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    Adult Child

    Adult Child dives deep into the lasting effects of growing up in dysfunctional families—unpacking complex and relational trauma, codependency, toxic shame, and addiction patterns with raw vulnerability and unapologetic authenticity.

    Hosted by Andrea Ashley, a recovering shitshow with 17 years sober, each episode shares unfiltered insights, expert conversations, and practical tools to heal your nervous system and break free from the cycles that hold you back.

    Whether you’re an adult child of alcoholics or from a dysfunctional family, navigating toxic relationships, or healing your inner child, this is your no-BS space for healing. New episodes every Wednesday & Saturday.

    And damn the join The Shitshow Healing Community for live support groups and connection with fellow cycle breakers.

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    The Cost of Playing the Good Daughter: Emotional Neglect, Self-Abandonment & Parental Estrangement w/ Laura K Connell Jul 09, 2025
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    You ever find yourself wondering, “Was it really that bad?” even while your life still carries the scars of a childhood you can’t fully name? That’s the fog of emotional neglect — the kind of trauma that doesn’t leave bruises, just a lifelong ache of being unseen.

    Laura K. Connell is a trauma-informed author, coach, and the creator of The Self-Parenting Solution.

    She grew up in a deeply chaotic and emotionally neglectful home, spent decades trying to earn her parents’ love, and eventually went no contact after one final, brutal conversation with her father.

    In this episode, we explore:

    🔹 How emotional neglect warps your sense of self — and why it’s so often overlooked as “real” trauma

    🔹 The connection between self-abandonment, people-pleasing, and feeling invisible in relationships

    🔹 What it actually means to reparent yourself (and why it’s not just an Instagram trend)

    🔹 How inner child work can transform self-sabotage into self-trust

    🔹 Why healing often requires stepping away from the very people you’ve spent your life trying to save

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    Unlearning Worthlessness: Spiritual Trauma, Repressed Identity & Inner Child Work w/ Nate Postlethwait Jul 02, 2025
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    What happens when the version of you that earned love was never the real you to begin with? This episode is a deep dive into the grief, rage, and liberation that comes from unlearning the worthlessness you were taught to feel.

    Nate Postlethwait is a trauma educator, writer, and creator of The Other Side of Saved. He grew up in the deep South, survived years of childhood sexual abuse, entered conversion therapy at 18, and spent over a decade trying to pray and perform his pain away. At 30, a full-blown nervous system collapse forced him to finally face the trauma he spent years outrunning—and start the long, messy work of coming home to himself.

    ▪️The Weight of Repressed Identity: What happens when your true self gets buried to survive—and how reclaiming it often begins with grief, rage, and radical honesty.

    ▪️Religious Trauma & Spiritual Bypassing: How faith can become a weapon against authenticity—and why real healing means confronting the harm done in the name of God.

    ▪️The Cost of Performance & Perfectionism: Why many survivors become high achievers—and how nervous system healing allows you to stop performing and start belonging.

    ▪️Nervous System Collapse & Somatic Recovery: What happens when trauma catches up with the body—and how Nate rebuilt safety through EMDR, breathwork, and inner child work.

    ▪️Healing in Community: How real transformation begins in safe, shame-free spaces—where your story doesn’t have to be edited to be accepted.

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    SHITSHOW SATURDAY #159 - The Return of Nancy Jun 28, 2025
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    When Healing Feels Like Falling Apart: EMDR, Dissociation & Disordered Eating w/ Cory Scott Jun 25, 2025
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    So often the moment we finally started healing is also the moment everything falls apart.

    For so many trauma survivors, healing doesn’t feel like light and liberation at first—it feels like chaos, confusion, and losing your grip on reality. This episode dives into what it actually looks like when the nervous system starts to thaw.

    Cory Scott is trauma-integration coach, an EMDR-certified therapist, and Somatic Experiencing practitioner who brings deep nervous system wisdom to her work. But before she became a trauma specialist, she was a young woman clawing her way out of an eating disorder, dissociation, and suicidal ideation. Her own recovery now fuels the way she helps others find safety, connection, and wholeness in their healing journey.

    🔑 Key Takeaways:

    • Why EMDR can be powerful—but also dangerous—without the right groundwork, especially for those with complex trauma or a history of dissociation.
    • How disordered eating is often less about food—and more about control, shame, and survival, especially for adult children of dysfunctional families.
    • What dissociation actually looks and feels like in the body, and how to recognize when you’re outside your window of tolerance.
    • A free and accessible somatic tool from HeartMath that can help regulate your nervous system in moments of overwhelm (yes, even when you're heating up your coffee).
    • Why real trauma healing isn’t about gritting your way through the pain—but expanding your capacity for joy, love, and pleasure.


