Healing After Betrayal: How to Rebuild Trust, Self-Worth, & Courage After Intimate Betrayal | Tammy Gustafson (Bonus Episode)
Minimalist Moms Podcast | Purposeful Life & Parenting Tips
Diane Boden
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
For those that are new around here, I release bonus episodes that serve a niche part of my audience, so if this content is something that doesn’t fit what you’re looking for, check out the other episodes that dropped this week or join me back here next Tuesday for a conversation that you don’t want to miss!
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Intimate betrayal doesn’t just break trust—it can shatter your sense of reality, safety, and self. In this powerful conversation, Tammy Gustafson, author of Broken to Brave, joins me to unpack what happens after the truth comes out and why betrayal is experienced as real trauma in both the body and the mind.
Drawing from her personal experience and professional insight, Tammy explains the emotional free fall that often follows betrayal, how to identify where you are in the healing journey, and why rushing to “fix” the relationship can actually slow recovery. We talk about rebuilding self-worth after betrayal, avoiding common healing traps, and making grounded decisions about the future—whether that includes repairing the relationship or choosing a new path forward.
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- Website
- Betrayal Healing Conference
- Book: Broken to Brave: Your Courageous Act of Healing After Intimate Betrayal by Tammy Gustafson
About Tammy |
Tammy Gustafson, MA, LPC, is a trauma-informed licensed professional counselor, coach, and speaker with over 15 years of experience. She holds a master’s degree in counseling and is the founder and CEO of Betrayal Healing and LiveFree Counseling. Tammy hosts the annual Betrayal Healing Conference, which provides compassionate, expert guidance to thousands of betrayed partners worldwide.
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| 0:00.0 | For those of you that are new around here, I release bonus episodes that serve a niche part of my |
| 0:04.3 | audience. So if this content is something that doesn't fit what you're looking for, check out |
| 0:08.0 | one of the other episodes that dropped this week or join you back here next Tuesday for a conversation |
| 0:12.4 | you don't want to miss. You can't heal your heart with your head. You can't think your way |
| 0:18.6 | through this. You can't heal with your head but they're they're intertwined |
| 0:23.8 | absolutely and so it is helpful especially if it's you're in that really confusing taste it's really |
| 0:29.4 | helpful to have somebody on the outside or who have a therapist or coach who really gets this |
| 0:34.2 | because when you're in it it is so. You don't know which way is up |
| 0:39.5 | or down forward or backward or at least I'll speak for myself. I didn't. Even though I had been a |
| 0:43.9 | therapist for however many years. But now that's part of why I wrote this book. It's because now as |
| 0:51.2 | a clinician and having gone through this, there's very clear patterns. |
| 0:55.9 | And there's very clear patterns of things men say when they're in good recovery or do |
| 1:01.0 | when they're a good recovery and when they're not. There's very clear ways where women can get |
| 1:05.7 | stuck in this process. And so it's getting her unstuck, getting clarity so she knows. |
| 1:12.1 | And that's kind of the headpiece of it. |
| 1:13.8 | So she knows what's going on and where she's at and where she's going. |
| 1:17.4 | And then also really honoring your heart and your emotions because that's where the deep |
| 1:22.2 | healing is going to happen. |
| 1:23.6 | This is Diane Bowden and you're listening to the minimalist moms podcast. |
| 1:27.4 | Intimate betrayal doesn't |
| 1:28.5 | just break trust. It can shatter your sense of reality, safety, and self. In this powerful |
| 1:34.2 | conversation, Tammy Gustafson, author A Broken to Brave, joins me to unpack what happens after the |
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