My experience with betrayal comes from an ex. I loved her and up till that point, thought our relationship could survive anything. If you have ever been betrayed, you will know how much it hurts and it leaves us devastated and questioning everything about the relationship this can be romantic or platonic.
One day I woke up and found myself that I was a number two choice and not the first in accordance with what she wanted, all along. You know how you could do good by someone and make them see the person they want in you, but they never saw it, never will.
It was a couple of months later that the real scale of betrayal started to unfold. In the time we hadn’t spoken, she had moved on and not only this but she’d did all that exploring I wanted to do with her, try new foods, new thrills, anything she had never done, she now did it with him.
Physiological healing is the body’s cells regenerating or repairing to reduce the size of the distressed/damaged area to restore the body to normal functioning.
Neuroscience has helped to reveal that heartache is as painful and real to the brain as physical pain. So, there is good news just as we know we can heal from physical pain, we can heal from emotional distress as well.
Emotional healing is less mechanistic than this but otherwise follows a similar restoration path. Emotional healing happens when the brain replaces painful events with restorative images those which will promote behavior that promotes safety, growth, and well-being, thereby restoring the normal function of the mind.