Happily Even After with Life Coach Jen
Happily Even After shares weekly insights and tools to create more fulfilling relationships with yourself, your family and God. Jennifer is a certified life coach that was married for 26 years . She has 4 amazing children and 1 son in law. She doesn’t have it all figured out but she has lots of personal experience and has learned what to do and what not to do in relationships. I help women and men who have experienced betrayal in their marriage or have been divorced learn that their is happiness to be had even when your life doesn't go as planned.
Episodes
235 episodes
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
163: Hello, My Name Is: Letting Go of Trauma After Infidelity
Healing after betrayal often feels impossible when we're white-knuckling our trauma, convinced that hypervigilance will somehow protect us from future pain. But what if the very things we're clinging to—obsessive thoughts about the affair partn...
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Season 4
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Episode 163
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14:29
162: Beyond Betrayal: Rebuilding Your Marriage Without Fixing Your Spouse
The aftermath of betrayal often leaves us scrambling to "fix" our broken marriage, convinced that our happiness depends entirely on our spouse's transformation. But what if these beliefs are actually preventing your healing?Drawing from...
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Season 4
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Episode 162
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18:19
161: Navigating who You Want to BE after Divorce
Have you ever found yourself stuck in the mindset that your spouse should be the same person you married years ago? Or perhaps you've only focused on your partner's good qualities while being painfully aware of your own flaws? In this deeply pe...
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Season 4
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Episode 161
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21:42
160: Jill Pack with Seasons Coaching and I have a Conversation: Healing from Betrayal
What happens when the foundation of your marriage crumbles through betrayal? Jennifer Townsend knows this territory intimately. After 26 years of marriage punctuated by her husband's affairs, Jennifer discovered the transformative power of coac...
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Season 4
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Episode 160
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49:12
159: Celebrating Three Years: Reflections on My Post-Divorce Growth
Have you ever wondered what life could look like three years after making one of the most difficult decisions of your life? In this deeply personal anniversary episode, I reflect on my three-year divorce milestone and the remarkable transformat...
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Season 3
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Episode 159
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19:19
158: Are you a Peacekeeper or a Peacemaker?
Have you ever prided yourself on being the one who "keeps the peace" in your relationships, only to realize later you might be sacrificing your own well-being in the process? That's exactly what happened to me after years of what I thought was ...
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Season 4
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Episode 158
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27:23