65. The Betrayal That Broke Me
Aware and Aggravated
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🗓️ 24 May 2026
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How I escaped fight or flight mode and reset my nervous system.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the story about how a certain betrayal almost landed me in the Looney bin. |
| 0:06.0 | I don't even know how to start this. I'll know how to talk to you. Like I've been gone for a month. |
| 0:13.0 | Almost two months. Oh my god. Literally. Here's the intro. I'm going to tell you about the betrayal that broke me |
| 0:21.9 | and the relationship between betrayal and your nervous system |
| 0:25.7 | and being stuck in fighter flight mode. |
| 0:28.6 | That's good. |
| 0:29.5 | Yeah, that sounds nice. |
| 0:31.6 | I've been through a fair share of betrayals in my life. |
| 0:34.3 | I have trust no one tattooed on my hand for a reason. |
| 0:37.1 | Everybody's always asking me, how do you handle betrayal? |
| 0:39.3 | I just got a crash course on how not to, because the betrayal I just experienced broke me fully. |
| 0:45.3 | Broke my nervous system, broke my emotional system, broke me mentally. |
| 0:49.3 | So I've learned a lot from it, and I want to start with that, okay? I want to start with the awareness that I've gained around it from it and I want to start with that. |
| 0:55.0 | Okay, I want to start with the awareness that I've gained around it and then I can walk you through my experience of what has happened and |
| 1:01.0 | Yeah, we'll take it from there. |
| 1:04.0 | So with betrayal, you know how when like you're going through somebody's phone? |
| 1:08.0 | We can start with this. Good. |
| 1:09.0 | You know how you go through somebody's phone and you find them messaging somebody else? You find that your partner's cheating on you or something. And your stomach drops. It's like that pit in your stomach where it's like you don't know if you want to throw up. You start shaking. Party wants to bash their skull through the wall. And part of you was like, oh my God god like devastated one of boohoo cry that is an |
| 1:30.3 | activation of fight or flight mode it's also a state of shock when you find something out like that |
| 1:35.8 | so i've been stuck in a state of shock and my nervous system has been activated into fight or flight |
| 1:42.7 | mode so that was just a stupid example of like how it's not an actual threat, but your body will perceive a threat. |
| 1:49.0 | Because when you find out someone's cheating on you, your entire life is up in the air. |
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