Practical Ways to Lift Your Self-Esteem

08/27/24 • 24 min

With your co-hostesses:

Pam Blizzard from RecoveredPeace.com Lyschel Burket from HopeRedefined.org Bonny Burns from StrongWives.com

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Today, we are continuing our discussion around how trauma negatively impacts our self-confidence, self-esteem, self-worth. We are going to explore ways to gain the confidence you lost after discovery and empower yourselves in truth.

We Will be Discussing:

What are some ways you personally found your way to empowerment?
What are some other practical tools we can offer our listeners in order for them to grow in empowerment?
What hope can we leave? Resources mentioned in this show:
Scripture references: Zephaniah 3:17 Jeremiah 17:14-18

With your co-hostesses:

Pam Blizzard from RecoveredPeace.com Lyschel Burket from HopeRedefined.org Bonny Burns from StrongWives.com

Support HFW through a donation Listen now:

We Will be Discussing:

What are some ways you personally found your way to empowerment?
What are some other practical tools we can offer our listeners in order for them to grow in empowerment?
What hope can we leave? Resources mentioned in this show:
Scripture references: Zephaniah 3:17 Jeremiah 17:14-18

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Why and How Self-Esteem Plummets after Discovery

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Pam Blizzard from RecoveredPeace.com Lyschel Burket from HopeRedefined.org Bonny Burns from StrongWives.com

Support HFW through a donation Listen now: Today, we are discussing why and how a betrayed partner’s self-esteem decreases after discovery. Self-esteem is your sense of overall personal worth or value. Similar to self-respect, it describes your level of confidence in your abilities and attributes. One of the criteria for post traumatic stress in the DSM-5 is “Persistent and exaggerated negative beliefs or expectations about oneself, others, or the world.” So, it makes sense that a large percentage of betrayed wives experience this drastic drop in their confidence. We Will be Discussing:

What are some experiences betrayed partners have with loss of self-esteem?
How does this lack of self-esteem affect recovery from betrayal trauma?
What hope can we leave?

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Next Episode

Staying Sane When He Avoids

With your co-hostesses:

Pam Blizzard from RecoveredPeace.com Lyschel Burket from HopeRedefined.org Bonny Burns from StrongWives.com

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Welcome to another episode of Hope For Wives. Before we get started, we just want to make sure to say that we are not licensed therapists. We are ethically credentialled coaches.

As coaches, we pick up on patterns. One of the patterns we see in recovering couples is that the person with problematic sexual behavior exhibit being avoidant of connecting with his wife.

We Will be Discussing:

What are some reasons the person with problematic behavior avoids?
How does a woman experience living with a man who is in very early recovery and avoids intimacy.
How does she stay sane when living with a man who does not want or does not have the skill set, yet, to connect with her in a way that is meaningful to her?