Trauma Interrupted with Jan Broberg
by Jan Broberg
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Carolina Dearing’s Story • You Can’t Analyze Your Way Out of Trauma
Carolina Dearing’s Story • You Can’t Analyze Your Way Out of Trauma
About this podcast
Our Purpose
Trauma Interrupted with Jan Broberg exists to change the way trauma is understood, discussed, and healed. It is the primary public-facing voice of the foundation and the main audience entry point into the JBF ecosystem. The show bridges lived experience, survivor testimony, education, systems critique, recovery tools, and cultural conversation into one platform.
Why It Matters?
Trauma narratives are often fragmented, sensationalized, or oversimplified. Survivors are either ignored or reduced to their worst moments. Trauma Interrupted reframes trauma as a human experience, not an identity, and recovery as a collective responsibility, not an individual burden.
The podcast is not just storytelling, it is movement-building media.
Episodes
The newest 50 of 289 episodes
- Carolina Dearing’s Story • You Can’t Analyze Your Way Out of Trauma · 1 h 37 min · Season 2 Episode 24[Content Warning]: Discussions of sexual assault and military sexual trauma, childhood abuse, PTSD and postpartum depression, and the loss of friends to suicide. Carolina Dearing…
- Cheyenne Hunt • How Survivor Stories Are Turning Outrage Into Lasting Change · 59 minHow Survivor Stories Are Turning Outrage Into Lasting Change A note before you listen: This episode includes discussion of sexual abuse, rape culture, and suicide. Please take…
- Morgan Scafe's Story • When We Don't Heal, We Spread It · 1 h 34 min · Season 2 Episode 23[Content Warning]: Discussion of child sexual abuse, clergy abuse, trafficking, harm to an infant, medical trauma, stalking, and suicide. Morgan speaks candidly. Morgan Scafe is…
- Elishaba Doerksen's Story • Out of the Wilderness [Part 2] · 1 h 28 min · Season 2 Episode 22[Content Warning]: This episode contains references to the sexual and physical abuse discussed in Part One, brief descriptions of a dangerous winter escape, and Elishaba’s…
- Elishaba Doerksen's Story • Out of the Wilderness [Part 1] · 1 h 15 min · Season 2 Episode 21[Content Warning]: Discussions and descriptions of a firsthand account of childhood sexual abuse, physical abuse, animal cruelty, and religious manipulation within a controlling…
- Leanne Sheargold’s Story • Quantum Healing and the Body’s Hidden Memory · 59 min · Season 2 Episode 20[Content Warning]: Discussions of childhood sexual abuse, domestic abuse, suicidal ideation Leanne Sheargold spent 25 years as a teacher before a stroke at 28 left her relearning…
- Sarma Melngailis's Story • The Girl with the Duck Tattoo, In Her Own Words · 1 h 34 min · Season 2 Episode 19[Content Warning]: Discussions of coercive control, financial abuse and exploitation, isolation, dissociation; non-graphic mentions of child sexual abuse and sexual assault by a…
- Jessica Anne Pressler's Story • Naming the Traitor Within · 1 h 14 min · Season 2 Episode 18[Content Warning]: Discussions of childhood emotional neglect, adoption-based abandonment wounds, inappropriate aged relationship, domestic violence, suicidal ideation Jessica…
- Sophia Moreno's Story • Letters to My Abuser and the Power of Being Believed · 1 h 9 min · Season 2 Episode 17[Content Warning]: Discussions of childhood sexual abuse, family disbelief and blame, self-harm, and domestic and financial abuse. Sophia Moreno is a survivor, author, and…
- Kristin Howe’s Story • Trusting The Truth In Fragments · 1 h 18 min · Season 2 Episode 16[Content Warning]: Discussions of childhood trafficking (including trafficking by a parent), fragmented and somatic trauma memories, mild language, two near-death experiences…
- Lisa Arrigo's Story • Epigenetics, the Body, and Breaking Cycles of Trauma · 1 h 10 min · Season 2 Episode 15[Content Warning]: discussions of childhood sexual abuse, addiction and substance use, and generational family trauma. What if the trauma you're carrying didn't start with you?…
- Kelly Sutliff's Story • Finding Safety in Canine Companions · 1 h 9 min · Season 2 Episode 14[Content Warning]: Discussions of domestic violence, strangulation, prolonged stalking, attempted murder, failures of the legal system. In this episode of Trauma Interrupted, Jan…
- Kristine Jensen's Story • Healing the Shame of a Troubled Childhood · 1 h 10 min · Season 2 Episode 13[Content Warning]: Discussions of childhood emotional neglect and humiliation, description of a sexual assault survivor's experience, references to substance use disorder, and…
- Anna Lopes' Story • What It Means to Be Your Own Brave · 1 h 16 min · Season 2 Episode 12[Content Warning]: discussions of domestic violence, coercive control, child abuse, grooming, sexual abuse, spiritual abuse, and complex PTSD. What happens after you escape…
