The Betrayal Song

Metaphorical Narrative

The café played a song.
Not just music — a ghost. The same track that once played during betrayal. The body tensed, heart raced. As if the past had walked back into the room.

But it wasn’t betrayal now. It was just a song carrying an old imprint.

Core Insight

Songs and sounds carry somatic memory. The nervous system pairs music with past emotion, replaying the body’s alarm even years later. EF override means naming it: “This is memory, not reality.”

Saturday Experiment

• When a trigger song hits, pause. Say: “This is the Betrayal Song — echo, not truth.”
• Ground yourself in the present scene.

Sunday Reflection

• Which songs in my life carry betrayal or fear prints?
• How can I reclaim them as just music again?