Dr. Jill Manning began her career as a therapist, but when she quickly realized how many people of all ages struggled with issues surrounding the use of pornography,

including addiction and betrayal trauma, she obtained her PhD in marriage and family therapy with a focus on betrayal trauma.

In this episode, Dr. Joe Manning explains how betrayal trauma victims are affected by their partner's porn use, how sexual compulsivity often starts with trauma itself and offers advice to listeners

who are experiencing betrayal trauma.

With that, let's jump into the conversation. We hope you enjoy this episode

of Consider Before Consuming. Jill, thank you for being here with us. Can you tell our audience

a little bit about who you are and what you do? Sure. Well, first, thank you for having me.

This is a real treat, and that's good to see you again. I am a? Sure. Well, first, thank you for having me. This is a real treat,

and that's good to see you again. I am a marriage and family therapist, and I've been

involved in therapeutic work for 24 years now. I specialize in working with betrayal trauma,

so those that are impacted by typically sexual betrayal in a primary relationship, whether that's a fiancé, girlfriend,

boyfriend, or most commonly a marriage partner. And how did you get started in this work?

So I finished graduate school with my master's degree in Canada and was not specialized in this

whatsoever. And what I noticed was within three months of starting work as a brand new

rookie therapist.

I could not avoid how often I was being confronted with the topic of pornography

especially.

But just betrayal generally too.

And so that really piqued my interest because this is of interest to me at the time.

There was not a word mentioned about compulsive pornography use, sex addiction, porn addiction,

sexual betrayal, betrayal trauma. None of that

was mentioned. So it really got me curious, what's going on? Why is this coming up so commonly?

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