Welcome to Betrayal Trauma Recovery, BTR.org. I'm Anne. I'm sure you remember what it was like when you were searching for help, maybe for your husband, hoping to find the right program or therapist. That's why I started podcasting. I supported my husband through seven years of pornography addiction recovery and not one therapist during that time told me I was experiencing emotional

and psychological abuse and sexual coercion. I didn't want any other woman on the planet to be in

the dark. If you're like the majority of my listeners, you're experiencing the type of abuse that's

invisible and difficult to wrap your head around. Your husband is using porn or having

affairs or lying to you, and you're getting the same bad advice about how to improve communication

or your relationship. If you need support from women who totally understand, check out our daily

group session schedule at BTR.org slash group. We'd love to see you in a session today. One simple, anonymous way to help spread the word

is to click, follow, or subscribe to the Betrayal Trauma Recovery podcast on your favorite

podcasting app. While you're there, every five-star rating helps make this podcast more visible

and will help save other women from getting the wrong kind of help, like a couple

program that will make this type of abuse worse. For those of you who follow or subscribe to this

podcast, thank you so much. Your support means so much to me.

Angela Micklewaite is the founder and CEO of the Justice Defense Fund and the founder of the

Global Trafficking Hub movement supported by millions

around the world. She has been combating the injustice of sex trafficking for over a decade

and is a leading expert in the field. Welcome, Lila. Thanks for having me. Our audience is well

aware of the harms of pornography on families and also how pornography intersects with

sex trafficking. Let's talk about the work that you are doing to bring justice to survivors

of sex trafficking and child sex abuse. You know, I've been doing this work for over 15 years.

I don't have a very dramatic story of how I ended up

focusing on this area. I grew up in a home where my father was very focused on human rights

issues. He grew up in the Middle East in the midst of four. And he just always instilled in us

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