302: What if you could only find closure within?
This Is Actually Happening
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4.6 • 10.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
A woman experiences a childhood trauma, facing silence and betrayal in the aftermath, but a when unexpected tragedy comes, the answers begin slipping out of reach.
Today’s guest requested to remain anonymous, but if you’d like to reach out, you can email her at dotisallin@gmail.com
Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Sara Marinelli
Content/Trigger Warnings: sexual assault of a minor, alcohol and drug abuse, addition, suicide, explicit language
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| 0:00.0 | This is actually happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
| 0:04.1 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode and for more information about support services. It was like the public life that we lived where everyone thought we were a normal, happy, regular family, |
| 0:24.3 | and then there was kind of the darkness |
| 0:28.2 | that happened internally in our family |
| 0:30.3 | that we tried to keep a secret. From Wundery, I'm Witt Misledyne. You are listening to this is actually happening. Episode 302. What if you could only find closure within? within. |
| 1:05.0 | How do I tell them? How do I tell them? |
| 1:08.0 | How do I tell them? |
| 1:09.0 | How do I tell them? |
| 1:10.0 | How do I pay the bills? |
| 1:12.0 | How do I pay the bills? I know what goes through your head when you're living with |
| 1:16.1 | cancer. The questions, the fears, the need to know. How do I know? Because I'm living with cancer too. That's why I joined the |
| 1:26.8 | Macmillan online community and we can help people like you whatever you need to |
| 1:32.0 | ask. |
| 1:33.3 | To join us, search McMillan online community. |
| 1:37.0 | Hi, it's me, the OG Green Grump, the Grinch. |
| 1:41.0 | Listen as I launch a campaign against Christmas cheer, grilling celebrity guests, like |
| 1:46.2 | chestnuts on an open fire. |
| 1:48.0 | They'll try to get my heart to grow a few sizes, but it's not going to work, honey. |
| 1:52.0 | Follow Tis the Grinch Holiday Talk Show on the Wundry app, |
| 1:55.0 | or wherever you get your podcasts. My parents met in high school actually and they've been together ever since. |
| 2:18.0 | My oldest brother when he was born he was more than three months premature. |
| 2:25.0 | I think the experience was quite traumatic for both my mom, my dad, and my brother. |
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