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Happily Even After Betrayal with Life Coach Jen

Happily Even After Betrayal with Life Coach Jen

By: Jennifer Townsend
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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.

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Episodes
  • 189: Women, Betrayal, and How to Stop Comparing, Rebuild Trust and Choose Love Over Fear
    Dec 15 2025

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    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 marriage you remember was ever real, why love can survive alongside anger, and how to hear your intuition again when trauma has turned the volume up on fear.

    Across the conversation, we ground big emotions in clear, practical steps. You’ll learn why affairs live in a neurochemical fantasy that isn’t about your worth, how to reclaim your timeline without erasing the joy you truly felt, and what it means to separate love from harmful behavior. We dig into the markers of genuine repair—remorse, consistent action, and movement—and teach a simple filter for decisions: do I feel safe, seen, and supported? We also walk through micro-practices that rebuild self-trust, from keeping small promises to replacing busyness with calming rituals that let your inner compass speak.

    If you’re wrestling with “Am I staying for love or fear?” we offer a framework to spot fear talk, assess who’s doing the work, and give yourself time unless there’s danger. The goal isn’t perfection; it’s steadiness. You’re allowed to choose a future that protects your peace, whether that means rebuilding together with accountability or charting a new path with courage. Listen for validation, leave with tools, and remember: compassion and curiosity are your best allies in healing.

    If this resonates, follow the show, share it with someone who needs it, and leave a quick review to help others find these tools. Want hands-on support? Reach out and let’s create your happily even after together.

    Please follow me on instagram and facebook @happilyevenaftercoach and if you want to see what coaching is all about I offer a free 45 min. clarity call via zoom.

    Email me: hello@lifecoachjen.com for any comments or questions.

    Thanks for listening, please like and review as well as share with your family and friends.

    My website is www.lifecoachjen.com



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  • 188: Five Questions Men Ask After Infidelity And How To Heal
    Dec 8 2025

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    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,” how to decide to stay or leave, what to do with explosive anger, and how to show up for kids while hurting. I share a clear, compassionate path that separates your worth from your partner’s choices and uses values alignment as the North Star for every next step.

    We unpack how the brain can blindside you to protect against what feels unsafe to see, and why that isn’t weakness—it’s commitment. From there, I offer a simple decision framework: slow down, stabilize your body, then evaluate actions over words. Is there accountability, remorse, transparency, and a real plan to rebuild trust? We challenge common traps like fix-it mode, fear of judgment, and clinging to the fantasy of what the relationship was supposed to be.

    Anger gets a practical toolkit too. You’ll learn how to move it safely through breathwork, grounding, strength training, and journaling, then trace it to the softer layers underneath—grief, fear, disappointment—so it no longer runs the room. For fathers, I outline how to be steady without pretending: name feelings, keep adult details private, protect routines, and reassure safety. Finally, I make the case for support over secrecy—coaches, therapists, and trusted friends—because DIY recovery keeps you stuck while community pulls you forward.

    If this resonates, follow the show, share it with a friend who needs it, and leave a quick review to help more men find real help after infidelity. Have a question you want answered next time? Send it in and join the conversation.

    Please follow me on instagram and facebook @happilyevenaftercoach and if you want to see what coaching is all about I offer a free 45 min. clarity call via zoom.

    Email me: hello@lifecoachjen.com for any comments or questions.

    Thanks for listening, please like and review as well as share with your family and friends.

    My website is www.lifecoachjen.com



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  • 187: Anxiety, Depression, And Betrayal Trauma
    Dec 1 2025

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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.

    If this resonates, follow and share the show. Leave a review to help others find these tools, and connect with us to take the next step in your healing journey.

    Please follow me on instagram and facebook @happilyevenaftercoach and if you want to see what coaching is all about I offer a free 45 min. clarity call via zoom.

    Email me: hello@lifecoachjen.com for any comments or questions.

    Thanks for listening, please like and review as well as share with your family and friends.

    My website is www.lifecoachjen.com



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