Survivors Blog: Samuel
Samuel
Alumnus, Wayward. Providing hope, encouragement and infidelity-specific insight to anyone in recovery from betrayal.
Do you Live With a Sense of Dread?
Samuel answers a viewer's question on dread and how to fight back when you're living in recovery from an affair.
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Thriving in Sex and Intimacy
When it comes to intimacy, it’s important to address not only physical intimacy but also spiritual and emotional intimacy. Humans are extremely complex and it is miraculous how our body, mind and spirit are intertwined to encompass our whole being. Today, Samuel shares openly about his personal struggles with physical intimacy and introduces Affair Recovery's first ever Sex and Intimacy retreat. Register here dont delay, spots are limited.
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Finding New Life as an Unfaithful
Samuel shares his own experience in adjusting to life after disclosing his infidelity and embracing new patterns in life.
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Are You or Your Spouse Experiencing 'Delayed Anger'?
This week Samuel shares insight about a concept foreign to many in recovery: delayed anger.
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What is Grieving and How Does it Help? Part 2
Samuel shares part two of his mini series on grieving through recovery from infidelity and how we get stuck in the process.
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What is Grieving and How Does it Help? Part 1
This week Samuel starts a mini series on the topic of grieving in recovery.
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Is Your Spouse Bullying You? Part 2
Samuel shares a poignant but delicate topic on how the betrayed spouse can sometimes bully their unfaithful spouse.
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Is Your Spouse Bullying You? Part 1
Samuel shares a poignant vlog on how unfaithful spouses sometimes bully their betrayed spouse.
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The Best Time to Work on Your Marriage is When...?
Samuel answers a pivotal question today: When is the best time to work on your marriage?
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Helpful Do's and Don'ts for Those Trying to Show Empathy to Their Spouse
Samuel gives pointers from his own experiences on what works and what doesn't work when trying to show empathy while recovering from infidelity.
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What Does False Empathy Look Like?
Samuel shares what to look for in both genuine and false empathy.
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Faulty Recovery Approaches
Samuel shares insight on faulty approaches to recovery from infidelity.
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Stuffing Down the Trauma
Samuel shares a recent traumatic experience that uprooted trauma in his own life and how it affected his recovery.
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The 4 Possible Outcomes of Great Suffering
Today Samuel shares insight from EMS Weekend as well as his own story about great suffering in recovery from infidelity.
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Recovery is Like a Well
Today Samuel shares a poignant word picture of what recovery looks like and how healing is found in recovery from infidelity.
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The Right and Wrong Kind of Group Support
Samuel shares both humorous and hard hitting insight into the world of group support.
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What Does Getting Back Up Really Mean for the Betrayed?
Today Samuel shares another story of a conversation he had with conference attendees about what it means to actually get back up as a betrayed spouse after infidelity.
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What Does Getting Back Up Really Mean for the Unfaithful?
Today Samuel shares a story in his video of a recent conversation he had with conference attendees about what it means to actually get back up for the unfaithful spouse after infidelity.
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Do You Have the Courage to Face Yourself?
Today Samuel shares thoughts for the unfaithful on facing yourself and pursuing recovery after infidelity.
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How Does the Betrayed Regain Self-Confidence After Infidelity? Part Two
Today Samuel shares part two of his series on how does the betrayed spouse develop confidence after infidelity.
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How Does the Betrayed Regain Self-Confidence After Infidelity? Part 1
Today Samuel answers one of the most asked questions from betrayed spouses about regaining confidence after infidelity.
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Decisions by the Unfaithful that Guarantee Moral Failure
Today, Samuel shares in his video insight on the mindsets he had and decisions he made to ensure moral failure in his life, including infidelity in his marriage.
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How do You Handle Anniversaries of Discovering Infidelity?
Samuel shares insight in today's video into handling struggles with D-Day anniversaries with remembering the day the affairs came out.
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Help for the Betrayed: Comparison to the Affair Partner
Samuel shares insight on how Samantha healed from feeling constantly compared to the Affair Partner.
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Stop Saying, "I'll Never do this Again"
Samuel shares an EMS Weekend principle about how to help your betrayed spouse feel safer after infidelity.
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How do You Deal with Rejection?
Samuel gets personal in this video with his own story of rejection and how to heal from it's impact.
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If You're Doing Full Disclosure, Don't Make Any Decisions Yet
Samuel shares helpful tips in today's video for how to handle disclosure of infidelity. When dealing with the disclosure process, it's vital to use this exercise form the EMS Weekend.
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I Didn't Ask for This
Samuel shares insight in today's video specifically for those who feel like they didn't ask for this trauma but still find themselves in crisis following the discovery of infidelity and affairs.
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