Healing from Betrayal that Zaps the Life Out of You
Spring—that time of year when trees blossom, bluebirds sing, and buttercups burst forth through darkened soil. A feeling of renewed hope fills most every heart…most every heart perhaps—except for yours?Yes, I’ve been there… in that place where not even buttercups, bluebirds, or blossoming trees evoke hope. I have lived in the dark, though full sunshine streams down. I have felt abject loneliness, though people swarm about. I travelled through the day screaming on the inside, though on the outside presenting a well put together façade.
Betrayal does that—zaps the life, numbs the senses, deadens the dreams. I will never forget the one word that changed the face of my marriage and shattered my heart. “Yes,” to the question I asked of my husband of 25 years. “Have you been unfaithful?”
Thankfully, this betrayal did not define the rest of my life story and I am here to encourage with a message of hope. I found a way to leave bitterness behind and embrace inner healing instead. You can too.
Isaiah 61:1 …He binds up the brokenhearted, proclaims freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoner. nivAre you brokenhearted?
Do you need freedom from the captivity of betrayal?
Does pain hold you a prisoner?
And who is this “HE that sets one free?”
Jesus is the “HE” worth mentioning, the one who still works miracles today. He is as relevant in power and might as when He walked the dusty streets of Jerusalem over 2000 years ago. He healed the sick, opened the eyes of the blind, and cared for the brokenhearted. Matthew 9: 18-30
I can attest to the truth that He is the same today. The song that bursts from my soul… the joy that radiates from this place of healing… the love I feel in a heart so previously broken, is nothing short of a modern day miracle.
This miracle awaits you.
I will not mask the journey with unrealistic platitudes, but share my ups and downs, my victories and my failure, in hopes you too will find your way through the pain, the anger, the sorrow.
For today, believe just one thing… believe your healing is possible. This one hope filled moment will become the catalyst to many more.
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About the author
Blossom Turner is an award-winning novelist, and a free-lance writer published in Chicken Soup and Kernels of Hope anthologies, and former newspaper columnist on health and fitness. A Word Guild semi-finalist for Anna's Secret, Katherine's Arrangement, Amelia’s Heartsong, and a Word Guild winner for Best Romance for Lucinda’s Defender. She has found her home in the writing of historical fiction but is open to wherever God leads. The many 5-star reviews attest to the power of love and romance authentically woven into the Shenandoah Bride Series about five sisters and their five love stories.
Blossom lives in British Columbia, Canada, with her husband, David, of forty years and their dog Lacey named after Lacey Spring, Virginia, where this series takes place. A former businesswoman, personal trainer, and mother of two grown children she is now pursuing her lifelong dream of writing full-time. A hopeless romantic at heart, she believes all story should give the reader significant entertainment value. However, her writing embodies the struggles of real life. She infuses the reality of suffering with the hope of Christ to give a healthy dose of relatable encouragement to her reader. Her desire is to leave the reader with a yearning to live for Christ on a deeper level, or at the very least, create a hunger to seek for more.
Co-author Suzie Zanewhich
Suzie is a certified life coach, leader of emotional health, and resource specialist. She has found her niche as a soul coach.
Suzie finds purpose in empowering individuals to move towards growth, healing, and alignment with their authentic self. Suzie is driven by a calling to live authentically, as the person God created her to be, to reach her fullest potential and lead others to do the same. Her passion is to help others find meaning through discovering their strengths, gifts, personality, temperament and core values.
Suzie is a life-long learner, continuously immersing herself in new courses to learn more about human behaviour, relationships, psychology, child development, emotions, trauma and healing. Because of her craving to always learn more she has earned the title of resource specialist in the area of self-discovery.
Suzie Zanewich lives with her husband in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She has a patchwork family of four grown children, two daughters, two sons and three granddaughters.
Comments 6
Guest - Kristine Jameson
on Monday, 21 May 2012 09:55
Hi Blossom,
I was directed to your website by http://www.bloggingbistro.com I can't wait to read your book.
Kristine
Guest - Blossom Turner
on Monday, 21 May 2012 12:02
Thank you Kristine, May God Bless your day.
Guest - Elizabeth M Thompson
on Monday, 21 May 2012 10:04
Your new website it gorgeous, Blossom! I enjoyed meeting you at Mount Hermon this year and look forward to reading your blog posts. I just subscribed via RSS feed. May God pour out his blessings on you as you encourage those in pain.
Guest - Blossom Turner
on Monday, 21 May 2012 11:51
Thanks Elizabeth, I so enjoyed meeting you as well. May God Bless you.
Guest - beth willis miller
on Monday, 21 May 2012 10:43
WOW! What a beautiful website and blog...your story is captivating...your encouraging words are so refreshing...I believe this very compelling site will draw many followers and publishers for your writing...
thought you might like this quote by well-respected adoption educator, Marcy Wineman Axness, who speaks about feelings of betrayal in this metaphor: "Betrayal curls through my soul like a sunken steel mesh that buttresses skyscrapers. I can't quite see it, but it's what I'm built on. It wrinkles my life, and bristles in me in inappropriate ways. All future betrayals found an anchor in that first foundational trauma, and reverberated off the walls of the gaping wound in my soul. What took its place was the stand-in-for-me, the one which would conform and smile and not hurt, who would fit in nicely with the life my adoptive parents constructed for me. And thus, the betrayal continued-—my needs were always obscured by their own-—but I didn't feel it any more, consciously. I didn't feel much at all. Except that, paradoxically, I felt
betrayal everywhere, projected it onto well-meaning but forgetful friends, or bosses just doing their jobs, or lovers simply being human." ...just wanted to share a little of my story from a blog post I wrote... http://bethwillismiller.blogspot.com/2009/10/conceived-on-memorial-day-almost.html
Guest - Blossom Turner
on Monday, 21 May 2012 12:00
Beautiful quote, thank-you for your contribution.