My guest in this episode is my good friend, Jenn Brown, a life coach specializing in supporting parents and teens. Our conversation covers Jenn’s journey through profound family trauma and her subsequent path to healing, both for herself and her children. The episode highlights the resilience required to overcome adversity and the importance of building safe, supportive relationships in the healing process. We also talk about her work in helping teens and their parents establish healthy, supportive relationships as the kids navigate the challenges of being teenagers.

 Jenn recounts a series of traumatic events involving her children. Her infant son suffered severe injuries from shaken baby syndrome while in the care of a babysitter, leading to brain surgery for her son and a criminal investigation of Jenn and her husband. Less than a year later, her daughter was diagnosed with leukemia, requiring intensive treatment, home care, and homeschooling. Shortly after her daughter completed her treatment, her middle child experienced a grand mal seizure and was diagnosed with
a seizure disorder. Each event required Jenn to navigate medical crises, legal challenges, and emotional upheaval, all while caring for her family.

 We also talk about Jenn’s healing journey through therapy, including EMDR, to process trauma and rebuild trust in people and herself as a mother. She highlights the different ways she and her husband coped and healed, emphasizing the need for both shared and individual healing paths. All three children are now healthy, with her daughter in remission and her son having outgrown his seizure disorder.

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Highlights of this episode

💛Our emotions related to our trauma never go away, but we don’t have to live in or allow the feelings to control our behavior. Healing is about moving past trauma, but we must make a conscious decision to do the work.

💙 Seeking help, building support systems, and prioritizing healing for
both parents and children is critical when a family endures this level of
trauma.

💛We all have trauma. Life after trauma, healing, and then using our experience for good are all choices that we get to make.

💙Grief emotions are part of trauma because we are grieving loss. Talk therapy helps us to deal with our victim mode and release feelings like anger. However, reframing the impact of the events on us, including triggers and emotions, requires modalities such as EMDR.

💛 Healing is taking back our power and the control that someone else has placed on our lives through trauma.

 Resources in this episode

✨Trauma therapy and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)

✨Support systems, including family and community

✨Legal support, such as hiring a lawyer and taking a polygraph, to navigating CPS and police investigations

✨Educational and enrichment activities, like library classes and music, to aid her infant son's recovery

✨Medical care and regular checkups play a vital role in her children's healing and long-term health

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