Life’s a Blog: Rebuilding After Betrayal

Send us Fan Mail After years of surviving betrayal, grief, financial stress, and starting over, why can peace feel so uncomfortable? In this deeply personal episode of Life's a Blog , I share how the unexpected success of my magazine made me realize I was still living in survival mode. We explore trauma through the insights of Gabor Maté, discuss why we wait for apologies that may never come,...

Send us Fan Mail After betrayal, heartbreak, or divorce, nobody tells you when you've finally turned the corner. There isn't a finish line. One day you're replaying every conversation and searching for answers. The next, you realize their name no longer controls your mood. In this episode of Life's a Blog , I share the ten signs that convinced me I was finally moving through th...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever laid awake at night wondering what would have happened if you had made a different choice? In this deeply personal episode of Life's a Blog, Trina Stewart explores the regrets that shape our lives and the lessons they leave behind. From relationships and marriage to missed opportunities, intuition, grief, addiction, family, and second chances, Trina shares her o...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Life's a Blog , I'm sharing a conversation that made me stop and think about grief, healing, attachment, and what it really means to move forward. Sometimes what feels like loneliness isn't loneliness at all. Sometimes it's grief. Sometimes it's missing the people who loved us. And sometimes it's learning that we don't need updates a...

Send us Fan Mail Trauma doesn’t just sit in the past like a story you can close. It lives in the body, in the nervous system, and in the reflexes that fire before you can think. We’re talking about what The Body Keeps the Score helped me see this week while I watched someone I care about hit a breaking point, and why that kind of moment is heartbreaking not because someone is “weak,” but because i...

Send us Fan Mail This week, I share one of the most emotionally eye-opening weekends I’ve had in years. What started as a simple weekend at the trailer with an old friend helping rebuild my deck turned into deep conversations about love, trauma bonds, emotional betrayal, autism, attachment, and why so many of us return to relationships that slowly destroy our peace. We talk honestly about divorce,...

Send us Fan Mail May 14th used to feel cursed for me. It is the date that marks what would have been my 32nd wedding anniversary, the betrayal that ended that “forever,” and the strange reality that my ex later died on the same day, at the same time as our first dance. From a trailer, with my life rebuilt piece by piece, I tell the story of what that kind of loss does to your memory, your body, an...

Send us Fan Mail I had a late-night realization that surprised me: I was trying to force myself to be unhappy, even though I could feel real happiness and gratitude underneath the chaos. That moment opened a bigger door, what happens when we finally sit still long enough to name the hurt, stop performing strength, and let solitude do its quiet work. I talk through the messy middle of healing after...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Life A Blog , Trina asks a question that doesn’t come with an easy answer: are you comfortable… or are you actually happy? What looks stable on the outside can feel empty on the inside, and sometimes we stay far longer than we should—not because we’re fulfilled, but because it’s familiar. Through raw reflection, past blog entries, and deeply personal experiences...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Life A Blog , Trina reflects on a week that left her physically exhausted and emotionally open—and how an unexpected moment on a reality show sparked a much deeper realization: the bare maximum is the bare minimum. What starts as background noise turns into something more. A mirror. A reminder of what it actually feels like when people show up with intention ver...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Life A Blog , Trina dives into the memoir Strangers by Belle Burden—and what begins as hesitation turns into something deeply personal and unexpectedly relatable. From the outside, the story may look different… wealth, status, a life built with privilege. But beneath that surface is something universal: betrayal, disorientation, and the quiet unraveling of a lif...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Life A Blog , Trina lets go of the outline and speaks from exactly where she is—raw, reflective, and in the middle of real change. What begins with watching Love on the Spectrum turns into something much deeper: a realization about love, intention, and what it actually means to show up for another person. Through moments from the show, Trina unpacks the kind of...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Life A Blog , Trina explores something many people quietly struggle with but rarely say out loud—what happens to your purpose when the roles you built your life around begin to change? From time spent with her children, to reflecting on past relationships, to conversations with a close friend, this episode unpacks the shift that happens when being a wife, a mom,...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Life A Blog , Trina opens up about a week that felt heavy in a way that didn’t quite make sense. On paper, everything is moving forward—but emotionally, something deeper is being processed. What unfolds is a raw and honest reflection on guilt, solitude, and what it actually feels like to move through what many call the “dark night of the soul.” This episode expl...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Life A Blog , Trina reflects on a week filled with quiet realizations—about relationships, patterns, and what it really means to understand yourself when the noise finally settles. What starts as a simple decision to walk away from a “normal” connection turns into something deeper: questioning what normal even means, and whether it’s ever truly aligned with who...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I talk about happiness and what it really looks like after betrayal, grief, community conflict, and years of hard lessons. A weekend spent learning to make sourdough becomes the perfect metaphor for growth. You cannot rush the rise. You cannot resurrect what collapsed. You feed what’s healthy and discard what’s toxic. Living alone in my little house in the woods h...

