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 …

Lessons From the Rearview Mirror

Kristy Rodriguezbetrayal, Encouragement

In a single moment, life as I had known it came to an unexpected end. Devastation and pain abruptly barged into my life as a result of my husband’s sexual sin and infidelity. Hope that anything good could ever come from the enormity of this mess seemed like just a tease. It was a cruel joke that pulled on what …

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 …

Anxiety, An Invitation to Heal: Part 1

By Hope After BetrayalAnxiety, betrayal, Uncategorized

This blog was written in collaboration with Bloom for Women’s 6-week Growth Session. Blog is written by Tori Henares, Personal Coach Living With Anxiety Anxiety is a feeling I am well acquainted with. You may know the feeling too. It’s that feeling that something bad could happen at any moment and pull the rug out from under you, and there’s …

God Is In the Darkness

Meg Wilsonbetrayal

I have noticed this tendency to believe God has abandoned me in the seasons of darkness. When I’m sad, depressed or angry, I think God must be absent, or worse He’s upset with me. It is easy to feel God is only present in the victorious times of joy and celebration. He is the author of victory and strength after …

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 …

Sexual Integrity Leadership Summit 2022

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Registration is now open! Sexual Integrity Leadership Summit 2022: Full summit early-bird rate: $229.00 Regular rate (after Feb 1): $279.00 Thursday-only registration: $119.00 Friday-only registration: $119.00 Saturday-only registration: $39.00 REGISTER HERE!! This Sexual Integrity Leadership Summit is for: Pastors, church staff, and lay leaders who desire a better, more strategic engagement on sexuality in their church Christian ministry leaders who seek cross-training and fellowship with other …

Redeemed Hope Retreat 2022

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Redeemed Hope is an intensive weekend healing retreat that offers the dedicated space and intentional time to do a deeper work in our hearts.  (This includes lodging for 3 nights, 4 full days of retreat, 9 meals, retreat material, and a 6-week online follow-up support group. Space is limited to 14 participants.) Tickets Go On Sale August 9th, 2021 Click …

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 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 …

Healing From Divorce: Part 1 of 3

By Hope After BetrayalDivorce, Relationships, Uncategorized

THE SHOCKWAVE “I had an affair.” That statement literally felt like the equivalent of falling off of a 10-story building. It did not help that while I was being told this, I was driving on HWY 14 with my 5-month-old son in the backseat. The world seemed to stand still. I felt like I was having an out of body …

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). …