Why and How Self-Esteem Plummets after Discovery

08/20/24 • 29 min

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: 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?

Resources mentioned in this show:

With your co-hostesses:

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

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?

Resources mentioned in this show:

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Navigating Insensitive Friends and Family

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

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We are continuing our exploration of how to navigate when friends or family in this episode. Today, we are sharing practical tools and tips when friends and family are unintentionally insensitive to complexities of pain involved in betrayal from sex addiction.

We Will be Discussing:

What can a betrayed wife put in place or think about before she interacts with friends and family to pro-actively care for herself if this kind of situation comes up?
What are some other practical tips or tools we can share that have worked for you or your clients in navigating insensitive friends and family?
What hope can we leave?

Resources mentioned in this show:

3C Family and Friends Understand BT

2B PSB Family and Friends Understand PSBSA (1)

P Affects Community Family and Friends Understand

Clarity and Peace with Boundaries (Pam Blizzard

Scripture references:

Philippians 4:7-9

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Practical Ways to Lift Your Self-Esteem

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