Welcome to Betrayal Trauma Recovery. This is Anne. I have Heather Cowan on the podcast today.

She is a director for White Ribbon Week and their website is White Ribbon Week.org.

She was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah.

She has a bachelor's degree in accounting from Westminster College.

She is an awesome active mom and enjoys skiing, running, baking, and fancy paper.

She is a wife, mother, and community citizen, and as a director at White Ribbon Week,

she facilitates White Ribbon Week. She facilitates White Ribbon Week in various elementary

schools and she's been involved in this crusade for the last 12 years.

Welcome Heather. Thank you. So Heather is coming from a place of hurt to healing.

Will you share with us your story of how you came to care about porn and its impact on families?

Betrayal trauma is real. It's so important to discuss. I've been

there 12 years ago. I was wondering what my life would be like. I had an infant

daughter wondering if I would ever recover from the horrible pain and

ache that I felt. In my heart, my whole body had symptoms of pain.

I would seek major inspiration from church leaders. I spent a lot of time on my knees

in prayer and just try to gain back my own strength because as many of you know it's hard to gain your strength back and put your life back together piece by piece.

So here I was. I didn't know what would happen with me and my husband and I just knew I wanted her to be brought up right and protected.

So I wanted her to be able to distinguish between good and degrading media.

So I figured if she was taught at a young age, she would be better prepared and informed.

So besides being a serious tongue twister, what is White Ribbon Week for our

listeners who are not familiar with it? White Ribbon Week, if you can pronounce it,

it basically is similar to red and green and blue, all these

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