Welcome to Betrayal Trauma Recovery. I'm Anne.

Today I have Lynn Marie Cherry, who is an engaging speaker and the author of Keep Walking

Forty Days to Hope and Freedom After Betrayal.

It's a daily devotional book that helps women find a way

through the pain and trauma of betrayal. She is dedicated to inspiring hope and

shining light on the path to freedom. In whatever shoes you prefer, rubber, rain boots, tennis shoes, or

sassy heels, she'll show you how to take a step forward today. Lynn and her husband David have

been married 26 years and they have two boys and you can

find more information about her and her book at Lynn Marie Cherry.com.

As always, our BTR.org site will link to this if you miss that or if you don't know how to spell it.

Welcome Lynn. Thank you so much for having me. So Lynn you decided to share your betrayal story by writing a book. Why did you decide to write about your story?

You know, it's the book you don't dream of writing when you're a little girl in sixth grade thinking you'd like to write someday.

Yeah, the book really was birthed out of my journey and the pain that I experienced.

It was so difficult and so altering.

But at the same time, I felt like I found a way through.

I knew it was something that I had to share and I knew early on in the

journey that I would share my story, that my husband and I would both talk about it. So that's

kind of how the book came to be, but just going back to our story, like the slowest

most drawn out discovery story you've ever heard. We were married in 1991 and I had a feeling like really early like even on my

honeymoon something's not right something's not quite right. But at the same time, just thinking, oh, that's not a big deal. I really don't know what husbands are like. This is my first experience. Just did the best I could to just miss those feelings.

In 1997, I was pregnant with our first son.

It just happened to be the same year that our house was wired for this brand new

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