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Aug. 1, 2023

Finding Authenticity Through A Lens With Brooke Light

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 ...

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July 27, 2023

Understanding Recovery From Sexual Abuse (Part 1)

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, an...

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July 25, 2023

Somatic Healing And Using Your Body To Retrain Your Brain With Jennie…

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 p...

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July 20, 2023

What Do I Do When A Child Reveals To Me That Someone Has Harmed Them?…

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 abu...

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July 18, 2023

Your Responsibility Is To Heal : Lynn's Story

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 …

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July 13, 2023

What Do I Do When A Child Reveals To Me That Someone Has Harmed Them?…

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...

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July 11, 2023

The Release of Sound Of Freedom and Revisiting Trafficking with Shari…

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 …

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July 6, 2023

What Do I Do When A Child Reveals To Me That Someone Has Harmed Them?…

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 ...

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July 4, 2023

Overcoming Abuse and Finding Strength through Self Exploration and Re…

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 ...

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June 29, 2023

Reestablishing Safety In The Wake of Abuse

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 …

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June 27, 2023

Keeping It Real In The Fight For Normalcy Within the Disabled Communi…

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 …

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June 22, 2023

The Do's And Don'ts Of Verbal And Nonverbal Communication With A Surv…

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 …

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June 20, 2023

How To Talk About Suicide With Those At Risk With Alyssa Damron

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. …

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June 15, 2023

The First Imperative Steps In Addressing The Possible Sexual Abuse Of…

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 spo...

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June 13, 2023

What One Sacrifices To Save Their Child : Ruthie's Story

Today Jan is joined by Ruthie who is the parent of a child that went through sexual abuse by her step-sibling for two years. The story today is this child's story, but through the eyes of her mother, showing the …

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June 8, 2023

What Happened To Me Does Not Define Me Or My Value : Michelle's Story…

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, …

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June 6, 2023

An Advocate For Un-Judging Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse : Leanne's…

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 …

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June 1, 2023

Resilience Roundtable with Dave Markel, Austen Tanner, and Alan Manwa…

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 Manwari...

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May 30, 2023

Connecting The Dots Between Your Trauma and Your Behavior with Dave M…

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...

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May 25, 2023

Building A Bridge From The Future To The Present

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. …

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May 23, 2023

Using Forgiveness, Love, Purpose, and Thought To Transform Your Self-…

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 Speak...

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May 18, 2023

Men's Healing and Realizing You Need To Start Your Healing Journey wi…

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 ...

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May 16, 2023

[Re-Release] Tonic Immobility & How Trauma Affects the Brain with Dav…

Sometimes life happens, so today we invite you to have a listen to one of our more popular episodes (plus a bit of behind the mic banter at the end). Hope you enjoy. Today Austen, Chris, and Dave come together …

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May 11, 2023

What Does It Take to Tell Your Story?

Today Jan talks about the other side of refining her story and the difficulties that her and her orbit faced. This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp Online Therapy. Get in touch with the right therapist today! Use our link t...

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