Empowering Women After Betrayal
- Get 24/7 access to 60+ hours of faith-based advice from 44 experts in our critically-acclaimed previously held 10-day virtual summit.
- Ideal for partners of sex addicts as well as strugglers who want to help her heal, an All-Access Pass is also a great resource for counselors, mentors, and coaches.
- Collectively, our experts haveĀ 1,000+ years of personal recovery experienceĀ andĀ 1,500+ years of recovery ministry experience.
- Our goal is toĀ educate, encourage, and support youĀ while youāre on this healing journey. Youāre not alone. Weāre here to help.
Braveful Summit Topics
Gain expert insights and wisdom on these key topics
Betrayal Trauma
Feelings & Emotions
Discovery & Disclosure
Healthy Boundaries
Past Trauma
Restoration & Spirituality
Trust & Forgiveness
Empowerment
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Summit Interviews
Betrayal Trauma
Finding Hope, Healing & Joy on the Unintended Journey - Angie Andrew
Understanding Betrayal Trauma Recovery - Anne Blythe
From Traumatized to Creating a Trauma Informed World - Laurie Hall
Intimate Deception: Healing the Wounds of Betrayal - Dr. Sheri Keffer
Helping Couples Heal - Carol Juergensen Sheets
The Journey Beyond Betrayal - Melissa Haas
Feelings & Emotions
Finding Wholehearted Healing from Productive Pain - Misty Arterburn
Mending Your Broken Heart After Betrayal - Susan Smith
Awakening from Sexual Brokenness and Betrayal - Stacey Oliver
Overcoming Emotionally Destructive Relationships - Leslie Vernick
Hope and Freedom After Betrayal - Lynn Marie Cherry
Healthy Boundaries
Understanding Betrayal Trauma Recovery - Anne Blythe
Healthy Sexuality Beyond Betrayal - Dr. Juli Slattery
Healing Your Way No Matter What "They" Say - Ella Hutchinson
Setting Boundaries and Overcoming Triggers - Carin Dusse
Discovery & Disclosure
Understanding Betrayal Trauma Recovery - Anne Blythe
Trusting God Through New Disclosures - Lori Pyatt
Trust & Forgiveness
Finding Limitless Intimacy After Betrayal - Mary Whitman Ortiz
Reconciliation & Restoration After Divorce - Melody Lovvorn
Rehabilitating Trust and Intimacy - Hope Ray
Empowerment
Choosing to Heal and Live Empowered - Susan Allen
The Long (But Worthy) Road to Empowerment - Dr. Fran Hopwood
Moving from Survival to Significance - Stephanie Tucker
Finding Joy on the Healing Journey - Marsha Means
There's Still Hope After Betrayal - Beth Denison
Thriving in a Healing Community - Lisa Taylor
From Betrayal to Empowerment - Ashley Jameson
Sexual Addiction
Healing from Sex Addiction and Betrayal Trauma - Marnie Ferree
How Couples Heal: A Pastor's Journey - Nick Stumbo
Breaking the Bondage of Sex Addiction - Jeff Hutchinson
Breaking Through Shame - Gary LeBlanc
Healing as Both a Struggler and Betrayed Spouse - Helena Bonneteau
Healing for the Next Generation - Shawn Bonneteau
Beyond Early Trauma and Addiction - Randy Cotham
Past Trauma
Finding Wholehearted Healing from Productive Pain - Misty Arterburn
Hope Renewed Beyond Child Abuse and Betrayal - Kathy Kelley
Breaking Through Chronic Pain and Trauma - Carol Davis
Restoration & Spirituality
Restoring Your Soul After Betrayal - Julianne Cusick
Finding Hope, Healing & Joy on the Unintended Journey - Angie Andrew
Lost & Found: Rediscovering Yourself - Lila Pisor
From Shattered to Redeemed by God - Karen Rellos
Redefining Hope After Betrayal - Lyschel Burket
Meet Our Experts
We interviewed 44 faith-based experts in betrayal trauma, partner support, and sexual addiction for the Braveful Summit. As you can see, most are women who’ve been where you are. Click on any image below to learn more.
