Episode notes
⚠️ CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains honest conversations about childhood trauma, abuse, mental health struggles, shame, and other painful life experiences. Some of these topics may be difficult or triggering. Please listen with care and take a break if you need one.
If you are struggling, please don’t carry it alone. Reach out to someone you trust, a therapist, doctor, or other mental health professional. If you are in crisis or thinking about hurting yourself, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. If you are in immediate danger, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room.
Episode 3: The Girls We Were, The Women We Became
What happens when two girls grow up carrying pain they never should have had to carry—and years later sit down together to talk about who they became?
In this episode of Unashamed, Holly and I open up about childhood, trauma, abuse, shame, faith, and the experiences that shaped us. We talk about the things we survived, the things we still carry, and how our lives took different paths while our friendship somehow found its way back.
Our stories aren’t identical. Our beliefs aren’t identical. Our healing doesn’t look the same. But there is something powerful about sitting across from someone who knew the girl you used to be and letting her meet the woman you fought to become.
This conversation is honest, emotional, sometimes painful, and filled with love, laughter, friendship, and hope.
Because our past may explain parts of us—but it does not get to decide who we become.
The girls we were survived. The women we became are still healing. And our story isn’t over.
Real faith. Real life. A little chaos. And a lot of Jesus.