Welcome to Betrayal Trauma Recovery. This is Anne. We have a member of our

community on today's podcast talking about her experience. Before we get to that,

many of you are already members of Betrayal Trauma Recovery Group, which is our daily online group.

We have multiple sessions in every single time zone.

When you join, you can usually get into a session within a few hours because we have so many.

So to check out the Betrayal Trauma Recovery Group schedule, go to BTR.org.

We have found that women really make a lot of progress when they're actually able to tell their story to a live person and get feedback and coaching from a professional betrayal trauma recovery coach. check out that schedule at BTR.org.

Okay now we're going to get to my discussion with one of our community members. We have a member of our community on today's episode.

We are calling her Sarah today,

although that is not her real name.

But I will have her introduce herself

because she's going to be sharing her personal story and her perspective. have her

introduce herself,

and her perspective. So welcome, Sarah.

Hi, Anne.

Before we started this episode, we were talking about how she came to find BTR. She's listened to every

single podcast episode. So before we talk about how you found the

podcast, let's just start with your background. So tell everyone your story.

Well, let's see. Something that's kind of unique to me is that I'm Middle Eastern. My dad is from the Middle East and I was raised Muslim but came to faith as a Christian

when I was 16 and I took that decision really seriously and devoted my life to my faith. It was like life

changing for me. And so ironically when I met my ex-husband he was on full-time staff with a Christian organization and

he was basically a missionary. I've heard stories in the past and mine is like theirs

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