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You deserve the best betrayal trauma resources as you navigate the deeply personal journey toward emotional safety.

What is Betrayal Trauma?

Betrayal trauma in marriage occurs when your husband violates your trust.

But here’s the thing: Some resources for navigating what to do about betrayal trauma can be more traumatizing than helpful.

In This Article, We Cover These Best Betrayal Trauma Resources

• Accessible online betrayal trauma support groups
• Helpful betrayal trauma podcasts
• Workshops to explain betrayal trauma
• The best betrayal trauma meditations
• Good books about betrayal trauma
• Resources if you’re experiencing betrayal trauma while pregnant
• Herbal Medicine for Betrayal Trauma

Transcript: The Best Betrayal Trauma Resources For Women

Anne: My friend Lindsay and I were hanging out in my basement and talking about why I started Betrayal Trauma Recovery. I wanted all the educational material: the podcast, the website, and the transcribed articles to be free. And I wanted women to get our professional betrayal trauma resources from anywhere.

And they needed to be accessible within hours of an abuse episode. You could either get into an individual session or a group session that you never had to call your therapist and get the sad news that they couldn’t see you for two weeks or that you had to be on some wait list. I just wanted to make sure that women had a safe place to go for the best support for betrayal trauma.

When I first started Betrayal Trauma Recovery. I thought BTR would be to shorten the time span between trying to get help while in the abuse cycle. It was basically to shorten the time span to find out about their pornography, and immediately notice abuse. So women could figure out the difference between emotional abuse and normal conflict. And immediately you can set boundaries, with their emotionally abusive husbands, right? That was like, okay, I’m gonna like make sure that no woman has to go through 10, 20 years of this again.

Well, what I have found is that most women have to go through that stage. And so for women who are like, oh, I’m so stupid. Why didn’t I see it before? Why didn’t I do that? Almost like you had to go through that. No woman goes straight from, I found explicit material on his phone to the hardcore bo