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. Amy Nordhues is on the podcast today.

She's a survivor of both childhood sex abuse and sex abuse as an adult at the hands of a

mental health professional. She is a passionate Christ follower and expert on the healing God

provides. She has a BA in psychology and minors in sociology and criminology. Her devotions

have been published in the Secret Place devotional series. Her memoir, Prayed Upon, won the Inspire Christian Writers' Great Openings Contest for

nonfiction and the Next Generation Indie Award for inspirational nonfiction.

As a married mother of three, she enjoys spending time with family, writing, reading, photography,

and all things comedy.

Welcome, Amy. Hi. It's so good to be here.

We have comedy in common. When I first found out about my husband's lying in deceit, I actually

started writing comedy to deal with it, like to process it. So I wrote a comedy blog for a few years

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