How I Healed After Finding Out My Boyfriend Was Secretly Meeting Up With Porn Stars
Consider Before Consuming
Fight the New Drug
4.8 • 779 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Mandy is a women's empowerment and trauma-informed life coach who helps women who have experienced betrayal trauma. In this episode of Consider Before Consuming, Mandy shares her personal experience of discovering her partner’s secret struggle with porn addiction, his cheating with porn stars, and the betrayal trauma that followed. She describes the emotional toll, the gaslighting, and the psychological abuse she endured, as well as the healing journey that led her to become a trauma-informed life coach.
Episode Resources
Article: The Emotional Trauma of Having a Porn-Addicted Partner
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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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