Betrayal Recovery Radio: The Official Podcast of APSATS

Replay of Carol the Coach talking with Dr. Crystal Hollenbeck talking about helpping couples heal.

Today, Carol the Coach will be interviewing Debby Flanagan who has more than 25 years of ministry experience helping women find healing from sexual and love addiction and trauma. As a survivor, she has a special connection with women who have experienced childhood sexual abuse. Debby works closely with women in recognizing areas of codependency and developing healthy boundaries. Debby is passionat...

Today, Carol the Coach interviews expert Sarah Morales who is  an expert and teaches courses on "gaslighting." Gaslighting can happen when an addict purposefully denies reality and projects that that there is something wrong with you for believing that there is something wrong wiith him. It can leave you feeling shaky and confused and it can make you doubt yourself. Listen as Sarah shares strategi...

Today, Carol the Coach will be interviewing Lyschel Burket who is a certified professional coach who would love to spend some time unpacking a common tool used by couples as they step into the space of healing and rebuilding. The tool is commonly used as a check in tool. Which means they use this tool as guardrails to their time in order to create connection, communication and safety with one anot...

Repeat of the therapeutic separation show.

Partners have lots of questions as to what they can do to seek safety.  Listen, as Carol the Coach and Hope talk about ways to rebuild  trust when she still doesn't feel safe. We talked about tools to create more safety in her relationship.

Today, Carol the Coach interviews Dr. Merry Frons who has specialized in treating couples with relationship and sexuality issues for over 30 years. She has very specific philosophies as to how to treat the partner individually and in couples therapy. She has written a step by step  protocol that helps the couple through the healing journey together. Her book, The Trust Solution was written because...

Today, Carol the Coach is interviewing a couple who went through sexual addiction and partner betrayal.. It resulted in a lot of hard work and research on partner betrayal.. Cat suffered from PTSD and needed to learn how to manage the triggers. She also began to write to help partners understand what was happening to them. Together she and Frank have commited to helping  couples through difficult...

Discovering your husband has broken his wedding vows by betraying you emotionally, sexually and financially, is extremely traumatic.  Having to make a decision to stay married or get divorced is one of the most difficult and pressing decisions every partner struggles with.  The incredible sense of fear and confusion facing this decision can be debilitating.  Dr. Crystal Hollenbeck is going to disc...

Carol the Coach is interviewing Mark Denison who has produced resources to help sex addicts find lasting freedom and recovery. As a man in recovery, (he still attends two 12-step meetings each week), he knows the importance of a specific plan for recovery. He will be talking about his two primary resources: 90-Day Recovery process and new Freedom Groups. The 90-Day Plan utilizes his 90-Day workboo...

Are you an adult child of a sex addict? Do you feel confusion, fear and avoidance in your own relationships? Or do you feel best when you are intimately involved with someone? Adult children of sex addicts often are the forgotten population when we talk about sex addiction; but their experiences are a valid and rich contribution to the treatment of sex addiction and prevention of the generational...

Carol the Coach will be interviewing Dr. Jill Manning who is excited to announce the launch of a digital download store that offers therapeutic handouts and worksheets specifically designed for betrayed partners. Well-designed and trauma-informed, these resources are easy to integrate into clinical or coaching work, including group therapy.

Partners need a guide to heal and today, Carol the Coach is interviewing Beth Denison who is passionate about helping women find hope and healing after sexual betrayal. She developed materials that combine scriptural insight and sound psychoeducational information with a trauma sensitive model to guide women through a path of recovery. This was published in her new workbook called 12-Week Partner...

One of the toughest reactions and responses to partner betrayal is figuring out what boundaries you might need to feel safe. Today Carol the Coach will be interviewing Boundaries Expert Aarti Chidambaram. Aarti believes that  boundaries are only words if there are not strong consequences. She will be discussing "Boundary Challenges" that partners face. She will be discussing "Layered Consequences...

Carol the Coach interviews Brian Martin who works with partners to show them how to assess whether the addict is working on his recovery in an efficient way. He will also be talking about how to recognize shame in an addict and how to interface with shame and anger appropriately.

Carol the Coach wants you have tools that cof the self.  It will help you with your healing and it will help you in your restoration so that you can move towards  more restoration You  will want to  listen as Jen Coles shares tools and tips to be your best person. There are many great tools and exercises available to partners of sex addicts as they go through their healing journey.  Jennifer’s sig...

Repeat of the 2018  show with APSATS Gaslighting expert Sarah Morales who help you figure out if you are being manipulated.

We are living through unprecedented times right now. Motherhood alone is challenging and difficult, but with the added stressors in today’s world AND experiencing betrayal trauma it can feel like you are drowning every day. Today’s segment will talk about the survival mechanisms moms can be forced into and hopefully bring some normalization and sanity around being a good enough parent in today’s l...

Today, Carol the Coach will be  interviewing Coach Julie StOnge who wants to help partners to know that they worthy no matter what has happened to them. Julie explains, "My relationship with me was never that good. I have come to realize with partners that aside from cultural binds that may hold them in fear of change, there is a break down with their own relationships with self. I work on this si...

We all know that Sex Addicts often times fear that they don't possess the intuition to know how to be sensitive to others. Josh Nichols believes it might be just the oposite. In this interview Carol the Coach and Joshua Nichols will be discussing a recent article he wrote entitled “Managing Your Superpower: What Mister Rogers Has in Common with Sex Addicts.”  This is part 2 of a 2 part series. In...

We all know that Sex Addicts often times lack empathy. Well Josh Nichols believes it might be just the oposite. In this interview Carol the Coach and Joshua Nichols will be discussing a recent article he wrote entitled “Managing Your Superpower: What Mister Rogers Has in Common with Sex Addicts.”  This is part 1 of a 2 part series. In essence, Josh believes that Fred Rogers, commonly known as Mist...

EMDR is an effective trauma treatment for partner betrayal. Find out how it can help you!

Today, Carol the Coach will be interviewing Ericka Young who is a Financial Coach and wrote the book, Naked and Unashamed 10 Money Conversations Every Couple Must Have. She gives solid advice for couples who want to transform the way they deal with and manage their money.

Repeat show about how to find the right polygraph examiner.

Following the 3rd phase of the APSATS MPTM Model requires that you see your self as a survivor and a thriver. Carol the Coach is interviewing Gaelyn Rae Emerson who has created a rare and exciting new project for partners of sex addicts. Focused and fueled toward post-traumatic growth, Rediscovering Me is an “out of the box” kind of partners support group—one that’s perfect for women who are wonde...