Trauma Interrupted with Jan Broberg

Today Jan is joined by Beth Light, LCSW, who is a Mental Health Therapist and the Clinical Director at the Child Safety Center of White County. She graduated from Harding University with a Bachelor of Social Work degree in 2005 and from University of Arkansas at Little Rock with a Master of Social Work degree in 2009. Beth has roughly 14 years of experience in the mental health field, and over 10...

Today Jan continues on the journey of discovering what recovery means to her and what it looks like for others, but before we get too far into how to recover, we have to understand what roadblocks to expect when healing from something as traumatic as sexual assault/abuse. So for the next three episodes Jan will be unpacking PTSD. In this first part on PTSD Jan lays out what the four primary causes...

Today Jan is joined by Brooke Light, who is a Charlotte, NC based photographer. She specializes in children's editorial portrait photography and encourages kids to only smile if they want to . who has recently received quite a bit of attention on the TikToks for her Moody Mini Sessions, which are minimalist monochromatic photoshoots of children being authentically themselves. Jan and Brooke t...

Today Jan embarks on the journey of discovering what recovery means to her and what it looks like for others. To start the series off Jan discusses the most prominent understanding of recovery, which is in financial terms, and how even that financial lens can be applied to survivors of sexual abuse. This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp Online Therapy. Get in touch with the right therapist today...

Today Jan is joined by Jennie Pool and Laura Smith who have over 2 decades of experience in the therapy arena and trauma healing. At the healing center they built, MEND Counseling Center, they honor each individual's unique process.  MEND is at the forefront of up-and-coming therapies, creative/collaborative, and progressive treatments; Somatic release, trauma work, regulating the nervous sys...

Today Jan continues her series on how to handle having someone, especially a child, disclose their abuse to you. The focus of this episode is reaching out to the proper authorities and how vital it is that families report abuse, because it's so often that family members will try to deal with the problem internally, which just leads to more damage and more abuse. Take care of the problem using...

Today Jan is joined by Lynn Meyer to discuss what it's like to have an understanding  from a young age that your abuse is not your fault but healing is your responsibility. Lynn Meyer is an Emotional Healing Coach, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, Licensed Professional Counselor.  She’s been in the mental health field for 22 years helping families restore their relationships.  After wo...

Today Jan continues her series on how to handle having someone, especially a child, disclose their abuse to you. The focus of this episode is how you, the person being disclosed to, handle the burden of this knowledge and how important it is for you to have safe outlets for the emotional tides that are crashing around you and how to practice that without negatively impacting the person who disclos...

Today we revisit sections of the episodes we had Shari Scott on to embrace the message of anti-trafficking in the wake of the release of Sound of Freedom, a harrowing true story of rescuing a boy and his sister from the grips of traffickers.  This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp Online Therapy. Get in touch with the right therapist today! Use our link to get 10% off your first month: www.better...

Today Jan continues her series on how to handle having someone, especially a child, disclose their abuse to you. The focus of this episode is how to mitigate the damage that self-blame and self-shame the survivor has already developed during the span of the abuse and making sure that you, as a safe adult in their life, don't compound that shame and blame. This episode is sponsored by Betterhe...

Today Jan is joined by Saida Mahoney, activist and advocate for the disabled of all types and kinds, Miss Amazing winner, author, artist, and Thrivivor. Saida's history of abuse is daunting, but she still finds a way to keep her vision of the world bright and does all she can to live to the max and help others live to their full potential. Keep up with Saida in all ways possible: WONDERGIRLSA...

Today Jan continues her series on how to handle having someone, especially a child, disclose their abuse to you. The focus of this episode is aimed at teaching how to reestablish safety within the life of the abused so they can heal in an environment that doesn't exacerbate their trauma. This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp Online Therapy. Get in touch with the right therapist today! Use o...

Today Jan is joined by Matt, who is one of the people she has been coaching and has become a very special person in her life, to talk about how being disabled, while a trauma on it's own, causes trauma to ripple through everyday life, what that looks like and give the abled a dose of perspective. This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp Online Therapy. Get in touch with the right therapist tod...

