If you’re wondering how to get back to yourself after emotional abuse, listen to how Anne Blythe, M.Ed. came back to herself through writing, exercise, and boundaries.
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Transcript: How To Get Back To Yourself After Emotional Abuse
Anne: A few years ago, I was doing an interview for The Betrayal Trauma Recovery Podcast. There was this freaky Friday situation. and the guest started interviewing me. I wanted to replay a portion of that episode for you today.
Juliane: What are some steps you’re taking and have taken that have helped you regain your own sense of balance?
Healing Through Writing After Emotional Abuse
Anne: I’m a writer. Writing has been healing for me. I wrote every abuse episode that I could think of. Every instance of gaslighting. Every instance of emotional or psychological abuse helped me sort out what was real, what wasn’t real. It was like a hundred pages. It was crazy. When I started using that as a draft to write my book, because I want to give people concrete examples. I was so sick of my own story.
I thought that was a good sign after emotional abuse. So instead of thinking, I have to prove that he was abusive, which is how I felt before. Now that I’m healed more, I don’t need to process that anymore. Now I’m deleting huge sections out of it, because now I’m thinking, which examples will help other women?
Juliane: And you don’t have to prove why it was so crazy making for you.
Anne: Yeah, totally.
Reclaiming Physical Health After Emotional Abuse
Anne: My no contact boundary is actually the most helpful thing to me. Because any interaction with him is insane, focusing on my own physical health has been good. I’ve always been really athletic, and everything went out the window the moment I married him.
I didn’t ski anymore or mountain bike anymore. And I didn’t row anymore. I didn’t do any of the things I love doing. And now I’m getting back to that after emotional abuse. So I’m doing yoga every day and I’m weightlifting again. I may work at the ski resort the weekends when my kids are gone.
Juliane: I love that phrase, by the way, coming back to myself.
Anne: Yeah, and part of that was the abuse. And also part of it is that I have three kids under the age of six, and getting out of the house is really hard. They’re getting older now. My youngest was eleven months old when he was arrested. Time has helped a lot, too. It took a lot of time to process.
Emotional Struggles & Support
Anne: In fact, I just went through a pretty hard period. I went off my antidepressant, and decided I wasn’t emotionally eating anymore. So there’s about a month where I was crying every day. I mean, really bad, in the shower. At church, finding a room where no one was, and locking myself in there. Sitting on the floor, full on bawling my head off about everything that had happened.
Because I didn’t have the crutch of food anymore, and I didn’t have my antidepressant. So there were some feelings that I hadn’t quite felt. My sister was worried about me. So was everyone else. I was like, guys, I’m gonna be okay.
I just need to feel this right now. I’m not going to eat popcorn, and I’m not going to eat Oreos. I’m not going to take an antidepressant. I just need to feel these feelings that I was not ready to feel years ago because it was too much. It would have killed me if I had to feel everything simultaneously.
So I used an antidepressant for years, and I ate a lot and gained a lot of weight. Which is fine. Both of those things are fine. Do it if that helps you.
Navigating Single Motherhood After Emotional Abuse
Anne: Now I’m stronger. Knowing even if you’re making progress, be gentle with yourself. Because women, at least in my situation, have all kinds of problems. We have financial problems. What will we do for work?
Juliane: A woman working with three children that are young on her own. I mean a round of applause for all the single working moms out there. It’s so hard to do that alone. Then, you’ve got these multiple betrayal traumas. That impacts you emotionally, psychologically, and physically.
Anne: And they were coming from therapists. My clergy took his side. And friends, family, when I say family, I mean his family. This is not a small thing.
Considering Medication After Emotional Abuse
Juliane: No, it’s not. For me, five years out, I was still hurting. It was like the pain would come rushing forward with all the fear and insecurity. It’s a long process. I love that you gave yourself the freedom and permission to just feel your feelings.
Anne: Because I knew that feeling these emotions is important for me now. Women are strong, and they’re smart. We can think rationally through those decisions and make the right decision for you. And one of them might be, oh, I feel good. But now I realize my brain is imbalanced, and now I’m going on an antidepressant.
Juliane: Absolutely, it’s there for a reason, and it wouldn’t work if we didn’t need it. Some women need it right away because of the trauma symptoms they’re having. I can’t eat, I can’t sleep, you know, the constant worry, fear and anxiety.
