There are certain themes that play out in our life, and some of the most common ones are betrayal, abandonment, sadness and grief, and they will not all look the same to different people, since we are unique and have had very different life experiences. 

When we seem to have similar challenges come back again and again, and we think that we have already dealt with that, cleared it, forgiven it, so why is it showing up again?!  And the simple reason is, that you have moved forward in life, think of it like a spiral staircase, and you have mounted several steps up the spiral, and find yourself up above that step where the betrayal happened, a little distance away, but vertically, right above it, and meet that same energy in a different scenario.

Or think of it like the facets of a diamond.  You have cleaned and cleared one facet of that diamond, that trauma, that betrayal, but there are many facets to it, and they all have to be cleaned at some point. They will present themselves to you when you are mentally and emotionally ready to deal with a particular aspect of that trauma. 

When you were 3 years old, or 6, or 8, and felt abandoned, or betrayed, and that felt huge to that little child who could not understand it and process the emotion. In order for the child to survive, that emotion was stored in the subconscious.  Still there, vibrating at that negative frequency, but not consciously recognized. And over the years, anything that happened that had a similar frequency, would be attracted to that child, and teenager, and young adult, until the person’s understanding of how life works makes them think: why is being betrayed a theme, a pattern in my life? 

It’s because the Universe keeps giving you circumstances for you to heal that trauma, and as you get some understanding, you heal one aspect; and then you are set up for the next aspect that needs a more expanded awareness, like that step on the spiral staircase that is right above the step with the original trauma.  Every spiral you complete, the trauma gets less and less, or another facet of the diamond is cleaned.  And eventually, all the trauma will be gone. 

When you find old challenges re-appearing for you, the first step is to acknowledge this is a pattern, it’s some old stuff that wants to heal.  That’s good news! So see it, understand it, sit with the emotion.   The second step is to accept it, as opposed to rejecting it, pushing it down again, or running away from it.  And the third is to heal it, which means process it, get to a higher level of understanding it, and ask for help from your spirit guides and guardian angel. 

They have an even higher understanding than you, and if you go out into nature where no one can hear you, and you just blame, shame and judge the whole situation to your Guides and Angels, without holding anything back, but with the intention that they will help and support you in clearing this from your field.  So you both vent, and ask for help and support to bring you back to peace. Angels will understand, and always help when asked. That path is very effective for many people!