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0111 I lost time for decades... then I learned why | Charlie’s trauma & DID

2026-10-0656:46

Charlie shares his powerful journey through childhood trauma, dissociative identity disorder (DID), and complex PTSD (CPTSD). He opens up about dissociation, “losing time,” trauma triggers, relationships, identity, and what healing has looked like for him as a Black trans man and elder. He shares the tools that have helped him move forward, including trauma-informed therapy, grounding, journaling, and learning to understand and work with different parts of himself. Charlie also discusses h...

0111 She Lost 3 Best Friends Then Swam Lake Tahoe | Haydee’s Story

2026-09-2040:41

Powerlessness can be a single sentence you learn as a kid and spend decades living out. We sit down with Haydee to talk about childhood sexual abuse, the silence that followed, and how a parent’s inability to respond can quietly shape identity, relationships, and self-worth. She shares what she needed most at the moment of disclosure, how dissociation works as survival, and why the words “I believe you” can change the trajectory of a life. We also go deep on grief and the messy reality of su...

0110 What Happens When You Die? Here's What Most People Never See

2026-08-0557:54

People don’t pick and choose when they die, and that one fact changes everything about the people who respond when a life ends. We sit down with a funeral service operative to talk about the deathcare work most of us never see: the 3 a.m. callouts, the constant on-call rotation, and why the hours burn through staff even faster than the sight of a dead body ever could. If you’ve ever wondered who actually arrives, what they do first, and how they keep functioning, this conversation goes there ...

0109 Raised in a Cult: Escaping The Way International | Luna's Story

2026-07-1550:37

We talk with Luna Westish about growing up in The Way International and how it shaped money, relationships, and control over her body. We trace what it takes to leave a high control religion and rebuild boundaries, community, and a sense of self. • growing up with questions that get shut down • learning later that the group is widely labeled a cult • recruiting tactics, love bombing, and financial manipulation • sexual coercion, abuse, and the danger of offshoot fellow...

0108 Complex Trauma Explained: The Childhood Wounds You Can't Always See

2026-06-2957:22

Feeling “emotionally left” can mess with your whole life, even when nothing looked obviously wrong from the outside. Danica joins us to talk about complex trauma through the lens so many people recognize: caregivers who were physically present, but emotionally misattuned. That chronic gap can teach a kid to overfunction, stay hyper aware, and believe they have to handle everything alone. We dig into what complex trauma actually means, how it differs from complex PTSD symptoms, and why surviv...

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