Healing Betrayed Families

Morgan Ellsworth
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Healing Betrayed Families explores how families can recover, rebuild, and strengthen after betrayal. Hosted by Morgan Ellsworth, CCPS-A, CPC, and MFT graduate student, this podcast offers trauma-informed guidance rooted in the Multidimensional Partner Trauma Model (MPTM), attachment science, and systemic therapy principles. Each episode provides practical tools, compassionate insights, and conversations that illuminate what healing looks like for partners, parents, and children impacted by betrayal. Whether you are a betrayed partner, a family member trying to understand, or a professional sup

Episodes

  1. 6D AGO

    Episode 6: Age-Appropriate Conversations About Betrayal and Sexual Acting Out

    In this episode, Morgan addresses one of the most common questions parents ask during seasons of relational crisis: How do I explain what’s happening to my kids? She offers clear, age-appropriate language (geared toward teens 14+) to help families talk about two complex topics—betrayal trauma and compulsive sexual behavior. This episode equips parents with practical language to foster honesty, reduce shame, and create clarity during difficult conversations, while reminding both parents and children that healing is possible. Who This Podcast Is For Betrayed partners seeking validation and support Parents working toward accountability, repair, and reconnection Teens and adult children experiencing parental betrayal Clinicians, coaches, and caregivers supporting families through betrayal trauma What to Expect in Future Episodes Conversations on betrayal trauma, attachment, and family systems Clinical insights alongside lived experience Discussions on accountability, repair, and relational healing A focus on restoring safety, agency, and dignity within families About the Host Morgan Ellsworth is a Marriage and Family Therapy graduate with advanced training in trauma-informed care. She is certified through APSATS as a Certified Clinical Partner Specialist Associate (CCPS-A) and Certified Professional Coach (CPC) and works with individuals and families impacted by betrayal trauma. Connect with Morgan @Healing.betrayed.families on Instagram or email her directly at morgan.ellsworth98@gmail.com Healing is not about rushing forgiveness or restoring appearances. It’s about restoring safety, agency, and dignity, one relationship at a time. Thank you for listening to Healing Betrayed Families.

    13 min

  2. FEB 6

    Episode 5: Honoring Emotions as They Arise: A Guided Meditation for Betrayed Families

    In this episode of Healing Betrayed Families, Morgan Ellsworth offers a gentle, trauma-informed guided meditation designed to support individuals and families impacted by betrayal trauma. This practice invites listeners to slow down, reconnect with their bodies, and honor their emotions as they arise, without judgment, suppression, or self-blame. Through grounding, compassionate awareness, and nervous system regulation, this meditation helps cultivate internal safety and emotional resilience in the midst of relational rupture. Whether you are navigating betrayal as a partner, parent, or child, this episode provides a quiet space to pause, breathe, and practice self-compassion on your healing journey. Who This Podcast Is For Betrayed partners seeking validation and support Parents working toward accountability, repair, and reconnection Teens and adult children experiencing parental betrayal Clinicians, coaches, and caregivers supporting families through betrayal trauma What to Expect in Future Episodes Conversations on betrayal trauma, attachment, and family systems Clinical insights alongside lived experience Discussions on accountability, repair, and relational healing A focus on restoring safety, agency, and dignity within families About the Host Morgan Ellsworth is a Marriage and Family Therapy graduate with advanced training in trauma-informed care. She is certified through APSATS as a Certified Clinical Partner Specialist Associate (CCPS-A) and Certified Professional Coach (CPC) and works with individuals and families impacted by betrayal trauma. Connect with Morgan @Healing.betrayed.families on Instagram or email her directly at morgan.ellsworth98@gmail.com Healing is not about rushing forgiveness or restoring appearances. It’s about restoring safety, agency, and dignity, one relationship at a time. Thank you for listening to Healing Betrayed Families.

