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Forces Of Nature: A Conversation On Childhood Trauma with Gina Demillo Wagner

Thanks For Asking

Feelings & Co.

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.713.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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In case you didn't know, we're still making two episodes a month for our Patreon and Apple Plus subscribers. We wanted to give all of our listeners a little preview of our most recent episode! Consider joining our Patreon to listen to the rest of the episode(or watch the episode!), get additional bonus episodes, ad-free episodes, and join a community of Terribles. (Or, if you’re an Apple Podcast listener, you can sign up for TTFA Premium right in the app!) _ Three years ago we published a TTFA episode called ‘Don’t You Want Somebody To Take Care Of You?’, an interview with Gina Demillo Wagner about her experience growing up in a dysfunctional family and being a caregiver as a child.  Gina’s brother Alan had a rare genetic disorder that caused him to veer from loving to violent. His illness put stress on the entire family, including her parents, whose mental illnesses went untreated.  Since that episode, Gina’s written a book about this experience called Forces of Nature: A Memoir of Family, Loss and Finding Home. On this episode, Gina and Nora catch up about writing the book, how writing helped her process and how some of the Real Housewives helped give her the courage to cut off contact with some family members. _ Please send us your questions and comments about this episode or any other! You can email us at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at 612-568-4441.  — Check us out on YouTube. Find all our shows and more at feelingsand.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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our show notes.

0:21.1

Hi guys, it's Nora. If you like what we've done here on terrible thanks for asking you might want to check out our

0:27.3

YouTube channel we have two new videos going up every week over at YouTube.com slash at feelings A and D co that's feelings and co.

0:40.0

There's a link to it in our show description. So see over on YouTube if that's what you're into.

0:46.8

What a sales gal I am.

1:00.0

Uh, you know, they were so afraid to talk about it, you know? I can hear it when I listen to the episode. Oh, really? I was like talking so quickly. Yeah. And I could hear that I was nervous and it wasn't like because I was

1:05.9

Yeah on a podcast it was because I'm like oh my god like what the fuck am I saying I'm about to talk about this I'm about to talk about it. I'm about to talk about it.

1:13.0

Okay.

1:15.6

Guess who this is, everybody.

1:17.4

Hi.

1:18.8

It's Gina DeMilla Wagoner.

1:20.3

Is it DeMillo or DeMilo?

1:21.5

DeMillo.

1:22.1

Okay, De Milo.

1:23.0

Yes.

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Is that any time something sounds like vaguely Italian,

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I'm like,

1:26.0

eh.

1:27.0

Yeah, well, and when you live some place where there is a Hispanic population,

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