Ep 73: How to Heal After Betrayal Trauma and Reclaim Your Identity with Lora Cheadle

You didn't cause it. You didn't deserve it. You didn't ask for it.

But you are the one who has to heal from it.

When Lora Cheadle discovered her husband had been cheating on her for 15 years with five different women, she didn't just lose her marriage. She lost her sense of reality. She lost her identity. She lost trust in herself.

She laid on the floor. She couldn't stand up. She wanted everything to go away.

And then she made a choice.

Not to remain a victim. To become the architect of her own healing.

About Lora:

Lora Cheadle, JD, CHt is a former corporate attorney turned clinical hypnotherapist, TEDx speaker, and betrayal recovery coach. She doesn't just teach betrayal recovery. She lived it. And eight and a half years out, she and her husband have built something more real, more connected, and more deeply committed than anything they had before. If you are trying to figure out how to heal after infidelity or understand what betrayal trauma is really doing to your body and mind, this episode is for you.

In this episode, we talk about:

◾ Why infidelity is not a marriage problem and why jumping straight into couples therapy can actually make things worse

◾ What betrayal trauma does to the brain and nervous system and why healing after an affair feels like recovering from a full-body trauma response

◾ The real stages of healing after betrayal: grief, self-blame, hypervigilance and why you cannot skip them