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. On today's episode, a sex trafficking

survivor is going to share her story. We'll call her Samantha. Welcome. Thank you. Thank you so much for having me.

I've benefited greatly from your podcast and from your website and from other victims of betrayal, trauma.

And I'm really grateful to be able to share my story and hopefully help some people.

So you found this podcast because you're also a

betrayal trauma victim in addition to being trafficked for a year in your youth. I want our listeners

to know that you understand this issue on so many different levels. And before we started recording,

you were talking about how words can make sex trafficking seem very

different than it is. A lot of the times we hear the word pimp being thrown out there,

and that's kind of a really cartoonish name for what is really a slave master, a trafficker,

a person who owns other people. You'll hear a buyer referred to as a

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