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Podcast: After the Affair
Episode: 175. What’s Actually Essential After Betrayal
Description: After betrayal, many people believe healing means doing more:
more processing, more understanding, more effort, more tolerance.
But what if that belief is what’s keeping you stuck?
In this episode, Luke Shillings introduces essentialism as a recovery lens, not as a productivity tool, but as a way to stabilise, simplify, and heal without burning yourself out.
You’ll learn why betrayal creates mental and emotional overload, how “trying harder” often backfires, and what actually must be in place for healing to be possible at all. This episode helps you separate what’s e...