Julianne Cusick is the Co-Founder of Restoring the Soul where her primary focus is intensive counseling with women suffering from betrayal trauma, couples recovering from sexual betrayal, and family of origin trauma. Julianne speaks out of her first-hand experience of sexual betrayal and understands the isolation, fear, and shame that can accompany it. She has a passion for bringing hope and healing to hurting women and marriages. Julianne holds a Masterās degree in Marriage and Family therapy and is a Registered Psychotherapist in Colorado. She was trained in Post-Sex Addiction Induced Trauma by Dr. Omar Minwalla at the Institute for Sexual Health. You can hear Julianne on the Restoring the Soul podcast, Dr. Drew, the 700 Club, and other various podcasts and radio shows.
Misty Arterburn is an author, speaker, Life Recovery group facilitator, and mother to five children ages 28, 22, 20, 13, and 10 years old. A hoosier native, Misty earned her Accounting Degree as a graduate of Ball State University, and has spent more than 20 years studying and creating recovery literature, practicing the principles personally, sponsoring members of 12 Step programs, founding new meetings and recovery programs, and experiencing the benefits of recovery, herself. She has authored or coauthored multiple books including Lose It for Life Day by Day Devotional, One Year New Testament For Busy Moms, The Mediterranean Love Plan, and various material in the Life Recovery Workbook and resources. She is an accomplished conference and events speaker and facilitates two Life Recovery groups for women at Northview Church. Misty Arterburn founded Recovery Girls, a growing organization for women on all paths of recovery, which offers group startup materials as well as help, hope, and life changing video shares found on YouTube.
Dr. Sheri Keffer is the cohost of the nationally syndicated talk show New Life Live!, with an audience of more than two million people each week on 150 stations nationwide. For nearly twenty years, Dr. Sheri has been in private practice as a marriage and family therapist. Through her own personal story of recovery, Dr. Sheri understands the impact of sexual betrayal and is trained as a Certified Clinical Partner Specialist (CCPS) and Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT). With a passion for healing trauma she brings new tools and a fresh look at whatās needed not only to heal but heal well. Dr. Sheri commonly uses brain SPECT imaging, Brainwave Optimization and EMDR to treat depression, addictions, anxiety, loss and self-image issues caused by Post traumatic Stress.
She is the author of her new book Intimate Deception ā Healing the Wounds of Sexual Betrayal and is a regular host for the Blog talk show Betrayal Recovery Radio (www.blogtalkradio.com/apsatsradio). Dr. Sheri enjoys the beach, reading, mountain biking, hiking, camping and big game sport fishing, including a 150-pound marlin she caught that hangs on her wall.
She is the author of her new book Intimate Deception ā Healing the Wounds of Sexual Betrayal and is a regular host for the Blog talk show Betrayal Recovery Radio (www.blogtalkradio.com/apsatsradio). Dr. Sheri enjoys the beach, reading, mountain biking, hiking, camping and big game sport fishing, including a 150-pound marlin she caught that hangs on her wall.
Lynn Marie Cherry is an engaging speaker and the author of Keep Walking: 40 Days to Hope and Freedom after Betrayal, a daily devotional that helps women find a way through the pain of betrayal. She is dedicated to inspiring hope and shining a light on the path to freedom. Lynn graduated from Oral Roberts University and is a licensed minister. She enjoys sharing insight from Godās word and the world around her. Lynn and her husband David have been married for 28 years and have two boys. They are the co-pastors of Restoration Covenant Church in Round Rock, TX.
Marnie founded and directs Bethesda Workshops, a short-term intensive treatment program for sex addicts, partners of sex addicts, couples, and teens struggling with problematic sexual behavior. She speaks and writes passionately about Godās redemption in everyday life.
Laurie is the President of the Association of Partners of Sex Addicts Trauma Specialists. Founded by pioneers of the trauma approach for treating partners, APSATS trains and certifies Partner Specialists and advocates for the recovery and treatment needs of Partners of Sex Addicts.
Ella is the co-founder of Comfort Christian Counseling in Houston, TX. She is passionate about helping partners of sex addicts and advocating for them to find healing in their own way, in their own time. Ella and her husband, Jeff, draw from their redemptive story of sex addiction and betrayal trauma, as well as professional training, to guide couples from around the world toward restoration (if that is what is in their best interest), facilitating three-day intensive programs which include a full therapeutic disclosure and polygraph. While marriage restoration can be a beautiful thing, empowering wives to follow Godās will for them, whether it be reconciliation or not, is Ellaās number one priority.
Troy and Melissa have been married for 28 years and have been in recovery from sexual addiction for 20 years. Melissa is a therapist who specializes in working with spouses and marriages impacted by addiction.
