Personal Stories of Experiencing Trauma and Healing

Trauma Education

Oct 27

Girl lying down, propping foot on a vintage boom box, listening.

This is a collection of past interviews I’ve done with everday people who’ve experienced trauma and trauma healing and who bravely share their personal stories. It’s here as a resource for you as you manage your own self healing journey.

Before becoming a trauma recovery coach, I interviewed lots of folx about their life stories, which inevitably brought up tales of trauma and trauma healing. (I’m a former technical writer and mass communications nerd!) Many of these interviews are timeless and can teach us important lessons at various points in our healing journeys. They also influenced my decision to become a trauma recovery coach so I can help others heal.

So, I’ve compiled the trauma-healing related interviews here for you to browse. I hope you find something that helps.

Whether the stories let you know you’re not alone or perhaps shine a light on the next best step in your path, they’re here for you when you need them. Here they are:

Abusive Marriage: Life Before, During, and After featuring Shonda Pence
Setting the Stage for My Life: A Look at Lyme Disease with Nashville-baesed singer-songwriter and healer, Hannah Bethel
Building Social Awareness through Natural Skin Care featuring Coco Kennell of St. Louis-baed SoapLife 360
The Healing Power of Music in Marriage with Pop Artist, Jon Mullins
Lived Lessons Learned on Privilege from a Criminal Justice Expert and Ex Cop featuring Peggy Kingsbury
Treating the Untreatable: Exploring the Mindset of a Rare Disease Parent Who’s Changed the World featuring Mark Dant
The Ripple of Being Given Up: A Path through Closed Adoption featuring Mike Hutchinson
Where Grief Meets Authenticity featuring Heather Burwell
I’m a Sober Mom: Exploring Life and Relationships Before and After Recovery featuring Katrina Lelli
Being Uncomfortable with My Discomfort: A Story of Healing from Abandonment featuring Mal Foster
Why Are All These Guns Pointed at Me? featuring Erica Hines
No Justice, No Peace! featuring Belinda Harvey
Escaping the Control of Spiritual Abuse featuring Sarah Gates
Narrowly Escaping Distracted Driving featuring Greg Tilton
Living with Compounded Grief: A Widow’s Story of Loss featuring Laurah Jurca
What it Feels Like to Save a Life featuring Valerie Moss
Living with Rarely Uncommon Disease: Neuroendocrine Tumor (NET) Spotlight featuring Tiffanny and Josh Thomason
Embracing the “Be” in Human Being (about coping with chronic illness) featuring Lynnette Henderson
How to Enact Change While Following a Positive Life Path After Trauma featuring Donna Campbell
How to Exchange a Life of Chaos for Love and Joy: Parallels between the Impact of Death and Addiction featuring Fran Cooper Van Allen
My Teen Mom on Growing up and Letting Go of Abusive Relationships featuring Paula Flatt
A Birth Mom on Open Adoption, the Decision to Place, Building Trust with the Adoptive Family, Releasing Grief, and Healing featuring Leah Outten
Leaving a Toxic Relationship and the Metamorphosis that Came Afterwards featuring Callie Butler
Recognizing Emotional Suppression and Patterns of Abuse to Heal featuring Kim Daigle
A Survivalist’s Tips for Applying Survival Training to Mental Health featuring Sean Doss

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I’m Brandi Fleck, TICC. I’m a private practice, certified trauma-informed life coach and trauma recovery coach. All genders, sexualities, and races are welcome here. I primarily serve clients via one-on-one coaching and self-paced trauma education.

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