And I’ve also seen fear get women through that period, because of all the adrenaline cortisol pumping through their system. It kind of keeps them on high alert, and they can get through the crisis. But a year or two years out, they kind of notice they’re slipping into depression and then need some support at that time.
Therapy Challenges After Emotional Abuse
Anne: Absolutely. Yeah, I am not anti-medication. I just want to make that clear to everybody. Please go on it if you need it. This is where I’m at right now.
Juliane: Well, kudos to you for all the hard work you’re doing and for the place you’re in. Betrayal Trauma Recovery is taking what harmed you and turning it around. To provide support, encouragement and resources for other hurting women out there. When I went through this, I never really bought into the co-dependency, co-addict model. It has impacted many women, and not for good. When I went through this, BTR helped so much.
Anne: Yeah, Betrayal Trauma Recovery doesn’t victim blame. That’s what the current recovery field misses. Is the abuse first of all. But also this bigger, wider discussion of misogyny, the Me Too movement and feminism. Like, you might be going to a therapist who buys into codependency. Not realizing it’s a form of victim blaming, which is also misogynistic. So it’s so much bigger than just, “Does he look at it or not?”
Juliane: Absolutely, absolutely.
Anne: That’s one reason I wanted to start Betrayal Trauma Recovery. It was to talk about all these important issues in one place. Because I was not seeing that in a typical 12-step group or a typical therapist’s office. Oftentimes traditional therapy that tries to get to the heart of, “why he doesn’t feel loved” or whatever. Rather than recognizing, wait a minute, he is loved. He can’t feel love because of his misogynistic attitude. And his feelings of entitlement and those aren’t going away.
The Importance Of Emotional Safety
Anne: The more therapy he does, the more he feels like he’s a victim. So I always like to warn people. You don’t want to give an abuser a shovel by having him go to therapy. Where he creates a story for why he has an abusive character. Because he’s just going to dig his trench even deeper. Because we see all the time, therapy fuels his entitlements and feelings of being a victim. It makes it worse for the wife.
That’s why at Betrayal Trauma Recovery helping women be emotionally safe is the top priority. And that could look like many things.
Juliane: Right, this is a woman who is violated. And there’s no sense of safety. So safety is of the utmost importance.
Anne: Yeah, and at BTR that’s actually the bulk of what we see. That therapists don’t assess emotional safety first, and if they do, and the woman isn’t emotionally safe. They propose things like, share your feelings with the abuser. Or let’s communicate better with him, and that is dangerous.
Court System Challenges After Emotional Abuse
Anne: It’s like the civil court system. A friend of mine is going through divorce with an extremely abusive man. She can’t talk to him without being psychologically abused and blamed. That sort of thing. And in court, the judge said, Look, you guys are both professional people, work it out.
Juliane: Oh, gee.
Anne: There’s no way she can work it out with him. It’s impossible. So a therapist might think, Okay, you both seem intelligent. You both seem nice, let’s work together. And you’re thinking, we can’t coordinate or cooperate about anything without me being harmed in the process. Every time I try to communicate or resolve something, I end up gaslit and taken advantage of.
Many people, lawyers, court people, clergy, and therapists, don’t have safety as the top priority. That has to be the top priority when any type of emotional or psychological abuse is involved.
Juliane: Absolutely, we can’t have a healthy relationship with an unhealthy individual.
Anne: This is why I created The Living Free Workshop, to help women get free of abuse.
Giving Back To Women
Anne: Thank you. That was fun to be interviewed for a little bit.
Juliane: Anne, thank you so much for having me. It’s been a joy and delight. I feel like I could talk another couple hours with you, but thank you so much. I want to applaud you for all your work and how you’re giving back to women through this podcast. And kudos to you for writing your book and giving up buckets of popcorn. I wish you all the best.
Anne: Thank you.
Hi please i am speaking on behalf of my daughter that just came out of an abusive relationship. How can i help her because she think she is strong to move but i can see the changes in her daily activities. She always complain of tiredness
Hi! We recommend Betrayal Trauma Recovery Group – our online support group for victims. Also, we recommend she listen to the Betrayal trauma recovery podcast.
I know this is mostly pointed towards women but I am a man who was emotionally abused. As I was in the relationship she manipulated me into thinking that I would not be able to live without her. I got out of the relationship but I’m terrified that I will run into her again. I’m scared that I’m gonna find her again and she’s gonna hurt me worse than when we were together. I just want to get out of this mindset I want to be happy like I was before her.
