Happily Even After Betrayal with Life Coach Jen
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.
Episodes
241 episodes
188: Five Questions Men Ask After Infidelity And How To Heal
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,” ...
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Episode 188
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17:54
187: Anxiety, Depression, And Betrayal Trauma
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 a...
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Season 4
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Episode 187
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24:21
186: Tools To Navigate Hard Conversations After Infidelity
Hard conversations after betrayal can feel impossible—your heart races, your thoughts scatter, and the urge to win eclipses the need to heal. We break that cycle with a set of simple, powerful tools inspired by Jefferson Fisher’s “The Next Conv...
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Season 4
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Episode 186
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29:26
185: How To Process Pain After Betrayal
Pain doesn’t disappear when we bury it; it waits. When betrayal blasts through your life, your nervous system scrambles to protect you—numbing out, flaring into rage, or gripping control. We unpack why those instincts are normal and how to move...
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Season 4
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Episode 185
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25:06
184: Four Small Words That Transform Healing From Betrayal
A single word can change how your body breathes and how your brain sees the road ahead. Today we unpack four small words—yet, unless, and, and okay—that quietly transform the way we heal from betrayal, rebuild trust, and choose what comes next....
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Season 4
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Episode 184
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14:49
183: Learn to say "No" in November: Make it Your Superpower
Want more peace, less pressure, and a holiday season that actually supports your healing? We dive into the art of saying no—how to read your body’s signals, stop fear-driven yeses, and make choices that protect your energy without guilt. Drawin...
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Season 4
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Episode 183
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22:16
182: How Three Simple Tools can help Restore Your Peace after Betrayal
Your memory cabinet gets dumped on the floor when betrayal hits, and suddenly every moment feels out of order. We share a clear path to regulation with three gentle practices—complex puzzles, warm blankets, and journaling—that help your brain s...
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Season 4
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Episode 182
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20:31
181: Identity vs. Roles: Finding Yourself After Betrayal
The moment betrayal rocks your world, everything familiar seems to vanish. But what if the greatest confusion isn't about what happened, but about who you truly are? Deep down, many of us have mistakenly fused our identity with our...
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Season 4
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Episode 181
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17:45
180: Rebuilding Trust After Financial Betrayal with Guest Shayna Hutchins
What happens when financial secrets threaten to destroy your marriage? For Shayna, author of "Rebuilding a Marriage," the discovery that her husband had been making financial decisions without her knowledge became a pivotal moment that could ha...
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Season 4
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Episode 180
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28:08
179: Discovering Strength in My Darkest Moment
Have you ever had a moment when a tiny scrap of paper changed the entire trajectory of your life? That's exactly what happened to me.After 26 years of marriage marked by repeated betrayal and broken promises, I found myself cleaning up ...
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Season 4
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Episode 179
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15:30
178: Are Your Thoughts Keeping You Stuck After Betrayal?
Betrayal shatters more than just trust—it often demolishes our sense of self-worth and leaves us trapped in destructive thought patterns. In this powerful episode, I dive deep into how the thoughts we believe after betrayal can either keep us s...
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Season 4
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Episode 178
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19:10
177: The Seven Stages of Betrayal Healing Roadmap
After betrayal shatters your world, finding your way forward can feel impossible without a map. Where are you on your healing journey? Where do you want to go? And most importantly, how do you get there?Drawing from both personal experi...
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Season 4
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Episode 177
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26:52
176: Healing Intimacy After Betrayal
The journey through betrayal trauma requires navigating countless emotional landmines, but perhaps none more complex than rebuilding physical intimacy. What happens when your mind says yes but your body screams no? When desire conflicts with fe...
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Season 4
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Episode 176
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19:53
175: Breaking Free: Healing After Narcissistic Abuse with Guest Laura Richards
[Insert description here]Breaking free from narcissistic abuse requires recognizing patterns most of us never knew had names. Laura spent 33 years married to someone everyone thought was "such a nice guy" while enduring emotional manipulati...
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Season 4
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Episode 175
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35:11
174: Divorce or Reconcile? Your Post-Affair Navigation Guide
That gut-wrenching moment when you discover your spouse has betrayed you doesn't come with a clear roadmap forward. The decision to stay or leave after infidelity isn't as simple as others might suggest, especially when well-meaning friends con...
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Season 4
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Episode 174
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25:01
173: Why Putting People on Pedestals Destroys Relationships
Have you ever put someone on a pedestal only to feel devastated when they tumbled down? Pedestals seem harmless—even positive—but they create dangerous dynamics that fuel betrayal, secrets, and delayed healing.As a trauma-informed life ...
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Season 4
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Episode 173
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22:13
172: 10 Reasons Why "Get Over It" Is The Worst Advice After Being Cheated On
The devastating words "just move on" after betrayal often cause more harm than the infidelity itself. Like an elephant stubbornly refusing to leave the room, unaddressed betrayal trauma grows larger the more we attempt to ignore it. This raw, h...
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Season 4
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Episode 172
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22:32
171: Ticking Time Bombs: Why We Explode After Betrayal
The words "you're just too sensitive" ring in our ears long after they're spoken—especially when they're used to cover up betrayal. As a trauma-informed coach who survived my own journey through infidelity, I've discovered that most troubled re...
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Season 4
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Episode 171
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17:03
170: Beyond Betrayal: Finding Community in the Aftermath of Trauma with guest Jeni Brockbank
Have you ever felt crazy when your intuition was screaming that something was wrong in your relationship? Jeni Brockbank's story will validate those feelings and show you there's a path forward through betrayal trauma.Jeni, Executive Di...
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Season 4
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Episode 170
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33:35
169: When They're Gone But Still Here: Navigating Post-Betrayal Grief
Grief comes in many forms, but society often ranks and responds to them differently. Research suggests that divorce—particularly after betrayal—can be more painful than losing a spouse to death, though making this claim often raises eyebrows. T...
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Season 4
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Episode 169
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17:10
168: Shame: The Silent Destroyer of Relationships
Shame creeps in silently after betrayal, whispering that we're somehow responsible for our partner's choices. It tells us we should have known better, seen the signs earlier, or somehow prevented the pain that's now consuming us. A...
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Season 4
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Episode 168
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18:52
167: The Grief Behind Going No Contact With A Parent: With my Special Guest Meghan Townsend
What happens when maintaining a relationship with a parent becomes too emotionally costly? Why are more adult children choosing distance from their families? These questions don't have simple answers, but they deserve honest exploration.
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Season 4
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Episode 167
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42:55
166: The Courage to Feel Discomfort: Navigating Post-Betrayal Emotions Without Avoidance
The journey through betrayal trauma often feels like navigating a minefield of uncomfortable emotions. Many of us instinctively avoid these feelings, creating a pattern of emotional suppression that prevents true healing. As someone who rode th...
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Season 4
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Episode 166
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16:58
165: Beyond Content Communicating: Finding Strength in Painful Truths
Truth can be both illuminating and devastating. When I recorded my very first podcast episode on "content communicating" with my then-husband, I believed we were strengthening our marriage by teaching others to "say what you mean and mean what ...
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Season 4
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Episode 165
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15:41
164: Debunking Bad Marriage Advice: With Guest Monica Tanner
Relationship and intimacy coach Monica Tanner joins us to unpack the damaging marriage advice many of us have accepted as truth. Drawing from her seven years of podcasting experience and three years exclusively coaching couples, Monica reveals ...
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Season 4
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Episode 164
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29:08