Hope For Wives

With your co-hostesses: Pam Blizzard from  RecoveredPeace.com Lyschel Burket from  HopeRedefined.org Bonny Burns from  StrongWives.com   With the holidays right around the corner, we talk about how to navigate this season that can be tricky for betrayed wives. We Discuss: What makes the holidays hard to navigate after a recent discovery? What are some practical tools for finding stability and sani...

With your co-hostesses: Pam Blizzard from  RecoveredPeace.com Lyschel Burket from  HopeRedefined.org Bonny Burns from  StrongWives.com   Today, we continue our discussion of how sobriety isn't enough to build a mutually connected relationship in marriage. We Discuss: What can a wife do to help him in his recovery? What are some practical tools a wife can implement if her husband is sober and still...

Help Us Help Others With your co-hostesses: Pam Blizzard from  RecoveredPeace.com Lyschel Burket from  HopeRedefined.org Bonny Burns from  StrongWives.com   Today, we unpack recovery just a little more. In episode 35 we had an insightful discussion with Dr. Jake Porter about the three legged stool of recovery - her recovery, his self-discovery, and the coupleships relational repair and growth.   W...

With: Pam Blizzard from RecoveredPeace.com Lyschel Burket from  HopeRedefined.org Bonny Burns from  StrongWives.com Today: We have our special friend back, Shawna Meek. She shares her own recovery journey and wisdom/training around neurodivergent couples. "Here's what my husband would say, 'Neurodivergence is not an excuse. It's an insight,'" Shawna Meek. We discuss: What is neurodiversity? What a...

Pam Blizzard from  RecoveredPeace.com Lyschel Burket from  HopeRedefined.org Bonny Burns from  StrongWives.com Today, we are continuing the discussion around sexual experience for wives healing form betrayal. Sexual intimacy is a part of a healthy marriage. However, how can a wife want to engage sexually after infidelity or betrayal. We discuss: Let's talk about what a wife should ask herself befo...

Pam Blizzard from  RecoveredPeace.com Lyschel Burket from  HopeRedefined.org Bonny Burns from  StrongWives.com TRIGGER WARNING. This content may be trigger your threat response. Please use your self-compassion and decide whether this is right for you to hear at this time. NOT SAFE FOR SMALL EARS. Please wear your ear buds for privacy and to protect small ones.   Welcome to another episode of Hope...

Pam Blizzard from  RecoveredPeace.com Lyschel Burket from  HopeRedefined.org Bonny Burns from  StrongWives.com Today, we are continuing our conversation around the church's response to betrayal trauma, sex addiction, and sexual issues in marriage. Last episode we shared stories of churches that have responded well and churches that responded poorly. We finish this topic by brainstorming solutions...

With your co-hostesses: Pam Blizzard from  RecoveredPeace.com Lyschel Burket from  HopeRedefined.org Bonny Burns from  StrongWives.com Today, we are diving into a hard conversation. How can the church better navigate walking with wives trying to heal from the impact of sexual betrayal, husbands struggling with problematic sexual behavior, and couples presenting with sexual problems? We are engagin...

With your co-hostesses: Pam Blizzard from  RecoveredPeace.com Lyschel Burket from  HopeRedefined.org Bonny Burns from  StrongWives.com Today, we are continuing our discussion around the "work of recovery" for the wife overcoming the impact of sexual betrayal. Last episode we generally defined what it means to work out our recovery and what it looks like in the days immediately following discovery....

Pam Blizzard from  RecoveredPeace.com Lyschel Burket from  HopeRedefined.org Bonny Burns from  StrongWives.com Today, we are discussing the "work of recovery." For ladies who have newly discovered their husbands' sexually problematic behavior, the idea that they can somehow heal from this intolerable devastation seems impossible. As they contemplate this, the question, "What is the work of recover...

Pam Blizzard from  RecoveredPeace.com Lyschel Burket from  HopeRedefined.org Bonny Burns from  StrongWives.com Today, we are discussing intuition or gut instinct. Intuition is a type of unconscious reasoning. For example, when I have a hunch that it's better to avoid the highway today when I run my errands, that's intuition. It oftentimes disappears after a discovery or disclosure because trauma c...

Pam Blizzard from  RecoveredPeace.com Lyschel Burket from  HopeRedefined.org Bonny Burns from  StrongWives.com We are so excited that, today, Dr. Jake Porter is joining our candid conversation. Jake is the founder of Daring Ventures  and is both an APSATS certified clinical partner specialist and a CSAT (among other things). Our discussion with Jake, today, revolves around what recovery looks like...

