Welcome to Betrayal Trauma Recovery. This is Anne. About 15 years ago, I took a trip to China.

I went on that trip with Liz and her mother. At the time, I perceived Liz and her mother as the quote-unquote typical Christian family.

Went to church every week, obeyed the commandments or so I thought, and I have reconnected with Liz this summer and she told me what was really happening in her family.

It's a very typical story of watching other people thinking, oh, they've got it all put together when that is not the case at all.

It's also a story of Liz's mother who is unwilling to set boundaries or face the reality of what she was living in.

Betrayal trauma recovery is interfaith. We have a new coach, Coach Joy, and she is Christian LDS, and I'm very excited to introduce

her to you.

And the rest of our coaches are of other faiths.

At BTR, we have women who are agnostic,

we have women who are atheists,

we have women who are Catholic and evangelical

and Baptist and Jewish, women from all different faith backgrounds and philosophical backgrounds.

You are welcome here.

Our number one goal is to get every woman to safety. I appreciate your patience with me when I do share

from my own religious perspective. It's simply to share my own story and how I'm

feeling and I honor the choices that you make and your own religious backgrounds.

That being said because Liz is LDS as she shares her story there are going to be some terms and some concepts that you need to know about to understand the story.

So first of all, LDS congregations are led by a volunteer, and that local volunteer is called a bishop.

Every congregation is part of a group of congregations called a stake.

There's also a stake president that oversees all of the bishops in the local congregations,

similar to the diocese with the Catholic Church where there's a hierarchy of local leaders and regional leaders and then a worldwide leader.

That's how the LDS Church is set up,

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