Suze's Corner

[...] 've viewed my eating disorder the same as some people might view their pornography addiction or some other type of [...]

[...] this year---I went from slowly killing myself daily to putting myself in recovery from my eating disorder, I have learned to openly talk about pornography and share my views on the effects of it's [...]

[...] say or do. I fear judgment from others and the judgment I receive from myself. I had have an eating disorder. I always will. Truthfully, it's something I've struggled with since I was 14 but eating [...]

[...] help me in some significant way, I just didn't think it would start at such a young age. My eating disorder started to take over when the divorce became reality. I was done. I couldn't handle life. I [...]

[...] direction. I had a discouraged friend today. My friend is married to a man with a pornography addiction. He is a good man. He has an addiction. His addiction doesn't make him a bad man or [...]

[...] you think that statement is dramatic, I am living proof that it can be a true statement. Pornography addiction has caused enough trauma in my life that I no longer am willing to sit in a room and not [...]

[...] to help overcome the betrayal of trust and emotional pain associated with a loved one's pornography addiction and/or infidelity. Yeah, surprising, isn't it? I honestly didn't know. I was attending the [...]

[...] had been there from day one. Honestly I felt worthy of no one. Once I found out about the pornography addiction, I broke. I couldn't hold on any longer. I was done. My counselor had seen that things [...]

[...] only was I blowing through my classes with awesome grades (and seriously, I had just become a single mom a week after school started so this was HUGE), I was making new friends and loving my new life [...]

[...] is hard. Working is hard. Keeping my house clean is hard. Trying to do all four of them as a single mom is hard. And lately, I feel like I've been failing in at least 3 of these categories at a time. [...]

[...] I'm so darn excited to talk about how special they are. But work...and school...and being a single mom...and getting sick...you know, life happens! So my Ninja boy turned FIVE! Have I mentioned he's [...]

[...] didn't have time to worry about church. We just went. But now that I'm getting used to being a single mom, life started to shift and in plain view were my fears about church. My fears of being single [...]

[...] to make sense of in my head. I wasn't honoring the fact that I am dealing with a lot of betrayal trauma. I wasn't allowing myself to feel anxious without trying to shut the feelings down as quickly [...]

[...] doing well raising our kids together... I feel a lot of betrayal. Betrayal, abandonment, and betrayal trauma are words I think of when describing all of this. This wasn't a death, it wasn't abuse, but [...]

[...] has been for me. I feel like I get a lot of weird looks when I refer to my divorce as betrayal trauma because it's not like he did anything to me. I wasn't abused.Abuse is outwardly [...]

[...] by sexual addiction due to the nature of this addiction and what it does to relationships. Betrayal trauma for the wives and husbands of sex addicts can cause lifelong trust and self-worth issues. In [...]

[...] a moment of panic and I just wanted to crawl in a hole. But following my panic, I felt an incredible amount of peace come over me and I felt like God was saying, "Slow down!" He knows how [...]

[...] dad. He has learned to be there for them too. My anger toward my ex-husband has eased an incredible amount in the past year. I am working on forgiving him and I believe with the help of my Savior and [...]

[...] happiness. He knows your heart. You are never alone. He suffered for you and I. It takes an incredible amount of love for someone to do that for each and every one of their brothers and sisters and He [...]

[...] women are getting lost in the internet world of pornography and most of them are feeling an incredible amount of shame and worthlessness because they can't just kick their habit. Within my church, we [...]

[...] prayed and begged some more for my husband to come to church---maybe even just to sacrament meeting---to help with our kids. He proposed that they stay home from church with him [...]

[...] something clicked. Today, on another Sunday that we were late for church because I dread sacrament meeting alone with my littles, I was listening in Relief Society about patterns becoming habits and [...]

[...] or drugs. Gasp! Good men aren't perfect men. I have a feeling a lot of fathers left that sacrament meeting feeling discouraged because they were not considered remarkable and I hate that. I hate that [...]