    8 min

  3. JAN 18

    Episode 4: Emotional Regulation for Betrayed Partners and Children

    In this episode of Healing Betrayed Families, host Morgan Ellsworth explores emotional regulation after betrayal and why dysregulation is a normal, nervous-system response to relational harm. When trust is broken within a family system, both adults and children experience a loss of safety that can lead to heightened reactivity, shutdown, confusion, and emotional overwhelm—often in different but interconnected ways. Drawing from trauma-informed family systems care, Morgan explains how betrayal narrows the window of tolerance for parents and children alike, disrupts co-regulation, and activates survival responses such as fight, flight, or freeze. This episode emphasizes that healing within families requires more than emotional insight or explanations—it requires regulated adults, predictable environments, and repeated, embodied experiences of safety. Healing Betrayed Families is designed to support betrayed partners, parents, children, and professionals seeking clarity, validation, and a compassionate framework for restoring regulation and stability after relational rupture. **Link to ⁠my favorite emotion wheel⁠ Who This Podcast Is For Betrayed partners seeking validation and support Parents working toward accountability, repair, and reconnection Teens and adult children experiencing parental betrayal Clinicians, coaches, and caregivers supporting families through betrayal trauma What to Expect in Future Episodes Conversations on betrayal trauma, attachment, and family systems Clinical insights alongside lived experience Discussions on accountability, repair, and relational healing A focus on restoring safety, agency, and dignity within families About the Host Morgan Ellsworth is a Marriage and Family Therapy graduate with advanced training in trauma-informed care. She is certified through APSATS as a Certified Clinical Partner Specialist (CCPS) and Certified Professional Coach (CPC) and works with individuals and families impacted by betrayal trauma. Connect with Morgan @Healing.betrayed.families on Instagram or email her directly at morgan.ellsworth98@gmail.com Healing is not about rushing forgiveness or restoring appearances. It’s about restoring safety, agency, and dignity, one relationship at a time. Thank you for listening to Healing Betrayed Families.

    20 min

  4. JAN 6

    Episode 3: Betrayal Trauma's Impact on the Nervous System

    In this episode of Healing Betrayed Families, host Morgan Ellsworth explores what betrayal trauma is and why its impact reaches far beyond emotional pain. When a person or system that once provided safety becomes the source of harm, the nervous system shifts into survival, affecting physical, emotional, relational, mental, spiritual, and sexual safety across individuals and families. Drawing from trauma-informed family systems care, Morgan explains how betrayal trauma disrupts brain functioning, narrows the window of tolerance, and activates fight, flight, or freeze responses. This episode emphasizes that healing requires more than insight alone—it requires repeated, embodied experiences of safety. Healing Betrayed Families is designed to support betrayed partners, parents, children, and professionals seeking language, understanding, and a compassionate path forward after relational rupture. Who This Podcast Is For Betrayed partners seeking validation and support Parents working toward accountability, repair, and reconnection Teens and adult children experiencing parental betrayal Clinicians, coaches, and caregivers supporting families through betrayal trauma What to Expect in Future Episodes Conversations on betrayal trauma, attachment, and family systems Clinical insights alongside lived experience Discussions on accountability, repair, and relational healing A focus on restoring safety, agency, and dignity within families About the Host Morgan Ellsworth is a Marriage and Family Therapy graduate with advanced training in trauma-informed care. She is certified through APSATS as a Certified Clinical Partner Specialist (CCPS) and Certified Professional Coach (CPC) and works with individuals and families impacted by betrayal trauma. Connect with Morgan @Healing.betrayed.families on Instagram or email her directly at morgan.ellsworth98@gmail.com Healing is not about rushing forgiveness or restoring appearances. It’s about restoring safety, agency, and dignity, one relationship at a time. Thank you for listening to Healing Betrayed Families.

