Clients find me after they have tried everything but they’re not feeling better.
They were betrayed by the very person you depended on for safety. D-Day knocked them down and they weren’t quite able to get up with all the things they were doing.
In this video, I’m going to be talking about how after betrayal women create perpetual D-Days because when you keep looking to the past, seek and you shall find.
Often this is what peoeople with betrayal create for themselves, that caused them to because when you discovered that your husband or partner was cheating.
On D-Day, your brain catches on fire, in that emotional part of your brain burst into flames and everything that you do to try to feel better, couples therapy, therapy, whatever It is you’re trying it not able to stop the fire in your brain
Because nothing works when your brain’s on fire.
You have to stop the fire first.
Why Trauma Keeps You Stuck in the Past
When your brain is on fire, it cannot process the betrayal and put it into the past.
Because every time it thinks about it, it becomes overwhelmed and that overwhelm is what keeps you stuck.
And right about now you can probably feel, you can probably even feel how stuck you are.
You’re actually feeling the stuck state in your brain, not being able to process the experience that you’ve had and put it into the past.
Your brain can’t package it away into a memory and file it away into the past so that it occurs to you, like all your other memories, like something that you kind of know is there, but eventually you forget about and get back to yourself and back to your life.
When your brain is able to work on your experiences and turn them into memories and file them away, they take you down every time you remember.
Here’s the thing that someone who want to keep you coming back to their office every week, year after year won’t tell you.
You do not have to remember to recover.
With betrayal, there’s a mechanism in your brain that causes people that have experienced trauma to seek, to somehow seek those same patterns that keep them even more stuck.
Information Is Not Transformation
What happens after you’ve been betrayed, is that you wants to know everything about the betrayal.
You’re focused on the past, and on your husband and you want to know everything about the betrayal all the painful, hurtful details.
But what you get is trickle truth.
Your husband will probably only tell you what he thinks you might know already, or throw something out that will get you back into mini d-day and all the feels.
But he doesn’t really want to give you the whole truth, and you will never know if he’s telling you the truth or not, if he’s told you everything or not.
You are in a losing battle because healing will never come from the past.
If your healing depends on someone else doing or not something.
You just might be waiting a long time.
And all that will keep you in those feelings of betrayal.
And every time he throws you a crumb, it will set off a revivification. It’ll make you feel bad as you relive D-Day.
It might not be, capital D but it small d-day where you discover some additonal shitty thing that he did that he doesn’t want to tell you about.
And you can you sense that there’s more, so you continue to probe for more information about what happened.
And here’s the thing.
Information is not transformation. These are not the droids you’re looking for.
The information that you get is actually doing the opposite of what it is that you want.
Because digging up the past makes you relive, reexperience D day over and over and over again.
And eventually, if you do this to your brain long enough. your brain will eventually become so overwhelmed, so overactive, that you will have random flashback, intrusive thoughts and these feeling flashbacks that you’ll feel in your body that will take you back to exactly how you felt on D-Day.
You will become hypersensitive so that any little thing that he says or does, or maybe will start to set you off. And you might even be so sensitve that you’re also triggered by other people.
You will become hypervigilant, and this is what is causing you to go back into the past and look For more clues, more evidence about what he was doing.
Trust Your Intuition
But even if you don’t have solid confirmation, a solid confession, there’s something inside you that when he’s not gaslighting, it is telling you something.
And I felt it too when I was with my ex, and he used to gaslight me, and I wasn’t listening to my own intuition. I was listening to a cheater and a liar over my own intuition. My bad.
If ou’re experiencing hyperac
You need to stop the fire.
How Betrayal Trauma Affects Your Life
hyperactivity in your brain, hypersensitivity and hypervigilance, betrayal is probably already starting to seep into other areas of your life, like it taking down your passions, whatever you are interested in, your hobbies.
You might have already stopped seeing friends, not just from the embarrassment and shame but the betrayal will take down your friendships in a deep, meaningful way, and you’ll start to feel isolated and alone, like the world is not a safe palce.
And here is a weird symptom that you may experience when betrayal has gone too far, it will start to affect your work, your job, your career, your money, and it’ll start to take that out. So my clients often have left their careers or they are afraid they are going to lose their jobs.
So you have to stop the fire in your brain.
It might be time for you to start working with your brain, rather than against it.
There’s been research done on hypnotherapy and how it helps PTSD, and this is why it helps my clients that have betrayal trauma, the ones that have been crying every day for months and months and months, the ones that are still fighting with their husbands even years after D-Day.
So if you want to put this betrayal into the past and you want to move on from it, however that looks for you, whether you stay or leave.
Oe of my clients who had been fighting every day with her husband after she found secret messages on an old laptop, after her intuition had been telling her something was up with her husband.
Her brain was on fire.
She had been fighting every day, wanting to know the truth, and all she was getting was a little bit at a time.
And after the first session, and we stopped the fire in her brain and her intrusive thoughts calmed down, her emotions calmed down.
We continue to work together to rewire her brain for hope peace and possibility. And she created the possibilities of being so much more deeply in love with her husband, than she ever was.
I’m not saying that’s going to happen for you, but that was her journey.
Find Clarity After Betrayal
I don’t have a program that always does one thing, like other people that handle betrayal, because when you stop the fire in your brain, your super conscious mind will show you the right thing for you.
The smoke will clear and you’ll feel better, you’ll start to feel like yourself again.
You will get clarity and you will know exactly what to do,.
So if this feels like it might be helpful for you, I’ve put a link in the description.
Let’s connect on the next one.

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