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This page is for those courageous individuals who want to move through and beyond the pain of being betrayed into healing and living a fulfilled life.

03/12/2025

Boundaries are essential for maintaining emotional and mental health.

They allow you to protect your peace and prioritize your well-being.

They keep you focused on what is important to you and help you to move away from the things that hold you back.

By setting clear boundaries, you can prevent burnout, reduce stress, and create space for personal growth, empowering you to thrive.

It’s VITAL that we realize that boundaries are about what we say we will do or hear or be exposed to.

We do NOT put boundaries on other people!

We actually put them ON ourselves, and that is where we find our power!

03/05/2025

Setting daily intentions helps guide your actions with purpose.
Life can be so busy and chaotic that we lose track of even the things that are important to us.

Whether it’s a mental or physical goal, choose one thing that will help you grow today, and commit to it.

Placing that kind of intention in the forefront of your mind will make it easier for you to focus on that goal and work toward it.

For two whole years I wanted to focus on living intentionally.

What helped me the most, was writing the word “intentional” on the palm of my left hand. It was quite amazing how much the reminder of seeing that word throughout the day helped me to remain intentional.

I did have to rewrite the word many times, after I would wash my hands, but it absolutely was worth it and proved to be a meaningful exercise for me.

Try writing your intention on your hand or putting it on a post-it note someplace where you will see it regularly throughout the day…and watch for the difference it makes!

02/27/2025

Journaling can help clarify your thoughts and track your changes and progress.

Journaling works because of what it forces our brains to do.

When we're thinking about our situation enough that we can form sentences and then write them down, our brain is working at a different level from when we are just thinking about our problem.

It puts our brains in a state of problem solving, which means we're pulling that valuable prefrontal cortex online and benefiting from That level of thought.
Many people have found that they literally write out the solutions to their own problems while they are journaling about them... and they didn't even realize they had the solutions within them.

If journaling has always seemed difficult for you, here are three journal prompts to get you started.
“1. Today, I did this…” and
“2. Today, I felt…” or
“3. I’m really worried (scared, sad, confused) about…”

02/20/2025

But growth is not inevitable.
Growth only happens from the hardships, when we choose to learn with an open mind.
Whatever difficulty you are facing today, you have the freedom to choose whether you will grow from this difficulty or you will let it paralyze you.
The storms can be miserable and exceptionally frightening, so standing in them is not easy, and may not be pretty…but it is the way through to thriving through the pain.

02/12/2025

And why do we call it failure anyway?
If something we are attempting doesn't work out the way we plan, could we please stop calling those things failures?
We only fail when we stop getting back up. As long as we are still getting up and taking tiny steps forward, we are growing, we are moving, we are making progress.
We can learn from everything that doesn't turn out the way we expect or plan…and that makes it a part of the process, not a failure!

02/06/2025

When challenges hit, it can be extremely easy to let our positive habits slide.

Think about caregivers, who find it difficult to keep up with their self-care routines, or someone tasked with an extra responsibility at work, who now doesn't have time to stop by the gym on the way home.

Is this you? It certainly has been me.

Thriving through challenges requires that we take care of ourselves, and that might mean we need to reassess whether we've let some good habits slide.

What is one thing you could do for yourself today, that would be helpful for your mental or physical strength?

01/29/2025

Challenges can either hold you back or push you forward…they WILL do one or the other.
By seeing obstacles as opportunities for learning and growth, you turn adversity into a stepping-stone for success.
No matter what struggle or obstacle you are facing right now, the decision to see your difficulty as an opportunity to grow, is a decision that will help you thrive through your difficulty, no matter how painful your situation may be.

01/27/2025

The healing process for any trauma, including betrayal, is full of ups and downs. You will sometimes be exhausted and sometimes feel energetic.
You might sometimes feel love for your person and sometimes feel complete disdain. You may have days when tears are close to the surface constantly and days when you feel less tearful and more determined and purposeful.
You will find your emotions all over the place, and that’s completely normal.
The important piece is to not deny them but to recognize, acknowledge, accept and learn from them.
The emotions have work to do in your heart and mind and it is beneficial to let them do their work. One of the best things you can do to help you process and work with those emotions (instead of against them) is to journal about them as frequently as necessary.
You may be amazed at what you learn about yourself and your experience while journaling.

01/20/2025

At the heart of healthy boundaries is the healthy belief that, “they get to pick,” meaning, other people get to pick the words they use, the actions they choose, how they deal with (or don’t deal with) their emotions and how they choose to think.

They get to pick!

It also means YOU get to pick the words you use, the actions you choose, how you deal with your emotions, how you choose to think and what you choose to believe.

Even if your person chooses to pick incredibly unhealthy choices or damaging words…

YOU can’t manage his choices or picks, but you are completely in charge of how you choose to respond.

Don’t ever believe you can control your partner, or he can control you. We each get to pick!

01/15/2025

Rest is essential for recovery and growth. It gives you the strength to continue pushing forward.

When you rest, you’re not giving up—you’re refueling for the road ahead.

Somewhere along the way, our culture started pushing the idea that we need to be visibly producing at all moments. This simply isn't true.

We're actually being our most productive, when we give our minds and bodies what they regularly need...rest.

01/14/2025

Journaling is an incredible way to dig deeper into our minds and also to grow and develop deeper understanding of so many things.

If you are struggling with betrayal or any other difficulty, try this exercise.

Take out your journal and use it to write a letter to yourself. Write this letter as though you are writing from 5 years in the future and writing back to yourself, living through your experience today.

As you do this, imagine you are writing from a time when you have experienced great healing and growth. Your mind will be very creative as you put it in the position of imagining a different perspective.

This exercise can yield surprising ah-ha moments for you!

01/08/2025

Your mindset shapes your reality.

When your mind hears you think, “I can’t do this,” it believes it and stops trying.

However, when your mind hears you think, “I’ll find a way,” it also believes that and sets about to make your thought into a reality.

There is so much more power in our beliefs than we might realize!

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