The Affair Recovery Podcast

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If your life has been shattered by infidelity, The Affair Recovery Podcast provides the help you need to get unstuck and move forward. Every episode features our expert therapists, each with decades of experience helping people heal and recover. We cut through the confusion around cheating by answering real listener-submitted questions. We tackle the toughest topics head-on, including betrayal trauma, sex, overcoming shame and anxiety, rebuilding trust in the marriage, setting crucial boundaries, navigating kids, forgiveness, faith and so much more. Whether you have been betrayed or unfaithful, whether you’re fighting for your marriage or just fighting for your life, this podcast provides the wisdom and actionable steps you need. Listen in, subscribe and get your life back. 

  1. 1d ago

    Ep. 027 | Facing the Fear of Intimacy After an Affair with Jay Stringer

    After an affair, intimacy can feel like the last thing you want and the thing you ache for most. You still want to be known, and you also need to protect yourself. For a lot of couples, any step toward connection feels like a risk that isn't worth taking. In this episode, we sit down with Jay Stringer, licensed therapist and author of Desire, alongside Laurie Bryson, to talk about what intimacy truly is and how couples begin to write a new script after betrayal. In this episode: What intimacy is, and why our culture keeps confusing it with sexA listener's question: "The more I heal, the angrier I get." Why that can be a sign of stabilization, not failureWhy the intimacy you're looking for often sits inside the very problems you've been avoidingJay Stringer is a licensed mental health counselor, researcher, and speaker who helps people uncover the unexpected meaning hidden in life’s hardest challenges. He is the award-winning author of Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing and lives in New York City with his wife, Heather, and their two children. 🌐 Website: jay-stringer.com📚 Get the Book: Desire📸 Instagram: @jay_stringer_🎁 Special Offer/Resource: Desire Quiz‼️ Take the FREE Affair Analyzer: Understand your situation 🥾 Sign up for the FREE First Steps Bootcamp: Take the first step to heal 👥 Explore Our Courses: Get the support you need to recover 📞 +1 (737) 227-5014 Share a question for future episodes ⚠️ Disclaimer: Our resources are curated by experts but do not substitute for professional therapy. If you need personalized help, please seek out a qualified therapist or counselor. If you are in crisis, contact emergency services in your area. Transparency note: Some links above and in the comments may be affiliate links, which allow us to continue providing valuable resources for your recovery journey.

    Ep. 027 | Facing the Fear of Intimacy After an Affair with Jay Stringer

  2. Oct 26

    Ep. 026 | Will They Cheat Again? Facing the Fear of Relapse After Infidelity

    Will they cheat again? Once you’ve been betrayed, that question can follow you into every quiet moment, and the comment sections don’t help: once a cheater, always a cheater. If you’re the one who was unfaithful, you may be carrying a quieter version of the same fear: can I really change? This episode doesn’t pretend the fear is irrational. It takes it seriously and looks at what actually makes a marriage safe again. In this episode, our expert therapists talk honestly about relapse, what it is, how common it really is, and how people truly change. In this episode: What relapse is and isn’t, from slipping back into old patterns to boundary violations to acting out againWhy “I’ll never do this again” is less safe than “I know what I’m capable of,” and what a safe spouse does insteadWhether couples come back after a second betrayal, and what has to be different the second time‼️ Take the FREE Affair Analyzer: Understand your situation 🥾 Sign up for the FREE First Steps Bootcamp: Take the first step to heal 👥 Explore Our Courses: Get the support you need to recover 📞 +1 (737) 227-5014 Share a question for future episodes ⚠️ Disclaimer: Our resources are curated by experts but do not substitute for professional therapy. If you need personalized help, please seek out a qualified therapist or counselor. If you are in crisis, contact emergency services in your area. Transparency note: Some links above and in the comments may be affiliate links, which allow us to continue providing valuable resources for your recovery journey.

