A clinically guided small group intensive for women navigating betrayal recovery
Stop surviving on autopilot. Reclaim your clarity, your confidence, and your sense of self in a safe, structured community of women who truly understand.
If You're Feeling This
Right now, you might be experiencing some or all of this. Every single one of these is a recognized trauma response, not a sign that something is wrong with you.
You can't stop replaying details. Searching for clues you missed. Your brain is running a full investigation 24/7, and you can't turn it off.
You've told maybe one or two people, or no one. Because how do you explain this without feeling shame that isn't even yours to carry?
The confident woman who trusted her instincts feels gone. You second guess everything now. You're not sure you can trust your own mind.
You're not sleeping. Your appetite is gone. The tight chest, the nausea, the startle response when your phone buzzes. Your body is holding this trauma.
Stay or go? Tell the kids? Every choice feels enormous and irreversible, and you're supposed to make them while your nervous system is in crisis.
From the outside, you're holding it together. But inside, you are barely breathing. And the gap between how you look and how you feel is getting wider every day.
Maybe it was a text message. A credit card statement. A gut feeling you couldn't ignore anymore. Maybe someone told you. Maybe he told you himself.
However you got here, you're here. And "here" feels like a place no one prepared you for.
Everyone around you has an opinion. "Just leave him." "You should forgive." "At least he didn't..." "Have you tried couples therapy?"
But none of them are standing inside your body at 2 AM, heart racing, scrolling through months of memories trying to figure out which ones were real.
Your nervous system is doing exactly what it was designed to do when safety is shattered. But you need more than time to heal from this. You need the right support, the right tools, and the right people around you.
Why This Is Different
Most resources give you one piece of the puzzle. Information without community. Community without clinical grounding. Therapy without structure. Support groups without a roadmap.
The Compass Recovery Intensive brings it all together.
Every session is grounded in betrayal trauma research, nervous system science, and the prodependence model. We will never frame your pain as a sign that something is wrong with you. Your love and loyalty are not pathology. They are strengths that got weaponized against you.
Healing isn't random, even when it feels chaotic. The 12 week curriculum meets you where you are in Week 1 and walks you, gently and deliberately, toward stability, clarity, and agency by Week 12. You'll know where you've been, where you are, and where you're going.
Something happens when you sit in a room with 12 other women who get it. Who don't need the backstory. Who nod when you can't finish the sentence. That kind of witnessing is healing in a way that no book or podcast can replicate.
The Shift
This is not about "getting over it." This is about integrating what happened into a life that is still, and fully, yours.
The Roadmap
Each week builds on the last. You'll never be thrown into the deep end without a life jacket.
Phase 1: Stabilize
"Before we can heal, we have to stop the bleeding."
Understanding what happened to you. We normalize the trauma response, introduce the prodependence framework, and establish group agreements that make this space safe.
An accessible deep dive into how betrayal hijacks your nervous system, and the specific somatic tools that bring you back to safety. You'll leave with a personal regulation toolkit.
Untangling the shame stories, the self blame loops, the "I should have known" soundtrack. You'll start separating what happened from what it means about you.
Phase 2: Understand
"Clarity doesn't come from figuring him out. It comes from understanding yourself."
Using a prodependence lens, we explore your attachment patterns not to pathologize them, but to honor them. Your capacity for deep love and loyalty is not the problem.
Betrayal is a death of trust, of the relationship you thought you had, of the future you planned. This week we name the layers of grief and give you permission to mourn fully.
If you've been told you're "crazy" or "too sensitive," this week is for you. We dismantle the gaslighting and begin the most important rebuilding project: trust in your own perception.
Phase 3: Reclaim
"You are not what happened to you. You are what you choose to become."
Not punishment. Not walls. Boundaries as a practice of honoring what you need. We'll get specific: what to say, how to hold it, and what to do when it's tested.
Stay or go? This week we take the pressure off the Big Decision and build a framework for values based discernment. You'll learn to make choices from clarity, not crisis.
Healing is not a straight line. Some weeks will feel like you've gone backward. This week we normalize the nonlinear nature of recovery and equip you with tools for the hard days.