Fran switched to personal coaching after walking her own healing journey from betrayal trauma. . Fran uses all her first hand knowledge of the challenges of healing from betrayal and her professional knowledge and skills within the Naked Truth Project's Wholehearted Partner Program. Fran also has her own professional coaching business (Holding Hope) to support women seeking healing, freedom and growth from the effects of problematic sexual behavior in their relationships. Fran's passion for working with women affected by infidelity stems not only from being a partner but also from her experience of divorce from two previous marriages affected by infidelity.
Carol teaches clinicians and coaches the APSATS Partner Sensitive Approach and has been instrumental in helping couples heal from sexual betrayal her podcast on SA is the longest running podcast in the world!
Dr. Mark and Debbie founded Faithful & True, where today, Debbie facilitates therapy groups and counsels spouses who have been relationally betrayed. She speaks at training events and workshops around the country, and is the author of Shattered Vows and co-author of Seven Desires with her late husband, Dr. Mark Laaser. Her recent research project, āPost-traumatic Growth in Relationally Betrayed Women,ā was published in the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy.
With 4 kids under 6 and being blindsided by her husbandās pornography and infidelity and nothing appearing as it seemed, Melody discovered that going into and through the pain was the only way out of the pain. She reluctantly chose to embark upon a personal journey of healing and self-discovery. Melody is passionate about helping other women recover and bounce back and believes that stewarding the pain of our past breathes hope into another person's future.
With 4 kids under 6 and being blindsided by her husbandās pornography and infidelity and nothing appearing as it seemed, Melody discovered that going into and through the pain was the only way out of the pain. She reluctantly chose to embark upon a personal journey of healing and self-discovery. Melody is passionate about helping other women recover and bounce back and believes that stewarding the pain of our past breathes hope into another person's future.
Hope does 3-Day Intensives for couples ready to rehabilitate TRUST and INTIMACY after sexual betrayal and addiction. She also offers 2-Day Individual Intensives for partners desperate to heal using her specialized Complex Partner Trauma model. Hope worked with Dr. Ken Adams to develop the first comprehensive partners treatment program in Michigan. She has completed advanced training in facilitating Disclosures involving the use of polygraphs from Dr. Milton Magness. As a frequent podcast guest, Hope has opportunities to contribute to numerous podcasts such as Porn Free Radio, Thanks for Sharing, and Sex and Love Addiction 101.
Dr. Juli Slattery is the president and co-founder of Authentic Intimacy, a ministry dedicated to reclaiming Godās design for sexuality. āI love my job at Authentic Intimacy. Everywhere I look, I see lives ruined by unfulfilled promises of love and sexual brokenness. Through this ministry God is redeeming lives and marriages with His truth. What could be more exciting than that?ā
Lisa is a partner-trauma and sex addiction counselor working in private practice in New Zealand, as well as with Naked Truth Project in the UK. She serves on the board of Christian Sex Addiction Specialists International (C-SASI), is a founding member of Sex Addiction Specialists Aotearoa and runs an online community blog for wives of sex addicts at beyondbetrayal.community.
Leslie is the founder of CONQUER, an educational and support membership group for Christian women in destructive marriages. She is passionate about educating church leaders and Christian counselors to respond to abuse in marriage in new ways. Abuse is not a marriage problem, it causes marriage problems. God does not value the sanctity of marriage more than the safety and sanity of the people in it.
Christie is the founder of 180 Degrees Rehabilitation Centre in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, a faith based centre tackling the menace of drug and other addictions in the society. Christie is passionate about bringing understanding to others about addictions, having been blindsided by them in her own life.
Anne Blythe, M.Ed. is the Founder & CEO of Betrayal Trauma Recovery and the producer & host of the Betrayal Trauma Recovery Podcast, which reaches millions of women victims of emotional abuse across the world.
Lyschel Burket is the Executive Director and Lead HOPE Caster for Hope Redefined, a non-profit organization offering live online support groups, one to one coaching, intensive healing retreats (women only) and community outreach. Lyschel has been on her own journey of healing and recovery from sexual betrayal in her marriage for over 14 years. These experiences, along with her professional training, allow her to offer safe space to women in need of healing from betrayal trauma. Lyschel knows that her broken heart was healed through her faith in Jesus Christ. She helps others press in for the same thing.
Lyschel has facilitated support groups for over six years. She began facilitating groups in her local church and with Vicki Tiede Ministries. After years of walking with women on this journey, she felt the calling to step into deeper waters and pursued {licensure/certification/training}, culminating in the launch of Hope Redefined in 2018.