I’m so glad you reached out. We honor the experience of all victims, and acknowledge your pain:).
I divorced my spouse over 30 years ago because of serial cheating. He was finally caught red handed, he had a choice to make, family or the other woman. The affair continued and l filed, now l can’t get rid of the emotional memories that return everyday. I take really good care of myself and stay busy but the horrible memories are still present every day.
She’s going to be tired for awhile. It takes a tremendous amount of energy to be with someone who abused you, and even more during the healing process. I wish there was a magic pill we could take to regulate our central nervous system after all the years of dysfunction, toxicity, and abuse, unfortunately it doesn’t work that way.
Meditations are a lifesaver. It replicates REM sleep and helps your subconscious process trauma trapped in the body. Self-administered is a total game-changer, best way to heal for sure!
great info for the healing woman
I have lived with a narcissist for 19 years. At beginning I really felt as if I had found my soulmate. This is my second marriage. Over the last 16 years I have been emotionally abused. Most of the time,! I felt like a single mum anyway, with no emotional support or empathy for my feelings and wishes. I have now two teenagers who have encouraged me to leave since two years. They see all the gaslighting and emotional abuse that is going on. I feel betrayed and angry with myself. Why didn’t I leave him earlier, why was I so naive believing him! Each time I wanted to leave he would convince me to stay. For a while it was a little better, but then it would start all over again. I have told him that I would talk to a divorce lawyer tomorrow and would like to have an amicable divorce but he is just ignoring me again. Please wish me strength to pull it through for my kids. I am deflated and shattered. Thanks.
Nina, darling. I hear you and I understand you so much. I never write on internet but I felt your pain in your message and decided to reply to your comment. I left my abuser a month ago, I knew him for 10 years and been together as a couple for 4 years. No kids and lived together only for 2 months. And I ran away, I ran so fast like never before. I prepared the van, I waited until he would go out for a few hours, and I moved out. He didn’t know it would happen even though I told him many times that I will leave. But he never believed me. I texted him goodbye and that I moved out, I texted his family goodbye, and changed my number without waiting for anybody’s reply.
And now please please please believe me what I will say now: your life will be better once you leave. You will need to do very good preparations (money, flat, phone number, etc). Once you are ready to move out, you take your kids, your own self, and you run. Run so fast and don’t look back. It will be hard but no worse than what you feel now.
I’m now 1 month without my abuser, and I do think about him but this is nothing more than detox that my body is going through because of million abuse cycles I used to.
And now about your kids: they should not see what they see. And they struggle for themselves and for their mother that they love so much! You have already a support from your children. You ARE the team! So team up with them, prepare and escape.
Wow this sounds just like me. I’ve been married 23 yrs. The last 16 yrs have been a roller coaster each year getting worse, until finally I have no feelings left for him. We live in my parents house since I am their caretaker, they both have dementia.
Even living in my parents home, he still disrespects me. It’s infuriating. He would always leave for days and stay at his parents and return when he felt like it. This last time he left, I told him he was no longer welcome here. I also have 3 sons who back me 100%.
He has been gone now for 1 month, and I feel free. I breathe better, don’t feel like I’m walking on eggshells. There is no tension. The whole vibe in the house is different. As if a demonic spirit had left.
He won’t stop calling me now. Continuously trying to reconcile, but I won’t give in. He accuses me of seeing someone else, but that’s just his imagination. My wish is to fully end this nightmare.
Just FYI…don’t tell the narcissist what you’re going to do or what moves you’re planning to make. They will use it against you.
Is there a hotline that I could talk to someone about this
We have a support group that runs multiple times a day in every time zone. Click here to see the live, online support group session schedule.
I’ve have been suffering from a narcissistic boyfriend who is also a sociopath for last be 6 years. I thought I had gotten over him, but I’m still afraid.
I’m 62 years old. He made my mind scrambled all the time. I thought I knew him. We had been friends with each other off and on through the years. But I know now that I didn’t know him at all. I left him and was getting some of my self back when I contacted him to talk with me about my daughter. He then manipulated me into feeling like he is my best friend still. No he’s not my friend. I know because in the beginning he was loving understanding and as soon as I fell in love with him he started downgrading me for everything. He was really mean with words and broke my things. Each time I left I was trying to figure out what was wrong with me and then what was wrong with him.
