How I Healed After Finding Out My Boyfriend Was Secretly Meeting Up With Porn Stars

Consider Before Consuming

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🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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0:00.0	In today's episode, we sit down with Mandy, a women's empowerment and trauma-informed
0:15.8	lifecoats, who shares her deeply personal journey of discovering her partner's porn addiction,
0:20.8	lies and cheating, navigating betrayal trauma, and reclaiming her strength.
0:25.6	Mandy opens up about the heavy emotional toll, the impact on her self-worth,
0:31.1	and the process of healing after deception,
0:33.6	sharing valuable insight for others who may be experiencing betrayal trauma. With that, let's jump into the conversation.
0:42.1	We hope you enjoyed this episode of Consider Before Consuming.
0:48.6	Well, Mandy, thank you for joining us on Consider Before Consuming today. For our listeners who don't know, we, this is our second
0:57.0	time trying out this conversation because we had a bit of a communication difficulty. So I'm even
1:01.8	more excited to get to talk with you because I had to wait for this conversation. Can you start
1:07.6	by telling our listeners a little bit about yourself and what you're passionate about?
1:11.7	Yeah.
1:12.1	And first of all, thanks so much for your patience when we figure out this communication.
1:15.9	Like I'm really excited to be here too.
1:18.4	So yeah, my name is Mandy.
1:19.5	I'm a woman's empowerment and trauma-informed life coach.
1:22.7	I help women who both do betrayal trauma.
1:25.4	Aside from that, I love nature, reading, dogs, traveling,
1:30.6	meditation, breathwork, personal developments. Yeah, it's a little bit about me on the other side of
1:36.9	the spectrum. How did you first become involved in conversations about porn addiction and its
1:41.9	impacts on relationships? Yeah, so I got involved in it similar to how I think a lot of people become involved in it.
1:49.5	We were impacted by one way or the other.
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