by Sandra Lee Dennis | Sep 26, 2014 | Betrayal, Ego Defenses, Emotional Crisis, Grief, Healing, Love and Betrayal, Post-traumatic stress, Psychological healing, Rejection, Relationships, Trauma, Trust
After a mind-bending abandonment by my long-time partner I received a lot of well-meaning advice. Some friends recommended to me, if I was serious about healing, that I take “one-hundred percent responsibility for everything that happened.” When I expressed my...
by Sandra Lee Dennis | Sep 4, 2014 | Betrayal, Deception, Existential despair, Healing, Love and Betrayal, Post-traumatic stress, Psychological healing, Relationships, Trauma, Trust, Uncategorized
Heartbreak has an archetypal core, all heartbroken individuals suffer from the same kind of torture.—Ginette Paris When you learn your supposed loving partner or spouse, to whom you have devoted your life, is not at all loving or devoted to you, it is a shock. For...
by Sandra Lee Dennis | Jun 20, 2014 | Betrayal, broken heart, Emotional Crisis, Existential despair, Grace, Grief, Love and Betrayal, Psychological healing, Spirituality, Trauma, Trust
The heart broken in love opens like an archaeological dig into the past. The velocity of the fracturing draws you down, down, down through layers of feelings, strategies and beliefs that have been protecting your heart from a primeval pain. The grief and longing of...
by Sandra Lee Dennis | Jun 12, 2014 | Betrayal, broken heart, Emotional Crisis, Love and Betrayal, Rejection, Shock
The rejection of betrayal inflicts a unique, unprecedented pain you only comprehend once you experience it. If you are reeling from an intimate betrayal, you know. The depth of the pain stuns you, it changes you. Having your trust destroyed not only hurts, it shreds...
by Sandra Lee Dennis | Jun 8, 2013 | Betrayal, Loneliness, Love and Betrayal, Spirituality
“Don’t surrender your loneliness so quickly; let it cut more deep. Let it ferment and season you, as few human or even divine ingredients can. Something missing in my heart tonight has made my eyes so soft, my voice so tender, my need of God absolutely...
