Episode 8: Self Care with Practical Ideas to Care for Yourself after Discovery

Hope For Wives

Welcome to another episode of Hope For Wives. Today we are discussing self-care. Self-care is a popular term these days for a reason. It is an important concept in our chaotic lives, especially if you are healing from the effects of unwanted sexual behavior in your marriage. Self-care refers to behaviours performed to improve your well-being, to preserve your health, or to maintain your physical and emotional stability.  For a betrayed partner, self-care if important because it helps your body build reserves in order to heal from the trauma of sexual betrayal.

Basically, self-care helps you cope with mentally with big emotions and physically to safeguard against poor health as you heal from sexual betrayal trauma. Today we discuss:

  • What are some myths about self-care?
  • In your personal story, what role did self-care play?
  • PIESS (physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual) categories of self-care with practical ideas
  • What hope can we offer our listeners about self-care?

Resources Emotionally Healthy Spirituality by Pete Scazzero

Feelings Wheel - Nonviolent Communication 

Bible Verses Ecclesiastes 3:1-8,"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:

2     a time to be born and a time to die,     a time to plant and a time to uproot, 3     a time to kill and a time to heal,     a time to tear down and a time to build, 4     a time to weep and a time to laugh,     a time to mourn and a time to dance, 5     a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,     a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, 6     a time to search and a time to give up,     a time to keep and a time to throw away, 7     a time to tear and a time to mend,     a time to be silent and a time to speak, 8     a time to love and a time to hate,     a time for war and a time for peace."

Matthew 11:28-30, "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

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