    9 min

  5. JAN 6

    Episode 2: Betrayal as a Family Trauma

    In this episode of Healing Betrayed Families, host Morgan Ellsworth explores why betrayal must be understood not simply as a relationship issue, but as a family-wide trauma that disrupts safety across an entire system. When a person or relational system that once provided safety becomes the source of harm, the nervous system shifts into survival. This shift impacts not only emotional well-being, but physical, relational, mental, spiritual, and sexual safety, often affecting partners and children, in ways that go unrecognized or unnamed. Drawing from trauma-informed family systems care, Morgan explains how betrayal fractures the sense of safety within a home, alters emotional climate, and leaves families feeling stuck, confused, or pressured to “move on” before true healing has occurred. This episode emphasizes that healing does not begin with repair or reconciliation, it begins with acknowledgment, safety, and understanding. Healing Betrayed Families exists to provide language, validation, and a compassionate framework for families navigating the aftermath of relational rupture. Who This Podcast Is For Betrayed partners seeking validation and support Parents working toward accountability, repair, and reconnection Teens and adult children experiencing parental betrayal Clinicians, coaches, and caregivers supporting families through betrayal trauma What to Expect in Future Episodes Conversations on betrayal trauma, attachment, and family systems Clinical insights alongside lived experience Discussions on accountability, repair, and relational healing A focus on restoring safety, agency, and dignity within families About the Host Morgan Ellsworth is a Marriage and Family Therapy graduate with advanced training in trauma-informed care. She is certified through APSATS as a Certified Clinical Partner Specialist (CCPS) and Certified Professional Coach (CPC) and works with individuals and families impacted by betrayal trauma. Connect with Morgan @Healing.betrayed.families on Instagram or email her directly at morgan.ellsworth98@gmail.com Healing is not about rushing forgiveness or restoring appearances. It’s about restoring safety, agency, and dignity, one relationship at a time. Thank you for listening to Healing Betrayed Families.

    8 min

  6. 12/16/2025

    Episode 1: Welcome to the Healing Journey

    In this introductory episode of Healing Betrayed Families, host Morgan Ellsworth shares the vision behind the podcast and the personal and professional experiences that led to its creation. This episode centers on the often-overlooked reality that betrayal, whether through infidelity, addiction, secrecy, or relational rupture, impacts the entire family system, not just one individual or relationship. Drawing from trauma-informed family systems care and lived experience, Morgan explains why acknowledgment, witnessing, and accountability are essential for healing. This podcast is designed to support betrayed partners, parents, children, and professionals who are navigating the complex and long-lasting effects of betrayal trauma. Who this podcast is for: Betrayed partners seeking validation and support Parents working toward accountability, repair, and reconnectionTeens and adult children experiencing parental betrayalClinicians, coaches, and caregivers supporting families through betrayal traumaWhat you can expect in future episodes: Conversations on betrayal trauma, attachment, and family systems Clinical insights alongside lived experience Discussions on accountability, repair, and relational healing A focus on restoring safety, agency, and dignity within families About the host: Morgan Ellsworth is a Marriage and Family Therapy graduate and Board Certified Coach with advanced training in trauma-informed care. She is certified through APSATS as a Certified Clinical Partner Specialist-Associate (CCPS-A) and Certified Partner Coach (CPC) and works with individuals and families impacted by betrayal trauma. Connect with Morgan @Healing.betrayed.families on Instagram or email her directly at morgan.ellsworth98@gmail.com Healing is not about rushing forgiveness or restoring appearances. It’s about restoring safety, agency, and dignity, one relationship at a time. Thank you for listening to Healing Betrayed Families.

    5 min
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Healing Betrayed Families explores how families can recover, rebuild, and strengthen after betrayal. Hosted by Morgan Ellsworth, CCPS-A, CPC, and MFT graduate student, this podcast offers trauma-informed guidance rooted in the Multidimensional Partner Trauma Model (MPTM), attachment science, and systemic therapy principles. Each episode provides practical tools, compassionate insights, and conversations that illuminate what healing looks like for partners, parents, and children impacted by betrayal. Whether you are a betrayed partner, a family member trying to understand, or a professional sup

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    Morgan Ellsworth
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