Deliberate Rumination: How to Heal From Betrayal, Backed by Research

Are you hung up on a past betrayal? Tortured by intrusive thoughts? Can’t shut your mind off? Deliberate Rumination might help.

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There’s a reason why betrayal turns your world upside down.

You think you know where stand. But then it happens. And, in a single moment, you’re in an entirely new world, a terrifying one that you don’t recognize. You don’t know where you stand anymore.

You don’t know where you’ve been either. You can’t trust your memories. The ground you thought was rock solid now becomes shaky. You turn over those rocks in your head and under some of them, you find more lies. The past begins to crumble under your feet.

And when you don’t know where you’ve been and you don’t even know where you are now, you sure as hell don’t know where you’re going. Your plans for the future are dashed, just like that.

They are not who you thought they were. You are not who you thought you were. Maybe nothing is what you thought it was.

This place you’re in now? It’s called Chaos.

That’s what betrayal does. It throws you into chaos. And when you’re betrayed by someone you love, someone you trusted…