Today Jan continues her series on how to handle having someone, especially a child, disclose their abuse to you. The focus of this episode is aimed at letting the story be told by the victim in their own way without you, the listener, impacting the telling via body language or poor word choice.  This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp Online Therapy. Get in touch with the right therapist today! Us...

Today Jan is joined again by Alyssa Damron (Masters in Social Work from BYU) to discuss the topic of suicide, what it looks like, how to talk to those at risk, and how you can help someone struggling with ideation. This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp Online Therapy. Get in touch with the right therapist today! Use our link to get 10% off your first month: www.betterhelp.com/jan Subscribe / Sup...

Today Jan begins a series of solo episodes exploring the ways to initially assess the possible sexual abuse of your child and how to take further action if the worst is true without causing further trauma. This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp Online Therapy. Get in touch with the right therapist today! Use our link to get 10% off your first month: www.betterhelp.com/jan Subscribe / Support / Co...

*Correction: Throughout the episode the perpetrator is called step-son/stepbrother, he is in fact the half-brother. Today Jan is joined by Ruthie who is the parent of a child that went through sexual abuse by her half-sibling for two years. The story today is this child's story, but through the eyes of her mother, showing the sacrifices one has to make initially to end the abuse and later to...

Today Jan is joined yet again by author, speaker, poet, voiceover artist Michelle Jackson so we can take a deeper dive into what her healing looks like. Not only has she had to deal with lapses in her mental fortitude, she also had a daughter to raise without passing on the trauma and dysfunction that she was raised in. While not perfect at this, including a suicide attempt when her daughter was 9...

Today Jan is joined by Leanne who is here to share her story of repressing her severe sexual abuse as a child for 35 years only to have a bad relationship bring up all of the damage. This not only led her to seek help, but through that help she has become an advocate for speaking out about abuse and through her volunteer work as a book with The Human Library she has been able to teach others how t...

Today Jan brings together a round-table of Co-Host Dave Markel, Senior Producer of this podcast and Co-Founder of The Jan Broberg Foundation Austen Tanner, and the Executive Director of The Jan Broberg Foundation Alan Manwaring to discuss May's Stepping Stone (our monthly topic of focus in our newsletter/community Thrivivors) Resilience and how everyone has been able to develop resilience wit...

Today Jan is joined by Co-Host Dave Markel and guest/Executive Director of The Jan Broberg Foundation, Alan Manwaring to talk about the benefits Alan has had from finding a community of survivors to openly discuss their abuse, how important it was for Alan to connect the dots between his abuse and the dysfunctional behaviors that he developed because of that abuse, and the actual changes that occu...

Today Jan talks about different strategies for organizing your life to reach a goal, and how that not only clarifies the steps one must take to reach their goal, but also to positively impact their life and sense of purpose. This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp Online Therapy. Get in touch with the right therapist today! Use our link to get 10% off your first month: www.betterhelp.com/jan Subsc...

Michelle Jackson is a wife, mother and MiMi (grandmother), Christian, Certified Life and Transformational Healing Speaker and Coach, Voice Over Artist, Author of 4 self-published books, Poet, NAMI Chicago Ambassador and Speaker, and a Volunteer Community Education for Saprea. As the author of When She FLPT, and with a history of severe clinical depression, 4 suicide attempts, molestation, incest a...

Today Jan is joined by Co-Host Dave Markel and guest/Executive Director of The Jan Broberg Foundation, Alan Manwaring to talk about the male perspective on needing to heal and how Alan personally came to realize he needed to heal and what the building blocks have been since he initiated his journey. If you or your business could use Dave's consulting services visit his website at: www.markel-...

Sometimes life happens, so today we invite you to have a listen to one of our more popular expert episodes, hope you enjoy. Today Austen, Chris, and Dave come together for a round-table episode centered on the science of tonic immobility in sexual assault and rape cases, the situations they put your brain in, and the trauma surrounding them after the fact. If you or your business could use Dave&ap...