Welcome to Betrayal Trauma Recovery. This is Anne. I hope you had a great Memorial Day weekend.

It is before Memorial Day weekend for me, so this will also be a really short podcast because I am prepping to spend the weekend with my kids.

I have a great summer planned with my kids so I'm super excited about it starting with this Memorial Day.

We're going to go to an amusement park and then we're going to go to the beach on a lake with some friends of mine who have kids my kids age

For those of you who have just started listening to betrayal trauma recovery I want to give you a brief history of how this site and

how betrayal trauma recovery evolved in 2015 after seven years of attempting to quote unquote help my husband with his anger problems and

his pornography addiction.

He sprained my fingers and pushed me against the kitchen cabinets during an argument.

He was arrested for domestic violence. The judge gave him a no-contact

order, which is kind of like a protective order. And that was the first time I'd ever

conceived that he really was an abusive person. I waited hoping for him to take

accountability for his actions and to come back home to us and to change to

truly repent. He decided to file for divorce nine months later.

During that time I prayed and prayed and prayed and the only answer that I received was to

start a podcast, which is how this podcast started.

At the end of 2016, Betrayal Trauma Recovery became a nonprofit,

and six Apsats coaches came on board.

The coaches were very good at coaching. They knew the topics that they wanted to coach on.

We knew what women needed, but we didn't exactly know the best way to go about it.

So we've been through several different phases. For example, if you listen to the beginning

podcast you'll hear us talking about free consultations. We were so inundated with

those that we had to stop. Also I used to go by the name Anon and Blyth is not my real name. My friend had a Facebook account with the name

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