Lyschel has facilitated support groups for over six years. She began facilitating groups in her local church and with Vicki Tiede Ministries. After years of walking with women on this journey, she felt the calling to step into deeper waters and pursued {licensure/certification/training}, culminating in the launch of Hope Redefined in 2018.
Lyschel co-authored āGroup Leaders Guide for When Your Husband is Addicted to Pornography" with Vicki Tiede in 2015. This guide was created to support others who want to launch support groups for women in their own church and community.
Beth is the co-founder of There's Still Hope. She combines her experience as a pastor's wife, wife of a sex addict, and women's ministry leader with her training as a Partner Recovery Coach, to bring hope to women suffering from betrayal trauma and to encourage them on their healing journey.
Stacey is the co-founder (with her husband Greg) of Awaken, a gospel-based recovery ministry helping others impacted by sexual brokenness. She was a Worship Pastor's wife for 15 years, all the while not knowing of Greg's hidden sexual addiction which was exposed in 2009. Having experienced healing and recovery for herself, Stacey now walks alongside other women seeking healing, through groups, 1-on-1 coaching, and Awaken women's intensives.
Lori helps women and couples through Group & Personal Mentoring. She and her husband use techniques from 25 years of research & are 90% successful in helping couples heal the relationship.
Karen is passionate about walking alongside women impacted from sexual betrayal. She believes Hope, Healing + Restoration is totally possible with proper guidance, validation, education, resources, and support within a safe space to process the devastation and impact of betrayal trauma. Karen has been trained and certified through Apsats.org Karen is also trained in Intimacy Anorexia and understands the additional struggles this brings into the healing/recovery journey (after sobriety) within the marriage relationship. She facilitates women's groups walking through the pain of divorce, as well as, Pastors wives and Coaches individually.
Author of The Healing Choice Restoration Series for betrayed women. 25 years of extensive study, research and working firsthand with women, she has created the defining model for group work in betrayal recovery. As Women's Director she equips Churches to provide Avenue Women's Restoration Groups to its members and community.
After walking this path herself, Angie is passionate about walking alongside women to equip and empower them on this journey to wholeness after betrayal trauma. Her focus includes healing and building the relationship with themselves, God and others. She works with both individuals and groups.
Helena is Co-Founder & Mentor of Secret Habit, a division of a non-profit organization for Open Door Centre in Halifax Nova Scotia. Secret Habit provides a safe place for women who have been affected by pornography directly or indirectly. Besides that Helena loves to travel, she comes from the Czech Republic and loves nature & multicultural cities.
Shawn is the Co-Founder of Secret Habit which He and His wife run as a Non-Profit division of Open Door Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The heart for this ministry is to offer a place of safety for young people to heal from the destructive effects of pornography. Outside of Ministry Shawn is a blessed husband, a sports fanatic, and a (mostly steering wheel) drummer.
Michael is a Licensed Professional Counselor, spiritual director, speaker, and author of two books including Surfing for God: Discovering the Divine Desire Beneath Sexual Struggle and Somebody's Daughter: An Experiential Guide, and having experienced the restoring touch of God in a deeply broken life and marriage, Michaelās passion is to connect lifeās broken realities with the reality of the gospel.
Carol comes to you as one who has experienced chronic illness and pain for over 25 years and has learned how to live and improve her life. She can provide the tools you need to live with chronic conditions including those related to a past or present trauma.
Carin is the founder of Shattered Hearts Revived Counselling, Mentoring and Coaching ministry. Carin has been trained through APSATS and understands the importance of Mentoring and Counselling partners from a "partner sensitive" approach, using The Multidimensional Partner Trauma Model (MPTM) which incorporates recent research about the effects of sex-addiction-induced trauma. Carin offers online and in-person counselling sessions to work with partners suffering from the traumatic impact of betrayal trauma in their personal lives and marriages. Carin mentors partners in the ability to thrive based on "The Life Model Works", helping partners to understand the pain processing pathway, staying relational, present, and connected and how to maintain organised attachment to God and others. Carin is a coach on Marsha Means team and is coaching women in Boundaries and Trigger Management. Carin is passionate about equipping the Church and Counsellors about the danger of porn addiction and in doing so, Carin is breaking up unplowed ground in Scotland about the misunderstanding and challenges betrayed partners are facing in Church and through uninformed Counselling services.
Troy and Melissa have been married for 27 years and have been in recovery from sexual addiction for 19 years. Troy is the Executive Director of HopeQuest Ministry Group, a family of ministries that helps people impacted by addiction experience freedom, hope, and life.
