In today’s episode of Trauma Candy Salad, we’re unpacking three powerful stories of family rejection, abandonment, and the unexpected places love can be found.

🍬 Pink Starbursts: A boy comes out to his mother, only to be met with cruelty and violence. What begins as abuse ends in an unexpected and shocking twist of fate.

🍫 Chocolate Covered Almonds: A child abandoned by their father grapples with the question — “What was so wrong with me?”

🥜 Snickers: Born into addiction and loss, one woman raises her grandmother while wondering what her life could’ve been in a “normal” family.

⚠️ Trigger Warnings:

• Physical & emotional abuse

• Homophobia

• Parental abandonment

• Death & medical trauma

• Grief and complex family loss

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