    Ep. 026 | Will They Cheat Again? Facing the Fear of Relapse After Infidelity

  3. Oct 19 ·  Bonus

    Bonus Ep. | Multiple Affairs, a Child, and a Marriage That Survived All of It with Cindy Beall

    Cindy Beall's husband came home one morning and confessed to multiple affairs over two and a half years. Then came the final blow: one of the women was pregnant. Cindy went into a despair so deep she didn't know how she would keep living, let alone stay married. Twenty-five years later, she looks back on a marriage that not only survived but became the one she had always hoped for. In this episode, we sit down with Cindy, a pastor, author of Healing Your Marriage When Trust Is Broken, and past Hope Rising speaker, to walk through what that road looked like from the inside. In this episode: How she came to love the affair partner's son as her own, and what she would call back to anyone still in the painWhy forgiving her husband did not make the pain go away, and the one thing he did that helped it pass fasterHow her faith held when she felt God had let her down, and what she would say to anyone wrestling with that same angerCindy Beall has served in full-time ministry alongside her husband, Chris, since they married in 1993. In addition to that, she is the CFO at Beall Power Solutions, a company owned by two of her sons. She is also a published author of two books: Healing Your Marriage When Trust Is Broken and Rebuilding a Marriage Better Than New. The Bealls have three sons, one daughter-in-love, and three grandchildren.  Get the books: Healing Your Marriage When Trust Is BrokenRebuilding a Marriage Better Than New‼️ Take the FREE Affair Analyzer: Understand your situation 🥾 Sign up for the FREE First Steps Bootcamp: Take the first step to heal 👥 Explore Our Courses: Get the support you need to recover 📞 +1 (737) 227-5014 Share a question for future episodes ⚠️ Disclaimer: Our resources are curated by experts but do not substitute for professional therapy. If you need personalized help, please seek out a qualified therapist or counselor. If you are in crisis, contact emergency services in your area. Transparency note: Some links above and in the comments may be affiliate links, which allow us to continue providing valuable resources for your recovery journey.

    Bonus Ep. | Multiple Affairs, a Child, and a Marriage That Survived All of It with Cindy Beall

  4. Oct 12

    Ep. 025 | Understanding the Phases of Recovery: Is This Normal?

    Should we just quit? What are we doing wrong? Why does it feel worse now than it did before? One minute you can't get close enough, the next a single look sends you both back to your corners, and you're left wondering if any of this is normal. In episode 25, Jeremy sits down with Rick, John and Laurie to answer the questions they hear most from couples in the thick of it, and to name the phases that feel like failure but aren't. In this episode: The push and pull where one of you reaches out just as the other pulls away, and what to do when it feels like you can't winWhy the unfaithful spouse often feels lighter first while the betrayed spouse carries the weight, and what Rick says the one who strayed owes their mate in that seasonHow to tell a normal phase from a pattern that isn't one, and when "we survived the crisis" has quietly become "we stopped" 👀 WATCH the Episode ‼️ Take the FREE Affair Analyzer: Understand your situation 🥾 Sign up for the FREE First Steps Bootcamp: Take the first step to heal 👥 Explore Our Courses: Get the support you need to recover 📞 +1 (737) 227-5014 Share a question for future episodes ⚠️ Disclaimer: Our resources are curated by experts but do not substitute for professional therapy. If you need personalized help, please seek out a qualified therapist or counselor. If you are in crisis, contact emergency services in your area. Transparency note: Some links above and in the comments may be affiliate links, which allow us to continue providing valuable resources for your recovery journey.

    Ep. 025 | Understanding the Phases of Recovery: Is This Normal?

