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Am I Broken: Survivor Stories

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Oct 1, 2020 • 57min

S2Ep1 Poppy - "All That Rage Came Out of Tremendous Loneliness and Pain"

As the host of Am I Broken, I share my own story of sexual abuse, fragments that I've recovered over the years, and how the trauma and the healing I've done impact my work as a therapist.
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Jun 3, 2020 • 1h 6min

S1Ep17 Bonus Episode 3 - Mapping the Healing Path

Papillon and Andrew discuss the Healing Path - what is it? What does healing look like, and what identifiable steps can it include?
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May 29, 2020 • 38min

S1Ep14 John - "By Trying to Protect Yourself So Much, You Actually Injure Yourself"

John shares his story of sexual abuse when he was five years old, by a teenage babysitter, and the secondary trauma of his parents refusing to support his recovery. He describes suffering from extreme anxiety, and using opiates to cope, and his struggles with addiction. John's faith and his self-regulation skills have helped his healing journey.
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May 29, 2020 • 36min

S1Ep13 Tomi - "It Felt Hopeless"

Tomi shares his journey through flashbacks of incest perpetrated by his mother, and additional sexual abuse incidents outside the home. He describes his struggles with substance abuse and the healing and growth he found through Alcoholics Anonymous, and then Adult Children of Alcoholics. Tomi now understands that he was not born rotten, but that he has trauma symptoms that were a product of sexual abuse.
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May 22, 2020 • 56min

S1Ep16 Bonus Episode 2 - Mapping the Healing Path

In this bonus episode, licensed trauma therapists Papillon DeBoer and Andrew Barnett discuss their work with male survivors, focusing on working with shame and boundaries. These issues are near-universal for all survivors of sexual trauma, and so this episode should be helpful for survivors of any gender, loved ones of survivors, and therapists.
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May 11, 2020 • 47min

S1Ep15 Bonus Episode 1 - Mapping the Healing Path

In this season's bonus episodes, licensed therapists Papillon DeBoer and Andrew Barnett describe working with male survivors for Our Voice. This first episode covers how safer space is created for survivors to do group work. The bonus mini-series is complementary to Am I Broken, and is intended for survivors, allies and therapists to gain a refined perspective on healing sexual trauma.
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May 2, 2020 • 55min

S1Ep12 Taylor - "There Was Just This Open Wound That Wasn't Healed"

Taylor shares his story of, from a young age, being not only sexually abused, but also verbally and emotionally abused, and gaslit, by an older sibling. As a result of this abuse, he finds himself unable to set boundaries or believe his own experience. And as he ages, he experiences sexual harassment from teachers, professors, and a therapist. Taylor shares his journey with creating a palette of safety, and beginning to trust in his own perspective, and from there, the birth of his daughter helping him realize the gifts that he already has both within and without. He also describes both useful and unhelpful group therapy experiences.
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May 2, 2020 • 44min

S1Ep11 George - "I Did Not Understand What He Was Doing"

George describes growing up in a large Catholic family, and being sexually abused by 3 different priests over the course of more than a decade. He shares his slow journey out of blaming himself for the abuse, and believing that he was a "shitty person" - healing through his marriage, and group counseling. Having locked away a part of himself, George shares his process with carefully opening back up, and learning to care for and protect his little boy inside.
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Apr 1, 2020 • 41min

S1Ep9 Larry - "My Body Isn't My Own"

Larry describes being raped and stalked by his RA in Job Corps
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Mar 1, 2020 • 40min

S1Ep7 Antanas - "It Was a Violent Transaction"

Antanas describes a sexual assault in adolescence by his closest female friend, to whom he looked for protection from bullying.

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