What Came Next is intended for mature audiences only.

Episodes discuss topics that can be triggering,

such as emotional, physical, and sexual violence, animal abuse, suicide, and murder.

I am not a therapist, nor am I a doctor.

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Resources and source material are linked in the episode notes. Thank you so much for listening. Kim is a mother and nurse from Indiana.

She reached out to the broken cycle media team in hopes of sharing her story for the first time.

To bring awareness to a trajectory she never thought she would have had to traverse.

Nearly a decade into her marriage, her whole life changed with a home raid by the FBI and several other criminal justice forces.

The organizations would consequently find a large catalog

of child sexual abuse material in her then-husband's possession. However, at the start, Kim wasn't

aware of all the facets of his crime, and it would take her years to learn everything, as well as

to receive what closure the legal system offered.

We are so grateful that Kim was willing to highlight

all that continues to come next for her and her children,

and that she's sharing her immense fortitude and strength with our audience today.

My name is Kim, and my most important job is as a mom.

I have two kids.

My son is 20, and my daughter is 17.

My loved ones, I think, would describe me as a caregiver. I am also a nurse, so I tend to be the one that wants to jump in and fix.

I initially went into working in the NICU and then also pediatrics. But I ended up falling in love with palliative care and hospice. I began trying to build a program

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