321: What if they tried to erase you?
This Is Actually Happening
Wondery
4.6 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Growing up in the remote Ozark mountains with a mother who believed she was God and a father with deeper abuses, a man paves his own rocky healing path to become a healer for others.
Today’s episode featured Merle Yost. You can find out more about Merle on his website, merleyost.com and about his workshop, Unspoken Boundaries at unspokenboundaries.com. If you’d like to reach out to him, you can email at [email protected] and you can find him on Instagram @loveyost. Merle is a full time writer, speaker and consultant. Retired from private practice psychotherapy as a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist after 25 years. He is also the author of six books, including When Love Lasts Forever and Facing the Truth of Your Life, which you can find links to on his website, merleyost.com.
Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Aviva Lipkowitz
Content/Trigger Warnings: animal cruelty, animal death, sexual abuse of a minor, domestic violence, severe mental illness, 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. People manipulate us because we give them the power to decide our value. |
| 0:22.0 | And we learn this in childhood because our parents all too |
| 0:26.0 | often offer conditional love. I'll love you if you're who I want you to be. |
| 0:32.0 | That is not love. It's controlled manipulation. |
| 0:37.0 | From wondering. From Wundery, I'm Witt Misledyne. You are listening to this is actually happening. Episode 321. What if they tried to erase you? |
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