Welcome to the Nothing is Wasted Podcast, conversations designed to help you as you live, learn and lead through pain.

And now the host of the Nothing Is Wasted podcast, Davy Blackburn.

Hello, welcome to the Nothing Is Wasted Podcast. My name is Davy. I'm your

host and joining me Mel, our co-host. Mel, this is the fifth and last installment of our sexual betrayal series.

It's been such a good series.

It has been such a great series.

Cried.

I've learned so much through the series.

Yeah, and just like all the other episodes we are bringing one of our

resident counselors Julie Dodson back on at the end of this interview for her

to provide a little bit of commentary from from the place of an expert licensed counselor and it's really really good

commentary I hope you've been enjoying it over the past several episodes

and you're gonna want to make sure that you stick around after this interview to hear from Julie.

I want to talk a little bit about the importance, Mel, of doing the hard work in healing, because I feel like with all of these interviews we've seen

them really put in some hard work and I think sometimes we live under the auspice that

healing should just be quick and easy like it's a magic

pill you know and there's just one step to it may we confess and so now we now all of a sudden

we're healed but as we learned confession is just the first step to healing.

Recognition is just one step to healing, acknowledgement, you know, just what and

acceptance, it's just one step to it, but there are so many steps it's really important to put in the hard work.

Yeah and I think specifically with this series is so much trust has to be rebuilt and trust as we know does not you can't

force that and you can't manipulate it you can't just make it happen overnight and

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