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. I have a member of our community

on today's episode. We're going to call her Catherine. We're going to be talking about bad body image days

after betrayal when your self-esteem about your body has hit a low. I want to talk about

three things to keep in mind on a bad body image day. Number one, betrayal happens to every type of woman.

I mean, look in the news. We see it happening with these beautiful movie stars. It happens to

really smart, super educated women, beautiful women, everyday women like me. I mean, it can happen to anyone. So it doesn't

have anything to do with how you look. Here are a few signs that your bad body image day is linked to

emotional abuse. Confusion. Are you questioning your own reality or do you feel like you're losing

touch or doubting what you know to be

true but you're feeling less valued after an interaction have you left conversations with him

feeling worse about yourself and less cherished exhaustion emotional abuse is draining and you're

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