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Happily Even After Betrayal with Life Coach Jen
When your world shatters from betrayal, healing can feel impossible but it’s not. Happily Even After Betrayal with Life Coach Jen is your weekly dose of hope, honesty, and healing. Certified Life Coach Jennifer Townsend shares real stories, faith-based insights, and practical tools to help you calm your body, rebuild trust, and create peace after infidelity or divorce. You can’t change what happened, but you can write your Happily Even After.
Episodes
249 episodes
196: Why We Resist Help After Betrayal
When betrayal blows up your world, silence can feel safer than speaking—and yet that silence keeps the pain in charge. We open up about why so many of us resist help after an affair or divorce, how generational scripts shaped our instincts, and...
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Season 5
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Episode 196
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195: Grief After Betrayal and Divorce
Your person is still alive, but the life you planned with them is gone. That contradiction sits at the heart of grief after betrayal and divorce, and it’s why so many of us feel unseen, judged, and stuck in waves that won’t resolve. We open up ...
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Season 5
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Episode 195
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27:04
194: Self-Betrayal, Healing, And The Courage To Be You: With Guest, Hazel Mason
If you’ve ever made yourself smaller to keep the peace, this conversation will feel like a mirror and a map. We sit down with Hazel—life coach, retreat leader, and addiction counselor—to unpack self-betrayal: the quiet ways we trade our needs, ...
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Season 5
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Episode 194
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29:57
193: It's been Labeled "Gray Divorce": Why People Over 50 are Choosing to Divorce more than anytime in History?
“I don’t want something new. I want something true.” That line becomes a compass as we unpack the rise of gray divorce and the very real reasons so many couples over 50 are choosing to end long marriages. We look beyond headlines and into the l...
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Season 5
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Episode 193
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20:34
192: How To Weigh Divorce When Children Are Involved
What if staying “for the kids” isn’t the safest choice after betrayal? We open the new year with a clear-eyed look at divorce, co-parenting, and the real needs of children at different ages. Instead of recycling old myths, we focus on what actu...
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Season 5
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Episode 192
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27:56
191: Why Did They Cheat?
What if the most-asked question after betrayal is the one that keeps you stuck? We tackle the urge to demand “Why did they cheat?” and show how that chase can fuel anxiety, rumination, and self-blame. Instead, we walk through a trauma-informed ...
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Season 4
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Episode 191
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26:26
190: Healing After Betrayal: How Forgiveness, Letting go and Reconciliation May or May not Happen.
Betrayal scrambles your mind, hijacks your nervous system, and floods you with advice that often makes things worse. We slow everything down and separate three paths that get tangled under pressure: forgiveness, letting go, and reconciliation. ...
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Season 4
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Episode 190
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23:43
189: Women, Betrayal, and How to Stop Comparing, Rebuild Trust and Choose Love Over Fear
When betrayal detonates in a relationship, it doesn’t just break trust—it distorts time, identity, and daily rhythms. We open up about the questions women ask in the aftermath: how to stop comparing yourself to “the other woman,” whether the ma...
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Season 4
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Episode 189
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17:51
188: Five Questions Men Ask After Infidelity And How To Heal
Betrayal doesn’t just bruise the heart; it shakes identity, confidence, and the story you tell about who you are. Today I walk through the five questions men ask most after a partner’s affair—why they didn’t see it, whether they were “enough,” ...
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Season 4
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Episode 188
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17:54
187: Anxiety, Depression, And Betrayal Trauma
Your body can’t tell the difference between a bear on the trail and a betrayal in your home—and that’s why anxiety feels like a siren you can’t shut off. We go deep on how the nervous system reacts to infidelity, why depression can masquerade a...
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Season 4
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Episode 187
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24:21
186: Tools To Navigate Hard Conversations After Infidelity
Hard conversations after betrayal can feel impossible—your heart races, your thoughts scatter, and the urge to win eclipses the need to heal. We break that cycle with a set of simple, powerful tools inspired by Jefferson Fisher’s “The Next Conv...
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Season 4
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Episode 186
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29:26
185: How To Process Pain After Betrayal
Pain doesn’t disappear when we bury it; it waits. When betrayal blasts through your life, your nervous system scrambles to protect you—numbing out, flaring into rage, or gripping control. We unpack why those instincts are normal and how to move...