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    SHITSHOW SATURDAY #158 - How Logic Blocks Your Healing Jun 21, 2025
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    The Truth About Codependency: Why It’s Not Empathy, It’s Survival w/ Dr. Sarah Michaud Jun 18, 2025
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    You think you’re being helpful. Supportive. Loyal. But what if you’re actually just terrified of being abandoned? Codependency isn’t about caring too much — it’s about losing yourself to survive.

    Dr. Sarah Michaud is a psychologist and author of Co-Crazy. Despite years of sobriety and a successful therapy practice, Sarah found herself trapped in a toxic relationship in recovery — a painful experience that finally forced her to confront the deep, unhealed trauma she didn’t even realize was still running the show.

    🔑 Key Takeaways:

    • Codependency isn’t selflessness — it’s a survival response wired by emotional neglect, fear, and unresolved trauma
    • The myth of being “fine”: how high-functioning codependents stay sober, help others, and still avoid their deepest pain
    • Why we mistake fear-based caretaking for empathy — and how to finally tell the difference
    • The grief of healing: letting go of relationships that only worked when we didn’t express needs or take up space
    • What real recovery from codependency looks like — beyond insight, beyond sobriety, and deep into the body


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    SHITSHOW SATURDAY #157 - Kristen Jun 14, 2025
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    TRIGGER WARNING - This episode discusses childhood sexual and physical abuse.

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    The Body Remembers What Talk Therapy Missed: Somatic Healing, Inner Child Work & Ayurveda w/ Jeannine Rashidi Jun 11, 2025
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    You can escape the chaos, build a new life, and still feel like your trauma is living in your body.

    Jeannine Rashidi is a trauma healing practitioner, Ayurvedic doctor, and author of Abundance Beyond Trauma. She also happens to have one of the most jaw-dropping, powerful healing stories I’ve ever heard.

    In this episode, Jeannine shares how she escaped an abusive, addiction-fueled home at 15, became a mother while living unhoused, and eventually broke generational cycles — not just for herself, but for her daughters.

    Key takeaways from this episode:

    – You can repeat your trauma story even after you’ve escaped it. Jeannine found herself in a relationship that mirrored the chaos she grew up in. It wasn’t until her daughter began showing signs of trauma that she realized the cycle was continuing — and that she had the power to stop it.

    – Talk therapy didn’t touch the places her trauma lived. It was through somatic work, massage therapy, and Ayurvedic medicine that Jeannine began to access the pain, memories, and survival patterns stored in her body.

    – Parenting while triggered is its own kind of trauma. Jeannine opens up about how her daughters’ milestones activated emotional flashbacks — and how healing her inner child became essential to showing up for her kids.

    – The body gives us information before the brain can explain it. Whether it’s flinching during touch or chronic pain that won’t go away, Jeannine shares how the body holds clues to unresolved trauma — and how learning to decode them can transform the healing process.

    – Healing doesn’t require retelling your entire story. Jeannine’s EDHIR process meets clients where they are, helping them explore what’s present now — and trusting that this will lead them back to what needs to be integrated, without re-traumatization.

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    SHITSHOW SATURDAY #157 - Kelly A. Jun 07, 2025
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    When Sobriety Isn’t Enough: An ACA Recovery Story of Trauma, Dating & Grief w/ Francisco Jun 04, 2025
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    What happens when you get sober… but the pain is still there?

    In this raw and relatable episode, Andrea sits down with fellow ACA Francisco to explore what healing actually looks like after sobriety — that messy middle where emotional numbness, grief, trauma recovery, and real intimacy all start to surface.

    Francisco got sober as a teenager, but it wasn’t until he found ACA that he began to confront the deeper wounds of his childhood. Together, they talk about what it means to un-thaw from functional freeze, grieve in real time, and build relationships rooted in wholeness rather than survival.

    Key Takeaways:

    • Why sobriety alone isn’t enough — and how ACA helped Francisco finally feel what he’d been avoiding
    • How “doing okay” can be a mask for emotional shutdown
    • The intersection of grief, trauma healing, and long-term recovery
    • How dating becomes a mirror for unresolved wounds — and a catalyst for growth
    • Why emotional sobriety isn’t about being happy, but being real


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