Harvesting Hope and Healing

Kristy RodriguezGeneral, Uncategorized

What comes to mind when you hear the word harvest? For me it stirs up childhood memories of helping gather the bountiful amounts of produce from my grandparents’ garden. Sometimes, it conjures up sweet memories of my children enjoying our annual harvest celebration. In fact, I can hear the sound of their laughter as they make fun childhood memories of …

Anxiety, An Invitation to Heal: Part 2

By Hope After BetrayalAnxiety, Uncategorized

By Tori Henares, Personal Coach Creating Safety Anxiety might seem irrational when it shows up. Most of us have become accustomed to judging our emotions, especially the inconvenient ones. Anxiety shows up unannounced and pulls us in, it can rob us of the present moment and send us back into past pain. But anxiety makes sense when you’ve gone through …

Betrayal Trauma: The Struggle to Cope

By Hope After Betrayalbetrayal, Relationships, Uncategorized

You have been betrayed in your marriage. Whether from a hidden sex addiction, porn, or infidelity, you are feeling devastated from the pain. Do you now find yourself struggling to cope with the daily tasks that once felt easy? Or has your physical health has gone downhill? Is your spouse is still relapsing and acting out? Or not understanding the …

Restoring Hearts Conference

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Restoring Hearts: For Women Impacted by Intimate Betrayal You are NOT Alone. Restoring Hearts welcomed over 200 women at our last in-person conference. Prodigals International is pleased to offer this unique gathering for women who are facing the startling discovery of their husband’s sexual unfaithfulness – from pornography use to extramarital affairs – as well as for women who have been …

Safe People

Meg WilsonRelationships, Uncategorized

This world feels like it has become harder to discern who is safe and who is not. There are destructive trends happening right now that have trickled even into well established friendships. People are painting those with differing views as the enemy and then surrounding themselves with only like-minded folks who do not challenge or question their personal views. This …

Broken During Christmas

By Hope After BetrayalGeneral, Grief, Uncategorized

Christmas Eve is only a few days away, and while many are filling themselves with holiday cheer, perhaps you are facing a broken heart and an overwhelming situation. If you are dealing with the trauma of betrayal, our staff and facilitators are here to walk with you through it. Below is a testimony from someone who has recently completed a …

Slow Cooker Faith

By Hope After BetrayalEncouragement, Relationships, Spiritual Life, Uncategorized

Written by Becky F. Recently, I found myself going through past photos for various reasons.  Often when I search for one particular photo, I get lost in the hundreds of photos taken over the years.  So many wonderful times with so many great people! Then it hit me. There used to be a time that looking at past photos was …

Oil That Breaks the Yoke of Pain

By Hope After BetrayalGrief, Uncategorized

Guest Blog written by Andrea Jones, of Abundant Wellness with Andrea LLC “I will take the crushing and turn it into oil that breaks the yoke.”    I’ve been sitting on this encounter for a while. I’m not sure there will ever be words to adequately describe it, but I felt a burning in my heart to share it today… …

NEWLIFE RESTORE WORKSHOP: HEALING AFTER BETRAYAL

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ABOUT NEWLIFE’S WORKSHOP IN DALLAS, TX: Has the pain of someone’s sexual betrayal devastated your life? Sexual betrayal is traumatizing, whether it’s betrayal due to pornography, affairs, adultery, voyeurism, lusting, prostitutes, sexting, sexual fetishes or same sex attraction. The Restore Workshop helps women whose hearts have been shattered by sexual betrayal trauma find hope. Many women who come to the workshop feel …

Heart to Heart’s Inspire 2021 Conference

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A Conference for Partners of Sex Addicts and Intimacy Anorexics Conference Location: Colorado Springs, CO INSPIRE 2021 is a 3-day conference for women who are or were in a relationship with a sex addict or intimacy anorexic. You will be hearing from experts in the field about how to grow, heal and inspire others in your journey. You will also …

Healing From Divorce: Part 3 of 3

By Hope After BetrayalDivorce, Uncategorized

Divorce Part 3

The Calm After the Storm The way God has continued to craft my life after my separation and divorce still blows my mind. As I shared in previous posts, He has brought me a new job, a whole new group of friends, and so much more. I am reminded over and over that God causes everything to work together for …

Healing From Divorce: Part 2 of 3

By Hope After BetrayalDivorce, Uncategorized

Leaving The day we decided my husband would move out was January 25th—the day after my son’s birthday. As I sat there with my three-month-old baby, he seemed so eager to pack his things and leave. At that point, I felt as though I was only floating through the day. I was not sure if it was just my lack …

An Exercise In Aligning Perspectives

By Hope After Betrayalcurrent year, Relationships, Uncategorized

“I sat there stunned, scrolling through his browsing history as image after image showed a slew of underdressed athletes in suggestive poses for the camera. The familiar feelings of betrayal struck a chord in my heart as it seemed yet again, he was choosing to look for self-gratification in places other than his wife. The troubling fact was, he had …

Formal Disclosure

By Hope After BetrayalEncouragement, Relationships, Uncategorized

By Heather Davis The process of a formal therapeutic disclosure consists of the betrayer sharing the full reality of their acting out, guided and supported by their therapist, with the one who has been betrayed, who also is being supported and guided by a therapist. It is an essential step in recovery and healing from the effects of sexual addiction …

Healing All Your Parts Webinar, by Restoring Hearts

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HEALING ALL YOUR PARTS, WITH JENNA RIEMERSMA Join Karen with her guest, Jenna Riemersma, author of Altogether You. We will discuss Internal Family Systems and how to heal our broken parts. About Jenna Riemersma Jenna Riemersma is the Clinical Director of The Atlanta Center for Relational Healing. She is a teaching faculty member for the International Institute of Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP). …