Understanding Betrayal Trauma and Its Emotional Impact

Are you starting to identify with your trauma?

Trauma doesn’t get filed away into the past—it takes over the present because the brain so overwhelmed, it is not able to change it into the past tense. For many individuals, the hardest part of trauma isn’t what happened, but what’s still happening inside them now.

How Betrayal Trauma Leads to Hopelessness

Intrusive thoughts. Sudden, intense emotions. A body that that’s triggered AF. These symptoms can disconnect you from yourself and make it damn near impossible to feel safe in the moment.

You might find it hard to make decisions, trust your feelings, or imagine a hopeful future. That’s because trauma often shuts down the part of the brain responsible for long-term thinking and emotional regulation.

When you’re stuck in survival mode, your nervous system is focused on the here and now. You’re not planning the future—you’re fighting to get through the next five minutes.

Is TRAUMA Controlling Your Brain?

Trauma research demonstrates that traumatic stress reshapes both the body and the brain, It impacts areas like the amygdala and prefrontal cortex, disrupting self-perception and emotion regulation, leading to hyperarousal or dissociation (van der Kolk, 2015). You’re so bombarded with intrusive thoughts and intense feelings, it starts to take over and you begin to lose a sense of yourself. You don’t feel like yourself, something happened to that person.

Healing is Possible.

Therapies like Accelerated Hypnotherapy and other body-based approaches, like Observed Experiential Integration (OEI) help reconnect you to yourself. They calm the nervous system and reintegrate the parts of the brain that were hijacked by trauma so you can get back to being you. Doing all the good things you used to do.

Accelerated Hypnotherapy gets your body to settle, and calms your mind. You stop living inside flashbacks and start being present again. The past begins to feel like it is in the past, where it belongs and gets further away with each passing day.

And from that grounded place, safety, clarity and creativity returns. You can finally picture a future that isn’t shaped by fear and hopelessness.

Trauma may have disrupted your connection to yourself, but hypnotherapy can bring relief. Experience the shift.

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