When I would start to feel like I was getting myself back he would come to me as a victim of life in general needing my help. He then would love bomb me but as soon as we were comfortable in love he be would do the same thing over and over. I’m really traumatized by this. He’s been back in my life lately just to hurt me. Now that I know what is wrong I am really scared. I’m more leary now that I know he has sociopath and narcissist behavior.
He has a crew that worship him. They vouch for him no matter what. He’s told so many lies about me that I still don’t know of only it’s bad the way people look at me. He’s a master manipulator has convinced my family we were fine together and that I was having mental issues when we were broken up. Caused my son not to check on me.
I feel like a sitting duck here. I live in fear.
Dude! I experienced the same thing with a friend. Hang in there. I’m trying to hold on. I think what I learned is that I am smart and I can achieve.
I’m a male victim or should I say survivor.
I’m curious why this site only talks about women?
Our mission is to empower women to make their way to peace and safety in the face of emotional abuse and coercion. That’s why we only talk about women who have been victimized by emotional abuse.
The site talks about women because women are the more frequent survivors. This doesn’t diminish that you went through just as much. Your pain is just as valid. We just don’t understand it as well because there are fewer of you.
I don’t think coming back to myself is an option. I was a teenager before this started. How do I reclaim my power over my thoughts?
Perhaps now is the opportunity to create yourself if you don’t feel like you can “come back”. What type of person do you want to be? What type of life do you want now? Our coaches are really good at helping women plan a path forward. Attend our daily, online Group Sessions.
I was in quite bad situation. It has been four months since my voluntarily committed myself to psychiatric facility due to 6 years of abuse, I separated from my husband without any financial assistance. I was becoming myself again. Though I still had a lot of emotional issues to work through, but I was feeling much better.
So I decided I will go home for a weekend. All was ok. A lot of work to do still but we just might make our 7 year marriage work. Then his dad got angry with him and treated him as a child. He turned around and did exactly same thing to me, yelling at me and telling me I may not do things bcs I am sick (my low blood pressure due to the pills makes me unable to drive a lot) I may not go to visit friends in the town I am residing.
I was sick the whole week. My low blood suddenly went up and my heart rate. For the whole week.
Now I am trying for a second time this weekend not know if it will turn out the same even he admitted his sins. But his problems are from an emotional abusive farther from a young age. And he must deal with it.
However I do not want to be hurt like that. I am in a frenzy, divorce or wait until his dad dies. But will his behaviour ever change. I am such a predicament.
Any advice??
Our coaches at Betrayal Trauma Recovery offer amazing advice! You can join Betrayal Trauma Recovery Group and get unlimited, daily, live online group sessions for victims of emotional abuse. You’ll have about 2-3 minutes per group to share. Or you can schedule an individual session with one of our amazing coaches who can give you her undivided attention and walk with you as you get to safety from emotional abuse:).
I am in what I believe to be an emotionally abusive relationship. My boyfriend withholds love/affection with out any explanation as to why. He minimizes how much this hurts me and how unworthy of love this causes me to feel. Aside from this is constantly on dating apps as well as had inappropriate relationships with co workers and minimizes that as well calling it harmless flirting. I call it cheating and I’ve caught him doing this more times than we’ve even been intimate ourselves. We live together we share animals, he says he loves me and wants to work on this. I’m angry resentful and tired. Should I walk away?
Consider that you are in an emotionally and psychologically abusive relationship. You are also a victim of coercion. You’re emotional safety should be the top priority, and the only way to be safe around someone who is abusive is to limit contact or stop contact completely.
My sister is currently in an abusive relationship. her bf is so manipulative and she just can’t see it. Idk what I can do to help her, because he already put her hands on her once, it went from verbal to physical. She won’t listen to me. I do not know what to do! Suggestions?! I need to help her before it gets worse.
We recommend that women listen to the Betrayal Trauma Recovery Podcast to start to understand what is happening and have language to explain the emotional abuse.
I am a 50 yr old woman with childhood abuse then my last boyfriend of almost 5 years manipulated me and verbally abused me. I lost it completely. I live without any sense of security at all. During the changes of the world I really do. I’m on disability and can not handle drama and stress. Seems I’ve lived an entire life of abuse and I don’t know how to overcome it.
