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203. Stages of Healing After Betrayal Trauma & Divorce (Part 2)

This is a re-airing of Part 2 of the Victim → Chooser series, where I continue the framework for understanding the emotional and cognitive stages of healing after betrayal, abuse, and relational trauma.

In Part 1, I walked through the Victim and Emerger stages. In this episode, I move into the deeper reclamation process and what it actually looks like to step into agency through the Reclaimer and Chooser stages.

This episode is not about perfection or “getting it right.” It’s about awareness, normalization, and learning how to recognize when your nervous system is shifting out of survival and…

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