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Intimacy After Infidelity | Cut Contact, Rebuild Trust, Shed Shame, Avoid Divorce, Forgiveness for Adultery

Intimacy After Infidelity | Cut Contact, Rebuild Trust, Shed Shame, Avoid Divorce, Forgiveness for Adultery

Written by: Kristina Joy | Affair Recovery Coach Spiritual Healing Emotional Healing
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The go-to podcast for Christian women who are ready to heal their hearts, shed their shame, and come home to freedom in Christ.
Ranked Top 2% Globally

Do you ever wish someone would truly see you, not look past you or through you?
Are you lying awake at night wondering if your marriage can survive infidelity...or if it’s time to let go?
Are you exhausted from Googling answers, trying to fix things, and still feeling unheard, unseen, and stuck in shame

You’re not alone. And you’re in the right place.

This podcast is a sacred, steady space for women navigating betrayal, emotional disconnection, separation, or the aftermath of an affair, who want more than surface-level faith answers. Here, we talk honestly about the heart, the body, the soul, and the brain, and what it actually looks like to let Jesus heal what’s been wounded.

I’m so glad you’re here.

I’m Kristina Joy, forgiven daughter of Jesus, mom, and coach. For years, I tried to break free from my own infidelity through sheer willpower, "doing more," and striving to be better. I read my Bible more. I tried to behave my way into freedom. None of it worked.

Everything changed when I stopped trying to fix myself and allowed Jesus to meet me in the deeper places like my pain, my patterns, my unmet needs. Through prayer, research, embodied healing practices, and new rhythms of truth and grace, I discovered real freedom. Not just from the affair, but from shame, secrecy, and self-abandonment.

On this podcast, you’ll find:

  • A reminder that your dignity, worth, and identity are not up for debate
  • Emotional and nervous-system awareness for real transformation
  • Coaching guidance for clarity, boundaries, communication, and trust
  • Gentle truth for women deciding what restoration actually means for them

Whether your marriage is being rebuilt or released, you are allowed to heal. You are allowed to choose freedom. You are allowed to become whole.

If you’re ready to:
Stop living in secrecy and self-condemnation
Experience God’s love without fear or striving
Break familiar patterns for good
Live with clarity, strength, dignity, and peace

Then take a breath, find your safe space, and press play.
This is where healing begins and where you come home to yourself, with Jesus.

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Let’s Connect:

📞 Book your private Breakthrough Call: https://learn.kristinajoycoaching.com/breakthrough

💌 Email: kristina@kristinajoycoaching.com

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Episodes
  • 164 | Talk to the Part of You That Still Misses Him: 6 Steps That Help You Meet Her Instead of Fighting Her (IFS Series, Part 1)

    164 | Talk to the Part of You That Still Misses Him: 6 Steps That Help You Meet Her Instead of Fighting Her (IFS Series, Part 1)
    Oct 15 2026

    💛 Parts work is hard to do alone the first few times. Book a Breakthrough Call to experience it in a guided, safe way.

    There's a part of me that still misses him. Why can't I make her stop?

    Because fighting her was never going to work. Today I'm teaching you a completely different approach and walking through all six steps out loud with my own real part, so you can hear what it actually sounds like.

    This is part 1 of a 3-part series.

    We cover:

    • IFS 101 for the woman who's never heard of this: Self, protectors, and the wounded parts underneath
    • The guardrail: accepting and loving a part is not condoning what she wants
    • The six F's of IFS: Find, Focus, Flesh out, Feel toward, Befriend, Fear

    Ready to walk through all six steps? I'd love to help! Schedule your call with me and we'll find your part, hear what she wants to tell you, and show her some love instead of fighting.

    Mentioned: Boundaries for Your Soul by Alison Cook and Kimberly Miller

    Let's Connect: 📞 learn.kristinajoycoaching.com/breakthrough 💌 kristina@kristinajoycoaching.com

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    25 mins
  • 163 | She Felt the Warning and Ignored It: GUEST Chel Cartmill on Silencing Your Instincts and Learning to Trust Yourself Again

    163 | She Felt the Warning and Ignored It: GUEST Chel Cartmill on Silencing Your Instincts and Learning to Trust Yourself Again
    Oct 13 2026

    💛 Need to talk this through with someone? Book a Breakthrough Call today.

    How do I trust myself again when I stopped believing my own judgment a long time ago?

    Today’s guest felt the warning. More than one. And she talked herself out of every single one, until it cost her nearly everything.

    Chel Cartmill is a Next Chapter Transition Specialist and a Certified Trauma-Informed Master Coach who has been walking people through divorce, grief, and broken relationships since 2007. She’s the founder of Reclaim, a Christ-centered healing program, and the author of the memoir Spider on My Neck.

    We explore:

    • Why your body sends warnings before your mind has words for them and what happens when you keep overriding them
    • How “be the good person” and “don’t judge” got confused with discernment, and the slow loss of a voice
    • Why people-pleasing and peacemaking are actually about control and what that costs over years
    • How to rebuild self-trust
    • A warning of using Scripture to cover grief, sadness and anger instead of moving through them

    Connect with Chel: 📖 Spider on My Neck: available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble 🌐 www.chelcartmill.com

    Email me and tell me what resonated! I read every one myself and I write back personally.

    Let’s Connect: 📞 Book your private Breakthrough Call: learn.kristinajoycoaching.com/breakthrough 💌 Email: kristina@kristinajoycoaching.com

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    32 mins
  • 162 | Will My Husband Ever Trust Me Again? How Do I Rebuild Trust When He Won’t Give It?

    162 | Will My Husband Ever Trust Me Again? How Do I Rebuild Trust When He Won’t Give It?
    Oct 8 2026

    💙 Want a room full of women doing this same work? Email me about Rooted in Joy.

    I gave him my phone code. I share my location. I tell him where I'm going before he asks. So why does he still look at me like that?

    Today I'm telling you the truth about what you can actually control when it comes to rebuilding trust and why the thing you're building is worth it, when it doesn't produce the result you want.

    I walk through my own list of everything I did, and the honest part: he said the words "I trust you," and I never felt it.

    We explore:

    • Why you can do everything right and he still may not trust you, and why that isn't your failure
    • Trustworthiness is yours. Trust is his. Two completely different things
    • The trap of being trustworthy only toward him, and why integrity has to be with everyone
    • The question that replaced "does he trust me?"
    • How your body tells you when you're out of alignment
    • The real reason to keep going when the outcome isn't guaranteed

    Your one step: stop measuring whether he trusts you. Start measuring whether you're being trustworthy in front of God, not in front of him.

    Let's Connect: 📞 Book your private Breakthrough Call: learn.kristinajoycoaching.com/breakthrough

    💌 Email: kristina@kristinajoycoaching.com

    🌎 Website: www.kristinajoycoaching.com

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    18 mins
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