I stay away from news and media as much as possible however I know the world is changing and it puts me in more fear. Also I’m a caregiver to a fault. My love of art horses and children especially my own grandkids helps me a lot.
But I now have an uncanny fear of intimacy. Being alone and isolated is not healthy. I feel comfort around my children. However, they reside over 1000 miles apart from each other which makes life difficult. I must choose between my children. Life is very hard.
Hello.. I am trying to get out of a relationship. It has been 11 years on and off. We do have children. I have always tried my best to keep my children away from any of our adult problems. I have been abused as a child, and have been emotionally and mentally abused most of my life. I am just realizing how much I have actually dealt with. My partner has caused me to feel scared to trust that he will ever get better.
I recently asked him to leave again and also told him he needs to seek help…. I have always taken care of most bills and holidays or anything around the house as well as making sure my children are happy and taken care of. I am stuck, I can’t completely let go…. I feel as if maybe I did do something wrong or if there is anything I should do to help make it work. Although, I have been called names, been put down and made feel like i am at fault, I still try….. how do I know if I did enough? How do I know he won’t change? I see he has problems, I know he needs help…. I slightly feel as if I am abandoning him while he is not right…. any input would be appreciated.
We recommend that you seek support. The feeling that you need to do more is simply the abuse talking. Of course you are enough!! Of course, you’ve done everything you can. Of course, you’re a good person. You are brave. You are strong. We’re here for you. Our online support group for victims of emotional abuse can help you get to safety while you grapple with the emotional abuse.
I have been married for almost 5 years. I had just left a bad physical and emotionally abusive relationship about 10 months before I met my current husband. We rushed and got married after 3 months of dating. He had been married before. We now have a 2 and half yr old son together and he has a daughter from the previous marriage. We were great in the first year and half of our marriage and even while I was pregnant. But then, he wanted to spend more time hanging with friends than with me. He yelled and screamed at me. I had to leave him because I couldn’t take it anymore. I went back to him and now he keeps bringing up how I hurt him by leaving him. He never takes responsibility for the things he did that hurt me. He yells and calls me names in front of our son, he pokes his fingers in my face. He recently grabbed the back of my neck hard to make his “point”. He told me that if I leave again he’ll hit me like my ex did. He told me my ex’s abuse was my fault which hurt me to my core. I can’t trust him and I am scared. I want to leave but I can’t and won’t leave my son behind. He tells me that by law I can not take him away from his home. But I cant leave my child behind. What can I do?
Contact your local domestic violence shelter for help asap. Also, join our daily, online support group for victims of emotional and psychological abuse.
Hi, I’m not really sure where to begin, so I’ll tell you a few core things my husband of 38 years has put me through. I have lived with not only an emotional abuser but also a physical abuser. I don’t know which one is worse, in the physical part he has tried several times to kill me either from strangulation to cutting off my ability to breath to trying to snap my neck and he’s doing this while screaming in my face, “What’s your biggest fear!”
I do not recognize that person as he is pure evil, his whole body is contoured in such a way I swear the devil is in him. He sees me in every explicit video he watches which is constantly, he accuses me of infidelity and will not listen to reason. Like, when have I ever had the time to be unfaithful with multiple men while raising 3 kids while working full time and taking care of my house and cooking the meals every night. He has cheated 16 times that I know of and some of them where LONG time relationships. He has kicked me out of our home so he could move his girlfriends into our bed then tells me to quit feeling sorry for myself.
I could go on and on with this, but you don’t have days to read it all and I don’t have days to write it. I am in a domestic violence shelter at the moment but my stay here is limited. I don’t know who I can talk to about all of this. It’s literally tearing me up inside there’s even been times I haven’t wanted to live anymore just so the pain would stop. Could you please tell me where I can go to talk with someone. Thank you.
While I would normally recommend our daily, online support group – we don’t recommend it for victims of physical abuse and emotional abuse. Since you’re abuse includes both – when there is physical abuse there is always emotional abuse, I recommend scheduling an individual session with Coach Renee here at BTR.
I’m a 50 year old woman. I have divorced twice and 2 years ago I started dating a man that I knew from high school. Over the 2 years I was horrifically abused- mentally, emotionally and I don’t know when I lost myself and let it all happen. I can’t find a therapist in Louisville, Kentucky who really understands my trauma. I ended contact with him 8 months ago but I struggle every single day.
