Healing Betrayed Families explores how families can recover, rebuild, and strengthen after betrayal. Hosted by Morgan Ellsworth, LAMFT, BCC, CCPS-A, CPC, this podcast offers trauma-informed conversations rooted in both personal and professional insights. Each episode provides practical tools, compassionate insights, and conversations that illuminate what healing looks like for partners, parents, and children impacted by betrayal. Whether you are a betrayed partner, a family member trying to understand, or a professional supporting families, this podcast exists to support you in your journey.
Healing Betrayed Families
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Healing Betrayed Families explores how families can recover, rebuild, and strengthen after betrayal. Hosted by Morgan Ellsworth, LAMFT, BCC, CCPS-A, CPC, this podcast offers trauma-informed conversations rooted in both personal and professional insights. Each episode provides practical tools, compassionate insights, and conversations that illuminate what healing looks like for partners, parents, and children impacted by betrayal. Whether you are a betrayed partner, a family member trying to understand, or a professional supporting families, this podcast exists to support you in your journey.
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July 6, 2026
Episode 25: Family Disclosure Part 1: Understanding why disclosure is important
<p>In this first episode of a multi-part series on family disclosure, Morgan Ellsworth explores why so many parents fear telling their children the truth about betrayal in the family, and offers a reframe: disclosure isn't the wound, secrecy is. Drawing on the concept of the "witnessing grid," Morgan illustrates the different positions family members can occupy — aware/unaware, empowered/disempowered — and how children often end up in the "black box": aware that something is wrong, but without the language, information, or power to process it. She introduces the idea of "ethical loneliness," the isolating experience of carrying a truth no one will confirm, and explains how thoughtful disclosure helps close the gap between a child's internal sense that something is wrong and a family's insistence that everything is fine.</p><p>Also in this episode: enrollment details for the Witnessed educational and support groups for teens and adult children of betrayed families (launching in August, early bird pricing through July 20th), and an invitation to the Becoming Together Mother-Daughter Retreat in Sedona, AZ, September 8–12.</p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/12QI96iNSnG-wjokUR136c7zF1IoASZHr/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Witnessing Grid </a>(Weingarten, 2000). </p><p>Access the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/12VmCFNZ7GX2dL3dYJc_1DleMDMNddiiD/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Weingarten article</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e8nYGXueTvVXve5EBTsSUS4NiK5duJKz/view?usp=sharing"><strong>Witnessed group information</strong></a></p><p>Email Morgan for details on registration for the Witnessed groups. </p><p><br></p><p><strong>Join us for the </strong><a href="https://www.rootedandrisinghealing.com/retreat-2026"><strong>Becoming Together: Mother-Daughter Retreat</strong></a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>About the Host</strong></p><p>Morgan Ellsworth is a Licensed Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (LAMFT) and Board Certified Coach (BCC) with advanced training in trauma-informed care. She is certified through APSATS as a Certified Clinical Partner Specialist Associate (CCPS-A) and Certified Partner Coach (CPC) and works with individuals and families impacted by betrayal trauma.</p><p>Connect with Morgan <a href="https://www.instagram.com/healing.betrayed.families?igsh=Zzhyc3hjZWU1b3M0&utm_source=qr"><u>@Healing.betrayed.families</u></a> on Instagram or email her directly at <a href="mailto:morgan.ellsworth98@gmail.com"><u>morgan.ellsworth98@gmail.com</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.morganellsworthcoaching.com/"><u>Visit Morgan’s coaching website</u></a></p><p>For those looking for therapeutic support in Arizona, connect with Morgan at her private practice, <a href="http://www.ellsworthfamilytherapy.com"><u>Ellsworth Family Therapy</u></a></p><p>Thank you for listening to Healing Betrayed Families.<br></p>
June 29, 2026
Episode 24: Parenting Through Addiction and Betrayal Trauma Recovery with Cat Etherington
<p>In this heartfelt conversation, Morgan welcomes Cat Etherington, Director of Recovery at The Naked Truth Project — a UK-based nonprofit working to free lives from the damaging impacts of pornography and problematic sexual behavior. Cat shares openly about her own journey through substance addiction, early motherhood, and the betrayal trauma she later navigated in sobriety. With nearly two decades of recovery behind her, Cat offers a rare and powerful perspective on what it looks like to parent through chaos, rebuild trust with your children, and break generational cycles — not perfectly, but persistently.</p><p>Together, Morgan and Cat explore the profound impact addiction and betrayal have on the whole family system, and what it really takes to create safety for your kids — not just as an idea, but as a lived experience. Cat speaks candidly about parenting from shame, learning to regulate herself before she could attune to her children, and the hard-won lesson that repair matters more than perfection. She also introduces the concept of "60% good enough parenting" as a grounding reminder that you don't have to have it all together to be enough for your kids.