- Dr. Kate Lund’s Story • The Keys to Resilient Parenting · 50 min · Season 2 Episode 11In this episode of Trauma Interrupted, Jan Broberg sits down with Dr. Kate Lund, licensed clinical psychologist, resilience expert, author of Bounce and her new release Step…
- Devin M. Scott's Story • Rage, Resilience, and the Return to Authentic Self · 1 h 15 min · Season 2 Episode 10[Content Warning]: Discussions of childhood trauma, family violence, compulsive coping behaviors, religious and cultural trauma tied to LGBTQ identity and shame, and grief…
- Jessica Baum's Story • The Science of Safe Connection and Breaking Trauma Cycles · 59 min · Season 2 Episode 9[Content Warning]: Discussions of childhood trauma, addiction, feelings of isolation, abandonment wounds What does it actually take to heal, not manage, not cope, but truly heal…
- Christina Prokos’ Story • Shadow Work, Inner Child Healing, and the Path to Relief · 1 h 8 min · Season 2 Episode 8[Content Warning]: Discussions of childhood sexual abuse, trauma responses, addiction, and intergenerational trauma What happens when talk therapy takes you as far as it can go…
- Dr. Hector Rodriguez’s Story • Rewiring the Traumatized Brain · 1 h 17 min · Season 2 Episode 7[Content Warning]: Discussion of childhood sexual abuse, grooming Trauma doesn't just leave emotional scars; it rewires the brain. In this episode of Trauma Interrupted, Jan…
- Kat Emrick’s Story • Backyard Trafficking and the Girls Nobody Noticed · 1 h 14 min · Season 2 Episode 6[Content Warning]: Discussions of child sexual assault/abuse, neglect, child sexual exploitation, discussion of sexual acts, mild language Kat Emrick grew up in a single-parent…
- Roanna White’s Story • A Teacher’s Journey Through Trauma, Loneliness, and Healing · 1 h 12 min · Season 2 Episode 5[Content Warning]: Discussion of child sexual abuse, suicidal ideation, intrusive thoughts of self-harm, and youth suicide. What happens when the body holds a secret the mind…
- Sonny Von Cleveland’s Story • Our Voice Is Our Healing Mechanism · 1 h 3 min · Season 2 Episode 4[Content Warning]: Discussion of childhood sexual abuse, sexual assault in a carceral setting, and graphic statistics related to child sexual abuse material and human…
- Dr. David E. Clarke’s Story • When Your Body Won't Let You Forget · 1 h 7 min · Season 2 Episode 3[Content Warning]: Discussions of childhood sexual abuse, physical and emotional abuse, parental betrayal, chronic trauma-related physical illness, and medical dismissal. When…
- Royce Rendon's Story • Acknowledging the Aftermath of Trauma · 1 h 35 min · Season 2 Episode 2For the first time, Royce Rendon tells his story in full on Trauma Interrupted with Jan Broberg. Content advisory: child sexual abuse, childhood neglect and abuse, addiction, and…
- Welcome to Trauma Interrupted with Jan Broberg · 1 h 1 min · Season 2 Episode 1The Wound, the Work, and the Way Forward. Trauma Interrupted with Jan Broberg is here. In our first episode, Jan Broberg, Teresa Agustin, and her son Austen Tanner share the…
- Jan Broberg's Story • Leaving Camelot • With a Farewell to the Jan Broberg Show · 50 min · Season 1We're saying goodbye to The Jan Broberg Show by returning to where it began. Jan Broberg shares her story in full with good friend and fellow podcaster Dave Markel. Content…
- Places Nowhere : Thriving After Intrafamilial Sexual Abuse With Lee Cooper [Re-Release] · 1 h 7 min · Season 1Photographer and survivor Lee Cooper joins Jan Broberg to talk about thriving after intrafamilial sexual abuse, and the photography collective, Places Nowhere, that grew out of…
- What One Sacrifices To Save Their Child : Ruthie's Story [Re-Release] · 1 h 9 min · Season 1A mother does the unthinkable to protect her child. Ruthie joins Jan Broberg to share her family's story of surviving child sexual abuse and the fight to save her daughter's life…
- Little House, Advocacy, and Legislation With Alison Arngrim [Re-Release] · 1 h 8 min · Season 1Today, Jan is joined by the one and only Alison Arngrim! Content advisory: sexual abuse and mature language. She discusses her experiences with abuse and her involvement in The…
- Cultivating Self-Worth After Trauma With Rachel Hunter [Re-Release] · 1 h 2 min · Season 1Today, Jan is joined by Rachel Hunter, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist whose passion is working with survivors of trauma and Complex PTSD. Content advisory: rape, sexual…
- Kendra Crompton : Holistic Health Coach, Therapist, & Author [Re-Release] · 1 h 3 min · Season 1Today, Jan & Dave are joined by Kendra Crompton, a visionary and dedicated mentor, life coach, and motivational speaker. She has witnessed a perfect confluence of physical…
- Ella's Story : I Didn't Think My Words Mattered [Re-Release] · 1 h 22 min · Season 1Today Jan is joined by Ella so she can share her story of abuse, molestation, and manipulation by those she should have been able to trust; her family, and how the only escape…
- True Friends : Jan Has a Conversation With Her Best Childhood Friends, Caroline & Jan [Re-Release] · 1 h 7 min · Season 1On todays episode Jan talks with best friends from her childhood, Jan and Caroline, about their perspectives on the changes our Jan went through amidst the trauma of her youth…
