Kylene Terhune joins me once again for this episode. This time, she talks about sexual betrayal trauma. She shares the importance of processing emotions in trauma and explains how trauma impacts the nervous system and leads to symptoms and disease. She also gets into what the healing process for sex addiction and betrayal for couples looks like and the pitfalls to be avoided.

The compilation of things that happen with pornography, technology, and addiction:

The prevalence of pornography is increasing tremendously.
Access to pornography is becoming easier.
Technology has addictive qualities.
Pornography gives people a dopamine hit.
Children get exposed to pornography before the pre-frontal cortex has developed fully, and trauma is typically involved.
For those who had trauma in their childhood, early exposure to pornography is more likely to cause an addiction.

About Kylene Terhune:

Kylene Terhune is the CEO & Founder of the Phoenix Transformation Project, where she works as a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner and NLP life coach supporting women who have experienced sexual betrayal trauma.

She helps her clients with a unique, whole-body approach that involves the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of the individual.

This work includes functional lab work, nutrition, lifestyle, emotional work, nervous system support, trauma processing work, and more to assist women in feeling more complete, grounded, safe, independent, and confident in their health and their bodies.

As a successful functional health coach for 6 years, Kylene has received additional education in trauma and its impact on the body through the Trauma Healing Accelerated courses: Biology of trauma, Energy, Overwhelm and Freeze, Biology of Trauma Brain Health, and the Biology of Trauma Immune system.

She also has certifications in NLP, NLP life coaching, QTT, and hypnosis.

In this episode:

Why it’s essential to see a therapist if you have been sexually betrayed and choose to stay in your relationship. (7:38)
Some surprising statistics about sex addiction and betrayal trauma. (10:27)
How betrayal trauma impacts 75% of the women who go through it. (12:50)
How betrayal impacts our health and nervous system. (14:28)
Why establishing safety is important. (15:35)
What happens when you cannot get to safety? (15:55)
How safety can be established. (17:39)
Why setting boundaries is essential. (23:25)
What the recovery process for a man looks like. (27:51)
A breakdown of the EMDR and subconscious reprogramming trauma processing methods. (30:14) (32:15)
How recovery is possible. (41:16)