314: What if you harbored an unrelenting fury?
314: What if you harbored an unrelenting fury?
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After losing her entire family at ten years old, a woman’s grief evolves into a self-destructive rage, and as systems of care, punishment and rehabilitation keep failing her, she’s forced to create her own path to healing.
Today’s episode featured Amy Ronhaar. You can find out more about Amy on her website, www.amyronhaar.com, and you can read more details of her story in her memoir Raising Amy: A Daughter’s Memoir on Book Baby https://store.bookbaby.com/book/raising-amy1 If you’d like to contact her, you can reach out over email at amyaronhaar@gmail.com. Amy’s story was also featured on the podcast Bunny Hugs, by Todd Rennebohm.
Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Aviva Lipkowitz
Content/Trigger Warnings: death, domestic abuse, self-harm, suicide attempt, rape, sexual assault, drug use, explicit language
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The heartbreaking truth of her story is, unfortunately, overshadowed by her exteme selfishness. I wish someone along her journey had the good sense to intervene with therapy to see if that helped. Hard to listen to her talk about how people around her were so "unforgiving" of her behavior -- the same people who suffered through her antics everyday and still continued to keep trying, keep helping. You don't get to act on every impulse, mistreat others, and lash out endlessly without consequence.
this story is so close to my own. my mother died in my arms, my father signed me over to the courts and then killed himself. I had no one but myself. I hated everyone. I was 15 and no one helped me