Jeff is a Professional Life Coach and Certified Pastoral Sexual Addiction Specialist. Jeff serves on the board of the International Association for Christian Sexual Addiction Specialists. Jeff has been married since 1999 to an amazing woman full of beauty, strength, and grace. He is a father to two wonderful children, an adult son and teen aged daughter. Jeff is retired from the Army after over twenty years of service. Jeff's story is a testament to the power of Christ to release a person from the bondages of addiction. He coaches men who struggle with pornography and other sexually compulsive behavior to find sexual purity in their lives, their marriages, and in their minds.
As a living testament to the healing power of Godās grace and the ministry of Pure Desire, Ashley Jameson shares her expertise and personal story of triumph and restoration.
Reeling from the devastation and erosion of their marriage, due to a pornography addiction, Ashley and her husband, Jon, found Pure Desire. In His sovereignty, God brought them to the right place, at the right time: Lake City Church in Coeur dāAlene, Idaho. Today, just four years later, their church is thriving and providing Pure Desire groups for men, women, and youth. Marriages have been renewed. Families have been restored. The power of their ministry has breached the walls of their church, impacting their community and beyond.
As the International Womenās Groups Coordinator for Pure Desire, Ashley provides leadership and training to their Regional Group Advisors (RGAs) throughout the country. She has been instrumental in training new leaders to advance the message of hope and healing in the Church and community. Ashleyās transparency is refreshing; her love for Jesus contagious.
Kathy is founder of Hope Renewed Ministry, a counseling ministry for women in her community and is launching a global mentoring ministry called "Hope Renewed for Her" in January of 2020. When she is not biking, she is using her trauma experiences as an abused child and her previous marriage to a spouse who struggled with sex addiction to minister to other hurting women. Also, she is passionate about using her own voice for abused and neglected children in the court system.
Tom has been facilitating purity groups for nearly 5 years. Embracing and living a transformed life develops a renewed and peace filled life. When moving away from sexual addiction, a renewed hope for life can evolve as what we practice grows stronger. He has also been working as a ASL interpreter in Video Relay Service for 10 years. He enjoys frisbee golf, cooking, spending time with his wife and two boys, reading, and learning about nature.
Gary LeBlanc is a professional Certified Sexual Addiction Mentor. He resides in the New Orleans area with his wife and three children, where he works with men who struggle with sex and porn addiction. Gary struggled for 23 years with a sex and porn addiction himself before getting into recovery. During this time, he lost his reputation, friends, and ministry to sexual addiction. After years of successful recovery, he received his certification through BraveHearts University, became a professional mentor, and founded Strengthen Your Brothers Online Recovery Program. Gary also leads faith-based recovery groups, speaks at local churches in his area to share hope and raise awareness of the growing problem of pornography in the Church, and helps organize an annual men's retreat for sexual purity in the New Orleans area.
Lila is the co-founder of Regener8 Mentoring LLC which serves strugglers of unwanted sexual behavior and their spouses. Lila is passionate to see spouses find healing, freedom, and regain their lives as they walk through the challenges of their partner's brokeness. She is a wife, mother, and grandmother who understands the impact this has on the entire family.
Karen Potter is the Director of Church & Ministry Outreach for Covenant Eyes and has over 25+ years of experience working in public and private education sectors, managing sales and marketing teams, and leading strategic change initiatives. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business and Information Systems Management from Purdue University, and a Master of Arts in Education from Grand Canyon University.
Susan is a co-founder of Mended Mentors, a ministry dedicated to restoring and empowering the broken hearted wives of porn/sex addicts, guiding the addicted to freedom, and restoring marriages. She has lived through this in her own marriage and come out with a restored, vibrant marriage. Susan has 2 grown daughters and 1 son-in-law, and 2 spoiled dogs.
Nick is the Executive Director of Pure Desire Ministries: a sexual integrity ministry, helping men and women find hope and freedom from the effects of pornography and sexual addiction. Nick believes the church can become a place of grace and healing.
Stephanie has co-directed an addiction treatment program and ministry for over 13 years alongside her husband, Robert. She has authored four books, including The Christian Codependence Recovery Workbook: From Surviving to Significance.
Mary is the founder and CEO of Limitless Intimacy LLC, a Christian coaching practice. She is passionate about empowering healthy, Godly intimacy. As an author, speaker and coach, she helps women and couples globally and is regularly featured on TV as a relationship expert.
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