Episode 198: The Good Girl (with Morrene Hauser)

Suffer the Little Children

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Social Sciences, True Crime, Society & Culture, Science

4.6 • 993 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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My guest in this episode, Morrene Hauser, spent decades repressing traumatic memories from her childhood. When she finally cracked open that vault, her life all but fell apart. Morrene speaks with raw honesty about surviving a childhood marked by relentless abuse at the hands of her mother and stepfathers.

Morrene is driven by a fierce desire to help others by telling her painful but inspiring story. We talk about her upcoming memoir, The Good Girl, and how writing has become both a lifeline and a form of catharsis. Morrene also shares how horses played a powerful role in her healing. This conversation is about survival, reclaiming your own narrative, naming the wounds, and finding a way forward.

This is Morrene Hauser’s story.

Links related to this episode:
Morrene J. Hauser Author on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MorreneJHauserAuthor/
@morrenejhauserauthor on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/morrenejhauserauthor/
Morrene’s book, Sunshine, on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Sunshine-Morrene-J-Hauser/dp/1944715657/ref=sr_1_1
Morrene’s writing on OC87 Recovery Diaries: https://oc87recoverydiaries.org/author/morrene-hauser/
Morrene’s writing on the CPTSD Foundation’s blog: https://cptsdfoundation.org/author/mjh/
Morrene’s story on The Survivors Trust: https://thesurvivorstrust.org/survivor-stories/the-many-therapeutic-benefits-of-writing-about-trauma/

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0:00.0	This podcast contains descriptions of violence against children and adult language and is not suitable for all audiences.
0:06.9	Listener discretion is advised.
0:31.3	Hi everyone and welcome to suffer the little children, the podcast giving voices back to the victims of child abuse murder and their families.
0:38.2	I'm your host, Lane, and this is episode 198, The Good Girl, with Maureen Hauser.
0:44.9	My guest in this episode, Maureen Hauser, spent decades repressing traumatic memories from her childhood.
0:49.7	When she finally cracked open that vault, her life all but fell apart.
0:58.0	Maureen speaks with raw honesty about surviving a childhood marked by relentless abuse at the hands of her mother and stepfathers. Maureen is driven by a fierce desire to help others by telling her painful but inspiring story.
1:04.0	We talk about her upcoming memoir, The Good Girl, and how writing has become both a lifeline and a form of catharsis.
1:12.6	Maureen also shares how horses played a powerful role in her healing.
1:17.2	This conversation is about survival, reclaiming your own narrative, naming the wounds,
1:22.8	and finding a way forward.
1:24.9	This is Maureen Hauser's story.
1:29.9	I'll include links to Maureen's articles,
1:36.6	her socials, and her published children's book, Sunshine, in the show notes. Now, I'm honored to let child abuse survivor, mother, and author, Maureen Hauser, introduce herself.
1:45.4	My name is Maureen. I live in Columbus, Ohio. I am a child abuse survivor, physical,
1:53.4	sexual, and verbal throughout the greater part of my childhood. We moved a lot growing up.
2:00.0	In addition to being traumatized, I was very lonely. I never got to form
2:04.5	relationships with childhood friends or extended family. I had heard that pedophiles move around a lot,
2:11.8	so I'm not sure if that was true in my mom's case. I was born in 1965, and we didn't have internet. We had like three or four
2:21.0	channels on the TV throughout most of my childhood. And I had never heard of child abuse. They
2:26.3	didn't talk about it in school. I grew up being groomed. And so I really never knew what was
2:34.1	happening was wrong. I knew it was uncomfortable. I knew it was terrifying, but I didn't know. And I didn't tell many people because I had been groomed. I mean, part of that grooming process is silence. You do not talk about what goes on in this house. And then when I was 15, my mom was married to her fourth
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