Finding Trust Again After an AffairFinding Trust Again After an Affair
The Call with Nancy Sabato
Brad and Heidi Mitchell share how they worked through the aftermath of an affair by embracing radical honesty, daily disciplines and a Christ-centred focus. Their story highlights practical ways to rebuild trust, address spiritual battles and find hope in marriage through Jesus.
14:28•23 Jul 2026
Finding Trust Again: Brad and Heidi’s Christ-Centred Marriage After an Affair
Episode Overview
- Rebuilding trust after infidelity hinges on consistent transparency and being fully accessible to the betrayed spouse.
- Everyday self-control and keeping small commitments can strongly influence whether a partner feels you are trustworthy.
- Healthy communication involves speaking truth in love, releasing the need to control the other person’s reactions, and examining motives for pride or fear.
- Couples are urged to surrender control of the marriage to God, remembering that the real battle is spiritual rather than against each other.
- Replacing obsessive, negative thoughts with repeated Scripture reading can help regain mental self-control during seasons of deep pain.
“There is hope for you, and it is always found through Jesus Christ.”
How do people find hope in the darkest times? This conversation on *The Call with Nancy Sabato* follows Brad and Heidi Mitchell as they talk openly about rebuilding a marriage after an affair and what trusting Jesus in the middle of that storm looks like. You’ll hear Brad describe how rebuilding trust meant radical transparency: letting Heidi know his plans, being fully reachable, and even sharing his phone location so she could check where he was.
He sums up his responsibility plainly by aiming to be "100% accessible, vulnerable, and trustworthy." Heidi, meanwhile, explains why the small things matter so much. For her, everyday commitments like sticking to exercise or Bible reading weren’t trivial – they were evidence of self-control: "If you say it, really mean it… if you say it, keep your word." The episode spends real time on communication and motives.
Brad admits that before the affair he held back his true feelings to try to manage Heidi’s reactions, later realising that was about control, not care. Now, he focuses on speaking truth "in love," leaving her response to her and, ultimately, to God. Heidi shares how she had to stop trying to control Brad’s emotional highs and lows, recognising, "I’m not God.
We have God in our marriage." That shift helps her ask whether a hard conversation is genuinely helpful or just driven by pride or fear. Spiritual warfare and intrusive thoughts are another big thread. Heidi describes her mind as a battlefield and explains how carrying a small Scripture book everywhere and reading verses every time a painful thought hit was the only way she could regain self-control over her thinking.
For anyone facing betrayal or wondering if a broken marriage can be repaired, this episode focuses on Christ-centred trust, practical disciplines, and the steady message Brad and Heidi repeat: there is hope for you through Jesus Christ. Could some of their habits and hard-won honesty be the next step in your own healing?
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