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Trauma Uncensored is a weekly podcast that candidly explores what it’s really like to live with grief, trauma, and the daily realities of mental health, while holding onto the determination to keep moving forward uncensored, unapologetic, and out loud.
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I Chased Enlightenment for Years. It Made Me Angrier. | Patrick Marando (opens the original)
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We talk about the exhaustion of chasing bliss and why the constant desire to escape our current reality often backfires. In this episode of Trauma Uncensored, we explore the cycle of dissatisfaction that keeps us stuck in a loop of frustration and anger. When we treat happiness as a destination we must reach, we often ignore the unprocessed emotions that need our attention first. This conversation examines the reality of trying to force a state of peace when our nervous systems are still holding
The Grief Coach Who Taught Me to Let Go of Control | Leith McHugh (opens the original)
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Grief support, complicated grief, and the hidden cost of caregiving take center stage this week on Trauma Uncensored: grief and trauma coach Leith McHugh joins Brooke to talk about twelve years spent caring for her daughter Hadley, and the moment she finally learned to let go of control. The conversation turns on a lesson Leith gave Brooke years before this episode was ever recorded: that control is an illusion, and holding loosely is what actually makes room for joy again. Brooke traces that le
The Mother Behind MADD on Rage, Grief, and Why “Accident” Is a Lie | Candace Lightner (opens the original)
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Grief support, the stages of grief, and one of the most consequential grief stories in America: this week on Trauma Uncensored, Brooke sits down with Candace Lightner, founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), on the tenth anniversary of her own son Logan’s death. On May 3, 1980, Candace’s thirteen-year-old daughter, Cari Lightner, was killed by a repeat drunk driving offender who was out on bail. Within weeks, Candace founded MADD, a movement that went on to change drunk driving laws acr
My Dad Was Blamed for a Murder-Suicide. I've Spent 10 Years Trying to Prove It Wasn't Him (opens the original)
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A daughter's decade-long fight against her father's murder-suicide ruling: unresolved grief, a viral anonymous Reddit investigation, and what it costs to be a grieving daughter and an unofficial detective at the same time.In this conversation, Shayna and Brooke talk about disenfranchised grief, what happens when the official story doesn't fit what you know to be true, and why living in two roles at once, grieving daughter and private investigator, is its own kind of trauma. This is a conversatio
The Silence After Tragedy: Why We Need to Talk About Grief | John Kinzie (opens the original)
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What happens when the person trained to save lives is quietly dying inside? John Kinzie spent 25 years running toward other people's worst days while carrying grief, loss, and addiction that no one at the department talked about. Three years after Logan's crash, he checked into a hotel room with no intention of checking out. In this conversation, John talks about what that day looked like through his eyes, the stack of loss that led to his lowest point, and the twelve-step program that gave him
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