  5. Sep 28

    Ep. 024 | How to Survive When Infidelity Isn't Your Only Crisis

    The affair most likely isn’t the only thing you’re carrying. There may be an illness, a loss, a job that fell through, kids who need you, or years of quietly holding it all together, and now you’re being asked to heal a marriage on top of it. In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Marcus Earle, Clinical Director of Psychological Counseling Services with 38 years in behavioral health, to talk about what so many of you have written in about: when infidelity isn’t your only crisis, where do you even begin? In this episode: Why “fix one thing first” rarely works when you’re carrying more than one crisis, and the one thing Marcus and Rick say to address before anything elseWhether marriage work and individual healing happen in order or at the same time, and the two situations where safety has to come firstThree listener questions: a betrayed husband thirty years past discovery now facing cancer, a wife whose husband won’t address the affair, and an unfaithful wife asking how to tell her children about a pregnancy from the affair👀 WATCH the Episode Dr. Marcus Earle is the Clinical Director for Psychological Counseling Services known for specializing in Marriage and Family Therapy, and Sex Addiction. With over 38 years of experience in behavioral health, they have helped countless patients achieve true healing. 🌐 Website: https://pcsintensive.com/💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/psychological-counseling-services-ltd🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@themindofatherapist👥 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PsychCounselingServicesAZ/ For additional clinical resources referenced in this episode: International Institute for Trauma & Addiction Professionals ‼️ Take the FREE Affair Analyzer: Understand your situation 🥾 Sign up for the FREE First Steps Bootcamp: Take the first step to heal 👥 Explore Our Courses: Get the support you need to recover 📞 +1 (737) 227-5014 Share a question for future episodes ⚠️ Disclaimer: Our resources are curated by experts but do not substitute for professional therapy. If you need personalized help, please seek out a qualified therapist or counselor. If you are in crisis, contact emergency services in your area. Transparency note: Some links above and in the comments may be affiliate links, which allow us to continue providing valuable resources for your recovery journey.

    Ep. 024 | How to Survive When Infidelity Isn't Your Only Crisis

  6. Sep 14

    Ep. 023 | How to Forgive When You Can’t Forget

    Whether it's been months or years, carrying the weight of betrayal can feel like something you'll never be able to set down. You'd let it go if you could, but forgiving feels like saying it was okay, or letting them off the hook. In this episode, we sit down to answer listener questions about forgiving what you can't forget, sharing what forgiveness looked like in our own recovery and starting with the piece so many people miss: what forgiveness actually is, and what it isn't. In this episode: What forgiveness isn't: forgetting, reconciling, saying it was okay, or giving up your boundariesWhat forgiveness is: a choice you make for yourself, and why it costs you more to hold on than to let goThe moments and rituals from our own forgiveness journeys that finally moved us from deciding to forgive to feeling it, even without the whole truth or an apology👀 WATCH the Episode ‼️ Take the FREE Affair Analyzer: Understand your situation 🥾 Sign up for the FREE First Steps Bootcamp: Take the first step to heal 👥 Explore Our Courses: Get the support you need to recover 📞 +1 (737) 227-5014 Share a question for future episodes ⚠️ Disclaimer: Our resources are curated by experts but do not substitute for professional therapy. If you need personalized help, please seek out a qualified therapist or counselor. If you are in crisis, contact emergency services in your area. Transparency note: Some links above and in the comments may be affiliate links, which allow us to continue providing valuable resources for your recovery journey.

    Ep. 023 | How to Forgive When You Can’t Forget

  7. Aug 31

    Ep. 022 | His Addiction, Her Affair: Healing When Both are Betrayed

    Two years into their marriage, Ryan confessed an addiction. In the painful years that followed, Jessica had affairs of her own. In their words, they “set their marriage on fire.” Twenty years later, they are both therapists helping couples heal from infidelity, and in this episode they tell their own story. In this episode: Ryan and Jessica's full story, from his confession to her affairs to the three disclosures it took for the whole truth to come outWhy Jessica says affairs don't cause affairs, and the difference between a revenge affair and coping with painA listener's question: when you're both betrayed and both unfaithful, how do you heal?👀 WATCH the Episode Jessica and Ryan McDaniel are Licensed Professional Counselors who both graduated from UT Austin with degrees in Psychology before each earning an MA in Counseling at Denver Seminary. Jessica is passionate about walking with those experiencing betrayal trauma, identity and sexual brokenness, pregnancy grief and loss, and postpartum depression; she currently leads groups for Postpartum Support, Perinatal Loss, and Betrayed Wives impacted by infidelity. Ryan has pursued his passion of helping others with sexual addiction, infidelity, depression, anxiety, and trauma. Together they run McDaniel Counseling in Round Rock, Texas, and have been working with Affair Recovery since 2017. Having personally walked through both betrayal and infidelity in their own marriage, they've seen firsthand that hope and healing are possible for anyone willing to work through the pain. Follow Ryan & Jessica: 📸 Instagram: @mcdanielcounseling 🌐 Website: https://www.mcdanielcounseling.com ‼️ Take the FREE Affair Analyzer: Understand your situation 🥾 Sign up for the FREE First Steps Bootcamp: Take the first step to heal 👥 Explore Our Courses: Get the support you need to recover 📞 +1 (737) 227-5014 Share a question for future episodes ⚠️ Disclaimer: Our resources are curated by experts but do not substitute for professional therapy. If you need personalized help, please seek out a qualified therapist or counselor. If you are in crisis, contact emergency services in your area. Transparency note: Some links above and in the comments may be affiliate links, which allow us to continue providing valuable resources for your recovery journey.