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Season 4
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Episode 185
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25:06
184: Four Small Words That Transform Healing From Betrayal
A single word can change how your body breathes and how your brain sees the road ahead. Today we unpack four small words—yet, unless, and, and okay—that quietly transform the way we heal from betrayal, rebuild trust, and choose what comes next....
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Season 4
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Episode 184
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14:49
183: Learn to say "No" in November: Make it Your Superpower
Want more peace, less pressure, and a holiday season that actually supports your healing? We dive into the art of saying no—how to read your body’s signals, stop fear-driven yeses, and make choices that protect your energy without guilt. Drawin...
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Season 4
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Episode 183
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22:16
182: How Three Simple Tools can help Restore Your Peace after Betrayal
Your memory cabinet gets dumped on the floor when betrayal hits, and suddenly every moment feels out of order. We share a clear path to regulation with three gentle practices—complex puzzles, warm blankets, and journaling—that help your brain s...
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Season 4
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Episode 182
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20:31
181: Identity vs. Roles: Finding Yourself After Betrayal
The moment betrayal rocks your world, everything familiar seems to vanish. But what if the greatest confusion isn't about what happened, but about who you truly are? Deep down, many of us have mistakenly fused our identity with our...
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Season 4
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Episode 181
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17:45
180: Rebuilding Trust After Financial Betrayal with Guest Shayna Hutchins
What happens when financial secrets threaten to destroy your marriage? For Shayna, author of "Rebuilding a Marriage," the discovery that her husband had been making financial decisions without her knowledge became a pivotal moment that could ha...
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Season 4
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Episode 180
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28:08
179: Discovering Strength in My Darkest Moment
Have you ever had a moment when a tiny scrap of paper changed the entire trajectory of your life? That's exactly what happened to me.After 26 years of marriage marked by repeated betrayal and broken promises, I found myself cleaning up ...
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Season 4
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Episode 179
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15:30
178: Are Your Thoughts Keeping You Stuck After Betrayal?
Betrayal shatters more than just trust—it often demolishes our sense of self-worth and leaves us trapped in destructive thought patterns. In this powerful episode, I dive deep into how the thoughts we believe after betrayal can either keep us s...
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Season 4
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Episode 178
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19:10
177: The Seven Stages of Betrayal Healing Roadmap
After betrayal shatters your world, finding your way forward can feel impossible without a map. Where are you on your healing journey? Where do you want to go? And most importantly, how do you get there?Drawing from both personal experi...
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Season 4
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Episode 177
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26:52
176: Healing Intimacy After Betrayal
The journey through betrayal trauma requires navigating countless emotional landmines, but perhaps none more complex than rebuilding physical intimacy. What happens when your mind says yes but your body screams no? When desire conflicts with fe...
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Season 4
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Episode 176
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19:53
175: Breaking Free: Healing After Narcissistic Abuse with Guest Laura Richards
[Insert description here]Breaking free from narcissistic abuse requires recognizing patterns most of us never knew had names. Laura spent 33 years married to someone everyone thought was "such a nice guy" while enduring emotional manipulati...
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Season 4
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Episode 175
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35:11
174: Divorce or Reconcile? Your Post-Affair Navigation Guide
That gut-wrenching moment when you discover your spouse has betrayed you doesn't come with a clear roadmap forward. The decision to stay or leave after infidelity isn't as simple as others might suggest, especially when well-meaning friends con...
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Season 4
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Episode 174
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25:01
173: Why Putting People on Pedestals Destroys Relationships
Have you ever put someone on a pedestal only to feel devastated when they tumbled down? Pedestals seem harmless—even positive—but they create dangerous dynamics that fuel betrayal, secrets, and delayed healing.As a trauma-informed life ...
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Season 4
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Episode 173
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22:13
172: 10 Reasons Why "Get Over It" Is The Worst Advice After Being Cheated On
The devastating words "just move on" after betrayal often cause more harm than the infidelity itself. Like an elephant stubbornly refusing to leave the room, unaddressed betrayal trauma grows larger the more we attempt to ignore it. This raw, h...
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Season 4
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Episode 172
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22:32