Send us Fan Mail The quiet after a breakup is not peaceful. It is loud. When the phone stops buzzing and the routines disappear, you are left with one uncomfortable question: am I enough without being chosen? In this solo episode, we break down what it really means to be alone after a breakup and why time alone is not a setback, it is strategy. This is a direct conversation about healing after hea...

Send us Fan Mail Betrayal does not just break your heart. It messes with your reality. This episode starts at that moment when you finally stop questioning yourself and start trusting what you know. I talk about when a shiny partnership lost its shine. The therapy sessions that called out the imbalance. The decision to take full ownership of the magazine, not to control it, but to protect it. Equa...

Send us Fan Mail A quiet house in the woods can change everything. We arrive in Lambton Shores sore, stressed, and carrying months of noise, then watch how stillness, light, and a few small rituals turn chaos into clarity. From hot lemon water to running the stairs without a limp, the week becomes proof that the body keeps score and peace can help settle it. The boxes get unpacked, the windows flo...

Send us Fan Mail What if the closure you’ve been chasing is the very thing keeping you stuck? This week, I trade emotional autopsies for clarity and walk through the ten practical steps that helped me rebuild self-trust after years of confusing intensity with intimacy. From burning a goodbye letter to honoring my first no, I unpack how tolerating misalignment became the pattern—and how choosing pe...

Send us Fan Mail What if the exhaustion you’re feeling isn’t burnout—it’s imbalance? Today I get honest about one-sided relationships: how they sneak up on us, why resentment is a boundary signal, and how to choose mutuality without turning your life into a series of ultimatums. From a missed moment with a grieving friend to decades-old friendships that quietly phased out, I trace the pattern of o...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when staying where you are becomes harder than starting over? In this episode of Life's a Blog, I reflect on Cheryl Strayed's Wild and the powerful lessons it offers about healing, self-discovery, loneliness, and finding the courage to begin again. As I prepare for a major life transition and move toward a quieter life by the lake, I'm learning that per...

Send us Fan Mail If your life feels loud but strangely empty, this conversation is a reset button. We talk about the quiet kind of no—the one that arrives after you add up the cost of your time, your energy, and your values. Not the dramatic refusal, but the steady boundary that ends chaos, protects your nervous system, and makes room for peace to be heard. I share the story of leaving harm with c...

Send us Fan Mail The quiet moments at year’s end can be the loudest teachers. Closing the season, we sift through honest reflections on family, boundaries, and the surprising clarity that arrives when the lights go out and the noise falls away. From navigating a tense holiday plan with compassion to setting firm online boundaries after spotting masked visits from social media, this conversation bl...

Send us Fan Mail After divorce, betrayal, grief, and the death of someone I once loved, I spent years asking the same question: Why? Why didn't he fight for us? Why didn't he choose differently? Why did everything unfold the way it did? The problem was that those questions never brought peace. In this episode, I explore radical acceptance—not the buzzword, but the real-life practice of s...