Pam Blizzard from  RecoveredPeace.com Lyschel Burket from  HopeRedefined.org Bonny Burns from  StrongWives.com Today, we are continuing our discussion around cognitive distortions. How do we navigate or overcome them as we grow and heal? There are over 13 common cognitive distortions that we navigate over and over in daily thoughts. CDs are important to understand because they can negatively affec...

With your co-hostesses: Pam Blizzard from  RecoveredPeace.com Lyschel Burket from  HopeRedefined.org Bonny Burns from  StrongWives.com Welcome to another episode of Hope For Wives. Today, we are discussing Cognitive Distortions. There are over 13 common cognitive distortions that we navigate over and over in daily thoughts. CDs are important to understand because they can negatively affect our emo...

With your co-hostesses: Pam Blizzard from  RecoveredPeace.com Lyschel Burket from  HopeRedefined.org Bonny Burns from  StrongWives.com Listen now: Welcome to another episode of Hope For Wives. Since we know that many spouses in recovery are listening to our podcast, today we are talking to you. We are continuing the discussion around, "How to share my recovery work with my spouse?" This is sometim...

With your co-hostesses: Pam Blizzard from  RecoveredPeace.com Lyschel Burket from  HopeRedefined.org Bonny Burns from  StrongWives.com Listen now: Welcome to another episode of Hope For Wives. Since we know that many spouses in recovery are listening to our podcast, today we are talking to you. We are discussing, "How to share my recovery work with my spouse?" This is sometimes tricky to navigate...

With Your Co-Hostesses: Pam Blizzard from  RecoveredPeace.com Lyschel Burket from  HopeRedefined.org Bonny Burns from  StrongWives.com Listen now: Today we are continuing our discussion around the emotional roller coaster nearly all betrayed wives experience after discovering sexual betrayal in their marriage. We explore practical, real life ways to surf the wave of these intense feelings. As alwa...

With Your Co-Hostesses: Pam Blizzard from  RecoveredPeace.com Lyschel Burket from  HopeRedefined.org Bonny Burns from  StrongWives.com Listen now: Today we are discussing the emotional roller coaster nearly all betrayed wives experience after discovering sexual betrayal in their marriage. These intense emotions aren't due to triggers, which we've recently explored on some previous episode. What we...

With your co-hostesses: Pam Blizzard from  RecoveredPeace.com Lyschel Burket from  HopeRedefined.org Bonny Burns from  StrongWives.com Today, we are finalizing our conversation around the more nuanced aspects of triggers. We Will be Discussing: What are the spectrum of triggers? What about when someone else in her world is triggered? Resources mentioned in this show: Intimate Deception by Dr. Sher...

With your co-hostesses: Pam Blizzard from  RecoveredPeace.com Lyschel Burket from  HopeRedefined.org Bonny Burns from  StrongWives.com Today, we are further exploring triggers. We talked about triggers last season in episode 11. Our discussion now will include the sneaky aspect of triggers, more subtle effects. Triggers are annoying and tend to stick around longer than we want them, too. I often h...

  Welcome to Hope for Wives With your co-hostesses: Pam Blizzard from  RecoveredPeace.com Lyschel Burket from  HopeRedefined.org Bonny Burns from  StrongWives.com Listen now: Today, we continue our discussion around denial (or betrayal blindness) and how to navigate the big emotions that surface when denial starts to dissipate. We Will be Discussing: What happens when she is starting to see realit...

With your Co-Hostesses: Pam Blizzard from RecoveredPeace.com Lyschel Burket from  HopeRedefined.org Bonny Burns from  StrongWives.com Welcome to Season 2: At Hope For Wives where we acknowledge the devastation of sexual betrayal and infidelity while offering practical insight and hope for healing, all through a Christian lens. We also hope you'll find some joy through laughter in spite of our seri...

With your co-hostesses: Pam Blizzard from  RecoveredPeace.com Lyschel Burket from  HopeRedefined.org Bonny Burns from  StrongWives.com Today, we are discussing a very tender and complicated topic. What is appropriate to disclose to your children about your husband's problematic sexual behavior? We want to remind you that we are not therapists, we are coaches. We will be giving you what we understa...

Welcome to Hope for Wives With your co-hostesses: Pam Blizzard from  RecoveredPeace.com Lyschel Burket from  HopeRedefined.org Bonny Burns from  StrongWives.com Today, we are discussing how to handle anger in a responsible way. Anger is a part of our make-up as human beings and God put it there. God, himself, displays anger throughout the Bible. Anger is a part of the threat response when we face...

Welcome to Hope for Wives With your co-hostesses: Pam Blizzard from  RecoveredPeace.com Lyschel Burket from  HopeRedefined.org Bonny Burns from  StrongWives.com Today, we are discussing values. Values are a person's beliefs that motivate the way they behave and live out their life. They are also a guide for your behavior. What are your definition of values? What are our personal two top values and...