The Courage to Change: A Recovery Podcast2 Heinä 2019

11. Amy Peterson: Sex Trafficked as a Child - A Survivor’s Story of Healing from C-PTSD Through Therapy

#11: Amy is an alchemist working to transform her traumatic childhood experiences into a life of her own choosing. Two years ago, Amy changed her life when she reached out for help from an amazing psychotherapist. Through the healing process, Amy discovered a passion to provide a voice for the voiceless through documenting her journey on Instagram. Amy now uses art as a creative process for coping with trauma. In her spare time, she balances her work as the Operations Manager for an online public school with managing a degenerative skeletal-muscular disease (Klippel-Feil Syndrome) and most importantly, finding time to cuddle up to Netflix with a phenomenally kind, patient, and loving husband. She's one hell of a woman! Our Sponsor:Lionrock Recovery (http://www.lionrockrecovery.com) Follow us here:Podcast Website: (http://www.lionrockrecovery.com/podcast)Facebook: (https://www.facebook.com/LionrockRecovery/)Twitter: (https://twitter.com/lionrockrecovry)Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/lionrockrecovery/) Questions, comments or feedback? We want to hear from you! Email us at podcast@lionrockrecovery.com Show Notes: 3:35 - Amy starts discussing her background and childhood 7:35 - The sexual assault: beginnings and what it turned into 8:45 - The start of being sex trafficked 10:38 - How Amy figured out what it was called/what sex trafficking actually looks like locally 16:10 - Becoming the “sacrificial lamb” of the family 21:02 - The first time she was raped + dissociating 22:50 - Being waterboarded at age 9 26:27 - Assaulted at age 17 31:38 - Using substances to cope 36:27 - Making the decision to seek out therapy 41:15 - Adding EMDR to her therapy and treatment plan 43:28 - Discussing her therapy assignments and the high value of therapy 47:30 - College and choosing an education for herself 51:56 - Discussing her recovery from trauma 53:38 - Getting re-triggered by trauma as an adult, and how she was able to work through the incident by creating her Instagram account @cptsdchronicles 1:00:15 - Hearing from others who were trafficked The Courage to Change: A Recovery Podcast would like to thank our sponsor, Lionrock Recovery, for their support. Lionrock Recovery is an online substance abuse counseling program where you can get help for drinking or drug use from the privacy of your own home. For more information, visit http://www.lionrockrecovery.com.

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249. Five More Minutes: Kaela Demerjian on Why Recovery Sometimes Means Just Staying

Summary: Kaela Demerjian’s story begins with chaos. Growing up in Orange County, she never felt like she belonged anywhere. By middle school she was struggling with self harm, depression, and drugs, ...

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248. Postpartum OCD and Growing Up With Alcohol Use Disorder: Intrusive Thoughts, Anxiety, and Recovery

In this episode of The Courage to Change, Ashley Loeb Blassingame speaks with author and illustrator Amanda Davis about two deeply connected experiences: growing up in a home impacted by alcohol use d...

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247. The Myth of Rock Bottom: Why “Normal” Drinking Can Be Heavy Enough

Lesley Jones never had the dramatic “rock bottom” people expect. No arrests, no lost job, no catastrophic implosion. Instead, she lived with the quiet, relentless hum of anxiety and the mental gymnast...

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246. Surviving Strokes, Suicide Loss, and Finding Purpose: A Mental Health Conversation with Cory Suggs

Cory Suggs grew up in a tiny Oklahoma town where life looked perfect—until it wasn’t. After his parents’ divorce at sixteen, he spiraled into a decade of reckless living, validation-seeking, and self-...

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245. From Infertility to Postpartum Depression: Therapist Neha Kumar on Motherhood’s Hardest Moments and Finding Strength

Therapist Neha Kumar opens up about infertility, IVF, endometriosis, and postpartum depression. We talk about cultural expectations in South Asian families, the reality of new motherhood, what “natura...

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244. Tides of Grief, Waves of Grace: Ashley Jo on Sobriety, Loss, and Building a Life After Trauma

Welcome to the first episode of Season 7! This episode of The Courage to Change: A Recovery Podcast is brought to you by our sponsor Reconstruction Unlimited. As our sponsor, Reconstruction brings ...

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End of Season 6, Amends, and Season 7

I dropped the ball in Season 6. My guests were great but my cadence was not. Season 7 is coming back stronger than ever — Scott is back, we’ve got a sponsor, and I can’t wait to share what’s next.

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From the Archives: 137. Mother Battles Alcoholism After the Death of Her Young Son

Sarah Campos was born in Arizona and raised in Southern California. She graduated from ASU with a BS in Business. A hairdresser by trade, she now runs a full time e-commerce business online that suppo...

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