Denise is an Award Winning Author, photographer, poet, and artist. She was sexually abused as a child for many years. She talks about some of her experiences around healing from the abuse. She used her beautiful artistic ability to create a book to help other people on their healing journey.

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Kathrin talks about growing up in a home that was not a safe space and having absent parents. She went through a lot that a child should never have to. It was becoming a mother herself that pushed her to make a lot of changes. Parenthood comes up a lot in this episode, for obvious reasons!

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Marilyen Kriete talks about being a ward of the province, losing a love, and not dealing with her core grief until later in life.

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O.E. Tearman is a writing duo made up of E.S. Argentum and Olivia Wylie. They talk a lot about mental health, supporting others/community, and so much more.

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Doug Lawrence is an amazing man. He talks in-depth about mental health and how he discovered he suffered from PTSD. TW: He also talks about a suicide.

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JJ is a transgender man who lives in California and is a successful actor. He talks about his experiences around being transgender, top surgery, and how he is now.

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Chelsea has been through a lot. She talks about sexual assault and issues she encountered in the LDS Church.

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Briana shares the scars from coming out as lesbian in the LDS church, being gay at BYU, and she talks about how she is now happily married to a woman.

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