</p><p>If you are a parent in the thick of trauma or early recovery and wondering how you can possibly show up for your children while you're barely keeping your head above water, this episode is for you. Cat's message is both honest and deeply hopeful: it's a marathon, not a sprint, and there is nothing you can't go back and apologize for. Connect with Cat and The Naked Truth Project at <strong>nakedtruthproject.com</strong>.</p><p><strong>About Cat Etherington</strong></p><p>Cat Etherington is the Director of Recovery for Naked Truth Project, she lives in Durham in the North East of England and is married with two daughters. Cat is a certified professional life coach and integrative counselling practitioner, working with individuals and couples impacted by problematic sexual behaviour and betrayal. Cat was the first ever European practitioner to be certified by the Association of Partners of Sex Addicts Trauma Specialists (APSATS) and now serves on their Board of Directors. With personal experience of both addiction and betrayal, Cat has unique insight into the journey of recovery and healing.</p><p><a href="http://www.nakedtruthproject.com"><u>Connect with Cat </u></a></p><p><strong>About the Host</strong></p><p>Morgan Ellsworth is a Licensed Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (LAMFT) and Board Certified Coach (BCC) with advanced training in trauma-informed care. She is certified through APSATS as a Certified Clinical Partner Specialist Associate (CCPS-A) and Certified Partner Coach (CPC) and works with individuals and families impacted by betrayal trauma.</p><p>Connect with Morgan <a href="https://www.instagram.com/healing.betrayed.families?igsh=Zzhyc3hjZWU1b3M0&utm_source=qr"><u>@Healing.betrayed.families</u></a> on Instagram or email her directly at <a href="mailto:morgan.ellsworth98@gmail.com"><u>morgan.ellsworth98@gmail.com</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.morganellsworthcoaching.com/"><u>Visit Morgan’s coaching website</u></a></p><p>For those looking for therapeutic support in Arizona, connect with Morgan at her private practice, <a href="http://www.ellsworthfamilytherapy.com"><u>Ellsworth Family Therapy</u></a></p><p><strong>Join us for the </strong><a href="https://www.rootedandrisinghealing.com/retreat-2026"><strong>Becoming Together: Mother-Daughter Retreat</strong></a></p><p>Thank you for listening to Healing Betrayed Families.</p>
June 22, 2026
Episode 23: Parenting Teens After Family Betrayal with Ellia Marcum
<p>Morgan is joined by Ellia Marcum, certified coach and founder of Mood Well Coaching, for a powerful conversation about what teens need most after family betrayal.</p><p>Ellia brings both professional expertise and lived experience to this discussion, sharing how betrayal impacts teens emotionally, behaviorally, and relationally, and how parents can support their children without forcing conversations, minimizing pain, or losing necessary boundaries.</p><p>Together, they explore the importance of emotional safety, consistency, validation, and witnessing a teen’s experience, as well as signs that a teen may be struggling even when they aren’t talking. The conversation also highlights common parenting missteps after betrayal, when to bring in outside support, and small, doable ways parents can rebuild trust and connection with their teens.</p><p>This episode offers reassurance, practical guidance, and hope for parents navigating betrayal while trying to show up well for their children.</p><p><strong>About Ellia Marcum:</strong></p><p>Ellia Marcum is a certified coach and founder of Mood|Well Coaching, where she helps teens transform emotional pain into personal growth and resilience. She is also the creator of Turning To Peace Magazine (ttpmagazine.org), a faith-based resource supporting partners healing from betrayal trauma. Through her coaching and writing, Ellia guides parents and individuals in cultivating presence, emotional regulation, and purposeful living after life’s most difficult experiences. </p><p>Learn more at <a href="http://www.moodwellcoaching.com"><u>www.moodwellcoaching.com</u></a> and <a href="http://www.ttpmagazine.org"><u>www.ttpmagazine.org</u></a></p><p>Discount code for the magazine HEALING10</p><p>Free resource: <a href="https://heyzine.com/flip-book/cf13eefe41.html"><u>How to talk to your children about family infidelity</u></a></p><p><strong>Complete the interest list for the </strong><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYDrUowJlzFZlOtqKPmFYiDQZBOMaaReoMumnEPiI1t506ZQ/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=116293848123538149819"><strong>Becoming Together: Mother-Daughter Retreat</strong></a></p><p><strong>About the Host</strong></p><p>Morgan Ellsworth is a Licensed Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (LAMFT) and Board Certified Coach (BCC) with advanced training in trauma-informed care. She is certified through APSATS as a Certified Clinical Partner Specialist Associate (CCPS-A) and Certified Partner Coach (CPC) and works with individuals and families impacted by betrayal trauma.</p><p>Connect with Morgan <a href="https://www.instagram.com/healing.betrayed.families?igsh=Zzhyc3hjZWU1b3M0&utm_source=qr"><u>@Healing.betrayed.families</u></a> on Instagram or email her directly at <a href="mailto:morgan.ellsworth98@gmail.com"><u>morgan.ellsworth98@gmail.com</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.morganellsworthcoaching.com/"><u>Visit Morgan’s coaching website</u></a></p><p>For those looking for therapeutic support in Arizona, connect with Morgan at her private practice, <a href="http://www.ellsworthfamilytherapy.com"><u>Ellsworth Family Therapy</u></a></p><p>Thank you for listening to Healing Betrayed Families.</p>
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