- Alyssa Damron : Trauma and Resilience, How Community Connections Foster Healing and Growth [Re-Release] · 58 min · Season 1Today Jan is joined again by Alyssa Damron (Masters in Social Work from BYU) to discuss the importance of community in healing from trauma and how to talk to those dealing with…
- Intimate Terrorism, Human Trafficking and Sexual Abuse : Meeting Survivors Where They're At With Brenda Sandquist [Re-Release] · 1 h 6 min · Season 1In today's episode Jan is joined by Brenda Sandquist who is the founder and executive director for Xquisite, a nonprofit, established in 2012, specifically designed to walk…
- A Social Worker's Mission To Heal Childhood Trauma With Beth Light [Re-Release] · 55 min · Season 1Today 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…
- Navigating Difficult Conversations With Claude L. King [Re-Release] · 1 h 8 min · Season 1Today Jan is again joined by Claude L. King, LCPC. Claude is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and Employee Assistance Consultant based in the Chicagoland Area with 13…
- Dave Markel : Retired Law Enforcement Investigator & Trauma Informed Interview Expert [Re-Release] · 1 h 1 min · Season 1Jan introduces and interviews longtime friend and colleague Dave Markel. Content advisory: discussion of abuse and trauma. Dave is a retired detective and longtime professional…
- From Forced Surrogacy To Freedom And Strength : Abigail's Story [Re-Release] · 1 h 4 min · Season 1Today, Jan is joined by Abigail Alvarado who is here to tell her harrowing story. Content advisory: child sexual abuse, grooming, molestation, forced surrogacy, and brainwashing…
- Agusta's Story : That's When I Realized I Don't Want to Die [Re-Release] · 59 min · Season 1Does our past define us? Content advisory: neglect, abuse, and suicidal ideation. Agusta Borden grew up without encouragement, resources, and attention. Divorce, neglect, and…
- My Voice Needs To Be Heard : A Story of Neglect, Child Sexual Abuse, Human Trafficking, and Hope and Healing with Elizabeth Rose [Re-Release] · 1 h 1 min · Season 1Today, Jan is joined by Elizabeth Rose, who shares her story of neglect and childhood sexual abuse that began early on in her life. Content advisory: neglect, substance abuse…
- Who is MaryAnn Broberg? [Re-Release] · 1 h 12 min · Season 1Today Jan and her mother MaryAnn Broberg come together and we get our first real introduction to MaryAnn. Content advisory: child sexual abuse. In loving memory of MaryAnn Buck…
- Compassion, Curiosity, Courage : The Three Keys to Walking Through Hell with Dr. Ute Liersch [Part 2] · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 237Today, Jan is again joined by Dr. Ute Liersch, a Chartered Counselling and Coaching Psychologist. Content advisory: child sexual abuse and mild language. In the second part of…
- Compassion, Curiosity, Courage : The Three Keys to Walking Through Hell with Dr. Ute Liersch [Part 1] · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 236Today, Jan is joined by Dr. Ute Liersch, a Chartered Counselling and Coaching Psychologist. Content advisory: child sexual abuse and mild language. They begin by exploring how…
- Building MentalHappy : Safe Spaces for Healing and Connection with Tamar Blue · 49 min · Season 1 Episode 235Today, Jan is joined by Tamar Blue, founder and CEO of MentalHappy, a Y Combinator-backed, HIPAA-compliant platform that empowers healthcare professionals, survivors, and…
- A Mother's Fire : How Cathy Terkanian Became Her Daughter's Champion · 55 min · Season 1 Episode 234Today, Jan is joined by Cathy Terkanian, who is here to share the heartbreaking story of her daughter, Alexis (Aundria M. Bowman), who was placed for adoption as an infant in…
- From Auschwitz to the Eiffel Tower : Transgenerational Trauma and Creative Defense with Dr. Agnieszka Piotrowska · 56 min · Season 1 Episode 233Today, Jan is joined by Dr. Agnieszka Piotrowska, award-winning documentary filmmaker, academic, and psychoanalytic life coach, who is here to discuss trauma, healing, and the…
- Trapped By Design: Understanding Reproductive Coercion and Abuse with Lynn Stroud · 1 h 6 min · Season 1 Episode 232Today, Jan is joined by Lynn Stroud, survivor turned advocate for those experiencing domestic abuse with an emphasis on bringing awareness about reproductive coercion to the…
- Epstein Era Email Update with Beth Magnetic · 1 h 0 min · Episode 231[Content Warning]: Child sexual abuse, child exploitation, trafficking, mild sexual content Today, Jan is joined by Beth Magnetic, host of the Mormon True Crime podcast, to…
- The Robbery That Saved a Life : A Story of Trauma, Addiction, and Redemption with Joshua Blomquist [Part Two] · 40 min · Episode 230[Content Warning]: Drug use, child abuse, neglect, child sexual abuse, addiction, attempted suicide, overdose, suicidal ideation Today, Jan is again joined by Joshua Blomquist…
