How Infidelity Shatters Our Core Assumptions | Richard Nicastro, PhD
Infidelity trauma shatters core beliefs about self and partner. True infidelity recovery must address this deeper rupture to support lasting healing.| Richard Nicastro, PhD
Infidelity trauma shatters core beliefs about self and partner. True infidelity recovery must address this deeper rupture to support lasting healing.| Richard Nicastro, PhD
Unnamed trauma often lingers beneath the surface, shaping our behaviors and emotional responses. Our defenses, while meant to protect, can keep the pain alive.| Richard Nicastro, PhD
Do you or your partner have an avoidant attachment style? Understand the dynamics of why someone relies on avoidance strategies in their relationships.| Richard Nicastro, PhD
Gaslighting and deception play a central role in betrayal trauma during and after an affair, making them crucial issues for infidelity therapy to address.| Richard Nicastro, PhD
Self-sabotaging behaviors are painful and confusing. Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy helps us understand this complex issue and offers a path to healing.| Richard Nicastro, PhD
Childhood abuse is innately shaming. The traumatized person struggles with internalized shame and deep-seated loneliness that has resulted from the abuse.| Richard Nicastro, PhD
In abusive families, we have to shrink ourselves in order to emotionally survive. Understanding how this continues to impact us as adults is essential.| Richard Nicastro, PhD
Compartmentalization and escapism are common ways to handle difficult emotional experiences. However, they can be overused and weaken our self-capacities.| Richard Nicastro, PhD
Compartmentalization is a psychological defense that helps us cope with stress. But it can also be used in the service of unhealthy acting-out.| Richard Nicastro, PhD
This article explores how unresolved childhood abuse shapes adult behaviors, making survivors vulnerable to leading secretive lives and engaging in infidelity.| Richard Nicastro, PhD
The effects of childhood abuse follow men throughout their lives. Remaining silent about the abuse keeps it alive. Healing requires this silence to be broken.| Richard Nicastro, PhD
Sexualization is a defense against emotional pain and trauma. It momentarily numbs pain but it ultimately keeps traumatic wounds buried and unhealed.| Richard Nicastro, PhD
There are many myths and falsehoods about infidelity and cheating that can negatively impact the affair recovery process.| Richard Nicastro, PhD
Childhood trauma causes emotional wounds that follow us into adulthood. Central to these emotional injuries are the legacy of shame and feelings of inadequacy.| Richard Nicastro, PhD
For many, unresolved childhood abuse can play a significant role in infidelity. Understanding these trauma dynamics are essential to healing.| Richard Nicastro, PhD