One week today my addicted BF of 8 years, called as he was aware a polygraph was going to happen in the future. He disclosed to me several affairs, one over 15 years, colleagues, strippers, girls in his town!! (We live 1 hour away).
So he’s played the field and played me the entire time!. I am in a 2 week no contact right now and I don’t ever think he will realize the abuse and trauma he’s caused me.
I could never go back to him. Too much damage and I know in my gut and my intuitive nature that there’s a lot more betrayal happened.
He’s caused a lot of financial hardship for me as I tried to move my kids to his town so I hired an Atty years ago ($16k). I had to close my part-time business near him as I stayed at his house. So this has hit me so hard. I can’t believe he would intentionally abuse me in order to control/hurt me. It’s sick and it’s so wrong.
I just finished the podcast, wonderful. It’s interesting to me how clearly women who’ve been in abusive relationships speak differently about abuse, almost seem to have a different energy. Anne, I’m so grateful to you for calling out therapists and legal professionals who don’t understand and simply won’t acknowledge their ignorance. I bought into my ex-H pity parties for decades – his parents were cruel, his job was hard, he was tired, he couldn’t help himself from x,y,z.
Because I was the ‘healthy’ one I was expected to support him and give him more time. Ugh. Total bullshit. To this day he pretends I wronged him because I was the one who asked for the divorce. His cruelty was to the point where it was dangerous and I had no choice but to leave, yet he plays victim. It’s crucial for people coming out of these relationships to find support from others who have lived it. The lack of understanding in our society (propagated by many therapists) and refusal to believe our stories is as bad as the abuse. Thank you!
Im 71 and husband is 70. Married 9 years. He was regularly taking my possessions, clothes, money, pocketbooks, keys, reading glasses, sunglasses (those are the biggest) makeup and emptying out facial cleansers for about 7 years. I tactifully brought this up to him and he yelled at me saying Im delusional. He was never married before and now I see why. He still takes my things less often but it used to be about 300 times a year. It made me sick. I never let him know I was looking for my items or showed any signs of being upset. I’d look for them when he wasnt around. He still takes my sunglasses, hides them in another place. Finances is the only reason I stayed. I do have my own home in a 55 plus place but unfortunately Ive got 3rd hand smoke in there and my daughter is there who has some physical limitations. I will receive my ex’s pension, SS if he passes so financially at that point I’d be ok. I just want out of this current marriage. I dont feel safe at all and am always on high alert having to hide things from him like my sunglasses and certain hats he likes to hide. Im too old for this and get sick with infections often.
I have lived with my partner for 12 years enduring some physical abuse, but mostly emotional abuse. Early on I should have seen the signs and left. He was still obsessing over his ex-wife and when he would get angry would tell me he was still in love with her. I moved out twice early on and he always seemed to reel me back in. There has always been promises of change, but that never happened. Instead I was told he had made changes and that I was not doing my part to change for him. I learned that their 11 year marriage was ecactly the same as what I was going through. He then became insanely angery and abusive when he found out his ex and I had talked and it was something I had never experienced fury wise. About 5 years into our relationship he
pushed me off of our porch. We had people over at the time, his co-workers, and they called the police. He was arrested but then would not leave me alone and kept trying to apologize and that he needed my help. Long story short I fell for it all. I am now 12 years in and I am so numb. I cook, clean, take care of his daughter when she is here. I take care of every holiday, birthday, event without him lifting a finger. On occasion he will do something nice for me, but that is short lived when he is in a bad mood or I have not done something he thinks I should have done. I am exhausted, unhappy, alone, trapped. The vivacious woman I once was is now a servant to a man who acts like a spoiled child. I recently decided that I have had enough and expressed those feelings. His reaction was leave and don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. I have educated myself through therapy and articles on emotional abuse and I am strong, but it is still so hard, not to let go of him, but the fear of who I am now. I am so hardened by all of this and angry at myself for enabling his awful behavior for 12 years. I know I need to leave in order to survive. He acts like it is no big deal and I should be ok with that, but it hurts that’s it is so easy for him to just not even care an ounce. 12 years is a long time. I gave known for a long while that I want this to end and be on my own. The problem is the pain of walking away. I am 44 yrs old and have a successful career. I just want to be able to heal and move forward, and reestablish my friendships and family I have lost because I chose to stay.
We get it! We’ve been through it too. We’re here for you! Check out our group session schedule at btr.org/group