Finding Strength and Healing After Childhood Abuse
Consider Before Consuming
Fight the New Drug
4.8 • 779 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Trigger Warning: The following episode contains discussions of child physical and sexual abuse. Listener discretion is advised.
Episode Description
Seth Gehle is an author and speaker who uses his platform to encourage others to overcome their own challenges and find strength in adversity by sharing his own story of resiliency after a traumatic childhood. In this Consider Before Consuming episode, Seth shares about the years of abuse that shaped his childhood, the role of pornography in shaping his perceptions of relationships, and the path he took to heal.
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode, we sit down with Seth Gale, an author, speaker, and survivor, to hear his remarkable story of resilience. |
| 0:19.2 | Seth shares his journey of overcoming a traumatic childhood, growing up in a household filled |
| 0:23.8 | with violence, addiction, and instability. |
| 0:27.0 | Seth experienced years of abuse that shaped his early life. |
| 0:30.3 | In this candid conversation, he shares how he found the courage to report his abuser, |
| 0:35.1 | the role of pornography in shaping his perceptions, and the long road to |
| 0:38.5 | healing. With that, let's jump into the conversation. We hope you enjoy this episode of Consider |
| 0:44.8 | Before Consuming. Well, Seth, thank you so much for joining us on the Consider Before Consuming |
| 0:53.7 | podcast today. |
| 0:54.7 | We're grateful for your time. |
| 0:56.7 | You have such a unique perspective on these issues, and we're grateful that you're willing to talk about them and share what you've been through with our listeners. |
| 1:07.1 | So to get started, can you share a bit about yourself and the work that you do? |
| 1:12.1 | Yeah, so right now, well, I guess to introduce myself, my name is Seth Gail. |
| 1:16.7 | I'm an author, a newly published author. |
| 1:19.3 | I just published my memoir. |
| 1:21.0 | And I'm also a public speaker, motivational speaker, kind of do that kind of thing as well. |
| 1:26.8 | Travel, speak, kind of share my story |
| 1:28.4 | for a lot of reasons, mostly to inspire, educate, motivate, kind of those, advocate those kind of |
| 1:34.1 | four realms. Aside from that, my nine to five is I just, I work in the construction industry, |
| 1:40.5 | the commercial industry, and then I'm a husband. I'm a father of two, you know, |
| 1:48.7 | work out to the jitsu, have some hobbies on the side. And then the biggest thing is, |
| 1:55.6 | you know, just trying to share my story for others to help others kind of find this path, |
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