Welcome to Betrayal Trauma Recovery. This is Anne. On today's podcast I have June, who is a single mom of four young children, all of whom have special needs to varying degrees. June is an instructor for community parenting and advocacy

classes. She is passionate about addressing the unique issues that parents in

this situation face. June is also separated from her abusive husband and currently going through the divorce process.

Her ex-husband participated in pornography and masturbation as well as sex with multiple partners while they were married and continues to do

that during the separation and the divorce process. Welcome June, thank you

for coming on today's episode. Thank you. I'm so happy to speak with you today. you

guys are going to be so happy to speak with you today. You guys are going to be really curious about June's story and she's going to be sharing that with us on next week's episode.

This week we're really going to focus on

parenting special needs children while in an abusive situation. June let's start

with you talking about your children. I have four children.

They range from age 9 to 3, two boys and two girls,

and they each have some level of special needs.

My nine-year-old has autism spectrum disorder, sensory

processing disorder, auditory processing disorder, and also ADHD. And he's probably

been most impacted as far as special needs go and on the disability range.

My other children have speech and language issues and all of my children have been affected by trauma,

which is really important to note because the treatment for

trauma impacted children as well as special needs children can overlap sometimes and

so in my own home and in my own parenting I do a lot of things to address that and

things to help them feel safe and things to help them

process that trauma and process those emotions and it really is no different

many times the work I do with my profoundly impacted child as opposed to the rest of my

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