313: What if you had to find your own salvation?
This Is Actually Happening
Wondery
4.6 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Growing up queer, bullied and abused in a heavily religious community, a man tries and to change his sexual orientation through prayer, but as he pieces his life together and heals past harms, tragedy and misfortune raise more questions than answers.
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Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Jason Blalock
Content/Trigger Warnings: sexual assault of a minor, incest, suicidal ideation, religious trauma, drug use, death, 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. Hi, at the Trauma Bonded Podcast, discuss and dissect the current episode of This is Actually |
| 0:24.3 | Happening. |
| 0:25.1 | And sometimes they also bring back past guests for updates. |
| 0:28.6 | This week they've conducted an extended follow-up with one of our storytellers from last year. The anonymous spouse from |
| 0:34.4 | This is Actually Happening episode 290. What if your husband entered the void? |
| 0:39.5 | In the episode, she shares a life update and answers listener-related comments and questions. |
| 0:44.4 | So if you want to hear the update, go check out Trauma Bonded. The episode is out now. |
| 0:55.0 | Everything has a limit. Relationships have limits of how far you can trust somebody or the limit of how much you can depend on them. There's a limit to how much you can depend on them. |
| 1:03.0 | There's a limit to how much you can take. |
| 1:05.0 | There's a limit to how much your brain will process. |
| 1:09.0 | There is a limit to how much you can care. From Wundery, I'm Witt Misledyne. |
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