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187: Anxiety, Depression, And Betrayal Trauma

187: Anxiety, Depression, And Betrayal Trauma

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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 as “laziness,” and how to stop making big life decisions while your brain is in threat mode. Instead of chasing certainty with phone checks and late-night spirals, we unpack a calmer path: regulate first, decide second.

We share a clear framework for separating intuition from anxiety. Anxiety is loud, urgent, and catastrophic; intuition is quiet, steady, and specific. You’ll learn simple, repeatable practices to create safety in your body—guided breath paired with a vivid safe-place image, hand-on-heart grounding, movement and shaking to release stuck emotion, ragdoll resets, sunlight and bare feet on grass, and even a splash of cold water to nudge your system back to balance. These tools help you break hypervigilant loops and pull out of shutdown so you can hear your own voice again.

Along the way, Jen opens up about “functional freeze,” raising kids while numb, and the moment she realized nothing was wrong with her—she was living with betrayal trauma. That insight reshaped her approach: you can’t think your way out of betrayal; you have to feel it to heal it. With practice, the alarm quiets, clarity returns, and choices become wiser. You are not broken. Your reactions make sense, and with the right support you can rebuild safety, reclaim agency, and create a future that feels calm, sturdy, and yours.

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