E.177 Breaking Silence: Surviving and Reforming the Troubled Teen Industry

Finding Your Way Through Therapy

Steve Bisson

Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Psychology, Counseling, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Honest, Substance Use, Social Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Send us a textMeg Appelgate, a courageous survivor of the troubled teen industry and co-founder of Unsilenced, joins us to share her profound story of resilience and advocacy. We explore her experiences with institutional abuse and the urgent need for reform to protect vulnerable teenagers. Meg's book, "Surviving and Fighting the Troubled Teen Industry: Becoming Unsilenced," is a must-read for those wanting to understand the depth of these critical issues, as she works tirelessly to end insti...

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to Finding Your Way Through Therapy, a proud member of the SightCraft Network.
0:09.4	The goal of this podcast is to demystify therapy, what can happen in therapy, and the wide array of conversations you can have in and about therapy.
0:18.8	Through personal experiences, guests will talk about therapy, their experiences
0:23.2	with it, and how psychology and therapy are present in many places in their lives, with lots of
0:28.9	authenticity and a touch of humor. Here is your host, Steve Bisson.
0:37.4	You're a modi, belle accent. He has a great accent for saying my last name.
0:42.3	Hi and welcome to episode 177 of finding your way through therapy.
0:46.5	Happy you're here.
0:47.7	If you haven't listened to episode 176, go back and listen.
0:50.2	Stephanie Simpson, I don't know.
0:51.9	I've always enjoyed talking to her.
0:53.2	We talked about coaching.
0:54.0	We talked about education. We talked about our own limits and our old self-limiting
0:58.1	thoughts. So was a great interview. So please go back and listen. But episode 177 will be with someone
1:03.2	who also was, I contact me via email and is someone who was unfortunately in the troubled teen
1:10.4	industry or TTI sometimes as it's known.
1:13.3	Her name is Meg Applegate.
1:14.5	She has a great book out.
1:15.9	I think I got about halfway through, just being truthful, right?
1:19.2	But her book is really good surviving and fighting the troubled teen industry, becoming unsilence, is the title of the book.
1:25.2	So go listen to, I'm going to listen in the show notes.
1:27.6	But Meg is a co-founder of On Silence, a nonprofit dedicated to ending the
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