Mindful Healing After Betrayal⁠⁠ 👉⁠⁠Your First Steps to Rising After Betrayal⁠⁠ Upcoming Course: Reclaiming You After Betrayal If you’re ready for deeper guidance in a structured, supportive format, I am offering a course focused on healing after betrayal, rebuilding self-trust, and grounding into your values and identity—without rushing decisions about staying or leaving. This course is ideal for those who want support without individual coaching and at a pace that honors their nervous system. 👉⁠ ⁠Join the Reclaiming You Waitlist to be the first to Register!⁠⁠ Listen to My Other Podcast If you are still in your relationship—or in the process of discerning whether you want to stay—I invite you to also follow my podcast, Choosing to Stay After Infidelity and Betrayal, where I speak to both partners about healing, accountability, and rebuilding trust. 👉⁠ ⁠Choosing to Stay After Infidelity and Betrayal⁠⁠ Join My Newsletter Stay connected through my newsletter, where I share reflections, trauma-informed insights, and updates on upcoming courses, workshops, retreats, and live experiences. 👉⁠ ⁠Rooted and Rising Weekly⁠⁠ Connect With Me Between Episodes Join me on social media for continued conversation, encouragement, and resources between podcast episodes. 👉 Instagram:⁠ ⁠@rootedandrising.healing⁠⁠ 👉 Facebook:⁠ ⁠Rooted and Rising Healing with Hali Roderick⁠⁠ 👉 Website:⁠⁠ ⁠rootedandrisinghealing.mykajabi.com⁠