NOTE: This episode contains explicit discussion of suicide.

After a two-week break, The Trauma Tales continue. In this chapter, Shan shares an intensely raw conversation with Kayla about suppressed emotions and the long-term detriment of sweeping trauma beneath the proverbial rug. With brutal honesty and a hilariously dark sense of humour, Kayla invites Shan into the world of her dissociation and destructive coping mechanisms and speaks of how learning to admit that everything is not fine can sometimes be the first step towards healing. 

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In this week's episode, Shan and Elizabeth discuss the complex issue that is vicarious trauma. Elizabeth explains how her internalisation of her friends' struggles led to the crumbling of her own mental health, before sharing how she has since learned to care for others whilst still caring for herself.

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This week, Shan sits down with John, a mental health worker who shares how a terrible betrayal shattered his childhood. This betrayal brought him to the brink; however, it also taught him that there is power in taking ownership of the past and using that ownership to shape a better future. 

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Welcome to The Trauma Tales. In our first episode, psychologist and host Shanna White delves into the word 'trauma': what it means, what it looks like, and how it has shaped her own life - both professional, and personal. 

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