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The Affair Recovery Room

The Affair Recovery Room

AffairHealing.com 59 Episodes Aug 19, 2026

The Affair Recovery Room is a podcast for anyone affected by infidelity, offering honest conversations, practical guidance, and hope. Hosted by licensed counselor Tim Tedder of AffairHealing.com, each episode provides insight and support for those navigating the aftermath of betrayal. New episodes release on Tuesdays and some Fridays.

Episodes

Bonus: Free “Good Sex” eBook
Bonus: Free “Good Sex” eBook Aug 19, 2026 00:15:18 Three conversations. Three very different women. One idea that surfaced in all three: good sex doesn't begin with technique, and it doesn't begin with your partner. It begins with being honest about yourself.In this bonus episode, Tim revisits the three-part series on sexuality — sexual shame with therapist and intimacy coach Jocelyn Silva, sexual pleasure with intimacy coach Linda Landon, and sex
The Word After Sorry
The Word After Sorry Aug 14, 2026 00:29:29 Episode NotesYou apologized. You meant it. It didn't land.If that's happened to you, on either side of the conversation, this episode is about why.Two words in, an apology can still be intact. "I'm sorry." Nothing has gone wrong yet. It's the third word that decides everything, and there are four that show up in that position over and over again, each one quietly erasing the ownership that came be
Sexual Reconnection
Sexual Reconnection Aug 5, 2026 00:34:57 After an affair, the sexual relationship rarely returns to what it was. Some couples find themselves in an unexpected surge of intensity. Others can't imagine being touched at all. Most land somewhere in between, unsure whether what they're experiencing is healing or avoidance.In this conversation, sex and intimacy coach Xanet Pailet joins me to talk about what sexual reconnection actually require
Sexual Pleasure
Sexual Pleasure Jul 29, 2026 00:32:51 For many couples, especially those recovering from infidelity, sex carries an impossible weight. The betrayed partner may feel pressure to perform, to compete, to prove something. The involved partner may be desperate to demonstrate change. And underneath it all, many people have never learned what genuinely brings them pleasure in the first place.In this second episode of our series on sexuality,
Sexual Shame
Sexual Shame Jul 22, 2026 00:33:22 Sexual shame rarely announces itself. It settles in early—a look on a parent's face, a warning message from the pulpit, a silence where an honest conversation should have been—and it quietly teaches us that something about who we are is wrong. In this episode of The Affair Recovery Room, Tim sits down with therapist and intimacy coach Jocelyn Silva to trace how that shame shapes us, and how it can
When Betrayal Begins Before an Affair
When Betrayal Begins Before an Affair Jul 9, 2026 00:14:48 In this first PageTalk episode of the podcast, Tim revisits his recent article The Betrayal Often Begins Before the Affair, which was posted on AffairHealing.com. Written after the release of the previous episode (Unshakeable), the article explores how betrayal often begins long before an affair, in the quiet erosion of a couple's emotional connection. Tim shares his own reflection on breaking his
Unshakeable: Strong Lessons from Hard Experiences
Unshakeable: Strong Lessons from Hard Experiences Jul 2, 2026 00:20:26 Suzanne Leydecker built a life that looked good from the outside: a husband at Goldman Sachs, children, a home in New York. Then one night, over what had been an ordinary date-night dinner, he told her he was leaving. He'd already arranged for his mother to fly in and help her "pull herself together."In this conversation, Suzanne talks candidly about the months that followed—the summer she buried
Understanding EMDR: It’s Weird, but It Works
Understanding EMDR: It’s Weird, but It Works Jun 25, 2026 00:22:16 If you've been betrayed, you already know that the pain doesn't stay in the past. It follows you into ordinary moments—a song, a smell, a place, a glance at a phone—and suddenly you're flooded all over again. That's not weakness; it’s trauma. It deserves real treatment.In this episode, I talk with Laurel van der Toorn, trauma therapist and founder of Laurel Therapy Collective, about a modality tha
The Betrayer’s Pain
The Betrayer’s Pain Jun 17, 2026 00:34:33 Most people who follow this podcast are betrayed partners, and understandably so. The pain of being cheated on is acute, disorienting, and often traumatic. The Recovery Room is committed to honoring that experience.But genuine recovery, the kind that produces lasting change and real safety in a relationship, requires more than behavior management from the person who had the affair. It requires so
Trust Yourself After Being Betrayed
Trust Yourself After Being Betrayed Jun 9, 2026 00:29:01 One of the most disorienting effects of betrayal is what it does to a woman's sense of self. She may have been strong, capable, even confident—and then the discovery of infidelity strips away the ground she was standing on. She doesn't just lose trust in her partner. She loses trust in herself.In this conversation, Tim talks with life coach Zerina Dervini about why betrayal hits identity so hard a
Elisa, 6 Years Later: Life After He Left
Elisa, 6 Years Later: Life After He Left Jun 3, 2026 00:39:26 Six years ago, Elisa's husband told her he was leaving their marriage for another woman. In the original three-part "Elisa's Story" series, she shared the raw experience of that first year: the shock, the grief, the impact on her sons, and the anxiety of navigating co-parenting with the woman who had replaced her.Now, six years later, Tim Tedder revisits that conversation with Elisa to explore wha
The Broken Marriage, Her Exit Affair
The Broken Marriage, Her Exit Affair May 27, 2026 00:22:11 Joni Woods grew up with a clear picture of what marriage was supposed to look like—and an equally clear sense of what a faithful wife was supposed to do when it didn't. For fifteen years, she stayed in a marriage defined by criticism, control, and abuse, holding the appearance of a healthy relationship together while her church community watched. It wasn't until her children became targets of her

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