Finding Happiness in My Family After Childhood Trauma
Buddhability
SGI-USA
4.9 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Some things feel truly insurmountable. But what happens when someone truly believes in the value and power of your life? Jason Lions, of LA, experienced childhood trauma and struggled for years with the impacts. In today’s episode, he shares how he transformed his family and mental health through the care of others, professional support and awakening to the power of his life through chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.
Content warning: We speak about childhood abuse in this episode. Please listen with care.
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The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 2, revised edition, pp. 35–46.
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| 0:00.0 | From SGI USA, I'm Cassidy Bradford and this is bootability. |
| 0:08.0 | The weekly series where I talk with Buddhists from all walks of life about the power we each have to change our lives and the world around us. |
| 0:31.5 | Some things seem to insurmountable, like we're destined to suffer from them for the rest of our lives. |
| 0:34.9 | Some stuff just can't change, right? |
| 0:39.5 | You can't change your past, what's happened to you or the things that you've done. And sure, there might be some things that are technically surmountable, |
| 0:46.0 | but it's not likely. Your lifelong, tumultuous relationship with your mom, yeah, right. Your mental health? You're resigned to just |
| 0:58.1 | keeping your head above water or maybe underwater. But what happens when someone you trust |
| 1:06.9 | believes in you and the power of your life. |
| 1:13.0 | Even when you don't believe in it yourself. |
| 1:20.1 | I spoke with Jason Lyons of L.A. to talk about the power of believing in and supporting young people. Jason tells his story of overcoming childhood trauma and transforming his family |
| 1:26.5 | and mental health. What once felt painful and im his family and mental health. |
| 1:28.3 | What once felt painful and immovable has become part of his life's purpose. |
| 1:34.5 | In today's episode, we discuss childhood abuse, so please keep that in mind and listen with care. |
| 1:52.3 | Welcome, Jason to bootability. |
| 1:56.3 | Thank you so much for joining me on your Friday morning. |
| 1:58.6 | I'm really looking forward to our conversation. |
| 2:10.6 | And I know that it's going to be something that's, yeah, it's deeply personal and I think we'll be very encouraging for many people that might be, yeah, feel like they're struggling alone or in isolation. So just to kick things off, I'll have you introduce yourself. |
| 2:13.6 | So you can tell me a little bit about who you are and yeah, just what your |
| 2:17.5 | life looks like. Thank you so much, Cassidy. And so happy to have the opportunity to join and |
| 2:23.1 | be a part of this. And as you heard, my name is Jason Lyons. I live in Los Angeles. I am an executive |
| 2:30.0 | at a company that serves autistic children. And lived here almost 20 years now. |
| 2:36.1 | I'm married, have two wonderful kids, |
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