Tag: childhood trauma

Episode #432: Trauma, Identity, Forgiveness, and Healing with Avonley Lightstone

Avonley Lightstone is a survivor and storyteller with a purpose, whose journey began with unimaginable trauma when, at just 3 years old, she tried to save her mother from a house fire. Her mother did not survive and her father, overcome with addiction, gave Avonley up for adoption. What followed was years of emotional, physical, and mental abuse where love was conditional, if it ever consisted at all.

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Episode #282: Standing on the Ashes of Burned Bridges with Isaiah Orozco

Isaiah Orozco went from making over a six-figure income to becoming an alcoholic and drug addict with legal problems and struggling with severe anxiety and depression, to eventually losing it all. He managed to climb out of the mud and build something much bigger and better than he had before.

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