Betrayal Trauma Resources

Find helpful resources for understanding and healing from betrayal trauma, including a quiz, books, blog posts, podcasts, specific podcast episodes, and TED or TEDx Talks.

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Quiz

Take the Quiz

Books

On the Other Side of Pain

The Betrayal Bind

Broken to Brave

Blog Posts

Betrayal Trauma Podcasts

Helping Couples Heal Podcast
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A podcast focused specifically on infidelity, relational trauma, and betrayal trauma. Episodes cover disclosure, broken trust, boundaries, accountability, rebuilding safety, triggers, communication, and deciding whether a relationship can be repaired.
Betrayal Trauma Recovery — Anne Blythe, M.Ed.
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Focuses on recovering after deception, infidelity, secret sexual behavior, manipulation, and other forms of intimate betrayal. Episodes discuss recognizing harmful relationship patterns, setting boundaries, rebuilding self-trust, and making decisions based on what someone is actually doing rather than what they promise.
Betrayal Recovery Radio — The Official Podcast of APSATS
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Hosted by Dr. Jake Porter, this podcast explores betrayal caused by secret sexual behavior and sexual addiction. It discusses the shock of discovery, grief, boundaries, disclosure, rebuilding trust, and what both betrayed and betraying partners may need to work on during recovery.
Choosing to Stay After Infidelity and Betrayal
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A podcast for people trying to understand what happens after infidelity and broken trust. Episodes address accountability, boundaries, trust repair, difficult conversations, repeated triggers, deciding whether to stay, and what meaningful relationship repair actually requires.
Heal From Infidelity — Andrea Giles
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Focuses on rebuilding life after discovering infidelity. Topics include self-trust, decision-making, difficult emotions, boundaries, identity after betrayal, letting go of self-blame, and deciding what kind of relationship or life you want moving forward.

Specific Betrayal Trauma Podcast Episodes

Why People Cheat—and Can Relationships Recover? — Speaking of Psychology
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Psychologist Dr. Galena Rhoades discusses why infidelity happens, why certain betrayals can be particularly difficult to recover from, how affairs affect trust and identity, and what psychologists know about helping individuals and couples recover afterward.
How to Recover After Infidelity — 4 Questions to Ask — Betrayal Trauma Recovery
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Explores four common questions people struggle with after discovering infidelity, including whether the relationship was ever genuine, how to know whether the person is telling the truth now, whether trust can return, and how betrayal changes the way someone sees their partner.
Can Infidelity Actually Cause PTSD? The Psychology of Betrayal Trauma — The Infidelity Recovery Podcast
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Looks at why discovering an affair can lead to reactions such as intrusive thoughts, constantly looking for more evidence, difficulty concentrating, sleep problems, and repeatedly replaying what happened.

TED & TEDx Talks About Betrayal Trauma

The Other Side of Infidelity — Dr. Kevin Skinner
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Dr. Kevin Skinner focuses on the often-overlooked impact infidelity can have on the betrayed partner. He discusses sexual betrayal as a potentially traumatic experience and argues for better understanding and support for people trying to recover from it.
Betrayal: The Loss No One Is Talking About — Holli Kenley, LMFT
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Therapist Holli Kenley explains that betrayal can involve more than losing trust in another person. It can also affect someone’s sense of identity, worth, judgment, and personal power. She explores confusion, worthlessness, and powerlessness as important parts of the betrayal experience.
Rethinking Infidelity: A Talk for Anyone Who Has Ever Loved — Esther Perel
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Relationship therapist Esther Perel examines why affairs can be so psychologically disruptive. She discusses the loss of trust and emotional security that follows infidelity while also exploring why affairs happen and what recovery may look like for different couples.
Do You Have Post Betrayal Syndrome? — Debi Silber
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Debi Silber discusses the emotional, mental, and physical effects people may experience after being betrayed by someone close to them. The talk focuses on why betrayal by a trusted person can affect someone’s life differently from other difficult experiences and what rebuilding can involve.
Infidelity: To Stay or Go…? — Lucy Beresford
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Psychotherapist Lucy Beresford examines the difficult question of whether a relationship should continue after infidelity. She discusses responsibility, rebuilding trust, changes required from the person who betrayed the relationship, and what couples need to consider before attempting reconciliation.
How to Build and Rebuild Trust — Frances Frei
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Harvard professor Frances Frei explains the basic ingredients of trust and what happens when one of them breaks down. Although the talk is broader than romantic betrayal, its framework can help people think more clearly about whether damaged trust is actually being rebuilt through consistent behavior.
Surviving Betrayal — Roselyn Aker-Black
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Clinical psychologist Dr. Roselyn Aker-Black presents a three-step approach to beginning recovery after betrayal. The talk focuses on changing how someone responds to the betrayal, processing what happened, and moving forward without allowing another person’s actions to determine the rest of their life.

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