Are you looking for the best emotional abuse support groups online? Here’s what you need to know.

1. Does The Online Emotional Abuse Support Group Have Other Resources?

The best emotional abuse support groups online have educational resources like a podcast, workshops, or even quizes to help you understand exactly what’s happening to you.

For example, did you know there are over 19 different types of emotional abuse? Take our free emotional abuse quiz to see if you’re experiencing any of the 19 types.

2. Do The Online Emotional Abuse Support Groups Cover All Types of Emotional Abuse?

If the support group doesn’t understand betrayal trauma, which is emotional abuse caused by infidelity and deceit, then the group may not meet your needs.

3. Does the Support Group Meet Multiple Times a Day in ALL Time Zones?

There’s no telling when your husband will be emotionally abusive. When something happens and you need support right away, consider attending a Betrayal Trauma Recovery Group Session for emotional abuse. Check out the Group Session schedule.

4. Does The Emotional Abuse Support Group Actually Help You Get To Emotional Safety?

A lot of support groups blame you for what’s going on. At Betrayal Trauma Recovery, we never victim blame. Instead, we help victims figure out exactly what’s going on and what to do next through our Living Free Workshop.

Transcript: The Best Emotional Abuse Support Groups Online

Anne: I’m very excited to have my new friend. We’re going to call her Lacey, on today’s episode. We spent the weekend at a conference for abuse victims. I’ll cover what makes the best online emotional abuse support groups in just a minute. There are four things that you really need to watch out for. But before I want to welcome Lacey, welcome.

Lacey: Hello Anne, thanks for having me.

Initially just friends and maybe counselors and books, I would read them and listen to it, and it didn’t resonate with me. So as I dug further, I started learning words like betrayal trauma. You know, I didn’t even know that’s what I had. So I didn’t know those are the words I needed to search for. I just started stumbling across things, so I had to weed through a lot of things that were not helpful before I could get to the things that were.

Even with books they suggested, sometimes you’re just not in a place where you can sit down and read and comprehend a book. Betrayal Trauma Recovery for me was just something consistent, weekly. That I could turn on and listen to. What you were saying was resonating with me. So I took your advice. It was good for me when I found BTR because it’s a consistent voice of reason that I could turn to. Listening doesn’t take nearly as much brain power as sitting down and studying or something like that.

Promoting Betrayal Trauma Recovery & Helping Others

Lacey: You were just talking about the conference. I wouldn’t have known anything about that if it hadn’t been for the Betrayal Trauma Recovery podcast because there are not a lot of resources in my area. Even the counselor I’m seeing isn’t trained in this area. She doesn’t know about resources like books and things that you suggest on BTR. And I just want to do my best to help other ladies find it quickly, more quickly than I did.

It’s great with the podcast, I can go back and re listen. Before I got on with you, I was listening to a few things. You know, I probably will not have my own podcast or website or anything like that. It’s difficult for me to talk about these things with people in person. I want to do my best to promote you in the best way possible to help other people.

Anne: I’m grateful for your support. You’ve listened to the podcast since the beginning, and one of the things you mentioned is that you wanted other women to know about Betrayal Trauma Recovery, it covers things emotional abuse victims need to know. And you were talking about how easy it is to help women find us. Just follow the podcast on Spotify or Apple Podcasts by actually clicking the follow button. Because the more subscribers or followers the podcast has, the more the algorithm shows this podcast to women when they’re searching for help.

Like you said, you were searching for things, but you didn’t know to type in betrayal trauma in to Google because you didn’t know what you were searching for, exactly.

Lacey: Right.

Anne: Then finally, when you found the word betrayal trauma, you found us, you found Betrayal Trauma Recovery.

Improving Online Visibility

Anne: So as women search around, they search for words like infidelity, cheating, or addiction. Lots of women are searching for narcissism stuff, lying, “How do I help my marriage?” Or betrayal trauma in relationships.

It’s rare that a woman with marriage troubles goes immediately to Google and types in betrayal trauma. My goal is to help women get this information as soon as possible. Making sure they can find us online is important.

The first thing I ask people to do is actually click the follow button, and then to help even more rate the podcast on their podcasting service, or iTunes or Spotify. And that five stars means Google or iTunes starts paying attention to it. So podcasts with a lot of ratings, get more visibility. And that’s what we need.

If someone types in infidelity, for example, it’s so much better to find Betrayal Trauma Recovery if you’re searching infidelity. Than finding that a wife causes infidelity, not meeting her husband’s needs. Or a wife not being safe enough for her husband, or something like that.

You’ll see things evolving over time with BTR as I learn better ways to describe things. As all of us know, it’s an ever evolving process to describe what we’re feeling and what is happening to us. And so I try to update the website over time and all the materials over time when I have a better way to describe something.

Emotional Abuse Support groups online: Engaging with Betrayal Trauma Recovery on Social Media

Anne: Another way to help other women know about this amazing community is to comment on the btr.org website. Because the way search engines work, the more interaction a website gets, the higher ranks on a search engine. Same thing with Instagram and Facebook, the more comments on each post, the more interaction, the more people see it. That algorithm is like, Hey, this is interesting. And they show it to more people.

So if you’ve been grateful for this podcast and want to help get the word out. Going to our YouTube channel and commenting on all of our videos, commenting on our posts. We’re on Instagram at. At btr.org_. And on Facebook, commenting on our posts.

We have some wonderful supportive women who take five minutes a day while waiting for carpool. And they go through all of our posts on our social media platforms on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. And in the comments, they just do an emoji, like a handclap or a 100. Or the celebration emoji. It can just be an emoji. You don’t even have to say anything. That helps the algorithm so much. So if you’ve been putting emojis on our social media posts or writing short comments on our website, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. .

That’s the cool part about this podcast. It’s by trauma survivors for trauma survivors. So we can make it whatever we want.

Experiencing Support in Person

Anne: So tell me about your experience being around so many women, like having come from an isolated state of not talking to anyone you felt understood.

Lacey: In my town, I hadn’t found any groups that I felt comfortable going to just because they didn’t focus on my specific need. And then having such a hard time finding a counselor. I felt like they were listening, but maybe didn’t get it. And I have friends and family that know that I’m separated. And they know that I’m hurting but still, again, they don’t know the details or maybe how to listen with understanding.

Being around all these women, even if their situations weren’t the same, or if they hadn’t experienced the same thing, it just felt like they knew how to react appropriately and the right things to say. It felt so good to talk and not worry about, filtering what I was saying or trying to remember what I had already told them, or is this person safe or not?

Or when am I going to run into them at the grocery store? You know, or do they know my husband? All these things that are constantly going through your mind when you’re at home and trying to know how to talk to people. None of that was there. And I was able to just talk and share my story, and not feel judged. Sometimes you just want to talk and have somebody listen, and it was a great experience.

Emotional Abuse Support Groups Online: Gratitude and Community Support

Lacey: I just want to throw out there that I’m sure donating helps continue how y’all are already working on spreading the word. I don’t know, I just want to throw that out there. Because I think everybody should donate, and uh, I want to help you any way I can.

Anne: Betrayal trauma recovery was built by all of us. There’s no way I could have started it without the emotional or financial support of all the women listening, small and large. Betrayal trauma support groups are full of amazing women. And knowing that there was someone on the other side of the microphone listening to me, because when I would feel so dark and sad and just be speaking into a microphone in my basement.

And there’s no way I could have done it without you and without the coaches. So I’m very, very grateful that this is an organization by trauma survivors of trauma survivors. It’s a community that I’m a part of, proud of, and grateful for.