Phase 4: Rebuild
"This is where you begin to see who you're becoming."
You are more than this chapter. This week we reconnect with the parts of yourself that got buried: your passions, your confidence, your sense of humor, your vision for the future.
Whether you're rebuilding with your partner or preparing for life without them, this week addresses the tender questions about trust, intimacy, and opening your heart again on your terms.
We close with intention. You'll create a personal recovery compass: a living document of your values, boundaries, tools, and community that keeps guiding you long after the program ends.
Everything Inside
Tuesdays at 7:00 PM ET, 90 minutes each. Clinically facilitated sessions combining teaching, guided processing, and witnessed sharing. Every session is recorded.
Thursdays at 12:00 PM ET, 30 minutes. A midweek lunchtime touchpoint for questions, quick coaching, and connection. Come as you are. Camera optional.
A secure, private space just for your cohort. Share wins, ask for support between sessions, and know that someone is actively monitoring and participating throughout the week.
Thoughtfully crafted prompts designed to deepen the work between sessions. These aren't busy work. They're carefully sequenced to support your processing and growth.
Short, focused audio teachings (10 to 15 minutes) you can listen to on a walk, in the car, or before bed. Each one reinforces the week's theme and gives your brain something nourishing.
Every session recorded and housed in a private portal, along with all handouts, tools, and resources. You'll have access for 12 months after the program ends.
Cohort 1 Bonuses
Somatic exercises, breathing protocols, grounding scripts, and guided audio recordings designed for acute moments. The 2 AM panic, the triggering text, the wave of grief in the grocery store. Lives on your phone so it's always within reach.
Before the program begins, a private 30 minute call to understand your story and make sure this is the right fit. This also means we walk into Week 1 already knowing who's in the room.
When the 12 weeks end, the community doesn't. Stay connected with your cohort, share updates, and have ongoing peer support as you continue integrating your healing.
If your partner is doing their own work, this guide gives them a clear, compassionate overview of what betrayal trauma is, what you need from them, and how they can support your recovery. Direct without being punitive.
Is This Right For You
Voices From the Room
"I finally stopped feeling like I was losing my mind. The structure gave me something to hold onto when everything else felt like chaos."
Future Cohort 1 Participant"Being in a room with women who understood without needing the whole backstory was the most healing part. I didn't have to explain myself. They just knew."
Future Cohort 1 Participant"For the first time in months, I feel like I can trust my own mind again. That alone was worth every penny."
Future Cohort 1 ParticipantYour Investment
The Compass Recovery Intensive is priced at a fraction of what 12 weeks of specialist level individual sessions would cost (typically $3,000 to $4,500+). But this isn't discounted therapy. It's a different kind of experience, one that combines clinical expertise with the irreplaceable power of community.
Only 15 spots available. When they're filled, the next cohort won't open until late summer 2026.
The Compass Confidence Guarantee: After your 1:1 intake call and the first live session, if you feel this isn't the right space for you, email within 48 hours and receive a full refund. No hoops. No guilt. No awkwardness.
Questions
You've read this far, which tells me something: a part of you knows that what you've been doing isn't sustainable. The white knuckling. The isolation. The pretending.
Cohort 1 begins April 21, 2026. There are 15 spots. If something on this page spoke to you, if you saw yourself in these words, that recognition is information. Trust it.
Have questions? Email tara@gritandgracerecovery.com. Personal response within 24 hours.
Built With Lived Experience
This program was designed by a licensed clinician and Certified Betrayal Trauma Specialist who didn't choose this specialty from a textbook. She chose it because she lived it.
Before she was a clinician, she was a woman scrolling forums at 3 AM, trying to make sense of something that doesn't make sense. She was the woman who smiled through school pickup and fell apart in the car. She was the woman who wondered if she'd ever feel like herself again.
That experience didn't just inform her clinical work. It built it. Every protocol, every framework, every group is shaped by the understanding that betrayal trauma is not a character flaw. It's a wound. And wounds, when tended with skill and compassion, heal.
She will never ask you to do something she hasn't done herself.