• Broken to Brave by Tammy Gustafson

Broken to Brave

Your Courageous Act of Healing After Intimate Betrayal

Get guidance, strength, and tools to heal after betrayal has shattered your heart.

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Broken to Brave

Your Courageous Act of Healing After Intimate Betrayal

When intimate betrayal shatters your world, everything you thought was true can suddenly feel like a lie. It’s as if you’re falling through a black hole—unsure if it’s possible to get to the other side.

But there is a way through.

In Broken to Brave, Tammy Gustafson combines personal experience and professional insight to guide you through the chaos toward peace. With compassion and practical wisdom, this book helps you:

  • Identify where you are in your healing journey
  • Avoid getting stuck in the pain
  • Move forward with strength, courage, and self-worth
  • Navigate decisions about your relationship

Broken to Brave focuses on you and your journey, giving you the encouragement and tools you need to rebuild your life with confidence and hope.

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Three things I know to be true about your healing…

1

It Is Not Your Fault

When your partner made the decision to step outside the relationship, that was 100% on him.

You Have Great Worth

Your worth and value is not tied to what your partner did or didn’t do.

You Can Heal

Healing is possible, whether your relationship makes it or not.

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What people are saying about Broken to Brave…

  • “Tammy Gustafson is the betrayal bestie you didn’t know you needed. She’s honest, empowering, and walks right beside you through the rubble.”

    Geoff
    Geoff Steurer

  • “Tammy he has become a significant voice to those who are walking this journey. She is a wise, compassionate, articulate woman who is guiding others through their pain to lives of redemption.”

    Debbie
    Debbie Laaser

  • “With refreshing compassion, clinical wisdom, and actionable tools, Tammy gently guides readers from devastation to empowerment. This book is a must-read road map back to wholeness.”

    Jenna
    Jenna Riemersma

  • “Broken to Brave is a must read. Tammy Gustafson gives voice to your story: your wounds, your fears, your grief and, ultimately, your triumph.”

    Janice
    Dr. Janice Caudill

  • “Broken to Brave offers a powerful portrait of healing from betrayal trauma. It beautifully illustrates that suffering is not a barrier to growth and healing, but the very pathway that makes them possible.”

    Jake
    Dr. Jake Porter

  • “Broken to Brave is a gift for those who have experienced the pain and trauma of intimate betrayal. I’m so very pleased to invite you to take this book as a guide for hope and post-traumatic growth.”

    Barbara
    Dr. Barbara Steffens
Tammy Gustafson

Meet Tammy

Tammy Gustafson, MA, LPC, is a trauma-informed licensed professional counselor, coach, and speaker with over fifteen years of experience. She holds a master’s degree in counseling and is the founder and CEO of Betrayal Healing and LiveFree Counseling. She specializes in helping women pick up the broken pieces of their hearts, find their strength, and reclaim their worth and value after intimate betrayal. She hosts the annual Betrayal Healing Conference, an international gathering of hope and expert guidance.

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What’s different about Broken to Brave?

This book is like you and me sitting down for a long conversation over coffee where I help you get to your feet, figure out where you’re at in the healing process, find your voice, and give you a path to move forward.

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  • “Broken to Brave is a beacon of hope for anyone struggling to rebuild after betrayal. With refreshing compassion, clinical wisdom, and actionable tools, Tammy gently guides readers from devastation to empowerment. This book is a must-read road map back to wholeness.”

    Jenna Riemersma, LPC, CSAT-S
    bestselling author of Altogether You

  • “Whether you are at the beginning of betrayal trauma recovery or are a well-seasoned traveler on the healing journey, Broken to Brave is a must-read. Tammy Gustafson gives voice to your story-your wounds, your fears, your grief, and ultimately your tri-umph. She can authentically tell this story because it is her story too. She provides validation to your confusion and swirl of emotions, fortitude for overcoming the obstacles along the way, and hope and inspiration for transforming brokenness to empowerment.”

    Janice Caudill, PhD, CSAT-S, CCPS-S, CPTT-S
    author of Full Disclosure: Seeking Truth After Sexual Betrayal

  • “Tammy is the betrayal bestie you didn’t know you needed. She’s honest, empowering, and walks right beside you through the rubble. She knows you can heal because not only has she helped hundreds of betrayed partners, but she has also done the work herself. In Broken to Brave, Tammy turns the focus back to you so you can reclaim your sanity and peace of mind, regardless of what happens to your relationship.”

    Geoff Steurer, MS, LMFT, CCPSa

  • “With unflinching honesty and sacred vulnerability, Broken to Brave offers a powerful portrait of healing from betrayal trauma.
    Tammy writes with the clarity of one who has walked through the fire and emerged transformed — not in spite of the suffering but through it. This book beautifully illustrates that suffering is not a barrier to growth and healing but the very pathway that makes them possible.”

    Dr. Jake Porter, LPC, NCC, CSAT-S, CCPS
    creator of the Couple-Centered Recovery model

  • “Through Tammy’s bravery to grow through her own story of betrayal brokenness, she has become a significant voice to those who are walking this journey. Tammy is a wise, compassionate, articulate woman who is guiding others through their pain to lives of redemption. Her conversational writing style invites anyone to heal from trials one phase at a time.”

    Debbie Laaser, MA, LMFT
    author of Shattered Vows and From Trauma to Transformation

  • “Broken to Brave is a gift for those who have experienced the pain and trauma of intimate betrayal. Tammy’s words of encouragement and vision are just what the betrayed person needs to navigate the journey from pain to courage and then to healing and post—traumatic growth. I’m so very pleased to invite you to take up this book as a guide for hope.”

    Barbara Steffens, PhD, CCPS, CPC
    LPC, CSAT-S, coauthor of Your Sexually Addicted Spouse and founding president of Association of Partners of Sex Addicts Trauma Specialists (APSATS)