Welcome to Betrayal Trauma Recovery. This is Anne. Before we get to today's topic and to today's

guest, I hope everyone has had or is having an amazing holiday season. Chances are for many of you it has been very rough.

And I'm hoping that the new year you can start focusing on boundaries

and then once boundaries have been established,

then starting to work on self-care. once boundaries have been

have to come first, then self-care.

It's very difficult to do self-care

when you're still in harm's way.

As this year is starting, I encourage everyone to go to our

website vTR.org, click on services and check out Betrayal Trauma Recovery Group

which is our daily online group, has multiple sessions

per day in multiple time zones.

We created it like this on purpose for you so you can have access immediately, you never

have to set an appointment, you never have to wait for an appointment, you never have to set an appointment you never have to wait for an appointment you never have to get

child care you never have to leave your home but it is actual live support from a

specialist who knows what they're doing so immediately you can get the help that you need.

Again, you can find information about how to join our group at BTR.org.

When you're in an abuse situation, progress is so difficult because you think you might be making progress and then you might find out that all the progress that you thought you saw was actually a lie and that you've been being abused psychologically or emotionally.

It is really hard to sort out reality from this false reality that the abuser wants to paint for you.

So this year, I would like to encourage everyone to really focus on truth and safety. What do I need to get safe and what is the truth?

The truth is you are amazing and you are enough

and you don't deserve to be in a relationship with someone who lies to you or abuses you emotionally or psychologically.

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