    Ep. 022 | His Addiction, Her Affair: Healing When Both are Betrayed

  8. Aug 24 ·  Bonus

    Bonus Ep. | Rebuilding What You Broke: Boundaries & Safety after Infidelity with Jim Ramos

    A promise is not a boundary. Jim Ramos, author of Guardrails and founder of Men in the Arena, joins Jeremy and Rick Reynolds to lay out the practical guardrails that rebuild safety in a marriage, and why saying “you can trust me” changes nothing on its own. In this episode: A guardrail breach begins small and compounds from thereWhat a spouse is asking for when they ask for a boundary, and why it is not an attempt to manage anyoneWhy the charge of legalism misses what is actually at stake in a marriage after a breach👀 WATCH the Episode Jim Ramos is a bestselling author, speaker, and the founder of Men in the Arena, an international ministry focused on equipping Christian Men in the 'Stress Bubble' of life - married, with kids in the home, struggling to lead their families, churches, and communities well. Jim passionately galvanizes men to fight passivity, "get out of the bleachers," and step up "into the arena" of spiritual leadership. He hosts the #1 ranked Spotify podcast for Christian men, the Men in the Arena Podcast, and has written numerous books, including the USA TODAY Bestseller Dialed In: Reaching Your Full Capacity as a Man of God. April 7 was the release of his newest book, Guardrails: Ten Boundaries for an Unbreakable Marriage. In it, Jim outlines 10 time-tested boundaries designed to protect relationships from infidelity—one simple choice at a time. Connect with Jim and Men in the Arena: 📚 Get the Book: tinyurl.com/Guardrails115📸 Instagram: @themeninthearena🌐 Website: meninthearena.org🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theMenintheArena‼️ Take the FREE Affair Analyzer: Understand your situation 🥾 Sign up for the FREE First Steps Bootcamp: Take the first step to heal 👥 Explore Our Courses: Get the support you need to recover 📞 +1 (737) 227-5014 Share a question for future episodes ⚠️ Disclaimer: Our resources are curated by experts but do not substitute for professional therapy. If you need personalized help, please seek out a qualified therapist or counselor. If you are in crisis, contact emergency services in your area. Transparency note: Some links above and in the comments may be affiliate links, which allow us to continue providing valuable resources for your recovery journey.

    Bonus Ep. | Rebuilding What You Broke: Boundaries & Safety after Infidelity with Jim Ramos
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If your life has been shattered by infidelity, The Affair Recovery Podcast provides the help you need to get unstuck and move forward. Every episode features our expert therapists, each with decades of experience helping people heal and recover. We cut through the confusion around cheating by answering real listener-submitted questions. We tackle the toughest topics head-on, including betrayal trauma, sex, overcoming shame and anxiety, rebuilding trust in the marriage, setting crucial boundaries, navigating kids, forgiveness, faith and so much more. Whether you have been betrayed or unfaithful, whether you’re fighting for your marriage or just fighting for your life, this podcast provides the wisdom and actionable steps you need. Listen in, subscribe and get your life back. 

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  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
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